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Ambition, emotion and event programming — those are some of the key factors that Spanish pay-tv and streaming giant Movistar Plus+ is looking for in its originals, including its Eurovision Song Contest drama miniseries La Canción (The Song).

Susana Herreras, manager of original fiction content production at the company, which is part of Telefónica, touted several examples of such content at the Conecta Fiction & Entertainment industry gathering in Cuenca, Spain, on Tuesday.

She showed a teaser for the recent series La Canción, which tells the story of how Spain under General Franco in 1968 upset the U.K. frontrunner Cliff Richard and his “Congratulations” to win the Eurovision Song Contest with Massiel’s “La la la.” Created by Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo, and directed by Alejandro Marín, the series stars Carolina Yuste, Patrick Criado, Àlex Brendemühl, and Marcel Borràs. Movistar Plus+ Internacional is distributing the show outside of Spain.

Herreras also...

Basada en el libro de Victoria Martín. © Movistar Plus+

Arranca el rodaje en localizaciones de Madrid de Se tiene que morir mucha gente, una nueva serie original Movistar Plus+ creada por Victoria Martín y basada en su exitosa novela homónima.

Se tiene que morir mucha gente sigue a Bárbara, Maca y Elena, que fueron juntas al colegio y 20 años después siguen siendo amigas, más o menos. Bárbara es una bomba de relojería: está frustrada con su trabajo y enganchada a las benzodiacepinas. Maca, con la que comparte piso, intenta triunfar como actriz, aunque es camarera. Y Elena está embarazada tras casarse con un director de hotel de 60 años. La crisis personal de Bárbara hará que todo explote.

La serie de seis episodios de aproximadamente treinta minutos está protagonizada por Anna Castillo, Macarena García y Laura Weissmahr junto a la joven Sofía Otero (20.000 especies de abejas). Completan el reparto Alba Galocha...

Miren Ibarguren, Milena Smit y Rodrigo de la Serna protagonizan la nueva apuesta de Movistar Plus+. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha publicado el primer tráiler de su nueva serie original Los sin nombre, un thriller dirigido por Pau Freixas (Todos mienten), escrito por Pol Cortecans (Citas Barcelona) y basado en la novela de Ramsey Campbell.

En Los sin nombre, Claudia (Ibarguren) es una mujer que pierde traumáticamente a su hija Ángela solo para descubrir, años después, justo cuando empieza a recuperarse del trauma, que su hija puede seguir viva. «Mamá, soy yo, Ángela. ¡Por favor, ven a buscarme!». Esta es la estremecedora frase que Claudia escucha por teléfono y que le dará esperanzas. Claudia recurrirá entonces a Salazar (de la Serna), el inspector que llevó el caso tras la desaparición, y a Laura (Smit), la joven a la que Ángela, una niña especial con un extraño don, salvó la vida...

Neon has secured distribution rights to another critical favorite Cannes film, this time Oliver Laxe’s road movie “Sirât.” The film follows a group of individuals who meet at a desert rave and go in search of a missing girl.

Co-written by Laxe alongside frequent collaborator Santiago Fillol, the film stars Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda and Jade Oukid. Neon is planning a North American theatrical release later this year.

In his review for TheWrap, Steve Pond praised the film’s craft but noted its constant brutality gets tiring.

“‘Sirât’ is bold in its depiction of a decaying world in which some people can still find release. But its insistent brutality feels less bold than exhausting, and the question asked by one of the characters – ‘Is this what the end of the world feels like?’ – has an easy answer: Hell, yeah,” he wrote, adding that “Sirât” follows a trend...

Neon has bought North American rights to Oliver Laxe‘s “Sirât” following its critically acclaimed debut at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It has been a busy festival for the distributor, which acquired North American rights to Kleber Mendonça Filho‘s “The Secret Agent” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” both of which are in competition.

Neon is riding high, having picked up an Oscar for best picture this year for “Anora,” which debuted at Cannes and won the Palme d’Or. It previously won best picture for 2019’s “Parasite.” At Cannes, Neon is a force, having set a record by releasing the five last Palme d’Or winners. Will it repeat the feat a sixth time? We’ll know this Saturday when Cannes unveils the prize winners.

“Sirât” was co-written by Laxe alongside frequent collaborator Santiago Fillol. It stars Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda,...

Mubi’s shopping spree of Cannes competition titles is continuing at pace.

The distributor, streaming platform and production company has now picked up “Sirât,” Oliver Laxe’s hugely well-received feature, marking the 9th film vying for the 2025 Palme d’Or to now join Mubi’s upcoming slate.

