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Diary Of A Fleeting Affair Photo: Courtesy of the French Film Festival UK

The French Film Festival and Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival are teaming up to mark this year's Cannes Film Festival with two Cannes-themed programmes at Edinburgh's French Institute.

We Treat Women Too Well featuring a woman in a wedding dress holding a gun and some renegades

On Friday May 16, Clara Bilbao's Spanish black comedy We Treat Women Too Well will screen, and on Saturday, it will be the turn of the French, with a screening of rom-com Diary Of A Fleeting Affair.

We Treat Women Too Well is set against the backdrop of Franco's rise to power as a group of ‘Maquis’ rebels get more than they bargain for after taking a bride-to-be hostage. The film features Spanish big-hitters including Carmen Machi, Antonio de la Torre, Luis Tosar and Julián Villagrán.

Emmanuel Mouret's Diary Of A Fleeting Affair...

‘Segundo Premio’ también triunfó en la gran noche del cine español.

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Anoche se celebró la gala de los Premios Goya 2025, la que es la gran noche del cine español y una de las ediciones más abiertas de los últimos años donde todo podía pasar. Y es que, por un momento, parecía que íbamos a tener nuestro momento Moonlight–La La Land español, pero no, por primera vez en la historia de los Goya el premio a la Mejor Película se repartió ex aequo a El 47 y La infiltrada. Otra de las grandes triunfadoras de la noche fue Segundo premio, que logró tres galardones, incluido el de Mejor Dirección. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados y ganadores de los Goya 2025:

Mejor PELÍCULA (Ex Aequo) Casa en flames

El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio © A Contracorriente Films © Beta Films Mejor DIRECCIÓN Pedro Almodóvar...

‘Rita’, de Paz Vega, y ‘¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila’ , de Alexis Morante, entre las grandes triunfadoras.

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El sábado se celebró la gala de los Premios Carmen. Una gala cuyo protagonismo recayó en la película Segundo premio y Rita. Aquí la lista completa de los premiados:

Mejor Largometraje De FICCIÓN Segundo premio © BTeamPictures Mejor Largometraje De PRODUCCIÓN No Andaluza La estrella azul © Mod producciones Mejor Largometraje Documental Fandango

© Comunicación Audiovisual Singulares Mejor DIRECCIÓN Alexis Morante, ¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila

© Filmax Mejor DIRECCIÓN Novel Paz Vega, Rita © Filmax Mejor Guion Original Segundo premio © BTeamPictures Mejor Guion Adaptado ¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila © Filmax Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Femenina Protagonista Beatriz Arjona, Fin de fiesta © AContracorrienteFilms Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Femenina De Reparto Adelfa Calvo, ¿Es el enemigo? La película de Gila © Filmax Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Femenina REVELACIÓN Paz de Alarcón, Rita © Filmax Mejor INTERPRETACIÓN Masculina Protagonista Pablo Gómez-Pando,...

Aquí están las predicciones del equipo de mundoCine de los ganadores de los Premios Goya 2025. La gala se celebra el sábado 8 de febrero en Granada. Mientras esperamos a conocer los los ganadores, os dejamos nuestras predicciones, que se han calculado combinando las predicciones de los miembros participantes de mundoCine.

Mejor Película

PREDICCIÓN: Segundo premio

Mejor Dirección

PREDICCIÓN: Arantxa Echevarría, La infiltrada

Mejor Actor Protagonista

PREDICCIÓN: Eduard Fernández, Marco

Mejor Actriz Protagonista

PREDICCIÓN: Carolina Yuste, La infiltrada

Mejor Actor de Reparto

PREDICCIÓN: Antonio de la Torre, Los destellos

Mejor Actriz de Reparto

PREDICCIÓN: Clara Segura, El 47

Mejor Actor Revelación

PREDICCIÓN: Pepe Lorente, La estrella azul

Mejor Actriz Revelación

PREDICCIÓN: Laura Weissmahr, Salve María

Mejor Guion Original

PREDICCIÓN: Eduard Sola, Casa en flames

Mejor Guion Adaptado

PREDICCIÓN: Pedro Almodóvar, La habitación de al lado

Mejor Película de Animación

PREDICCIÓN: Mariposas negras

Mejor Película Documental

PREDICCIÓN: La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés...

Movistar Plus+, the Spanish pay-tv and SVoD service, is expanding its film production slate and has boarded Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s The Black Ball (La Bola Negra), set to shoot in the second half of 2025.

The Black Ball, inspired by an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca, will be a “queer vindication about three meen in three different moments of Spanish history: 1932, 1937 and 2017,” said Calvo and Ambrossi, best known as filmmaking duo Los Javis.

Los Javis’ outfit Suma Content is producing with Movistar Plus+.

Lorca was murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War by rightwing military...

