Screen International Link: Click here By Ellie Calnan Spain has selected Malaga award-winner Saturn Return as its submission for international feature at the 97th Academy Awards. Directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, the drama is inspired by iconic indie rock band Los Planetas and is set in the late 1990s in Granada. It had its world premiere at…
Screen International Link: Click here By Jonathan Holland Toronto Platform winner is a dance about death and a suicide pact between a theatrical couple The flatly declarative title of They Will Be Dust suggests that the idea of death is something we are just going to have to get used to. This matter-of-fact approach seeps into the style…
Variety Link: Click here By Leo Barraclough, Patrick Frater, Jamie Lang, Elsa Keslassy, Alex Ritman, Ellise Shafer, Nick Vivarelli, Naman Ramachandran, John Hopewell “Saturn Return,” the latest film from “One Year, One Night” director Isaki Lacuesta which swept best Spanish film and director at March’s Malaga Festival, has been selected to represent Spain at the 2025 Oscars international feature race. Sold by Latido Films, it…
Variety Link: Click here Latido Films has acquired rights from A Contracorriente Films to represent international sales on “La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés,” the first feature as a director of Antón Álvarez, better known as C. Tangana, his stage name as a singer-songwriter. A Contracorriente Films, which has bought world rights to the doc…
Variety Link https://variety.com/2024/film/global/they-will-be-dust-platform-toronto-marques-marcet-1236131536/ Ángela Molina and Alfredo Castro have an unexpected bounce in their step as a couple that decides to end their lives in the formally daring drama from the director of “10,000KM.” Carlos Marques-Marcet brings life to a grave situation in “They Will Be Dust,” realizing that when so many tiptoe around the subject…
Variety Link https://variety.com/2024/film/global/they-will-be-dust-platform-toronto-marques-marcet-1236131536/ In “They Will Be Dust,” Carlos Marques-Marcet, the Goya-winning director of “10,000 KM,” heads into a genre-bending exploration of life, love, and death. World Premiering at this year’s stacked Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform strand, the film is far from a conventional musical. It fuses contemporary dance and musical elements with the…
Variety Link click here Madrid-based Latido Films has boarded Andalusian Sandra Romero’s “As Silence Passes By,” taking international sales rights to one of the most awaited Spanish debuts of 2024. Written by Romero, her first feature was announced last week as one of a first 10 titles confirmed for San Sebastian’s New Directors competition, its…
Variety Link click here A myriad of sentiments converge when estranged siblings meet to unpack the weight of their father’s recent death in Spain’s Álex Montoya’s third feature “La Casa,” adapted from the Eisner-winning graphic novel by Paco Roca and sold by Latido Films. The film, which bowed last night, figures in the official competition selection at this…
Cineuropa Link click here Álex Montoya’s brilliant third film brought Malaga Film Festival to tears with a plot, based on the comic by Paco Roca, where it is all too easy to stay and live. Presented in the official section of the last Malaga Film Festival (where it won the Silver Biznagas for Best Screenplay,…
Variety Link click here Colm Meaney and Aidan Gillen have joined Vicky Krieps in the cast of six-time Oscar nominee Jim Sheridan‘s upcoming true crime drama “Re-creation.” Meaney has appeared in dozens of high-profile films and series over the past forty-plus years but is best known as Star Trek’s Chief Miles O’Brien in “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek:…
Variety Link click here The Fantastic Pavilion returns to Cannes for its second edition, revealing seven Gala Screenings. This year’s selection features “Do Not Enter” by Hugo Cardozo, “Aire, Just Breathe” directed by Leticia Tonos, Doug Rao’s “Dirty Boy,” Can Evrenol’s “Sayara,” “Mourir or Not Mourir” by Thomas Combret, Andreas Marschall’s “Black.White.Red.” and “Vadakkan” by Sajeed A….
Variety Link click here Spain’s Latido Films has clinched world sales rights to serial killer drama-thriller “Sacamantecas,” the third feature by writer-director David Pérez Sañudo, whose Latido-repped debut feature, “Ane,” swept three Spanish Academy Goya Awards in 2021. Latido is already handling Pérez Sañudo’s second feature, “Los últimos románticos,” which it announced at the Berlin Film Festival…
Screendaily Link click here Spain’s Latido Films has boarded international sales on Carlos Marques-Marcet’s drama They Will Be Dust (Polvo serán). Elástica Films will handle distribution in Spain. It tells the story of a woman, Claire (Angela Molina) diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour who takes a last trip to Switzerland to decide how and when to end…
Screendaily Link click here Madrid-based sales outlet Latido Films has unveiled sales on key titles from its European Film Market (EFM, February 15-21) and Malaga Film Festival (March 1-10) slates. Beginning with films in pre-production, Jim Sheridan and David Merriman’s true crime courtroom docu-drama Re-creation starring Vicky Krieps has secured pre-sales for Greece (Spentzos) and Portugal (Outsider). The film sees a…
Screendaily Link click here Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez’s,Saturn Return was the big winner at the Malaga Film Festival on March 9, taking home the awards for Golden Biznaga for best Spanish film, best director and best editing. Other top prizes went to Celia Rico’s Little Loves, Álex Monoya’s La Casa, Pau Durá’s Birds Flying East (Pájaros) and Mexican drama Radical, by…
Variety Link click here The international endurance of Spanish film adaptations was front and center this year at the Malaga Festival Industry Zone’s (MAFIZ) Remake Day event on Thursday, with a presentation of Shanghai-based Aim Media’s “Lose to Win,” the Chinese adaptation of the Latido Films-sold 2018 hit “Campeones” (“Champions”), directed by Javier Fesser. “Champions” is produced…
Variety Link click here A myriad of sentiments converge when estranged siblings meet to unpack the weight of their father’s recent death in Spain’s Álex Montoya’s third feature “La Casa,” adapted from the Eisner-winning graphic novel by Paco Roca and sold by Latido Films. The film, which bowed last night, figures in the official competition selection at this…
Cineuropa Link click here Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez present a suggestive film inspired by the story of the legendary Spanish band Los Planetas Inspired by one of the key periods of the popular Spanish band (although it is not exactly a film about Los Planetas), the film tells the story of a moment of…
Screendaily Link click here Irish director Jim Sheridan has sounded a warning on the state of the international film industry, saying “the whole film industry is in the emergency room.” Speaking to Screen in Doha, Qatar where he is participating in the Qumra event as a master, Sheridan said, “It’s going to be more the way in…
Screendaily Link click here Straight-down-the-line genre films including thrillers, animation and horror as well as high-end prestige dramas are the most sought-after Spanish films by international buyers, according to sales agents attending Mafiz, the five-day industry programme of Spain’s Málaga Film Festival which runs from March 4-8. “The way the market works currently means buyers…
