The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival (Mff) opens today (March 1) with animated feature Dragonkeeper and a strong line-up of Spanish and Latin American world premieres. The festival is a popular annual meeting point for the Spanish film industry, attended by most buyers and sellers, and showcases the best in new Spanish-language filmmaking.
The world premiere of Salvador Simó and Jian-Ping Li’s Dragonkeeper opens the festival, marking the first time Malaga has raised its curtain with an animated movie. A Spain-China co-production, Dragonkeeper is based on books by Carol Wilkinson, with an English-language voice cast that includes Bill Nighy and Mayalinee Griffiths.
The world premiere of Salvador Simó and Jian-Ping Li’s Dragonkeeper opens the festival, marking the first time Malaga has raised its curtain with an animated movie. A Spain-China co-production, Dragonkeeper is based on books by Carol Wilkinson, with an English-language voice cast that includes Bill Nighy and Mayalinee Griffiths.
- 3/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Malaga, Spain — “My Parents’ Great Bazar,” from “Ane is Missing” co-scribe Marina Parés, bio “Costus,” on the iconic Madrid Movida artists, and “Villa Futuro,” a queer old age drama from “Locked Up” star Alberto Velasco, all feature among eight winners of Tell Us the Stories That Nobody Tells, a diversity drive contest for movies and TV shows backed by Netflix and Dama, the Spanish audiovisual authors’ rights collection body.
Announced Wednesday at an awards ceremony hosted by the Malaga Film Festival, the winners of the competition, which forms part of the partners’ Cambio de Plano initiative, will receive €6,000 a piece.
Two will also get a teaser financed by Netflix and Dama. As importantly, the partners will pay for mentoring for the development of their projects from Daniela Fejerman, director of Malaga’s opening film, “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” TV critic and screenwriter Bob Pop (“Maricón perdido”), screenwriter Valentina Viso,...
Announced Wednesday at an awards ceremony hosted by the Malaga Film Festival, the winners of the competition, which forms part of the partners’ Cambio de Plano initiative, will receive €6,000 a piece.
Two will also get a teaser financed by Netflix and Dama. As importantly, the partners will pay for mentoring for the development of their projects from Daniela Fejerman, director of Malaga’s opening film, “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” TV critic and screenwriter Bob Pop (“Maricón perdido”), screenwriter Valentina Viso,...
- 3/16/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Daniela Fejerman and Elvira Lindo’s “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” a celebration of actors, their passion, craft and historical legacy, opened this year’s Malaga Film Festival in a fitting tribute to the Spanish entertainment industry.
The film, which screened out of competition, centers on three women whose careers have spanned stage, film and television, actresses of different generations whose fortunes in life have greatly differed and who struggle with untold secrets and unresolved conflicts.
Aura Garrido stars as Nora, a young, award-winning actress with a promising future who carefully balances between the two main pillars in her life, her grandmother Lilith (Magüi Mira), who reigned for decades as a renowned theater star, and her mother Cecilia (Emma Suárez), whose career has languished after having achieved some glory in the 1980s, a decade of excess in which she heavily partook.
As Nora experiences success in her burgeoning career,...
The film, which screened out of competition, centers on three women whose careers have spanned stage, film and television, actresses of different generations whose fortunes in life have greatly differed and who struggle with untold secrets and unresolved conflicts.
Aura Garrido stars as Nora, a young, award-winning actress with a promising future who carefully balances between the two main pillars in her life, her grandmother Lilith (Magüi Mira), who reigned for decades as a renowned theater star, and her mother Cecilia (Emma Suárez), whose career has languished after having achieved some glory in the 1980s, a decade of excess in which she heavily partook.
As Nora experiences success in her burgeoning career,...
- 3/12/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
MADRID -- Spanish sales company Grupo Pi announced Thursday it will handle international sales for the directorial debut of Guillem Morales' El Habitante Incierto. Pi will include Habitante in its sales lineup in Cannes, along with Mariano Barroso's Ants in the Mouth, Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman's Semen: A Love Story, and Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Fragile: True Love is a Fairy Tale. Habitante, a Rodar y Rodar production, stars Monica Lopez and Andoni Gracia. The movie tells the story of a successful architect devastated by his wife's departure and how loneliness and a strange visit give way to an obsession.