The Match Factory is handling international sales of the film, with Mubi to announce release plans in the near future.

“Sirât” follows a father (Sergi López) and his son who arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They’re searching for Mar — daughter and sister — who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw, unfamiliar sense of freedom, they hand out her photo again and again. Hope is fading but they push through and follow a group of ravers heading to one last party in the desert. As they venture deeper into the burning wilderness,...

Raúl Arévalo, Vito Sanz, Gabriel Guevara y Agustín Otón lideran el reparto. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha iniciado el rodaje en localizaciones de Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza y Suiza de Por cien millones, su nueva serie original, creada y dirigida por Nacho G. Velilla (Menudas piezas) y escrita por Oriol Capel (A muerte), que recrea uno de los episodios más insólitos del fútbol español.

Por cien millones está ambientada en 1981, cuando tres mecánicos zaragozanos, Alfonso, Jorge y Gabi, agobiados por las deudas y tras meses sin trabajo, deciden secuestrar al máximo goleador de la Liga, Enrique Castro «Quini», delantero del Fc Barcelona. A cambio de su liberación, piden 100 millones de pesetas. Pero pronto descubren, por las malas, que la vida no es como las películas. Y que ser malo, cuando eres bueno, no es fácil.

La serie de tres episodios está protagonizada por Raúl Arévalo (El caso Asunta), Vito Sanz (Miocardio...

Miren Ibarguren, Milena Smit y Rodrigo de la Serna protagonizan la nueva apuesta de la plataforma. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de su nueva serie original Los sin nombre, un thriller dirigido por Pau Freixas (Todos mienten), escrito por Pol Cortecans (Citas Barcelona) y basado en la novela de Ramsey Campbell.

En Los sin nombre, Claudia (Ibarguren) es una mujer que pierde traumáticamente a su hija Ángela solo para descubrir, años después, justo cuando empieza a recuperarse del trauma, que su hija puede seguir viva. «Mamá, soy yo, Ángela. ¡Por favor, ven a buscarme!». Esta es la estremecedora frase que Claudia escucha por teléfono y que le dará esperanzas. Claudia recurrirá entonces a Salazar (de la Serna), el inspector que llevó el caso tras la desaparición, y a Laura (Smit), la joven a la que Ángela, una niña especial con un extraño don, salvó la...

¡Atención, Eurofans! © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de La canción, su nueva serie original creada por Pepe Coira y Fran Araújo, el tándem de guionistas responsable de Rapa y Hierro, y dirigida por Alejandro Marín (Te estoy amando locamente).

La canción se ambienta en 1968. Esteban Guerra (Patrick Criado), un joven ejecutivo de Rtve, descubre que ha llegado una orden clara desde arriba: España tiene que ganar Eurovisión. Sin experiencia musical, pero ansioso por ascender, Esteban toma las riendas del proyecto y convence al peculiar Artur Kaps (Alex Brendemühl), el hombre detrás de los grandes programas de televisión de la época, para que se una a la aventura. Juntos se embarcan en la «Operación Eurovisión», un plan para encontrar la canción y el intérprete ideales para proyectar en Europa la imagen de un país moderno y abierto, como desea el Gobierno. Tras meses de sortear obstáculos,...

From the 1950s, as foreign tourists poured onto its beaches, Spain lobbied hard to join the European Economic Community, presenting itself as a modern country, despite its rule by an arcane 1930s dictator. By 1968, targeted reform notwithstanding, the only part of Europe Spain had entered was the Eurovision Song Contest, and it hadn’t even won that either.

Based often exactly on historical facts and real-life figures, “La Canción,” a Movistar Plus+, Buendía Estudios three-part miniseries world premieres at this week’s Malaga Film Festival, distributed outside Spain by Movistar Plus+ Internacional.

It begins with ageing dictator Francisco Franco entrusting minister Manuel Fraga with the task of winning the Eurovision Song Contest, which Fraga delegates to Spanish pubcaster Tve.

Incredibly for some, they succeed, Massiel, a flamboyant pro-Fidel Castro Spanish singer who has no time for Franco, delivers a powerful performance of “La la la,” beating Cliff Richard’s...

El camino de Massiel hacia la victoria con ‘La, la, la’. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha anunciado la fecha de estreno de La canción y ha publicado las primeras imágenes de su nueva serie original creada por Pepe Coira y Fran Araújo, el tándem de guionistas responsable de Rapa y Hierro, y dirigida por Alejandro Marín (Te estoy amando locamente).

