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Laura Alvea y José Ortuño dirigen esta superproducción de más de 14 millones de euros de presupuesto. © Isii Group

Comienza el rodaje en Gran Canaria de Trinidad, una película de acción y aventuras, escrita y dirigida por el tándem formado por Laura Alvea (La chica de nieve) y José Ortuño (Normas para una página de sucesos), que nos trasladará al legendario Oeste norteamericano en una historia en la que las mujeres serán las grandes protagonistas.

La película está ambientada a finales del siglo Xix y sigue a una joven española llamada Trinidad (Gabriela Andrada), que llega al Salvaje Oeste acompañada de su madre (Paz Vega) y de su hermana (Sofía Allepuz), huyendo de la justicia que la persigue en su país natal. Desafiando los roles que la sociedad de la época impone a las mujeres, Trinidad descubre su innata destreza con las armas, un talento que le permite mantener a su familia,...

Un homenaje al ‘boom’ turístico de la Costa del Sol en los años 60. © Filmax

Filmax ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de la película Vírgenes, la nueva comedia Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo.

Ambientada en Sevilla en 1968, Vírgenes sigue a Honorio, Rafa y Vicente, tres amigos a punto de cumplir los 20 que sueñan con escapar de su rutina. Al ver un No-do sobre el boom turístico en la Costa del Sol y los aires de libertad, deciden viajar a Torremolinos para cambiar sus vidas y, sobre todo, perder la virginidad con las suecas. Tras inventarse las excusas pertinentes y su Seat 600 cargado, emprenden un viaje que pondrá en duda todo lo que creían saber hasta el momento.

La película está protagonizada por César Vicente (Dolor y gloria), Xavi Caudevilla (La estrella azul), Carlos Scholz (Awareness) y Cristina Kovani (La habitación de al lado). Completan el reparto de Paco Tous (Los hombres...

New 4K restorations of Juan of the Dead and Killer Barbys will debut exclusively on the streaming service Film Movement Plus, also available through Prime Video.

Juan of the Dead (known in Spanish as Juan de los Muertos) will stream on April 11.

The 2011 Spanish-Cuban zombie comedy is written and directed by Alejandro Brugués (Nightmare Cinema). Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Eliécer Ramírez, Andros Perrugorría, Jorge Molina Enríquez, Jazz Vilá, Andrea Duro, and Antonio Dechent star.

When Havana falls prey to a full-blown zombie invasion, slacker Juan and his friend Lorenzo decide to profit from the crisis and set up a zombie eradication business. Before long, Juan finds himself in the money — as well as in the unfamiliar role of local hero — as he and his partner expand their ever-expanding repertoire of inventive ways to kill zombies.

Killer Barbys (also known as The Killer Barbies) will stream on April 18.

The 1996 Spanish horror...

La película recrea la caída de la familia Pujol. © Filmax

Fimax ha publicado un nuevo tráiler de la película Parenostre, dirigida por Manuel Huerga (Salvador) y escrita por el guionista y periodista, Toni Soler.

Parenostre cuenta el momento en el que el legado político de Jordi Pujol quedó en entredicho y cómo su familia gestionó la crisis generada tras la confesión sobre su delito fiscal.

La película está protagonizada por Josep Maria Pou (Escape), que interpreta a Jordi Pujol, y Carme Sansa (El 47), que encarna a Marta Ferrusola. Completan el reparto Pere Arquillué, David Selvas, Sílvia Abril, Lluís Soler, Alberto San Juan y Antonio Dechent, entre otros.

En palabras de Toni Soler, Parenostre es «una película valiente que no rehúye de polémicas. Hay la voluntad de explicar unos hechos históricos muy recientes, mostrando todos los ángulos, incluyendo la corrupción sistémica, el debate sobre la independencia, el balance del pujolismo, la...

La película recrea la caída de la familia Pujol. © Filmax

Fimax ha publicado el primer tráiler de la película Parenostre, dirigida por Manuel Huerga (Salvador) y escrita por el guionista y periodista, Toni Soler.