During a Movistar+ presentation at the historic Telefónica Building on Madrid’s Gran Via this afternoon, renowned writer-director-producer duo Los Javis – Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo – shared early details about their next project, “La bola negra,” a multi-timelined feature about what it is and has meant to be a gay man in Spain throughout the last century.

A day after their series “La Mesías” won the Rose d’Or Award for best mini or limited series at Content Americas, Ambrossi and Calvo – known locally as Los Javis – revealed that they’re in the final stages of putting the project together and will begin shooting later this year. Abrossi and Calvo are writing, directing, and co-producing the feature through their label Suma Content, which is teaming with Movistar+, its production and distribution partner, on “La Mesías.”

“La bola negra” is a “queer revisitation of a part of the history of our country,...

‘La Habitación de al Lado’ no logra la nominación a Mejor Película y sorprende la ausencia de Najwa Nimri como Mejor Actriz. © Goya |A Contracorriente Films | Beta Films| BTeamPictures | El Deseo

Hoy ha tenido lugar la lectura de nominados a los Premios Goya 2025, en la que las películas El 47, La Infiltrada y Segundo Premio han conseguido el mayor número de nominaciones. Los ganadores se conocerán el 8 de febrero en Granada. Aquí os dejamos con la lista completa de nominados:

Mejor PELÍCULA

Casa en flames

El 47

La estrella azul

La infiltrada

Segundo premio

Mejor DIRECCIÓN

Pedro almodóvar (La habitación de al lado)

Arantxa Echavarría (La infiltrada)

Paula Ortiz (La virgen roja)

Aitor Arregi y Jon Garaño (Marco)

Isaki Lacuesta y Pol Rodríguez (Segundo premio)

Mejor DIRECCIÓN Novel

Miguel Faus (Calladita)

Pedro Martín-Calero (El llanto)

Javier Macipe (La estrella azul)

Sandra Romero (Por donde pasa el silencio)

Paz Vega (Rita...

Spain’s Academia de Cine has unveiled its list of nominations for the 39th Goya Awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscar. Leading the field is Marcel Barrena’s biographical drama El 47, with 14 mentions. It’s followed by thriller La Infiltrada (Undercover) at 13.

Also in the mix is Segundo Premio (Saturn Return) with 11 nods. The movie about real-life rock band Los Planetas was Spain’s submission for the International Feature Oscar, though it did not make AMPAS’ shortlist cut which was revealed yesterday.

Meanwhile, Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature, The Room Next Door, scored 10 nominations including Best Director and a pair of Best Actress nods for Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. It did not surface in the Goyas’ Best Picture race, despite taking the top prize Golden Lion in Venice earlier this year, his first ever top A-list festival prize.

The Goyas will be handed out on February 8 in Granada.

The Spanish film academy gave a surprise snub to its best-known director when Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door was not nominated for best film for the Goya Film Awards, Spain’s equivalent to the Oscars.

The Room Next Door picked up 13 Goya nominations, including best director for Almodóvar and best acting nominations for both of the film’s leads, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, but the film was left out of the best picture category. Perhaps the language barrier — it’s Almodóvar’s first English-language feature — counted against it among Spanish academy voters.

Instead, the Goya’s best picture race will include five Spanish-language features: Casa en flames from director Dani de la Orden, Marcel Barrena’s El 47, La estrella azul from Javier Macipe, Arantxa Echevarría’s La infiltrada, and Segundo premio from director Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, which was Spain’s official Oscar submission this year.

Local hits The 47 and Undercover lead the nominations for Spain’s 2025 Goya Awards, with 14 and 13 nods respectively.

Rock drama Saturn Return and Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winnerThe Room Next Door are also high up on the list of nominees.

The Goya winners will be announced at a ceremony in Granada on February 8.

Marcel Barrena’s The 47, produced by The Mediapro Studio, tells the story of a working-class community in the hills of Barcelona and its struggle to get public transport and better living conditions. It has grossed €3m at the Spanish box office to date.

The 47’s 14 nominations include best film,...

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Black Doves is a British spy action thriller drama series created by Joe Barton. The Netflix series follows Helen Webb, an undercover spy for a private organization who learns that her secret identity is in danger of being exposed after her lover is killed by London’s underworld. She goes on a quest for vengeance with the help of an old friend while keeping up appearances as her cover identity of the wife of the Secretary of State for Defence. Black Doves stars Keira Knightley, Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire, Andrew Koji, Andrew Buchan, Omari Douglas, and Kathryn Hunter. So, if you loved the spy thriller element, nail-biting drama, and compelling characters in Black Doves, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Americans is a period...

Some of the highest-profile Spanish films of 2024 – from Málaga Festival winner and now Spain’s Oscar entry “Saturn Return” to San Sebastián laureates “I Am Nevenka” and “Glimmers” – feature in Mass, a Spanish film showcase which will unspool in Buenos Aires over Nov. 28-30 and Montevideo during Dec. 2-4, running parallel with the Uruguayan capital’s Ventana Sur market.

