By Ed Meza Link Variety Argentine director Alejandro Agresti (“The Lake House”) returns to the big screen with “Lo Que Quisimos Ser” (“What We Wanted to Be”), a touching story of two people who develop a unique relationship yet continue to long for more. Premiering out of competition at the Malaga Film Festival, the film, set in 1998, follows…
By Emilio Mayorga Link ScreenDaily Spain’s Latido Films has acquired three titles ahead of their world premieres at the Málaga Film Festival, including competition title Away. Local star Mario Casas headlines as a man who travels to the Dutch city of Utrecht with his family for a football match. After experiencing a panic attack, he decides to…
The two actors star in the Malaga Film Festival in the drama ‘La buena suerte’ by Gracia Querejeta, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Rosa Montero. Link El País Things that connect Hugo Silva (Madrid, 47 years old) and Megan Montaner (Huesca, 37 years old): a past in the universe of…
By Anna Marie de la Fuente Link Variety Filmed through the prism of grief, documentary ‘Almudena’ is director Azucena Rodrigues’ ode to one of Spain’s renowned writers who was also a dear friend. The late Almudena Grandes was “the voice of her generation, exploring not only contemporary issues but dwelling as well in the memory of…
By Jamie Lang Link Variety Off the back of a busy European Film Market, leading Spanish sales agent Latido Films has picked up Gracia Querejeta’s tenth feature, “The Good Luck,” screening in competition at this year’s Malaga Film Festival. “The Good Luck,” based on leading Spanish novelist Rosa Montero’s title of the same name, turns on Pablo, who decides…
By Georg Szalai Link Hollywood Reporter Eva Libertad’s movie, starring Miriam Garlo, Álvaro Cervantes, Elena Irureta, and Joaquín Notario, will debut in the Berlinale’s Panorama section. Deaf (Sorda) is the title of Spanish filmmaker Eva Libertad’s new feature, adapted from her 2023 Goya Award-nominated short of the same name, that will be world premiering in the Panorama section of…
By Elisabet Cabeza Link Screen Daily “A European powerhouse” was how Berlinale Pro director Tanja Meissner described Spain when the European Film Market (EFM) revealed which territory had been chosen as the EFM’s Country in Focus for 2025. Meissner went on to praise the territory’s “creative excellence, targeted investments and technological innovations, enjoying a strong international…
By Anna Marie de la Fuente Link: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/eva-libertad-berlinale-sorda-panorama-1236306939/ Vying for the Berlinale Panorama’s prestigious audience award, Eva Libertad’s “Sorda” (“Deaf”) sheds light on the world of deaf women and how motherhood shapes their relationships. Picked up by Latido Films in December, Libertad’s debut feature is an expansion of the eponymous Goya-nominated short she co-directed with…
by Olivia Popp Link: https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/473825 Eva Libertad’s Deaf [+], notably, doesn’t feature any sound during its opening titles. In that moment, we are briefly struck by the lingering absence of a sensory part of our world we take for granted. However, the Spanish writer-director and playwright lets that be all the didacticism that the audience is granted in…
by Jonathan Holland Link: https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/deaf-review-a-new-baby-poses-challenges-for-her-hearing-impaired-mother-in-spanish-debut/5201693.article The arrival of a new baby puts a strain on the relationship between a deaf woman and her hearing boyfriend in Eva Libertad’s compassionate, sensitive debut feature. Following her 2023 award-winning short of the same name – which also starred Miriam Garlo, the director’s sister – the film authentically explores the…
by Alfonso Rivera Link: https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/473115?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabBG2m15dergDg4FHbznlygkZij3Lx30pY0ABSbF6c-E2BsABcst9ShOMQ_aem_DpO-1kx1ewiZKK3T5v4PDA The Spanish sales company is supporting Eva Libertad’s debut film in the Panorama section, along with Gala del Sol’s Sundance title Rains over Babel and David Pérez Sañudo’s The Harvester Deaf [+], the debut film by Eva Libertad, offers a fresh perspective on motherhood, is set to be one of the standout Spanish films of the…
By Wendy Ide Link: https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/rains-over-babel-rotterdam-review/5201055.article Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub Drenched in neon, accessorised with fetish gear and steeped in extravagant queer Latin-punk attitude, Rains Over Babel is inspired by Dante’s Inferno but driven by the contradictions and rebellious spirit of the city of Cali, Colombia. The feature debut from…
