Eleven films make up the Made in Spain program at the San Sebastián Festival

Once again, the Festival provides a platform for the international dissemination of Spanish cinema from the last year. On this occasion, eleven productions will participate in the exhibition.

Made in Spain, a sample of Spanish cinema of the year to which the Festival offers a platform for its international dissemination, has selected eleven productions, including five debut works and five films by long-time directors such as Daniel Calparsoro, Isabel Coixet, Álex de la Iglesia, Ramón Salazar y David Trueba.

He San Sebastian Festival It will also be the framework in which the documentary Dear Photograms, directed by Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Oksman, member of the expert committee of the Ikusmira Berriak residency program. In Dear Photograms directors, performers, journalists and critics linked to the magazine's editorial staff cover the 70 years of the legendary publication.

Among the debut works figuran My dear brotherhood, by Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz (Ronda, Málaga, 1988), which won the Silver Biznaga at the Málaga Festival for best supporting actress (Carmen Flores) and the Audience Award; and I Hate New York, by the journalist and director Gustavo Sánchez (Úbeda, Jaén, 1978), which the Bayona brothers have produced.

Also part of the selection is Diana Toucedo (Pontevedra, 1982), who after working on sixteen feature films as an editor and directing the non-fiction feature In all as mans, debuted in the fiction feature film with Trinta lumes / Thirty Souls, which premiered in the Panorama section of the Berlinale; and Les distàncies (The distances) by Elena Trapé (Barcelona, ​​1976), which received the Biznaga de Oro for the best Spanish film and the Biznagas de Plata for best direction and best actress (Alexandra Jiménez) in Malaga. Trapé's first film, Blog, was selected eight years ago at the Festival, in the Zabaltegi-New Directors section, and obtained a special mention from the RTVE-Otra Mirada Award.

After eight feature films as an editor, works that have coexisted with her involvement in the cinema pedagogy project Cinema en curs, which since last year has been in San Sebastián through Tabakalera and Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (Zinema (h)abian), Meritxell Colell (Barcelona, ​​1983) has directed her first feature film, With the wind / Amb el vent. After being chosen as a project by the Cinéfondation, it was premiered in the Forum section of the Berlinale. Colell will participate with his second feature film project, Duo, at the Festival's Europe-Latin America Co-production Forum.

Among the films of long-standing directors they meet The notice, the latest work by Daniel Calparsoro (Barcelona, ​​1968), whose films have been presented in Cannes, Berlin and Venice, as well as at the Festival; The Bookshop, by Isabel Coixet (Barcelona, ​​1960), which this year won the Goya awards for best film, direction and adapted screenplay; Perfect strangers, the latest proposal by filmmaker Álex de la Iglesia (Bilbao, 1965) who has been part of the Official Section of the San Sebastián Festival with several of his films such as The community (Silver Shell for Carmen Maura), The witches of Zugarramurdi y my big night; Sunday's illness, by Ramón Salazar (Málaga, 1973), which participated in the Panorama section of the Berlinale; and Almost 40, by David Trueba (Madrid, 1969), sequel to his debut work, The good life, which won the Special Jury Prize in Malaga. Trueba's previous fiction film, Live with eyes closed, competed in the Official Section in San Sebastián and won six Goya awards, including best film