La canción se ambienta en 1968. Esteban Guerra (Patrick Criado), un joven ejecutivo de Rtve, descubre que ha llegado una orden clara desde arriba: España tiene que ganar Eurovisión. Sin experiencia musical, pero ansioso por ascender, Esteban toma las riendas del proyecto y convence al peculiar Artur Kaps (Alex Brendemühl), el hombre detrás de los grandes programas de televisión de la época, para que se una a la aventura. Juntos se embarcan en la «Operación Eurovisión», un plan para encontrar la canción y el intérprete ideales para proyectar en Europa la...

When director Dani de la Torre read a news article detailing how the Spanish coastal town of Marbella became the playing ground for hundreds of international criminal organizations, he knew he had a new show on his hands. His “La Unidad” producing partners agreed and thus became Movistar Plus+ original series “Marbella,” premiering in Spain on May 2, to large media impact.

During a preview of the show at the Berlinale Series Market de la Torre remarked how the underbelly of Marbella was “unknown” in Spain when he first read an in-depth investigation into the criminal activities in the Málaga province. “More than 132 different gangs call Marbella their home turf and have their headquarters there. This was a novelty I was immediately attracted to.”

“Every day, news stories are coming out about the Marbella gangs, but these organizations have so much money that it makes it very difficult for the police to properly fight against them.

Jean Labadie’s Le Pacte and sales agency Film Factory have joined Spanish pay giant Movistar Plus on the next film from Alberto Rodríguez (“Marshland”), which is shaping up fast with as one of the biggest packages from Spain this year at the Berlinale’s European Film Market.

Le Pacte will co-produce the thriller out of France and handle French distribution rights. Film Factory is launching international sales at Berlin. Movistar Plus, co-producing out of Spain with Kowalski Films and Feelgood Media, will bring the deepest pocket of any production powerhouse in Spain, backing what looks like a potentially big-budgeted movie.

Currently in pre-production, Rodríguez’s latest is scheduled for release in Spanish theaters via Buena Vista Intl. in 2025.

The film is also the latest from one of the most prominent Spanish directors of his generation, co-writer-director of both “The Plague,” still one of Movistar Plus+ biggest series, and “Prison 77,...

Spanish titles at MipTV:

“The Argonauts and the Golden Coin,” (Rtve)

A live action kids adventure, targeting 8-12s, from national public broadcaster Rtve and Galician powerhouse Portocabo as Rtve drives into regional co-production. Set over a summer in Galicia and inspired by the spirit of “The Famous Five” and “The Goonies,” translated to the 21st century.

“The Caravan,” (Cabal Films)

Selected for the inaugural MipDoc International Buyer Screenings, a first-person account of an eight-month pregnant woman in a caravan of Central American immigrants heading to the U.S.

“Dating in Barcelona,” (Filmax)

The latest from Filmax, behind “The Red Band Society” and “They All Lie,” following different romantic encounters of people who have met online.

“Dover: Die for Rock & Roll,” (Begin Again Films)

Doc feature on the Seattle/Jean Jett-inspired Spanish band, behind “Devil Came to Me,” and icon of late ‘90s Spanish alternative pop rock.

“Greenpeace,” (Zona Mixta...

The battle for success on the new drama series scene is the battle for talent, led by screenwriters. Following, portraits of Spanish TV scribes or creators, sometimes writing teams, who’ve made an impact, or look set to do so:

Fran Araujo

2022 was Araujo’s year. He co-wrote Berlin Competition’s “One Night, One Day” and “Rapa,” Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow. “Offworld,” a collective series he coordinated, was a Variety’s International TV Show of the Year. An iconoclast – “if I do the same thing, I get bored,” he says – who tears up the rule book.

Aina Clotet

Best known for acting, winning at Malaga for “The Wild Ones,” but a driving force as co-creator, director and star behind “This Is Not Sweden” a €1.5 million grant recipient and groundbreaking Spain-Scandinavia-Germany co-pro, turning on a couple who think they’ve found a model lifestyle. But “there are no guarantees,” says Clotet.

This year’s Berlinale Series Market kicks off Monday as Spanish series “The Snow Girl,” a missing girl suspense thriller produced by Spain’s Atípica Films, has attracted huge heat for Netflix, punching 101.7 million hours watched in its first three weeks. Doing so, it ranked as the streamer’s No. 1 non-English show in the world over Jan. 30 – Feb. 5.

In all, Spain has more shows and movies in Netflix’s all time non-English Top 10s than any other country in the world, seven to France’s two, for example.