The film season represents the latest collaboration between Spain’s San Sebastián and Málaga Festival, here in partnership of Spain’s Icaa film agency and Argentina’s Orca Films, as Spain’s seeks to capitalize on its predominant presence on global streamers among E.U. film powers to consolidate production and co-financing relations in Uruguay, a building film-tv hub, and with regions of Argentina.

During their stay in Argentina, the San Sebastian and Malaga Festivals will meet representatives of the Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos and Santiago del Estero provinces to work...

The Realm Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival The Candidate, Amazon Prime, streaming from today

Political thrillers don't come much better packaged than this one from Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Spanish A-lister Antonio de la Torre plays Manuel López-Vidal - a corrupt politico whose chickens are about to come home to roost. Beginning with a gripping tracking shot that introduces us to the character as he walks through a restaurant with an intensity that continues through the film. A leaked tape is about to spell trouble for Manuel, just as his big break appears to be coming, setting in motion an intricate game that sees him try to outwit both his party and the law. Hinging on de la Torre's magnetic central performance, which leaves us compromised too, almost wishing for the bad guy to win the day.

The Smallest Show On Earth, 11am, Film4, Monday, November 4

Cinephiles with a yen...

La película, basada en hechos reales, retrata la historia del primer asesino en serie registrado en España. © Buena Vista Internacional

Comienza el rodaje de Sacamantecas, una película dirigida por David Pérez Sañudo (Los últimos románticos), coescrita junto a Sergio Granda, que se adentra en la leyenda del escalofriante personaje real de Juan Díaz de Garayo, conocido como el Sacamantecas.

Basada en una historia original de Asier Guerricaechebarría y Joanes Urkixo, Sacamantecas se sitúa en Álava a finales del siglo Xix. En plena Tercera Guerra Carlista, varias mujeres aparecen estranguladas en las afueras de Vitoria. Ángela Berrosteguieta (López Arnaiz), hermana de una de las víctimas, llega en busca de justicia, decidida a demostrar que Juan Díaz de Garayo (de la Torre), un campesino analfabeto, es el responsable de los crímenes. Sin embargo, Pío Pinedo (Bengoetxea), jefe de los alguaciles, se enfrenta a la falta de recursos en tiempos de guerra y...

Spanish director Albert Serra’s bullfighting documentary Afternoons Of Solitude has won the Golden Shell for best film at the closing ceremony of the 72nd edition of the Spanish festival tonight (Saturday September 28).

The special jury prize was awarded to Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl which stars Pamela Anderson as a Vegas showgirl facing the end of her career.

’Afternoons Of Solitude’ review

The official competition jury, presided over by Spanish filmmaker Jaione Camborda – who was last year’s Golden Shell winner for The Rye Horn, also awarded top prizes to new filmmakers. The Silver Shell for best director...

San Sebastian — Is this the San Sebastián Catalan Film Festival? Always boasting a sterling presence at San Sebastián, Catalonia has a massive 27 titles this year, counting five projects in doc forum Lau Haizetara and including four of the five Spanish movies in main Competition and 10 in Made in Spain. Following a break-down of major section titles:

Main Competition

“Afternoons of Solitude,” (Andergraun Films, Ideale Audience, Lacima Producciones)

Albert Serra’s not at all obvious follow-up to Cannes competition player “Pacifiction,” a portrait of star bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey at work. The results remain to be seen. Serra has shot the disc feature “with respect and innocence, without prejudice nor provocation,” he tells Spain’s ABC Cultural.

“Glimmers,” (Inicia Films, Mod Producciones, Misent Producciones)

The latest from Pilar Palomero. A top-notch Spanish cast led by Patricia López Arnaíz and Antonio de la Torre drive the tale of a woman asked by...

This year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival will feature the most eye-catching list of international superstars it has ever hosted, including A-list actors such as Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem – who will both receive Donostia career achievement awards, Andrew Garfield, Pamela Anderson, Tilda Swinton and Lupita Nyong’o and filmmakers like local legend Pedro Almodovar – another Donostia award recipient, Adam Elliot, Gia Coppola, Mike Leigh and Walter Salles.

Other international actors who have confirmed they will attend this year’s festival include Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, Johnny Depp, Isabelle Huppert, Noémie Merlant, Ángela Molina, Franco Nero, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sharpe, among others.

Normally, many directors attend San Sebastian with their latest films, but the number of titles from consecrated directors at this year’s festival has increased noticeably. Filmmakers bringing their latest to this year’s festival include Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Leos Carax, Costa-Gavras, Audrey Diwan,...

La cineasta de ‘Las Niñas’ y ‘La Maternal’ presenta su nuevo largometraje protagonizado por Patricia López Arnaiz y Antonio De la Torre. © Caramel Films

Tras el anuncio de que competirá por la Concha de Oro en la 72 edición del Festival de San Sebastián, se han hecho públicos el primer tráiler y póster de “Los Destellos”, el tercer largometraje de la cineasta aragonesa Pilar Palomero basado en el relato “Un Corazón Demasiado Grande”, de Eider Rodríguez.

