Eleven Spanish films and eight Ibero-American films will compete from March 1 to 10 at the twenty-seventh Malaga Festival, which will once again be, according to its director, Juan Antonio Vigar, the “common house” of Spanish-language cinema and he once again wants his “singularity be generality.”
The official section “will accommodate all types of formats, trajectories, content, views and forms of production” and in it “the authorial will coexist with the commercial and careers with a long history with other more inquiring ones,” stated Vigar in the presentation. of the contents.
The contest is at a time “of great prestige and national and international positioning” thanks to the decision starting in 2017 to “embrace” Ibero-American cinema in its official section, which “curiously has made the embrace of Spanish cinema even more intense”, and the commitment to enhance its industry area “to be useful to the sector”.
The Festival had already announced that the opening film will be Dragonkeeper, by Salvador Simó, which will compete in its official section along with the also announced El hombre bien, by David Trueba; Little Loves, by Celia Rico, and Second Prize, by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez.
Added to these are the Spanish films We Treat Women Too Well, by Clara Bilbao; A hipster in empty Spain, by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro; The House, by Alex Montoya; The Abbess, by Antonio Chavarrías; Nina, by Andrea Jaurrieta; Pájaros, by Pau Durà, and As Neves, by Sonia Méndez.
The Ibero-American Yana-Wara, by Óscar and Tito Catacora (Peru), will compete alongside them; Lluvia, by Rodrigo García Saiz (Mexico); Shipwrecks, by Vanina Spataro (Argentina-Uruguay); Radical, by Christopher Zalla (Mexico); The Wild Woman, by Alán González (Cuba); Golan, by Orlando Culzat (Colombia); Rest in Peace, by Sebastián Borensztein (Argentina), and The Terrains, by Verónica Chen (Argentina-Uruguay).
Out of competition, the closing film will be presented, La familia Benetón, by Joaquín Mazón, as well as Invasión, by David Martín-Porras; Ellipsis, by David Marqués; What a piece, by Nacho García Velilla; The jump, by Benito Zambrano; Methuselah, by David Galán Galindo, and Calladita, by Miguel Faus.
Also in the non-competitive section will be The Mill, by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas; Stories, by Paco Sepúlveda; The flag, by Martín Cuervo; The Sleeping Woman, by Laura Alvea; Alone in the night, by Guillermo Rojas; I am not that one, by María Ripoll; Disco, Ibiza, Locomía, by Kike Maíllo, and For your dead, by Sayago Ayuso.
The Ibero-Americans out of competition will be Como el mar, by Nicolás Gil Lavedra (Argentina-Uruguay); The Shadow of the Sun, by Miguel Ángel Ferrer (Venezuela-USA), and A Blue Bird, by Ariel Rotter (Argentina-Uruguay).
The non-competitive series section will feature See you in another life, by Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo; Operation Barrio Inglés, by Chiqui Carabante and José Ramón Ayerra; Eva and Nicole, by David Molina, Antonio Hernández and Álvaro Vicario, and A new dawn, by Jose Corbacho and Belén Macías.
The honorary awards had also been advanced: the Málaga Prize, for Javier Cámara; the Ricardo Franco Award, for the set and costume designer Ana Alvargonzález; the Málaga Talent Award, for Pilar Palomero; the Retrospective Award, for the Argentine Marcelo Piñeyro, and the Biznaga Ciudad del Paraíso, for Lola Herrera.
There will also be tributes to the recently deceased directors Ventura Pons and Patricia Ferreira and the actress Itziar Castro, and the Golden Film will be The New Spaniards, a 1974 classic directed by Roberto Bodegas.