'Pieles' will inaugurate the Bilbao Fantastic Film Festival

The film by actor and director Eduardo Casanova will open the FANT on May 5.

The Bilbao Fantastic Film Festival (FANT), organized by Bilbao City Council, will open its 23rd edition on May 5, with the presentation of the feature film Skins, debut feature of the actor and director Eduardo Casanova. The screening will take place during the festival's opening gala, which will begin at 8:00 p.m., at the Campos theater, and will be attended by the Madrid director and part of the film's team.

Skins tells the story of a group of physically different people who, for this reason, have been forced to hide, seclude or unite with each other. Nobody chooses how they are born, but physical appearance conditions us towards society, even if we did not choose it. This is an idea that Casanova already discussed in his celebrated short film Eat My Shit which recovers the character brought to life by Ana Polvorosa, a young woman with an anus for a mouth.

The physical difference of Polvorosa's character is an example of the eccentricities and unusual situations that can be seen in the film, which wants to be an ode to difference and a reflection on the extent to which physical appearance affects our life in society.

Along with Ana Polvorosa, the cast is completed by Carmen Machi, Jon Kortajarena from Bilbao, Candela Peña, Secun de la Rosa, Joaquín Climent, Itziar Castro and Macarena Gómez, who has twice visited the Bilbao festival where she collected the Fantrobia Award in 2007, which recognizes emerging figures within the fantasy and horror genre. Skins It has been co-produced, together with the company Nadie es Perfect, by Carolina Bang, who also appears in the film, and Álex de la Iglesia, through his company Pokeepsie Films and Netflix.

The film is shot in pastel colors, with pink as the main protagonist, a color that Casanova already used in his short film Bath time, which was also projected in FANT. On this occasion, physical deformations, stories of love and despair, a young man with a mermaid's tail, another with a burned face or a girl without eyes are some of the elements of a film that has passed through the Berlin and Malaga festivals, winning in the latter the Young Jury Award for Best Film in the Official Selection.

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