En “Los Destellos”, la vida de Isabel da un inesperado giro el día que su hija Madalen le pide que visite regularmente a Ramón, que está enfermo. Tras quince años alejada de su exmarido, un hombre al que ve como un extraño pese a que fueron familia durante años, Isabel comienza a reavivar resentimientos que creía haber superado. Sin embargo, al acompañar a Ramón en su momento más vulnerable, Isabel podrá ver con otros ojos...

Cuatro películas españolas en la competición.

Hoy se han dado a conocer las películas españolas que formarán parte de la programación de la 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, que se celebrará del 20 al 28 de septiembre.

Cuatro películas españolas formarán parte de la competición por la Concha de Oro del Festival: “Soy Nevenka”, “El Llanto”, “Los Destellos” y “Tardes de Soledad”.

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Icíar Bollaín, conocida por su película “Maixabel”, presentará “Soy Nevenka”, que será su quinta participación en la Sección Oficial. Protagonizada por Mireia Oriol y Urko Olazabal, se basa en la historia real de Nevenka Fernández, una concejala que pagó un alto precio por atreverse a denunciar el acoso del alcalde de Ponferrada. Una historia que convirtió a su protagonista en una pionera del movimiento #metoo al llevar por primera vez a un político influyente ante los tribunales por acoso sexual y laboral.

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En su ópera prima,...

Antonio de la Torre y Bárbara Lennie protagonizan este thriller. © Disney

Termina el rodaje de “Los Tigres”, la película dirigida por Alberto Rodríguez (“La Isla Mínima”) y escrita por Rodríguez junto a Rafael Cobos (“La Isla Mínima”), tras dos intensas semanas de rodaje subacuático

“Los Tigres” sigue a Antonio y Estrella, hermanos que llevan toda la vida vinculados al mar. Antonio trabaja como buzo industrial. Estrella estudia los fondos marinos y ayuda a su hermano en la barcaza para la que trabaja. A pesar de jugarse la vida cada día, su situación económica es delicada. Una situación que puede cambiar cuando dan con un alijo de cocaína escondido en el casco de un carguero anclado en el puerto de Huelva.

“Los Tigres” está protagonizada por Antonio de la Torre (“El Reino”) y Bárbara Lennie (“Magical Girl”). Completan el reparto, Joaquín Núñez (“Grupo 7”), José Miguel Manzano Bazalo “Skone” (rapero malagueño...

In what remains the Spanish film industry’s biggest event of 2024, last January, pay TV Movistar Plus+, behind premium series like “A Perfect Life” and “The Plague,” summoned local press to unveil its biggest strategic move for the last few years.

Accompanying Movistar Plus execs Domingo Corral and Guillermo Farré were five of the coolest, most successful and relatively young filmmakers in Spain today: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alberto Rodríguez, Iciar Bolláin, Oliver Laxe and Ana Rujas. Together they outlined plans to make event auteur movies backed for commercial release in Spanish theaters by the promotional muscle of Movistar Plus+.

Six months later, Rodríguez, director of Goya Award winner “Marshland” and 1580s Seville thriller series “The Plague,” is caught on set by Variety on Spain’s southern seaboard, on a boat just off Huelva, home to huge smoke-belching refineries and stunning natural parks.

That setting provides “Los Tigres” a bigger canvas. However,...

Another lead role has been cast in The Night Manager. Diego Calva will join Tom Hiddleston and Camila Morrone for season two.

Based on the novel by John le Carré, the first season of The Night Manager follows Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) as he tries to infiltrate a crime syndicate while running a luxury hotel in Cairo. The initial season stars Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, Alistair Petrie, David Harewood, Douglas Hodge, Antonio de la Torre, and Tobias Menzies.

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Antonio de la Torre y Bárbara Lennie protagonizan este thriller. © Disney

Ha comenzado el rodaje de “Los Tigres”, una nueva película española que se define como un thriller atmosférico.

Antonio y Estrella son hermanos. Llevan toda la vida vinculados al mar. Antonio trabaja como buzo industrial. Estrella estudia los fondos marinos y ayuda a su hermano en la barcaza para la que trabaja. A pesar de jugarse la vida cada día, su situación económica es delicada. Una situación que puede cambiar cuando dan con un alijo de cocaína escondido en el casco de un carguero anclado en el puerto de Huelva.

“Los Tigres” está protagonizada por Antonio de la Torre (“El Reino”) y Bárbara Lennie (“Magical Girl”). Completan el reparto, Joaquín Núñez (“Grupo 7”), José Miguel Manzano Bazalo “Skone” que debuta en la actuación) y Silvia Acosta (“Mamacruz”). Por otro lado, la película está dirigida por Alberto Rodríguez (“La Isla Mínima...