Parenostre cuenta el momento en el que el legado político de Jordi Pujol quedó en entredicho y cómo su familia gestionó la crisis generada tras la confesión sobre su delito fiscal.

La película está protagonizada por Josep Maria Pou (Escape), que interpreta a Jordi Pujol, y Carme Sansa (El 47), que encarna a Marta Ferrusola. Completan el reparto Pere Arquillué, David Selvas, Sílvia Abril, Lluís Soler, Alberto San Juan y Antonio Dechent, entre otros.

En palabras de Toni Soler, Parenostre es «una película valiente que no rehúye de polémicas. Hay la voluntad de explicar unos hechos históricos muy recientes, mostrando todos los ángulos, incluyendo la corrupción sistémica, el debate sobre la independencia, el balance del pujolismo, la...

Close Your Eyes marks a stunning return to cinema for revered Spanish auteur Vctor Erice after a long three-decade absence. A brilliantly structured and deeply personal mystery is slowly unveiled like a master's paintbrush on a canvas of thoughtful artistic expression. Erice's elegantly crafted protagonist sorts through the pieces of his broken life to solve a puzzle that instigated his melancholic decline. Love, loss, and reconciliation are addressed on a profound journey of understanding. The two-hour and 50-minute runtime requires a degree of patience sometimes lost on modern audiences, but this story shouldn't be rushed.

A Mysterious Disappearance in the Movie World

Close Your Eyes (2023) 4.5/5 DramaMysteryInternational

Julio Arenas, a famous actor, disappears during the filming of a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that he has suffered an accident at the seaside. Years later, this kind of mystery comes back to the news.

Release Date August 23, 2024Director Victor EriceCast Manolo Solo,...

Spain’s Festival de Málaga, through its industry arm Mafiz (Málaga Festival Industry Zone), heads to the Cannes Marché du Film with five works-in-progress from burgeoning Andalusian talent.

“The Malaga Festival wants to support the completion of these works and make their international distribution viable,” commented Malaga head of industry, Annabelle Aramburu.

This year, as Cannes more broadly celebrates Spain, the event curates two titles that tackle its tumultuous history and one which takes audiences on an unconventional road trip questioning the biological clock alongside narratives that dissect the minutiae of new forms of co-existing and the baffling concept of destiny.

The second edition of Málaga Goes to Cannes takes place on Monday May 22.

“Alone In The Night,” (Guillermo Rojas)

A wry take on the eve of Feb. 23, 1981 when an attempted coup in Spain threatened its young democracy, profoundly changing the lives of the protagonists, an ensemble cast that includes...

Barcelona-based production-distribution outfit Filmax has picked up international rights to Spanish holiday comedy “Our (Perfect) Xmas Retreat” (“El refugio”) following the film’s successful domestic theatrical release. Premiering in Spain on Nov. 26, the film went up against firm opposition and came away as the weekend’s top domestic release.

Filmax is introducing the film to buyers at this year’s Ventana Sur.

Macarena Astorga directs the lighthearted story about a group of people who are trapped in a hotel after a massive blizzard. She also co-wrote the film’s script, alongside Beatriz Iznaola and Alicia Luna, a Spanish Academy Goya Award-winning writer for “Take My Eyes.”

Esto Tambien Pasara, producers of Astorga’s previous feature “The House of Snails,” produced the film with Santiago Segura’s Bowfinger International Pictures (“Father There Is Only One”) and Sygnatia (“Buñuel In The Labyrinth Of The Turtles”) from Spain, top Peruvian production company Tondero...

“A Dead Man Cannot Live” begins with Tano, played by the lanky, weathered, deep-voiced Antonio Dechent, one of the finest actors of his around-60 Spanish generation, sitting at a bar rail, and thinking back on better times.

Even the Costa de Sol narco business is going to ruin. Tano’s boss, Manuel, is senile, his son and heir, the inappropriately named Angel, totally out of control. When younger mobsters steal Tano’s latest drug shipment from Morocco, Tano is given a week to retrieve it by the Russians mafia or die.

