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…

LULLABY & THE BEASTS,  Preselected Oscars best international feature 2023

LULLABY & THE BEASTS, Preselected Oscars best international feature 2023

ACADEMIA DE CINE DE ESPAÑA Link click here Alcarràs, de Carla Simón, As bestas, de Rodrigo Sorogoyen, y Cinco lobitos, de Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, son las tres cintas preseleccionadas para representar a España en la 95 edición de los Premios Oscar, que se celebrará el 12 de marzo de 2023. El próximo 13 de septiembre se conocerá la decisión…

San Sebastian-Bound ‘Secaderos’ Showcases Creature Designed by Oscar-Winning ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ Team (EXCLUSIVE)

VARIETY Link click here Vying for the Premio Kutxabank at the San Sebastian Film Festival’s New Directors sidebar, “Secaderos” (“Tobacco Barns”), the feature debut of Rocio Mesa, includes a beguiling creature of the woods that was designed and created by the Oscar-winning team behind Guillermo del Toro’s 2007 “Pan’s Labyrinth.” For make-up and special effects whizzes…

‘Tequila,’ from ‘Sons of the Clouds’ Alvaro Longoria, Goes to Latido, Sparks Band Reunion (EXCLUSIVE)

‘Tequila,’ from ‘Sons of the Clouds’ Alvaro Longoria, Goes to Latido, Sparks Band Reunion (EXCLUSIVE)

VARIETY Link click here “Tequila, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll,” from Goya Award-winning producer-helmer Alvaro Longoria, has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films. Set up at Madrid’s Morena Films, which Longoria co-founded, doc marks a return to directing for Longoria, whose 2012 debut, “Sons of the Clouds,” produced by Javier Bardem, scored a…

TIFF Review: The Young Arsonists Captures Malaise with Beauty and Style

THE FILM STAGE Link click here Small town rural living tends to instill a sense of malaise in youth and neither Nicole (Maddy Martin) nor Veronica (Jenna Warren) are exceptions to that rule. They’ve already made a pact to eventually get out of here for no other reason than to aspire towards something that didn’t…

Carlos Saura’s San Sebastian World Premiere ‘Walls Can Talk’ Swooped on by Latido (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety Link click here “Walls Can Talk,” the latest film by Spain’s Carlos Saura, director of “Raise Ravens,” “Deprisa, Deprisa” and “Carmen,” has been acquired for intentional sales by Madrid-based Latido. Produced by María del Puy Alvarado at Malvalanda (“Madre,” “The Mole Agent”) and distributed in Spain by José Maria nd Miguel Morales’ Wanda Vision, “Walls Can…

‘The Beasts’ Devours the Competition at Tokyo International Film Festival

‘The Beasts’ Devours the Competition at Tokyo International Film Festival

Variety By Mark Schilling Link click here “The Beasts,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about a French couple who come to live a peaceful life in Spain’s Galician countryside, but get a less than warm welcome from the locals, won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival at Tuesday night’s closing ceremony. The festival, which…

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ’The Beasts,’ ‘Virus 32,’ ‘All the Names of God’ Lead Latido Films Sales Rebound (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety By John Hopewell Link click here Closing Japan with Medallion and French-speaking Canada with Axiom and fielding offers for the U.S., China and the U.K, “The Beasts” is on track to shortly sell well over half the major territories in the world for sales agent Latido Films. The sales come as Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s rural thriller heads to…

Joe Arroyo Salsa Biopic Goes to Latido (EXCLUSIVE)

Joe Arroyo Salsa Biopic Goes to Latido (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety By Callum McLennan Link click here “Rebellion,” from José Luis Rugeles whose “Alias María” competed at Cannes Un Certain Regard and was Colombia’s Oscar entry, has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films. Latido will be bringing the title onto the market at Toronto. In the film, Rugeles takes a non-linear approach to the narrative drifting…

‘Walls Can Talk,’ Carlos Saura’s Latest Film, Brought Onto the Market as the Director Turns 91, Highlighted by Ventana Sur

Variety By Holly Jones Link click here Following a successful festival circuit run after its world premiere at San Sebastian, Madrid-based Latido Films is bringing Carlos Saura’s (“Carmen”) inquisitive documentary “Walls Can Talk” (“Las Paredes Hablan”) to Buenos Aires. Screening as a highlight of Ventana’s Sur’s Spanish Screenings On Tour strand, which seeks to capture the country’s extraordinary…

Latido Films seals US deal on ‘The Beasts’ at Ventana Sur (exclusive)

Screendaily By Emilio Mayorga Link click here Antonio Saura’s Latido Films has licensed all US rights on Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection The Beasts – one of the standouts at last week’s Ventana Sur market – to Los Angeles-based Greenwich Entertainment. The film screened in Buenos Aires under the auspices of Spanish Screenings on…

Latido Re-Teams with Santiago Segura, Atresmedia, Warner on Spanish Box Office Hit ‘The Kids Are Alright 2’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety By Emiliano De Pablos Link click here Following the successful path plowed by the first part of the saga, Madrid-based Latido Films has taken international sales rights outside Spain and Latin America to “A todo tren 2” (“The Kids Are Alright 2”), the latest family comedy from “Torrente” creator-star Santiago Segura, one of the biggest comedic talents…

Pedro Almodovar Endorses Alauda Ruiz De Azua’s ‘Lullaby’: ‘It’s the Best Spanish Debut For Years’ (EXCLUSIVE)

VARIETY BY Emilio Mayorga Link click here Pedro Almodóvar has put his considerable weight behind Spaniard Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s first feature, ”Lullaby” (“Cinco Lobitos”) as it has initiated a spirited run at Spain’s box office. “It is undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years,” Almodóvar announced in a statement, describing the mother-daughter relationship drama…

Berlin Generation Title ‘Sica’ Swooped On by Latido Films (EXCLUSIVE)

Berlin Generation Title ‘Sica’ Swooped On by Latido Films (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety By John Hopewell Link click here In the run-up to February’s Berlin Film Festival, Madrid-based Latido Films has pounced on “Sica,” the fiction feature debut of Carla Subirana, one of a hard-to-miss vibrant new generation of Barcelona-based women directors and producers now galvanizing the Catalan film scene. In a frequent alignment between the two companies, Spanish distribution will be…