MADRID -- Spanish sales company Grupo Pi announced Thursday it will handle international sales on the romantic comedy Semen, A Love Sample, which will screen in competition at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival next week. Semen, directed by Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, stars Hector Alterio and his son Ernesto. The urban film tells the story of Serafin, an employee in a fertility clinic who accidentally uses his own semen to inseminate a woman, who he subsequently falls in love with. The film will make its market debut with international buyers in Cannes next month.
- 4/21/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Much as the specter of Quentin Tarantino hovers over every American crime thriller, so does Pedro Almodovar's when it comes to wacky Spanish comedies.
Featuring not one but two actresses associated with his films, "My Mother Likes Women" comes across as Almodovar lite, but the film, from director-screenwriters Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her").
The setup, which will no doubt become the premise for some future American sitcom, concerns the coming out of Sofie (Rose Maria Sarda), a renowned concert pianist, to her three grown daughters. Compounding their shock is the fact that their mother's lover, Eliska (Eliska Sirova), also a pianist, is a beautiful Czech woman half her age. When it turns out that the mother has also given her new girlfriend a significant sum of money, leaving little left for the daughters, they resolve to scuttle the relationship.
Much of the film revolves around the sisters' varied reactions to the news. Jimena (Maria Pujalte), the oldest, is married to a highly conservative man who becomes outraged at his mother-in-law's perversity. Sol (Silvia Abascal), the youngest, is a rock singer who takes it all in stride, even composing an explicit song about her mother's girlfriend that she performs, to their horror, in public. And neurotic middle sister Elvira (Watling), is thrown into a tailspin by the news, launching into a full-blown crisis about her own sexual identity.
Paris and Fejerman throw a few too many plot twists into the mix, with some (Elvira's budding relationship with a hunky novelist) more successful than others (the sisters traveling to Prague to bring back the fleeing Eliska). There are also some jarring shifts in tone, from outrageous comedy to thoughtful domestic drama. But the film does manage to induce more than a few laughs along the way, many of them thanks to Watling's turn as the jumpy Elvira. Whether her character is fending off her psychotherapist's clumsy sexual advances or nearly raping the novelist to reaffirm her sexual preference, Watling conveys a hilarious intensity that contrasts mightily with her best-known role, as the comatose patient in Almodovar's "Talk to Her".
Featuring not one but two actresses associated with his films, "My Mother Likes Women" comes across as Almodovar lite, but the film, from director-screenwriters Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her").
The setup, which will no doubt become the premise for some future American sitcom, concerns the coming out of Sofie (Rose Maria Sarda), a renowned concert pianist, to her three grown daughters. Compounding their shock is the fact that their mother's lover, Eliska (Eliska Sirova), also a pianist, is a beautiful Czech woman half her age. When it turns out that the mother has also given her new girlfriend a significant sum of money, leaving little left for the daughters, they resolve to scuttle the relationship.
Much of the film revolves around the sisters' varied reactions to the news. Jimena (Maria Pujalte), the oldest, is married to a highly conservative man who becomes outraged at his mother-in-law's perversity. Sol (Silvia Abascal), the youngest, is a rock singer who takes it all in stride, even composing an explicit song about her mother's girlfriend that she performs, to their horror, in public. And neurotic middle sister Elvira (Watling), is thrown into a tailspin by the news, launching into a full-blown crisis about her own sexual identity.
Paris and Fejerman throw a few too many plot twists into the mix, with some (Elvira's budding relationship with a hunky novelist) more successful than others (the sisters traveling to Prague to bring back the fleeing Eliska). There are also some jarring shifts in tone, from outrageous comedy to thoughtful domestic drama. But the film does manage to induce more than a few laughs along the way, many of them thanks to Watling's turn as the jumpy Elvira. Whether her character is fending off her psychotherapist's clumsy sexual advances or nearly raping the novelist to reaffirm her sexual preference, Watling conveys a hilarious intensity that contrasts mightily with her best-known role, as the comatose patient in Almodovar's "Talk to Her".
