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La película, producida por J. A. Bayona, llegará en octubre. © Netflix

Netflix ha puesto fecha al que será –con el permiso de los otros estrenos– uno de los grandes títulos del otoño cinematográfico español: Un fantasma en la batalla, una película escrita y dirigida por Agustín Díaz Yanes (Alatriste) e inspirada en la mayor operación encubierta contra Eta.

Un fantasma en la batalla cuenta la historia de Amaia (Susana Abaitua), una joven guardia civil que permanece más de una década trabajando como agente encubierta dentro de Eta con el objetivo de localizar los zulos que la banda tenía escondidos en el sur de Francia.

El thriller político, rodado en numerosas localizaciones del País Vasco español y francés, está protagonizado por Susana Abaitua (El bus de la vida), Andrés Gertrúdix (Volveréis), Iraia Elias (Los últimos románticos), Raúl Arévalo (El caso Asunta) y Ariadna Gil (El laberinto del Fauno).

La producción corre a cargo de Belén Atienza,...

Basada en las experiencias reales de agentes encubiertos en la lucha antiterrorista. © Netflix

Netflix ha compartido las primeras imágenes de Un fantasma en la batalla, un thriller político inspirado en las vivencias de varios miembros de la Guardia Civil que estuvieron directamente involucrados en la lucha antiterrorista.

Un fantasma en la batalla cuenta la historia de Amaia, una joven guardia civil que permanece más de una década trabajando como agente encubierta dentro de Eta con el objetivo de localizar los zulos que la banda tenía escondidos en el sur de Francia.

La película está protagonizada Susana Abaitua (El bus de la vida), Andrés Gertrúdix (Volveréis), Iraia Elias (Amama), Raúl Arévalo (El caso Asunta) y Ariadna Gil (El laberinto del Fauno).

Su director, Agustín Díaz Yanes (Alatriste), cuando comenzó el rodaje de la película, comentó lo siguiente: «Hace unos cinco años Belén Atienza me propuso que escribiera una historia sobre Eta.

Susana Abaitua y Raúl Arévalo lideran el elenco de esta historia basada en las experiencias reales de agentes encubiertos en la lucha antiterrorista.

Netflix ha anunciado el comienzo del rodaje de “Un Fantasma en la Batalla”, un thriller político inspirado en las vivencias de varios miembros de la Guardia Civil que estuvieron directamente involucrados en la lucha antiterrorista.

“Un Fantasma en la Batalla” cuenta la historia de Amaia, una joven guardia civil que permanece más de una década trabajando como agente encubierta dentro de Eta con el objetivo de localizar los zulos que la banda tenía escondidos en el sur de Francia.

La película está protagonizada Susana Abaitua (“Compulsión”), Andrés Gertrúdix (“El Orfanato), Iraia Elias (“Amama”), Raúl Arévalo (“Tarde para la ira”) y Ariadna Gil (“El Laberinto del Fauno”).

Su director, Agustín Díaz Yanes (“Alatriste”), ha comentado lo siguiente: «Hace unos cinco años Belén Atienza me propuso que escribiera una historia sobre Eta.

Vincent Liota’s Objects Doc NYC World Première on Sunday, November 14 with the director, executive producer Sally Roy, subjects Robert Krulwich, Heidi Julavits, Rick Rawlins, Jad Abumrad, Josh Glenn, and Rob Walker participating in an in-cinema Q&a

Marcel Proust knew that “the past is hidden in some material object which we do not suspect.” In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the moment when we die and the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”

Vincent Liota with Anne-Katrin Titze on the narrative mystery: “We see these things and at the beginning they’re meaningless objects and by the end they’re filled with meaning.

In his novel Tomorrow In The Battle Think On Me, Javier Marías writes about the transformation of our most precious belongings into trash, when “everything that had meaning and history loses it in a single moment and my belongings lie there inert, suddenly incapable of revealing their past and their origins; and someone will make a pile of them.”

The Disciple, winner of Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival and a Main Slate selection for the New York Film Festival is director/screenwriter Chaitanya Tamhane’s exquisite second feature, after his début Court won the Venice Horizons Award for Best Film in 2014. Executive produced by Alfonso Cuarón (director of Children Of Men and the multiple BAFTA/Oscar winners Roma and Gravity) and Rakesh Mehra, The Disciple is about meaning and history, loss and grace, legacy and discipline.

It is also a film about North-Indian classical music...

Exclusive: Toei sells Us-based Wayne Wang’s Japanese-language feature starring Beat Kitano.

Japan’s Toei Company has sold Chinese-American director Wayne Wang’s Japanese-language film While The Women Are Sleeping to a raft of territories including Spain (Mediatres Estudio), China (Lemon Tree Media), Taiwan (Sky Digi Entertainment) and Hong Kong (Neofilms).

Starring actor-director Beat (aka Takeshi) Kitano, Hidetoshi Nishijima (Dolls) and Shioli Kutsuna (The Assassin), the film is set in a seaside resort where a novelist gets to know a mysterious older man-younger woman couple.

Based on Spanish author Javier Marias’ eponymous short story, which was published in The New Yorker magazine, the film received its world premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section last month.

Plus… Carol producer Christine Vachon to receive special Teddy Award.Scroll down for full list of new additions

Berlin Film Festival (Feb 11-21) has announced that its Panorama Special strand will open on Feb 12 with Daniel Burman’s The Tenth Man (El rey del once) and the previously announced War on Everyone by John Michael McDonagh.

Argentinian director Burman opened the main programme of Panorama in 1988 with his debut A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cinco Esquinas (Un crisantemo estalla en cinco esquinas). After presenting further works in Panorama and Competition, including Lost Embrace (El abrazo partido) which won two Silver Bears in 2004, Burman is to return with a portrait of multi-layered life in Once, the Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires.

Another Argentinian film in the Panorama is Maximiliano Schonfeld’s The Black Frost (La helada negra). In his second film, Schonfeld uses elegiac images to explore a world disconnected from time, where ancestors...

From new voices like NoViolet Bulawayo to rediscovered old voices like James Salter, from Dave Eggers's satire to David Thomson's history of film, writers, Observer critics and others pick their favourite reads of 2013. And they tell us what they hope to find under the tree …

Curtis Sittenfeld

Novelist

My favourite books of 2013 are Drama High (Riverhead) by Michael Sokolove, Sea Creatures (Turnaround) by Susanna Daniel, and & Sons (Harper Collins) by David Gilbert. Drama High is incredibly smart, moving non-fiction about an American drama teacher who for four decades coaxed sophisticated and nuanced theatrical performances out of teenage students who weren't privileged or otherwise remarkable and in so doing, changed their conceptions of what they could do with their lives. Sea Creatures is a gripping, beautifully written novel about the mother of a selectively mute three-year-old boy; when she takes a job ferrying supplies to a hermit off the coast of Florida,...

We forgive sleight-of-hand in books as in cinema, but can we forgive Truman Capote for insisting In Cold Blood was factual?

As Oscar night approaches, it's impossible to forget how deeply stories and storytelling are coded into the DNA of our stone-age consciousness. How naturally, moreover, we look to stories for moral guidance in the rough traffic of everyday life.

Perhaps that's why we have a profound, unconscious need to know what genre we're in. Is it a work of the imagination, or cold, hard fact? Never mind that some imaginations are deadly dull, or that some facts can be edge-of-the-seat thrilling, we like to know, as readers and as audiences, what the terms of trade are.

At the same time, as listeners or witnesses to heroic acts of storytelling, we can be quite forgiving. We know, for instance, that some passages of the historical record are steeped in obscurity,...