HOY HABLAMOS CON… ANTONIO SAURA

HOY HABLAMOS CON… ANTONIO SAURA

Madrid Film Office Link click here LATIDO FILMS, agencia de ventas líder con sede en Madrid, celebra este año sus dos décadas de existencia vendiendo buen cine por todo el mundo, promocionando a grandes directores internacionales y logrando éxitos importantes. Especializados en películas de habla hispana y europeas, pero abiertos a otras creaciones internacionales, posee…

Leticia Tonos’ Dominican Sci-Fi Drama ‘Aire’ Wins Inaugural Fantastic Latido Award in Cannes

Leticia Tonos’ Dominican Sci-Fi Drama ‘Aire’ Wins Inaugural Fantastic Latido Award in Cannes

Variety Link click here Dominican filmmaker Leticia Tonos’ sci-fi drama “Aire” has won the inaugural Fantastic Latido Award at the Cannes Film Market’s new Fantastic Pavilion genre hub. Presented by Madrid-based Latido Films, the Fantastic Latido Award offers international sales representation for the winning film. “Aire” centers on Tania, a conservation biologist living in a future dystopian world…

Latido Films Turns 20 

Latido Films Turns 20 

Variety Link click here Few European arthouse-crossover film sales agents have better weathered the ebb and flow of international market dynamics than Madrid’s Latido Films, which turns 20 in 2023. Proof of that came at April’s Platino Awards, where Latido scored six statuettes, split between an acting double for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Lullaby” and four…

Latido Snags San Sebastian Film Fest Multi-Winner Isaki Lacuesta’s ‘Saturn Return’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Latido Snags San Sebastian Film Fest Multi-Winner Isaki Lacuesta’s ‘Saturn Return’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety Link click here Madrid-based Latido Films has snagged international sales rights to Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return” (“Segundo premio”) and plans to kick off pre-sales at the Cannes market. Currently shooting in Granada, the musical drama is set during the ‘90s when the Andalusian city was ground zero for an outburst of cultural effervescence, with the pioneering rock…

Latido Swoops on Goya Winner Arantxa Echevarria’s Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Chinas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Latido Swoops on Goya Winner Arantxa Echevarria’s Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Chinas’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety Link click here “Chinas,” the third feature from Spanish writer-director Arantxa Echevarria, who won the Goya for best new director in 2018 for her debut, “Carmen & Lola,” has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films (“The Platform,” “Lullaby,” “The Beasts”). “Arantxa Echevarria is an exceptional filmmaker with a unique sense of capturing the essence…

Latido Swoops on Celia Rico’s ‘Los Pequeños Amores’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety By Pablo Sandoval Link click here   “Los pequeños amores,” the latest film from Celia Rico who made a splash at the 2018 San Sebastian Festival with “Journey to a Mother’s Room,” has been acquired for international sales by Spain-based Latido Films. Produced by Barcelona-based Arcadia Motion Pictures, which co-produced Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s 2023 Goya winner and box…

Filmmaker Jenna Hasse on Her Berlinale Generation Title ‘L’Amour du Monde’

Variety By Callum McLennan Link click here   Making its world premiere in the Generation Kplus program at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 19, “L’Amour du monde” (“Longing for the World”) is the feature debut from filmmaker Jenna Hasse. Latido Films manage international sales and will be looking to add to their haul from the previous two…

Berlin Hosts a Carlos Saura Tribute with Screenings of ‘Rosa, Rosae’ and ‘Walls Can Talk’

Berlin Hosts a Carlos Saura Tribute with Screenings of ‘Rosa, Rosae’ and ‘Walls Can Talk’

Variety By John Hopewell Link click here   He was working to the last. Five days before his latest work, “Lorca by Saura,” opened at Madrid’s Infanta Isabel Theater – in what he saw as a new phase of theatre-based creativity –  Carlos Saura died on Feb. 10 at his Collado Mediano home in the lap of the…

Berlinale hosts tribute to legendary Spanish director Carlos Saura: “I will never forget his kindness”