Spain, it could be argued, has cracked online. But its drama series industry wants to ring more options.

As scripted commissions look to have dropped from second half 2022 in not only the U.S. but also Europe and Latin America, an energetic posse of Spanish producers and stars are rolling into Berlin to present new productions. These look set to explore an...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s take on a western wins nine prizes, but none for Carla Simon’s Berlinale winner

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts scored big at the 37th edition of the Spanish Film Academy Goya awards held on Saturday in Seville, scooping major prizes including best film and best director.

The ceremony celebrated a year hailed as one of the strongest for Spanish cinema in recent memory. However, one of Spain’s most high-profile films on the international stage, Carla Simon’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras, left the Goyas empty-handed despite 11 nominations.

The Beasts, which debuted in Cannes in the Premieres section,...

Sorogoyen’s take on a western wins nine prizes, but none for Carla Simon’s Berlinale winner

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts scored big at the 37th edition of the Spanish Film Academy Goya awards held on Saturday in Seville, scooping major prizes including best film and best director.

The ceremony celebrated a year hailed as one of the strongest for Spanish cinema in recent memory. However, one of Spain’s most high-profile films on the international stage, Carla Simon’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Alcarras, left the Goyas empty-handed despite 11 nominations.

The Beasts, which debuted in Cannes in the Premieres section,...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s latest pic, The Beasts (As bestas), dominated the main prizes, taking home nine gongs, including best film and director at the 37th edition of Spain’s Goya awards Saturday evening.

The pic debuted at Cannes last year and led the Goya award nominations with 17 nods. The film’s story follows a middle-aged French couple who move to a small village, seeking closeness with nature. However, their presence inflames two locals to the point of outright hostility and shocking violence.

The Beasts also picked up wins for best screenplay, leading actor, and supporting actor.

Movistar+’s Modelo77 from Alberto Rodriguez, which trailed The Beasts with 15 nods, picked up five wins, all of them in technical categories. Carla Simón’s Golden Bear winner Alcarràs had 11 nominations but left empty-handed.

In other major wins, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s modern-day feminist Western, “The Beasts,” already a box office breakout in France and Spain, swept nine prizes including film, director, and original screenplay on Saturday at a celebratory 37th Goya Awards, given Spain’s big fest prizes and rally at its home box office.

The upbeat mood was tempered inevitably by the death of Carlos Saura, one of Spanish cinema’s greats and this year’s Goya of Honor, on Friday.

In a rare departure, a foreign actor, France’s Denis Ménochet (“Inglorious Basterds”) took best actor, winning for his marvellous turn in the conflict-negotiation themed “The Beasts,” as a French settler in modern-day deep Galicia who finally refuses to back down when taunted by locals. His attitude contrasts pointedly with his wife’s.

Produced by Movistar+ and Atípica Films, “Prison 77,” the movie of clearest big production ambitions – the sort of film which will probably now only be made by platform,...

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...

At September’s San Sebastian Festival, Movistar+, Spain’s biggest content investor, hosted a press conference for the world premiere of its newest original, “Offworld” (“Apagón”), featuring five stories, all set in a Spain without electricity, the result of a massive solar storm.

On-stage, fielding questions, were not “Offworld’s” actors, however, though they included Goya actress winner Patricia López Arnaiz, but the series’ screenwriters and directors. These took in Oscar nominee Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“Madre”), Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo, whose “The Double Steps” and “Between Two Waters” both won San Sebastian Golden Shells, and Alberto Rodríguez, director of Goya best picture winner “Marshland.”

In a new global TV scene, the stars are its signature creators; the battle for success is a battle for this top talent. How did Movistar+ back the biggest array of creative talent in Spanish TV history?

“Modestly speaking, we’ve tried to create a culture at Movistar+ that attracts talent.

Upping the ante on its inaugural edition, the 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria will unveil about 50 drama series, whether via first episodes, or showreels or trailers (Upcoming…).

Following a breakdown of titles, and showreel highlights in showreels, featuring some of the most anticipated titles from Spain and Latin America, as well as recent hits:

Capitulo Uno

“El Encargado,” (Star Original Productions/The Walt Disney Company Latin America)

Anybody who caught neighbors’ standoff dark comedy “The Man Next Door,” a 2010 Sundance winner from “Official Competition” directors Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat could imagine they will tear with relish into dramedy of a concierge who uses his access to clients intimacy to control their lives. Iberseries marks the first market screening of the half hour which headlines Argentine star Guillermo Francella as a concierge from hell battling plans to be sacked. Star+ bows “El Encargado” on Oct. 26.