The Night Manager is returning to the small screen. The first season aired on AMC in 2016 and some viewers wanted to see more of Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine character (above). The possibility of the thriller returning was revealed in February 2023, and now the show's officially been renewed for second and third seasons.

Starring Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, Alistair Petrie, David Harewood, Douglas Hodge, Antonio de la Torre, and Tobias Menzies, The Night Manager series follows Pine (Hiddleston), the night manager of a luxury hotel in Cairo who is dragged into the investigation of Richard Roper (Laurie), an illegal arms dealer.

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The Night Manager has been renewed for two seasons after an eight-year hiatus, reversing one of the biggest disappointments of Tom Hiddleston's career. The first season, although highly praised, was underrated and almost forgotten. Tom Hiddleston is returning as Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager season 2, with Hugh Laurie joining him in producing the upcoming seasons.

In a surprising turn of events, The Night Manager has been renewed eight years following the season 1 finale, effectively making up for one of the most upsetting aspects of Tom Hiddleston's lengthy acting career. The BBC spy thriller series, directed by Susanne Bier and written by David Farr, premiered in 2016 and consisted of six episodes, enthralling from beginning to end. The Night Manager is based on John le Carré's 1993 book, and it centers around Hiddleston's character, Jonathan Pine, the night manager of a Cairo hotel who is recruited to get close to the arms dealer Richard Roper.

Going into Berlin’s European Film Market, Spain’s biggest sales agents are under no illusion just how tough international markets have become.

“Paradoxically, in one of the best moments for Spanish productions, we are finding that some of our top dramas are getting hard to sell unless selected in Cannes, Venice or Berlin,” says Latido Films CEO Antonio Saura.

Also, “If American productions dominate at least 80% of markets, and local productions claim about half what remains. You’re left with just 10% of markets for many wonderful films to try to find audience opportunities. Competition is fiercer than ever,” he says.

“Many newer platforms are insisting on revenue shares. This rarely works for us,” observes Feel Sales’ Yennifer Fasciani.

Yet companies are fighting back. “Either a film works very well or not at all. Our strategy is increasingly focusing on major titles, leaving no middle ground,” states Film Factory Entertainment’s Vicente Canales,...

The 68th edition will screen a mix of new Spanish films and 2023 favourites and host an expanded industry programme.

The 68th edition of the Seminci, the Valladolid International Film Week opens this weekend (October 21) with a screening of The Movie Teller, directed by Lone Scherfig, starring Bérénice Béjo, Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl and written by Walter Salles, Isabel Coixet and Rafa Russo.

For what is a vital launchpad into the Spanish market, new festival director José Luis Cienfuegos has programmed a series of international festival favourites from 2023 alongside new films by Spanish directors Antonio Méndez Esparza and...

Movies about movies tend to be as sentimental as Cinema Paradiso, the all-time tearjerker in the genre, or as caustic as the recent Babylon. But Lone Scherfig finds a fine balance between love of movies and the harsh wider world in The Movie Teller, a beautifully made coming-of-age film about Maria Margarita, who acts out the Hollywood movies she has seen at the local cinema in her small mining town. Set in the Chilean desert in the late 1960s and early ’70s, the drama benefits greatly from the sure hand and clear eye Scherfig has brought to her best films, other period pieces including An Education (2009) and Their Finest (2016). All that can’t quite make up for the rocky screenplay, though.

The story is adapted from the Chilean writer Hernan Rivera Letelier’s 2009 novel. The first version of the screenplay was tackled years ago by the Brazilian director Walter Salles,...

Last year, as movies conceived and shot during the Covid-19 pandemic began to be released, we saw a sudden influx of films rejoicing in the act of moviemaking and movie-watching. From Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans” to Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” from Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light” to the Indian Oscar entry “Last Film Show,” a surprising number of films bred during pandemic isolation were movies about movies.

And a year later, during the final days of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, another movie that belongs in that company had its world premiere. “The Movie Teller,” a Spanish-language film set in Chile and made by a Danish director with a cast whose biggest names are known for French and German movies, puts an international spin on the love of movies and embraces the art of storytelling in a way that is at times profoundly moving.

The film is a mixture of genres,...

When I was in college cinema courses I made a Super 8 film called Movie Girl. It was a Hollywood-set love letter to movies centered on a Musso & Frank waitress who put herself dreamily into the plots of classic films. It won an award there but was the highlight of the directing career I never had. However, I have always been partial to filmmakers who put their own early film-going experience and passion into their careers now. You may have heard of them: Kenneth Branagh won an Oscar for doing just that in Belfast. Steven Spielberg got several nominations last year for his very personal The Fabelmans. Woody Allen had his own charming take in The Purple Rose of Cairo. Peter Bogdanovich made a lasting impression with 1971’s The Last Picture Show, as did Giuseppe Tornatore with his Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso.

