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Following its audience award won in Berlin, Eva Libertad’s Deaf added four more prizes at the 2025 Malaga Film Festival (March 14-23) including best Spanish film and the audience award.

Libertad’s debut follows the relationship between a deaf woman and her hearing boyfriend, which is put under strain by a new baby, and stars the director’s sister, Miriam Garlo, and Álvaro Cervantes. They both won Malaga’s acting prizes ex aequo alongside Ángela Cervantes for Fury and Mario Casas for Away, respectively.

Latido Films is handling international sales for Deaf, which has already sold to the UK, Ireland,...

Dos ex aequos marcan un palmarés que refleja el alto nivel de esta edición.

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El Festival de Málaga 2025 cierra una edición ambiciosa y de alto nivel con un palmarés que perfila a Sorda, de Eva Libertad, como una de las grandes contendientes de la temporada de premios española (y quien sabe si acabará representando a España en los próximos Óscar). La cinta, que ya recibió en la Berlinale el premio del Público, se alza con la Biznaga de Oro y también se llevan Biznagas de Plata Miriam Garlo y Álvaro Cervantes en las categorías interpretativas, además del Premio del Público, el Premio Asecan, el Premio Feroz y el Premio Gignis.

La otra gran triunfadora de una edición marcada por una fuerte presencia femenina ha sido Los tortuga, de Belén Funes, que se ha llevado el Premio Especial del Jurado, Mejor Dirección y Mejor Guion. Y La furia,...

The Málaga Film Festival unveiled winners from its various lineups this afternoon, where Eva Libertad’s “Deaf” walked away with a fest-best four prizes, including best actress (Miriam Garlo), actor (Álvaro Cervantes), the audience award and best picture.

Libertad’s debut feature is an expansion of the eponymous Goya-nominated short she co-directed with Nuria Muñoz, starring her sister Garlo, an acclaimed deaf actress. The film tells the story of Angela (Garlo), a pregnant deaf woman, and Hector (Cervantes), her hearing partner. Pregnancy brings to the surface her fears about motherhood and how she will be able to communicate with her daughter. The arrival of the girl generates a crisis in the couple and leads Angela to face the upbringing of her daughter in a world that is not made for her.

Acclaimed “A Thief’s Daughter” filmmaker Belén Funes’ latest, “The Exiles,” won Málaga’s special jury prize, best...

Gemma Blasco makes her feature debut with Spanish drama “Fury,” the tale of a young woman trying to cope with a traumatic experience and who finds a channel for her rage on the stage.

Having just premiered at South By Southwest in Austin, “Fury” unspools in competition at the Malaga Film Festival on Wednesday.

Written by Blasco and Eva Pauné, the film follows Alex, a young woman, played by Ángela Cervantes, trying to come to terms with a violent assault she suffers at a New Year’s Eve party. In the process she finds a much needed emotional outlet on the stage embodying the vengeful character of Medea in a production of Euripides’ Greek tragedy. She also seeks solace by confiding in her brother Adrián, played by Àlex Monner (“The Next Skin“), only to see him consumed by rage and a thirst for revenge.

Ángela Cervantes and Àlex Monner in “Fury”

For Blasco,...

Forqué-nominated Spanish director Gala Gracia (“Evanescente”) will debut her tender first feature, “Remnants of You” (“Lo que queda de ti”), in competition at this year’s Malaga Film Festival.

The narrative follows Sara, a young jazz pianist living in New York who’s returned home to Spain’s Pyrenees after news of her father’s abrupt death. As heightened mourning grips her, she finds she’s inherited his sheep farm alongside her sister Elena, planting her firmly in a hometown both familiar and suffocating.

A highly personal portrait of reconciling desires against the sturdy expectations life doles out, the film centers Sara’s trepidation, as she weighs abandoning her passions to run the family business in an attempt to uphold her father’s legacy, potentially sacrificing the nourishment of her own.

Produced by Carlo D’Ursi’s Potenza Producciones (“The Quiet Maid”) with co-production credits to Bastian Films, Sajama Films, Garbo Produzioni and Fado Filmes,...

Protagonizan Ángela Cervantes y Álex Monner. © Filmax

Filmax ha presentado el primer tráiler de la película La furia, debut en el largometraje de ficción de Gemma Blasco tras dirigir los cortometrajes Matices (2013), Formas de jugar (2015) y Jauría (2018), descrita como una tragedia moderna con una mirada personal sobre la violencia sexual.

En La furia, Alexandra (Alex), una joven actriz, es violada durante una fiesta de Nochevieja rodeada de sus amigos. No pudo ver a su agresor, y durante todo el año siguiente se enfrentará a la culpa, el asco y la vergüenza. Mientras Álex intenta canalizar todo ese dolor a través del teatro, donde interpreta al vengativo personaje de Medea, su hermano Adrián se enfrenta a la rabia de no haber sabido proteger a su hermana y al impulso de dejarse llevar por sus propias decisiones. La época en la que sus problemas eran los normales de cualquier familia, ya forman parte del pasado.