“Limbo,” (Star Original Productions/The Walt Disney Company Latin America,...

In the first shot of “OffWorld” (“Apagon”), the camera focuses on Ernesto – balding, serious, tired, lost in thought. It then pulls back to reveal the whole of his office, a computer-screen packed rom at an emergency intervention unit.

The shot says much about the latest series from Movistar+, “Off world,” which world premieres in Official Selection at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival and in turn speaks volumes of the ambitions and priorities of Telefonica-owned Movistar+, Southern Europe’s biggest national pay-tv/SVOD service.

Produced with Buendía Estudios, “OffWorld” presents five stories which place very different individuals in the same context, a world where there’s no electricity thanks to a massive power outage; things taken for granted like phones and the internet don’t work.

Opening close-ups in each episode underscore the protagonists’ initial identities. In Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Denial,” workaholic Ernesto is defined by his job as...

An eerily quaint and picturesque Galician town sets the scene for a chilling high-profile murder in “Rapa,” the highly anticipated follow-up to Spain’s Movistar Plus hit “Hierro.”

After coming to the aid of bloodied Mayor Amparo Seoane (Mabel Rivera), lone witness and stymied professor Tomás becomes obsessed with her murder case and forms an unlikely bond with unyielding Civil Guard Sargent, Maite. As word of the crime shakes the town, a community’s secrets rise to the surface.

Produced by Movistar Plus in conjunction with Portocabo, led by Alfonso Blanco, and expertly directed by Jorge Coira, the six-part series offers up complex and riveting plot twists as questions arise regarding the salient nature between victim and perpetrator.

The drama, distributed by Beta Film, reunites creators Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo. Stunning and vast local landscapes take a front seat and intimate shots are used to elicit high-emotion, the cast delivering exceptional performances,...

Germany’s Beta Film has picked up international distribution rights to two anticipated Movistar Plus originals, Canneseries-bound “El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid” and Galician crime drama “Rapa.”

Sneak peeked at Series Mania, “Rapa” screens at the Malaga Festival on March 22.

The acquisitions form part of an ongoing multi-year distribution-production alliance unveiled in 2019, giving Beta exclusive international distribution rights to about six Movistar Plus series a year.

A Movistar Plus co-production with Telemundo Streaming Studios in collaboration with Banijay’s Dlo Producciones, “El Inmortal” inspired by true events, marks a deep dive into a figure and gang which reshaped Madrid’s 1990s criminal underworld.

There, José Antonio, played by Álex Garcia, rises up the ranks to drug lord, through a combination of burning ambition, innocence, and merciless elimination of rivals. But what he cherishes most may just cause his downfall, the synopsis runs.

Created by Dlo head José Manuel Lorenzo, eight-episode...

It’s been nearly seven years since the devastating November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris that left 137 dead, and while the effects of the tragedy have been indirectly felt in a surge of French films centered on terrorism, security fears and cultural conflict, filmmakers have largely shied away from direct dramatizations of the events and their fallout. Isaki Lacuesta shows no such hesitation in his ambitious, windingly structured “One Year, One Night,” which provides an explicit anatomy of trauma as experienced over the course of a year by a Franco-Spanish couple who survived the Bataclan nightclub massacre — itself reconstructed in claustrophobic, stomach-knotting flashbacks. Fictional but drawn from first-hand accounts, it’s a sprawling, empathetic work that sometimes loses clarity amid its sheer weight of feeling.

Poised to be an international arthouse breakthrough for its Spanish writer-director — who has twice won the top prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival, but remains...

Exclusive: Isaki Lacuesta’s drama One Year, One Night, about survivors grappling with trauma following the devastating terrorist attack at Paris’ Bataclan theater on November 13, 2015, world premieres in competition at the Berlin Film Festival today. Check out a clip above as a group of friends discusses messages of support they received in the wake of the tragedy.

Nahuel Pérez (120 Battements Par Minute) and Noémie Merlant (Portrait Of A Lady On Fire) star in the film. Pérez is Ramón and Merlant plays Céline, a young couple who attended the concert that fateful night, and while they survived, they are no longer the same. The event leaves a deep scar on both their lives as each tries to cope with the aftermath as best they can. Céline desperately strives to leave it behind her, clinging to her previous life, while Ramón repeatedly revisits the events, trying to remember and understand what happened.