It is a combination of the latter two especially...

"Your emotions affect you too much." Kino Lorber released this Belgian thriller in the US already - if you haven't seen or heard about this yet, you may want to check it out. On the Edge is the US title for a Belgian thriller made by a Chilean filmmaker named Giordano Gederlini. It premiered last year and already opened around Europe, and is now available in the US to watch as well. A man seemingly falls onto the subway rails and later dies at the hospital. The train driver who was on duty at the time of the incident happens to be his estranged father. While on the trail of his son's murderers, Leo will be closely watched by the police, also investigating. They soon discover that Leo’s skills in tracking & apprehending violent criminals are not those of a mere metro driver. Taken with a Belgian twist? The film stars Antonio De La Torre,...

Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” joins Roya Sadat’s “Sima’s Song,” and Pau Calpe’s “Werewolf” in the lineup of Spanish Screenings Goes to Cannes, a selection of five pix in post which underscores the ever broadening compass – in genre, setting, protagonists, production bases and models – of film production in Spain.

“Sima’s Song,” for example, is set in 1979 Kabul, “Jumping the Fence” on the Morocco-Spain border in Africa.

Many titles, though still in post production, come laden with prizes as projects, prestige deals or rich talent. “Sima’s Song,” from Afghan director Roya Sadat, whose “A Letter to the President” was shortlisted for an Oscar, won the Taicca Award at Busan’s Asian Project Market and the Ifi-Pas Award at Mumbai’s Film Bazaar. Its producer, Alba Sotorra, was nominated for an International Emmy as a director for “The Return: Life After Isis.”

The second feature from Orr,...

Malaga, Spain — “My Parents’ Great Bazar,” from “Ane is Missing” co-scribe Marina Parés, bio “Costus,” on the iconic Madrid Movida artists, and “Villa Futuro,” a queer old age drama from “Locked Up” star Alberto Velasco, all feature among eight winners of Tell Us the Stories That Nobody Tells, a diversity drive contest for movies and TV shows backed by Netflix and Dama, the Spanish audiovisual authors’ rights collection body.

Announced Wednesday at an awards ceremony hosted by the Malaga Film Festival, the winners of the competition, which forms part of the partners’ Cambio de Plano initiative, will receive €6,000 a piece.

Two will also get a teaser financed by Netflix and Dama. As importantly, the partners will pay for mentoring for the development of their projects from Daniela Fejerman, director of Malaga’s opening film, “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” TV critic and screenwriter Bob Pop (“Maricón perdido”), screenwriter Valentina Viso,...

The Night Manager may still return for a second season. Initially conceived as a limited series, a second season of the drama is now in the works. Tom Hiddleston will return to star, and David Farr is returning to write the project.

Starring Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki, Alistair Petrie, David Harewood, Douglas Hodge, Antonio de la Torre, and Tobias Menzies, the initial six episodes of The Night Manager were very successful and aired in May 2016 on AMC and BBC.

The first season's story follows Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston), the night manager of a luxury hotel in Cairo. A former British soldier, he is recruited by Angela Burr (Colman), the manager of a Foreign Office task force.  She wants him to infiltrate the inner circle of Richard Roper (Laurie), an illegal arms dealer.

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The Movie: "Volver"

Where You Can Stream It: Criterion Channel

The Pitch: Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) lives in Madrid with Paco (Antonio de la Torre) and her teenage daughter Paula (Yolanda Cobo). One day, Paco attempts to sexually assault Paula, claiming that he is not her father, and Paula kills him in self-defense. Not wanting to get the police involved, Raimunda decides to store Paco's dead body in the freezer of the restaurant next door, which Raimunda has agreed to look after when the owner leaves town. This makes it seem like the restaurant is open, and a film crew that is shooting nearby wants to use the place as their go-to spot for meals, with Raimunda agreeing to be their designated caterer.

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...

Amazon Prime Video’s ‘The Lake’ Producer Amaze Signs COO & Business Affairs VP

Canadian TV and film studio Amaze has forged a Chief Operating Officer role and hired a Senior Vice President of Business Affair as it clears a path to growth. Michael Souther and Teza Lawrence’s outfit, which is behind Amazon Prime Video’s debut Canadian series The Lake, has brought in Alex Lalonde in the former role and Gina Vanni in the latter, both of whom join from Stratagem Rx. Lalonde, who produced The Desperate Hour and the Canadian shoot for Marvel’s Hawkeye and Secret Invasion while at Stratagem, is tasked with managing corporate operations, as well as sourcing IP and co-production opportunities, packaging, financing, sales and acting as an Executive Producer across projects. Vanni will oversee business affairs and finance for the Amaze slate. “Alex and Gina are leaders in global treaty co-production, commercial co-production,...

The Spanish-language film is in production in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

UK sales outfit Embankment has unveiled a first look at Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller.

