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…
Variety Link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/latido-films-aire-all-the-names-of-god-saturn-return-1236202693/ Latido Films, the sales company on Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts” and “The Platform,” has unveiled a slew of over 30 sales deals on a wide-ranging slate of titles, led by a U.S. pick-up on “All the Names of God,” a bouquet of transactions on “Aire,” the Dominican Republic’s Oscar entry, and an…
Variety Link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/latido-films-rizoma-films-afm-netflix-marcos-carnevale-1236203293/ Spain’s Latido Films, has pounced on remake rights to Chilean phenomenon “Dad to the Rescue” (“Papa al Rescate”), the biggest box office draw in Chile in the past five years. Lead produced by Sebastian Freund’s Rizoma Films, the family comedy is directed by Marcos Carnevale whose other films he has either directed or written, “Elsa and Fred”…
Variety Link: https://variety.com/2024/film/global/bartosz-m-kowalski-night-silence-1236173528/#recipient_hashed=12d56e56db96d63f3bf7a64fdb102b7ca783ffbd007666eadff269b56f5a8ee5&recipient_salt=21c0891a2e20d321848f01c86584760e5770012ccc898ac5f5a797c778e1c024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=VYDaily_Spotlight&utm_content=557980_10-11-2024&utm_term=10382835 In horror “Night Silence,” Polish director Bartosz M. Kowalski follows retired Lucjan (Maciej Damięcki), moved into a nursing home by his son. The residence is hiding a secret, but the film took on another “terrifying dimension” after they wrapped the shoot. “Maciej played a dying actor and unfortunately, this story turned out to be…
Cineuropa Link: https://cineuropa.org/es/newsdetail/468285/ Pablo Hernando confirms himself as one of the most unique voices of the new Spanish cinema with a science fiction Neo-noir starring a captivating Ingrid García-Jonsson. When Ingrid (played by a captivating Ingrid García-Jonsson) pulls the trigger, her victims don’t know who shot them. Her ability to infiltrate and disappear without a trace…
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…