Movistar Plus, the streaming and broadcast arm of Spanish telco giant Telefonica, has confirmed a breathtaking roster of talent which will helm its upcoming five-part anthology series “Apagón,” produced by Buendía Estudios.

Inspired by the popular “El gran apagón” podcast, the series features five stand-alone stories, connected only in that they take place after a solar flair causes a worldwide blackout – “apagón” in Spanish – and deals with the consequences that such a catastrophe might impose.

The series’ impressive lineup of writing talent was first announced in June of this year, and Movistar has today confirmed that award-winning directors Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Alberto Rodríguez, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, and Isaki Lacuesta will helm the five stories. For the first two filmmakers, the series is a return to Movistar Plus. The three new recruits further establishes the broadcaster as one of the Spanish industry’s premier platforms for upscale Spanish talent to express...

Spain’s Movistar Plus, the Spanish TV and streaming label of telco giant Telefonica, has announced “Rapa,” a new Latin Noir thriller original series starring one of the country’s most decorated film and TV actors, Javier Cámara.

La Rapa is supposed to be a day of celebration and festival in the Galician town of A Capelada. However, when the village’s mayor is murdered the local community goes into panic mode. In a careful-what-you-wish-for moment, frustrated professor Tomás (Cámara) becomes the center of attention and the resulting investigation as the only witness to the crime. He will join forces with local Civil Guard inspector Maite, a woman most in her element when on a manhunt, to uncover what happened on that day.

“Rapa” sees Movistar team once again with leading Galician production company Portocabo, producers of one of the broadcaster’s biggest hit original hits “Hierro” – it’s Movistar...

Sixteen first or second directors will vie for the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (20-28 Sept) new directors award.

The films will compete for the $67,000 (€50,000) Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.

Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.

Films

El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)

Dir Isabel Ayguavives

Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)

Dir Yu Liu

Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)

Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

La Dune (France-Israel)

Dir Yossi Aviram

Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)

Dir Aaron Fernandez

Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)

Dir Benedikt Erlingsson

Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)

Dir Adam Sanderson

Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)

Dir Ignas Jonynas

Luton (Greece)

Dir Michalis Konstantatos

Mother of George (Us)

Dir Andrew Dosunmu

Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)

Neto Villalobos

Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)

Dir Delphine Lehericey

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Sixteen first or second directors will vie for the San Sebastian Film Festival’s (20-28 Sept) new directors award.

The films will compete for the €50,000 Kutxa-New Directors Award, granted by an international jury.

Represented countries include Spain, the Us, Israel, France, Turkey, Lithuania, Costa Rica, Greece, Mexico, China, Iceland, Ukraine, Holland and Belgium.

Films:

El Arbol Magnetico (The Magnetic Tree) (Spain-Chile)

Dir Isabel Ayguavives

Ci Yan De Yan Guang (The Blinding Sunlight) (China)

Dir Yu Liu

Cainele Japonez (Japanese Dog) (Romania)

Dir Tudor Cristian Jurgiu

La Dune (The Dune) (France-Israel)

Dir Yossi Aviram

Las Horas Muertas (The Empty Hours) (Mexico-France-Spain)

Dir Aaron Fernandez

Hross I Oss (Of Horses and Men) (Iceland-Germany)

Dir Benedikt Erlingsson

Levaya Bazaharaim (Funeral at Noon) (Israel)

Dir Adam Sanderson

Losejas (The Gambler) (Lithuania-Latvia)

Dir Ignas Jonynas

Luton (Greece)

Dir Michalis Konstantatos

Mother of George (Us)

Dir Andrew Dosunmu

Por Las Plumas (All About the Feathers) (Costa Rica)

Neto Villalobos

Puppy Love (Belgium-Sweden-France-Luxembourg)

Dir...

Denis Villeneuve’s Enemy, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, will compete as part of the official selection of the 61st San Sebastian Film Festival (Sep 20-28).

At a press conference in Madrid today, festival director José Luis Rebordinos revealed the Spanish titles that will compete for the Golden Shell. Spanish films set to feature in other sections of the festival were also revealed.

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Villeneuve’s Enemy stars Gyllenhaal as a man who seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a film. The co-production between Canada (Rhombus Media) and Spain (Roxbury Pics) is Villeneuve’s follow-up to the Oscar-nominated Incendies.

David Trueba (Salamina Soldiers) will introduce Vivir es Facil (Living Is Easy). Set in 1966, Javier Cámara (Talk to Her) stars as an English teacher who sets off across Spain to find John Lennon, who was taking a break from Beatlemania to feature in Richard Lester film How I Won The War.

Manuel Martín Cuenca ([link...