Screen can exclusively reveal the image, which features newcomer Alondra Valenzuela with Bérénice Bejo and Antonio de la Torre.

The Spanish-language film is set in a 1960s mining community in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where it is in production. It is based on a novel by Hernán Rivera Letelier, La Contadora De Películas, about a woman who inspires a passion for cinema in her daughter. In a town where families are unable to afford tickets to the cinema,...

Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “On the Edge,” a Belgian crime thriller by Giordano Gederlini (“Les Miserables”) from Le Pacte.

The deal was negotiated by Kino Lorber senior VP Wendy Lidell and Le Pacte’s head of sales Camille Neel out of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema market. The event, which runs from March 3-13, is hosted by Unifrance and Film at Lincoln Center.

“On The Edge” marks the sophomore outing of Gederlini, who co-wrote Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated film “Les Miserables.”

The gritty, twisty noir is set in Brussels, where Leo, a Spanish metro driver, sees his estranged son right before he falls onto the rails and dies. After discovering that his son was involved in a bloody heist, Leo sets off to track down the criminals responsible for the murder under the watchful eye of the police.

The film stars Antonio de la Torre (“A Twelve-Year Night...

Emily Mortimer and writer-director Jim Cummings boarded Miguel Faus’ feature debut “Calladita,” whose financing is expected to be raised entirely through NFTs and Web3 systems.

It would mark the first time ever that a European film is backed by NTFs (non-fungible tokens) and decentralized web software handled by the crypto community Web3.

Based on the eponymous short film which played at the Palm Springs Short and London Short Film festivals, “Calladita” will offer a character study of its protagonist and, through her eyes, a portrait of the Catalan high bourgeoisie with a mix of realism and satire.

“I’m involved because I’m a big fan of Miguel, who’s short ‘Calladita’ I really loved,” Mortimer said in a statement.

Joining Mortimer, cast members include Spanish Academy Goya Award-winner Antonio de la Torre (“The Endless Trench”) Susana Abaitua (“Patria”) and Paula Grimaldo, who played the lead in the original short.

Spain has two films in this year’s main competition at the Berlinale, and a record haul of films participating across all sections. Similarly, the country boasts an impressive list of productions looking for buyers at the festival’s EFM. Below, a list of standouts from Spain looking to make moves on the global market.

“Prison 77” (Alberto Rodríguez)

A potential jewel in Spanish cinema’s 2022 crown, “Modelo 77” is produced by Spanish pay TV-vod giant Movistar Plus and Madrid-based Atípica Films, Rodríguez’s career-long producer. S.A. Film Factory

“Alcarràs” (Carla Simón)

In Berlin’s main competition, the much anticipated follow up to Simón’s “Summer 1993,” “Alcarrás” tracks the final harvest at a multi-generational family farm. Co-produced with Italy. S.A. MK2 Films

“The Beast” (Rodrigo Sorogoyen)

A Galicia-set thriller from Oscar-nominee Sorogoyen (“Mother”) and his regular co-scribe Esther Peña.

“Beyond the Summit” (Ibon Cormenzana)

Javier Rey and Patricia Lopez...

The fllm will shoot in Chile from March.

Spanish-German actor Daniel Brühl has joined Bérénice Bejo in the cast of Lone Scherfig’s The Movie Teller, which is set to commence production in Chile’s Atacama Desert on March 21. Embankment Films is handling worldwide sales.

The Spanish-language film is based on Hernán Rivera Letelier’s autobiographical novel about the life of a mining community of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Brühl will play the European administer of the mine on which the community depends. Antonio de la Torre will also star.

The film is produced by Adolfo Blanco of Spain’s A Contracorriente Films,...

“Captain America: Civil War” star Daniel Brühl has boarded Lone Scherfig’s upcoming feature “The Movie Teller,” Variety can reveal.

The BAFTA-nominated actor, who recently reprised his Marvel role in “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and has appeared in features including “Rush” and “Inglourious Basterds,” will star alongside Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) and Antonio de la Torre (“Marshland”) in the film.

Embankment are executive producing the film and have launched worlwide sales, co-repping Latin American rights with Latido Films. A Contracorriente Films’ Adolfo Blanco (“The Bookshop”), Selenium Films’ Vincent Juillerat and Andres Mardones of Al Tiro Films are producing.

Directed by BAFTA nominee Scherfig (“An Education”), “The Movie Teller” sees Brühl star as Nansen, a European outsider who, via his restraint and diplomacy, earns the respect of the families he encounters at a Chilean mine before embarking on a relationship with a local woman, María Magnolia (played by Bejo).

In particular,...

Le Pacte is set to host market premieres for Édouard Baer’s “Adieu Paris” and Giordano Gederlini’s “On the Edge” at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris, which takes place this week.