Una Sección Oficial de mayor presencia femenina. © Festival Málaga | mundoCine

El 28 Festival de Málaga, que se celebra del 14 al 23 de marzo, ha anunciado las primeras películas que competirán por la ansiada Biznaga de Oro. Y recordemos que el año pasado, el galardón recayó en Segundo premio, de Isaki Lacuesta y Pol Rodríguez, y este fue solo el primero de los muchos reconocimientos –a la espera de ver qué se lleva en los Goya– de la película elegida (pero no nominada) para representar a España en los Óscar 2025.

En esta edición, la Sección Oficial se distingue por una mayor presencia femenina, con cinco películas españolas por ahora anunciadas a concurso firmadas por directoras: La furia, de Gemma Blasco, Los Tortuga, de Belén Funes, Sorda, de Eva Libertad, La buena suerte, de Gracia Querejeta, y La buena letra, de Celia Rico.

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Empezando por la primera de ellas, Gemma Blasco se...

Protagonizan Ángela Cervantes y Álex Monner. © SXSW

¡Buenas noticias! En el Festival South by Southwest de Austin (SXSW) tendremos representación española con el estreno mundial de la película La furia, debut en el largometraje de ficción de Gemma Blasco tras dirigir los cortometrajes Matices (2013), Formas de jugar (2015) y Jauría (2018), descrita como una tragedia moderna con una mirada personal sobre la violencia sexual.

En La furia, Alexandra (Alex), una joven actriz, es violada durante una fiesta de Nochevieja rodeada de sus amigos. No pudo ver a su agresor, y durante todo el año siguiente se enfrentará a la culpa, el asco y la vergüenza. Mientras Álex intenta canalizar todo ese dolor a través del teatro, donde interpreta al vengativo personaje de Medea, su hermano Adrián se enfrenta a la rabia de no haber sabido proteger a su hermana y al impulso de dejarse llevar por sus propias decisiones. La época en...

Spain’s The Mediapro Studio brought out the big guns at this year’s Mipcom to promote its first-ever English-language slate, which includes projects featuring John Turturro, Melissa Leo, “24” showrunner Evan Katz and Oscar winner Juan José Campanella, among others.

Though the ambitious pipeline was The Mediapro Studio’s big Mipcom head-turner, the company also closed noteworthy deals for a handful of its highest-profile shows of the last several years.

Disney+ Spain has acquired The Mediapro Studio and 3Cat’s thriller series “Quiet” (“El mal invisible”), which recently screened at Catalonia’s prestigious genre-focused Sitges International Film Festival. The show will debut on Catalan public television channel TV3 and the 3Cat platform soon, although a specific date hasn’t been announced.

Set in lock-down era Barcelona, “Quite” follows a police investigation to track down a serial killer who targets the homeless. David Verdaguer (“Saben Aquell”), Ángela Cervantes (“La Maternal”), and...

Spain’s film & TV giant The Mediapro Studio is joining forces with Catalan pubcaster 3Cat and its online platform to co-produce “El Mal” (“Quiet”), a thriller series based on a true story, on a serial killer prowling the streets of locked-down Barcelona in March-April 2020.

Presented April 8 at MipTV, the eight-part series will topline two Goya Awards-winning actor David Verdaguer and double Goya nominee actress Ángela Cervantes.

The series is set to premiere initially on 3Cat while The Mediapro Studio Distribution owns the worldwide commercial rights.

Created and lead written by Lluís Alcarazo – creator of Oriol Paulo’s crime thriller “Night and Day” and doc feature “Special Case “Quiet” – tells the story of an investigation to uncover the identity of a serial killer who chooses their victims from among the most vulnerable members of the society: the homeless.

The plot unfolds at the end of April 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Chris McCausland & Lee Mack Set For Sky Festive Special

British comedians Chris McCausland and Lee Mack will front Sky festive special Bad Tidings, about two perpetually feuding neighbors in Northern England who become unlikely heroes after saving their street from notorious burglars with wacky booby traps and British banter. Laurence Rickard & Martha Howe-Douglas are writing, with production commencing this month at Sky Studios Elstree. Also cast are Rebekah Staton, Sarah Alexander, Ben Crompton, Emily Coates, Josiah Eloi, Millie Kiss, Tupele Dorgu, Sunil Patel, Susan Kyd and Donna Preston. Sky Studios is producing, with Tim Kirkby directing. Adnan Ahmed from Sky Studios is the producer and Ail Gupta exec produces. Sky’s Comcast stablemate NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution will handle international sales. Bad Tidings is the latest Sky original festive special, following last year’s The Heist Before Christmas, 2022’s Christmas Carole and 2021’s The Amazing Mr Blunden.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s ’The Beasts’ has 17 nominations.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts leads the nominees for Spain’s prestigious Goya awards, with 17, followed closely by Alberto Rodríguez’s Prison 77 on 16.