NEW YORK -- Much as the specter of Quentin Tarantino hovers over every American crime thriller, so does Pedro Almodovar's when it comes to wacky Spanish comedies.
Featuring not one but two actresses associated with his films, "My Mother Likes Women" comes across as Almodovar lite, but the film, from director-screenwriters Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her").
The setup, which will no doubt become the premise for some future American sitcom, concerns the coming out of Sofie (Rose Maria Sarda), a renowned concert pianist, to her three grown daughters. Compounding their shock is the fact that their mother's lover, Eliska (Eliska Sirova), also a pianist, is a beautiful Czech woman half her age. When it turns out that the mother has also given her new girlfriend a significant sum of money, leaving little left for the daughters, they resolve to scuttle the relationship.
Much of the film revolves around the sisters' varied reactions to the news. Jimena (Maria Pujalte), the oldest, is married to a highly conservative man who becomes outraged at his mother-in-law's perversity. Sol (Silvia Abascal), the youngest, is a rock singer who takes it all in stride, even composing an explicit song about her mother's girlfriend that she performs, to their horror, in public. And neurotic middle sister Elvira (Watling), is thrown into a tailspin by the news, launching into a full-blown crisis about her own sexual identity.
Paris and Fejerman throw a few too many plot twists into the mix, with some (Elvira's budding relationship with a hunky novelist) more successful than others (the sisters traveling to Prague to bring back the fleeing Eliska). There are also some jarring shifts in tone, from outrageous comedy to thoughtful domestic drama. But the film does manage to induce more than a few laughs along the way, many of them thanks to Watling's turn as the jumpy Elvira. Whether her character is fending off her psychotherapist's clumsy sexual advances or nearly raping the novelist to reaffirm her sexual preference, Watling conveys a hilarious intensity that contrasts mightily with her best-known role, as the comatose patient in Almodovar's "Talk to Her".
Featuring not one but two actresses associated with his films, "My Mother Likes Women" comes across as Almodovar lite, but the film, from director-screenwriters Ines Paris and Daniela Fejerman, offers some pleasures along the way, including an engaging performance by Leonor Watling ("Talk to Her").
The setup, which will no doubt become the premise for some future American sitcom, concerns the coming out of Sofie (Rose Maria Sarda), a renowned concert pianist, to her three grown daughters. Compounding their shock is the fact that their mother's lover, Eliska (Eliska Sirova), also a pianist, is a beautiful Czech woman half her age. When it turns out that the mother has also given her new girlfriend a significant sum of money, leaving little left for the daughters, they resolve to scuttle the relationship.
Much of the film revolves around the sisters' varied reactions to the news. Jimena (Maria Pujalte), the oldest, is married to a highly conservative man who becomes outraged at his mother-in-law's perversity. Sol (Silvia Abascal), the youngest, is a rock singer who takes it all in stride, even composing an explicit song about her mother's girlfriend that she performs, to their horror, in public. And neurotic middle sister Elvira (Watling), is thrown into a tailspin by the news, launching into a full-blown crisis about her own sexual identity.
Paris and Fejerman throw a few too many plot twists into the mix, with some (Elvira's budding relationship with a hunky novelist) more successful than others (the sisters traveling to Prague to bring back the fleeing Eliska). There are also some jarring shifts in tone, from outrageous comedy to thoughtful domestic drama. But the film does manage to induce more than a few laughs along the way, many of them thanks to Watling's turn as the jumpy Elvira. Whether her character is fending off her psychotherapist's clumsy sexual advances or nearly raping the novelist to reaffirm her sexual preference, Watling conveys a hilarious intensity that contrasts mightily with her best-known role, as the comatose patient in Almodovar's "Talk to Her".
- 6/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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