The best Spanish cinema travels to Italy

The festival will showcase the best Spanish production in Rome, Milan, Trieste, Bergamo, Turin and Trento.

With Marisa Paredes and Rossy de Palma as guests of honor, the 9th edition of the Italian Spanish Film Festival kicks off today, a reference event for quality Spanish and Hispanic cinema, which will take place in Rome from May 5 to 10 at the Farnese Persol cinema, in Milan from May 27 to 29 at the Auditorium San Fedele and in Trieste on May 30 and 31 at the Cinema Ariston. The festival will continue in the second half of the year in other Italian cities such as Bergamo, Turin and Trento.

The New Wave, the official section of the festival, will present to the Italian market an overview of the best recent films.

The competition in Rome will be inaugurated in Rome by Daniel Guzmán, Goya Award winner for best new director with his debut in exchange for nothing. Actress Natalia de Molina, 2016 Goya Award winner for Milan, will be in Milan. Roof and food She is in charge of opening the sessions.

For his part, Fernando Colomo will present his summer film beautiful island. The producer and director Luis Miñarro will present his latest work filmed in the south of Italy, Shooting star, with the actor Lorenzo Balducci. The contemporary cinema section is completed Truman by Cesc Gay, The unknown by Dani de la Torre, Magical girl by Carlos Vermut, the ensemble film Talk by Joaquin Oristrell and The minimal island by Alberto Rodríguez.

The Festival also dedicates a special event to the film The man who wanted to be Second, by the Valencian director Ramón Alós, who explores, wandering between fiction and documentary, the figure of the great film pioneer Segundo de Chomón.

In its Latin American aspect, the festival dedicates an event to Mexico with the presentation of the film Güeros by Alonso Ruizpalacios, awarded at the 2015 Berlinale as Best First Feature. The tribute to Cuba is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the EICTV, the International School of Cinema and Television of San Antonio de los Baños, and is sponsored by one of its founders, the Argentine teacher Fernando Birri.

Organized by EXIT media and directed by Iris Martín-Peralta and Federico Sartori, the Festival receives the support of the Spanish Embassy in Italy, the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Tourspain, the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and the Cervantes Institute of Rome and Milan, in addition to Freixenet.