The Beasts, which had its world premiere at Cannes, centres around a French couple who cause tensions in the local village to which they move. The psychological thriller is nominated in all major categories including best film where it lines up with Prison 77, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Lullaby, Pilar Palomero’s La Maternal and Carla Simón’s Golden Bear winner Alcarràs.

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Alcarràs is...

It seems to have been a year of good performances from young actors, from carefully calibrated turns from newcomers Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele in Lukas Dhont’s Close to Frankie Corio’s natural chemistry with older star Paul Mescal in Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun. At the top of the list you can put teenager Carla Quílez for her sometimes fierce, sometimes fragile performance at the heart of Pilar Palmero’s docufiction drama about the challenges of teenage motherhood.

Fourteen-year-old Carla (Quílez) is a handful. Riding like the wind on her bike alongside her mate (Jordan Angel Dumes) their idea of fun is to break into middle-class homes and trash the place. Years ago she might have been described as something of a latch-key kid, although she’s as likely to be told to make herself scarce by her mum Penelope (Angela Cervantes) as she is to be left home alone.

It takes a village to raise a child, goes the old saying, and at least in the figurative sense, Spanish director Pilar Palomero’s tremendous sophomore feature “La Maternal” shows that to be true. Before that can happen, however, pregnant 14-year-old Carla needs to get out of the village and into the city — specifically, to a Barcelona shelter for teenage mothers where the troubled adolescent finds the community and empathy her life has been missing all along. Female solidarity drives Palomero’s follow-up to the celebrated, similarly sisterhood-themed “Schoolgirls,” but without any glib girl-power sloganeering: A tough, unsweetened work of social realism built around an astonishing screen debut by Carla Quílez, “La Maternal” sentimentalizes not one detail of juvenile motherhood, truly earning its flashes of hope and grace.

Though it racked up festival mileage at the Berlinale and beyond, “Schoolgirls” never made quite the impression internationally that it did in...

Paris-based Elle Driver has acquired world sales rights outside Spain and France to “La Maternal,” the second film from Pilar Palomero whose 2019’s “Schoolgirls” (“Las niñas”) made her only the fifth first feature director to win a Spanish Academy Best Picture Goya.

BTeam Pictures is handling distribution in Spain.

“Schoolgirls” also won Goyas for director, original screenplay and cinematography (Daniela Cajías), establishing Palomero as a leading light of Catalonia’s newest – and often female – generation of cineastes, making movies which are grounded in authentic local realities, but alert to broader social trends.

Produced like “Schoolgirls” by Spain’s Inicia Films, whose credits also include Carla Simon’s “Summer 1993,” and BTeam Productions, “La Maternal” sees Palomero once more explore the borders between child and adulthood.

“What does it mean to be mother, what does it mean to be a child ? At 14 years old, Carla is both…” runs the film’s logline.

‘The Good Boss’ leads Icíar Bollaín’s ‘Maixabel’ and Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’.

The Good Boss, directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem, led the Goya nominations from the Spanish Film Academy with 20 nods, an all-time record.

The satire, also Spain’s entry for the Oscars, is ahead of Icíar Bollaín’s Maixabel and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, on 14 and eight nominations respectively.

The Good Boss is the fifth highest-grossing film in Spain this year with €2.6m. Written and directed by León de Aranoa, it follows the petty boss of an industrial scales factory, played...

Universal Pictures Int’l Spain has snatched theatrical distribution rights to the Spanish remake of romcom “A Boyfriend for my Wife” (“Un Novio para mi Mujer”), now shooting in Barcelona.

The 2008 Argentine original by Juan Taratuto, starring Adrian Suar, lured up to 1.5 million admissions in Argentina and has been remade in a slew of territories, including Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China, France, Chile, Vietnam and, most successfully, in South Korea where it sold five million admissions.

Its story revolves around a man who finds a rather unorthodox way of getting rid of his lovely but insufferable wife: Finding her a boyfriend so that she dumps him instead. He picks a well-known Lothario to seduce her but the scheme backfires on him.

Directed by Laura Mañá from a screenplay penned with Pol Cortecans (“Bienvenidos a la familia”), the Spanish remake is produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures and Athos Pictures along with the...

After grinding to a halt because of the pandemic, this feature debut produced by Marta Figueras, starring Carolina Yuste, Vicky Luengo, Ángela Cervantes and Elisabet Casanovas, has restarted shooting. The feature-length fiction debut by Carol Rodríguez Colás will wrap its shoot at the end of June, having resumed after the break forced upon it by the coronavirus crisis. Chavalas (lit. “Lasses”), which is being filmed in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Poblenou and in Cornellà, stars Vicky Luengo (The Laws of Thermodynamics and soon to appear in the series Antidisturbios – see the news), Elisabet Casanovas (famous for her role in the series Merlí), Carolina Yuste (winner of the Goya Award for her turn in Carmen & Lola and set to grace screens in Sky High in August) and Ángela Cervantes (Perfect Life). The cast is rounded off by Ana Fernández, José Mota, Cristina Plazas, Mario Zorrilla, Biel Durán, Maite Buenafuente,...