In the 2000s, Spain’s dominated Europe’s horror genre. Shoot-em-ups, like “A Dead Man,” form part of a building wave of crafted Spanish action thrillers. Few are as bloody and violent as “A Dead Man” which becomes a critique of the tragic consequences of the very brutality it portrays.

Sold by Filmax, the feature debut of Ezekiel Montes...

The Spaniard’s second film, starring Antonio Pagudo, Antonio Dechent and the young Luna Fulgencio in the lead roles, is currently being shot. Filming for the new feature by Ángeles Reiné, Héroes de barrio (lit. “Neighbourhood Heroes”), began in mid-March and will continue until the end of April on location in Seville and Alcalá de Guadaira. The second feature by the Cádiz-born director, following the Portuguese-Spanish co-production Salir del ropero, will be a family comedy revolving around a father with money problems – played by Antonio Pagudo (Los futbolísimos) – who, after a break-up, attempts to win back the respect of his daughter, played by Luna Fulgencio (who appeared in the Santiago Segura-helmed Father There Is Only One saga), an enthusiastic player on a children’s female football team. The cast is rounded off by Antonio Dechent (seen recently in Cages and Hasta que la boda nos separe), Alex O’Dogherty (who previously.

Barcelona-based Filmax has acquired international sales rights to Costa del Sol-set action thriller “Hombre muerto no sabe vivir” (“A Dead Man Cannot Live”), the feature debut by producer Ezekiel Montes.

The Spanish mini-major has also taken local distribution rights to the film, which is scheduled for a summer theatrical release.

Produced by Montes at his Málaga-based outfit 73140323 PC, “A Dead Man Cannot Live” is currently in post-production.

The story is set at one of Southern Spain’s most popular tourist hotspots, the Costa del Sol, known for its warm climate and white sand beaches, but also as a point of confluence or international drug trafficking.

“A Dead Man” revolves around Tano, who has worked his whole life for Manuel, a construction business man with strong local government connections which help him control drug-trafficking in the city.

54-year-old Tano, whose mission is to control the drug trade with Morocco, struggles to make ends meet,...

Alejandro Brugu&#233s talks Juan of the Dead, on DVD August 14

Two friends hatch a plan to launch a zombie extermination service after their picturesque island is overrun by the living dead in Juan of the Dead, a satirical horror film from director Alejandro Brugu&#233s. Fast, fun and hilarious, Juan of the Dead gives a decidedly Latin touch to the zombie genre, along with a winking nod to the zom-com hit, Shaun of the Dead.

To celebrate the film's arrival on DVD this week, we caught up with Alejandro to find out how this crazy, blood-splattered epic came together. Here is our conversation.

We have Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, and now Juan of the Dead, all of which manage to be their own movie. How were you inspired by these first two zombie classics in making this, while never ripping off either of them? Cause really,...

When Havana begins to fill up with zombies, two friends hatch a plan to launch a zombie extermination service after their picturesque island is overrun by the living dead in this satirical horror film from director Alejandro Brugu&#233s (Personal Belongings). Fast, fun and hilarious, Juan of the Dead, gives a decidedly latin touch to the zombie genre, along with a winking nod to the zom-com hit, Shaun of the Dead.

Juan of the Dead Trailer

It's the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, and as the hungry undead make an unwelcomed appearance, best friends Juan (Alexis D&#237az de Villegas) and L&#225zardo (Jorge Molina) decide to parlay their skills for dispatching zombies into a professional career. "Juan of the dead killed their loved ones" is their slogan, and their mission is to help people get rid of those infected around them ... for a price. As the government attempts to...

MADRID -- Spanish production boutique Tesela announced Thursday the addition of two projects to its slate: the musical comedy Por que se Frotan las Patitas? and the drama Pudor. Patitas, the directorial debut of '80s Spanish pop star Alvaro Begines, is set to begin a nine-week shoot on March 20. The film stars Lola Herrera, Antonio Dechent, Carlos Alvarez, Manuel Moron and Raul Arevalo. Lafona Producciones is co-producing the project, which was scripted by Begines and Miguel Carmona. Alta Films will distribute in Spain, and Spanish sales agent Sogepaq will handle international sales.