“Adieu Paris” stars an ensemble cast, including some of France and Belgium’s best-known actors, notably Benoît Poelvoorde, François Damiens, Gérard Depardieu, Isabelle Nanty, Pierre Arditi and Ludivine Sagnier. The dialogue-driven comedy takes place entirely at a Parisian bistro. Camille Neel, head of international sales at Le Pacte, said the film will appeal to traditional French films lovers and admirers of iconic actors. “Adieu Paris” is the fourth directorial outing of actor-turned-helmer Baer, who last directed “Ouvert la nuit” in which he starred opposite Audrey Tautou and Sabrina Ouazani. The film, produced by Cinéfrance Studios, Les Films en Cabine, Le Pacte and Artémis Productions, had its world premiere at the Lumiere Festival in Lyon, France.

“On the Edge...

Bérénice Bejo, who rose to fame as the Oscar-nominated star of The Artist, is set to lead BAFTA nominee Lone Scherfig’s upcoming adaptation of The Movie Teller.

Antonio de la Torre (Marshland) will also star in the film, first adapted by Palme D’Or nominee Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Rafa Russo from Hernán Rivera Letelier’s acclaimed novel. The Spanish language film is an autobiographical tale of life in the mining community of Chile’s Atacama Desert, and a tribute to the inspirational power of cinema.

The Movie Teller is a Spanish, French and Chilean co-production and will shoot in the Atacama Desert ...

Bérénice Bejo, who rose to fame as the Oscar-nominated star of The Artist, is set to lead BAFTA nominee Lone Scherfig’s upcoming adaptation of The Movie Teller.

Antonio de la Torre (Marshland) will also star in the film, first adapted by Palme D’Or nominee Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) and Rafa Russo from Hernán Rivera Letelier’s acclaimed novel. The Spanish language film is an autobiographical tale of life in the mining community of Chile’s Atacama Desert, and a tribute to the inspirational power of cinema.

The Movie Teller is a Spanish, French and Chilean co-production and will shoot in the Atacama Desert ...

Bérénice Bejo, Oscar nominated for “The Artist,” and two-time Goya winner Antonio de la Torre are to star in “The Movie Teller,” which is to be directed by Lone Scherfig, a BAFTA nominee with “An Education.” Embankment is launching worldwide sales on the Spanish-language film at the virtual AFM.

Walter Salles, a BAFTA winner with “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Central Station,” and Rafa Russo have adapted Hernán Rivera Letelier’s novel, which is the story of life in a mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, and a tribute to the inspirational power of cinema, reminiscent of “Cinema Paradiso.”

The film is produced by Adolfo Blanco (“The Bookshop”) of A Contracorriente Films and Vincent Juillerat of Selenium Films and Al Tiro Films. Embankment is an executive producer, and co-represents Latin American rights with Latido Films. It shoots in the Atacama Desert in the first quarter of next year.

Bejo stars as María Magnolia,...

Spain Stars of Tomorrow will launch at this summer’s Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest.

Spanish actor Antonio de la Torre will be the mentor for the first Spain Stars of Tomorrow, the newest edition of Screen International’s long-running talent spotting series which will launch at this summer’s Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest.

De la Torre holds the record for the most actor nominations (14) at the Spanish Film Academy awards, the Goyas, since his breakthrough in Daniel Sánchez Arevalo’s Dark Blue Almost Black in 2006 which won him the best supporting actor award. His second win, for best actor, came...

Buenos Aires-based Film Sharks Int’l. has sold the streaming rights to Spanish sci-fi dystopian comedy “Some Time Later” (“Tiempo Despues”) to U.S. Spanish-language Ott platform Pantaya, HBO Max Central Europe and Amazon Spain.

The absurdist comedy is the swan song of beloved Spanish director Jose Luis Cuerda who died from a stroke early last year at age 72.

Talks are underway with a pan-regional Latin American buyer, said Film Sharks CEO Guido Rud, who has managed to set up a stand at Cannes’ Marché du Film after narrowly catching the last flight out of Buenos Aires just as Covid-afflicted Argentina began to close its borders again.

“Some Time Later” is set in the year 9177 when the entire cosmos has been reduced to a single high rise which houses the elite, led by a power-mad king, while scattered around it are grimy suburbs where everyone else resides in barbaric neo-medieval squalor.

Le Pacte has nabbed the distribution rights to two features ahead of the Cannes Film Festival. The Paris-based outfit will be in charge of worldwide sales for a thriller from “Les Misérables” writer Giordano Gerdelini, and a family drama from “Diane Has the Right Shape” director Fabien Gorgeart.

Gerdelini’s “On the Edge” (original title “Entre la vie et la mort”) was shot last year and is in post-production. It is set in Brussels and centers around Leo (Antonio de la Torre), a Spanish metro driver who sees a young man in distress on the edge of the train platform. He recognizes his son Hugo right before he falls onto the rails and then dies at the hospital.

Leo had not seen his son for years, and soon will discovers that he was involved in a bloody heist. While on the trail of his son’s murderers, he is closely watched by the police,...