With her Sundance debut, writer-director Gala del Sol announces herself as a fabulous off-kilter voice in contemporary cinema. By Manuel Bet Link: https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/rains-over-babel-review-sundance-gala-del-sol-1236281044/ There is no shortage of gonzo moments in Gala del Sol’s “Rains Over Babel.” A playful riff on Dante’s “Inferno,” the film is set in a fantastical retrofuturist vision of Cali, Colombia. The tropical…
By Holly Jones Link Variety: https://variety.com/2025/film/global/latido-sundance-rains-over-babel-1236280239/ Latido Films, who’ve previously bet on high-success Latin arthouse cinema in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s breakout, “Lullaby,” have acquired international sales rights to Colombian filmmaker Gala del Sol’s debut feature “Rains Over Babel” (“Llueve sobre Babel”) ahead of its Sundance world premiere. Latido’s Juan Torres brokered the…
By Ben Dalton | 7 January 2025 Screen Daily link: https://www.screendaily.com/news/goteborg-film-festival-programme-includes-22-world-premieres/5200539.article?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20%20Europe%20Daily%20Jan%207%20PM&utm_content=UK%20%20Europe%20Daily%20Jan%207%20PM+CID_0dddc337a00aec9b0f9534f0cf7fb160&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Goteborg%20Film%20Festival%20programme%20includes%2022%20world%20premieres#Goteborg_Film_Festival_2025_feature_competitions Goteborg Film Festival has unveiled the programme for its 48th edition, with 22 feature world premieres and four feature competition sections. World premiere titles include Asier Urbieta’s Spanish thriller Pheasant Island in the international competition section. The debut feature from Spanish filmmaker Urbieta sees a young Basque couple’s…
By John Hopewell Variety link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/walter-tournier-cesar-cabral-latido-1236238687/ One of the most active of sales agents at this week’s Ventana Sur, Madrid-based Latido Films has closed international rights on adventure-comedy “Small Town” (“Pueblo Chico”) a parable of greed and instance of the building scale and ambition of Latin American animation co-production whether regional or reaching out to Spain. The subject of…
By Jamie Lang Variety link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/latido-films-eva-libertad-sorda-1236236141/#recipient_hashed=7dfdfb4ca4e85a84a72a7599a548d84c9ee0645f001cd4468eafeea0742da3e2&recipient_salt=11bc32029a9e301346f1a17b3cf1a1fae5707ef898ff07c7eed429e656bc8e19&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=VYDaily_ventana&utm_content=570829&utm_term=2095599 Spain’s Latido Films has acquired Eva Libertad‘s upcoming feature “Sorda,” adapted from her 2023 Spanish Academy Goya Award-nominated short of the same name. “Sorda,” which translates to “deaf” in English, tells the story of Angela, a pregnant deaf woman, and Hector, her hearing partner. Pregnancy brings to the surface her fears about motherhood…
By Jamie Lang Variety link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/latido-they-will-be-dust-a-whale-night-silence-1236233253/#recipient_hashed=7dfdfb4ca4e85a84a72a7599a548d84c9ee0645f001cd4468eafeea0742da3e2&recipient_salt=11bc32029a9e301346f1a17b3cf1a1fae5707ef898ff07c7eed429e656bc8e19&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=VYDaily_ventana&utm_content=570163&utm_term=2095599 Leading Spanish sales agent Latido Films has closed a wide range of deals on several of the big indie titles in its catalog, including Carlos Marques-Marcet’s Spanish dark comedy musical “They Will Be Dust,” Pablo Hernando’s Sitges player “A Whale” and Bartosz M. Kowalski’s terrifying Polish thriller “Night Silence.” Having recently won…
The effectively frantic drama chronicles the turbulent story of ’90s cult band Los Planetas, as they find themselves on the brink of self-destruction or a rebirth. By Carlos Aguilar Link Variety: https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/saturn-return-review-segundo-premio-1236225737/ Cigarette ash piles on top of a few discarded CDs inside a darkened room where the members of a rock band, Los Planetas, struggle…
Screen Daily Link: https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/raqqa-spy-vs-spy-seville-review/5199164.article High-octane Syria-set spy thriller A spy thriller set in 2017 in the ISIS-controlled Syrian city of the title, Raqqa: Spy Vs Spy is a highlight in the lengthy career of Spanish director and producer Gerardo Herrero (Under Therapy, The Goya Murders). It boasts a satisfyingly snaking plotline that only starts to feel rushed…
