The Malaga Festival turns 25 years old. a quarter century of celebrate spanish cinema and, precisely, to celebrate it in a big way, it has decided to expand. This year the titles of Iberoamerican cinema they also enter the Official Section (although competing for two prizes).
Cinema without borders. Because cinema is a fellow traveler, and it is a journey in itself. And this edition of Malaga promises many, many trips that we will discover throughout the year in cinemas. And surely many They will end up in the grand prizes.
Out of competition, after sweeping in the past berlin festival , the title that awakens the most admiration and desire is Alcarras, by Carla Simon. After the success of Summer, 1993 where she already won, precisely, at the Malaga Film Festival, the filmmaker delves into another personal and very realistic story about a family preparing to reap the last harvest from a land that they and his ancestors had been farming for 80 years.
Luis Tosar in Emperor Code.
Simon has rolled in Alcarràs itself (Lérida), field of peach trees, and has featured non-professional actors. As she explains: "It's about a story about belonging to a land, to a place. A drama about the perpetual generational tensions, the overcoming of old traditions and the importance of family unity in times of crisis.
In competition, there are more traveling titles. What emperor code that opens the Festival (and also premieres in cinemas at the same time). A spy thriller with louis tosar as a special agent in moral and ethical crisis, holding the pull and traveling halfway around the world to save the country and a few in power. It is unusual, and less so in these times, to be able to really travel to the desired locations and the film of Jorge Corira has achieved: Madrid, Bilbao, budapest Y Panama.
In The top, Xavier King goes to the annapurna (shot in the Pyrenees and with archive footage because, precisely because of the pandemic, could not go to Nepal) to make peace with his life, to go on living even if it comes face to face with death. There he meets another climber (Patricia Lopez Arnaiz) that will help you on this inner journey and on the heights.
Javier Rey at the top.
An inner and family journey is also that of the protagonists of five wolves, Laia Costa and Susi Sanchez, like mother and daughter. The first returns to her town when she has just become a mother and she returns to her town on the basque coast to realize that she is still her daughter.
To realize your place in the world, in other terms and other environments, she will also the volunteer, new movie Nely Reguera (Maria (and others)), with which they went until Greece to tell the refugee crisis from the eyes of a woman, retired doctor (Carmen Machi), newcomer and willing to help.
Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez in Five Little Wolves.
KNOWN TRAVELS
There will be more types of trips this year in Malaga and in what awaits us in Spanish cinema this year. Do you remember from the rides to the coffee machine in that series that portrayed us so well, Camera Cafe? Well come back, and now they go beyond that meeting point in the office in Camera Cafe, the film. There's also turns to town (We won't kill each other with guns, of María Ripoll) and many neighborhood lives (scoundrels, by Daniel Guzman; dragonflies, with Milena Smith; neighborhood heroes, shot in Seville).
Scoundrels, by Daniel Guzmán.
IBERO-AMERICAN AND INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
Of course, the opening to titles of all the iberoamerican universe It greatly expands the spectrum of destinations and even languages. Also landscapes. Since the Bolivian highlands in utama to the Argentine coasts in Love me. The Paramo of Sumapaz in Colombia that portrays Among the mist. or the way to the east in the Ecuadorian film.
This year, in addition, as a novelty there is a section with films that are not Spanish or Ibero-American: Malaga International Premieres, which includes titles like Here I laugh with Toni Servillo; Promises in Paris with Isabelle Huppert or the road trip wonderful minds.
CULINARY CINEMA
The gastronomic subgenre has also found a niche in Malaga. It is becoming more and more present at festivals around the world. Here, cinema kitchen has short and medium-length films as interesting as 8 point 28 square meters, the history of chefs Marmiton.
EITHER BarMad. the 7 differences, that compares the bars of Madrid and Barcelona , its tapas, service, clientele. the bartenders club and the Cuban tradition of the good cocktail. Or films that delve into the legacy of cooking such as Rice and Rabbit either Sowing the future with the Rock brothers.
Poster for the 25th Malaga Festival: the dawn.