My Crime, an intrigue comedy directed by François Ozon will be in charge of opening the seventh edition of the BCN Film Fest on April 20. It is a story based on a play and set in Paris in the 1930s with Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Isabelle Huppert leading the cast. With My Crime, the French director returns to comedy starring women and full of colorful characters that he already explored with 8 women and Potiche, two of the biggest hits of his career.
This year Spanish and Catalan cinema will once again have a notable presence with films such as Un cel de plom, by Miquel Romans; Someone to take care of me, Elvira Lindo and Daniela Fejermam; The Unknown, by Pablo Maqueda; Good Companies, by Sílvia Munt or Unzué. Juancar’s last team.
The Open Zone section will feature titles such as Els encantats, by Elena Trapé, in which Laia Costa plays a mother who returns to her childhood village in Antist to spend the first weekend without her four-year-old daughter; Miró, by Oriol Ferrer, a film that delves into the person behind the great artist that was Joan Miró; and Viento sur, by Álvaro García-Capelo, an intimate drama about friendship and guilt in the exceptional location of the Matxitxako lighthouse in the Basque Country.
Un cel de plom is the debut feature of Romans in a free adaptation of the homonymous book by Carme Martí that tells the life of Neus Català, one of the last survivors of the Ravensbrück extermination camp, an activist of the French resistance and a leader in the fight anti-fascist. Nausicaa Bonnin gets into the shoes of Català in this story that will be in the official section. In the official section, but out of competition, we will see Someone Who Takes Care of Me, based on an unpublished story by Elvira Lindo in which the author portrays the complex family relationships of three generations of women dedicated to acting and those who give life to Aura Garrido , Emma Suárez and Magüi Mira.
After the wonderful documentary Dear Werner, Pablo Maqueda signs La desconocida, based on the successful play Grooming, the Paco Bezerra National Award winner. In it, Carolina is a naive young woman who meets Leo in a chat room. He is an adult man who, posing as a 16-year-old boy, has met her in a secluded park in the city. But as Leo gets to know Carolina, he begins to suspect that maybe she’s not as innocent as she seems. Laia Manzanares, Manolo Solo and Eva Llorach make up the cast.
The actress Sílvia Munt gets back behind the camera to portray the story of a group of women from Rentería who in the 70s and 80s dedicated themselves to fighting for women’s rights, helping them to go to France to have an abortion. worthy. Alicia Falcó, Itziar Ituño and Elena Tarrats embody the protagonists of this story inspired by true events that takes part out of competition. Just like Unzué. Juancar’s last team, a day-to-day portrait of Juan Carlos Unzué for two and a half years, since in June 2020 the exporter and former Barça coach made it public that he suffered from ALS.