Screendaily By Elisabeth Cabeza Link click here   The Berlin film festival honoured the legacy of legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, who died aged 91 earlier this month, with a special screening of his last film, documentary Walls Can Talk yesterday (Feb 20). The attendees included Berlinale’s director Carlo Chatrian, the president of the European Film Academy…

Special Mention: L’Amour du monde by Jenna Hasse, Switzerland

Berlinale Link click here   Awards of the Generation Kplus International Jury Special Mention: L’Amour du monde  by Jenna Hasse, Switzerland The jury was struck by this film’s quiet and rich portrayal of its protagonist’s evolving desires. It depicts a constellation of lost characters stuck in states of transition, and offers a surprising, poetic, multigenerational take on the…

Latido Films presents 8 films at the Malaga International Film Festival.

Latido Films presents 8 films at the Malaga International Film Festival.

OPENING FILM SOMEONE WHO TAKES CARE (Alguien que cuide de mí) by Daniela Fejerman, Elvira Lindo. Mar 10 | 22:30 | Teatro Cervantes Mar 10 | 22:30 | Cine Albéniz – Sala 1 Mar 10 | 11:00 | Cine Albéniz – Sala 1 OFFICIAL COMPETITION SICA (Sica) by Carla Subirana. Mar 14 | 19:00 |…

Latido Films Launch Genre Award at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion

Variety By Ed Meza Link here Madrid-based Latido Films is partnering with the organizers of the new genre-focused Fantastic Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film on a new award that will offer international distribution to selected Spanish-language Iberoamerican films. The prize will also provide theatrical release in Latin America for winning titles….

‘Sica’: Malaga Review

Screen International By JONATHAN HOLLAN Link here A young girl searches for her missing father in this impressive debut set on the stormy Galician coast. A melancholy, stormy film about a teenager’s melancholy, stormy relationship with the ocean that claimed her father, Carla Subirana’s Galician-language first feature Sica is many things at once: a coming-of-age tale, a…

Oscar Winning Producer Gerardo Herrero Brings Dizzying Málaga Title ‘Under Therapy’ to Spanish Cinemas

Variety By HOLLY JONES Link here   Oscar award-winning veteran producer Gerardo Herrero, (“The Secret In Their Eyes”) returns to the director’s chair with “Under Therapy,” his stark and unnerving big screen rendition of playwright Matías Del Federico’s theatrical production. The project bowed in competition at the Málaga Film festival earlier this week and is…

La familia de Saura provoca un estallido de emoción en la gala de los Goya en un homenaje del cine español al director fallecido

La familia de Saura provoca un estallido de emoción en la gala de los Goya en un homenaje del cine español al director fallecido

EL PAIS Link click here Se hizo la luz y ahí estaba. Una imagen de Carlos Saura fue lo primero que se vio en la 37ª edición de los Goya. Acompañado, cómo no, de su inseparable cámara. El premio de Honor iba a ser el gran homenaje del cine español al maestro aragonés. Pero el creador…

Laia Costa, la actriz que llora bonito, vuelve a arrasar en Málaga

El Mundo By LUIS MARTINEZ Link here   Elena Trapé continúa de forma brillante su radiografía del desencanto en ‘Els encantats’ y Gerardo Herrero sorprende con una claustrofóbica reflexión sobre el machismo en ‘Bajo terapia’. Si uno se esfuerza acaba por relacionarlo todo. Todo tiene que ver, como mantenía el célebre juego de los seis…

Carlos Saura, legendary Spanish filmmaker, dies at 91

Carlos Saura, legendary Spanish filmmaker, dies at 91

Screendaily By EMilio Mayorga Link click here Legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura has died aged 91, the Film Academy of Spain confirmed on Friday. Saura was due to receive the 2023 Goya de Honor, the career achievement prize of the Spanish Academy, at the Goyas ceremony on Saturday. In recent weeks, Saura’s health had worsened so…

The Beasts review – breathtakingly tense Galician thriller

The Beasts review – breathtakingly tense Galician thriller

The Guardian Link here A French couple’s dreams of the good life in rural northern Spain descend into all-out war with the locals in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s superbly acted drama. It was meant to be a purer, simpler way of life. Former teacher Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and his wife, Olga (Marina Foïs), relocated from their comfortable…