The 28th edition of the Malaga Festival starts with 260 formats

From March 14 to 23, the Malaga Festival channels Spanish and Latin American audiovisual production with 260 screenings of feature films, documentaries, short films and television series distributed in numerous sections that will be seen throughout the city, including the new space La Villa del Mar, on Malagueta beach.

The official competition section of the Malaga Festival will include 22 movies (15 Spanish and 7 Latin American). To these we must add 21 films (16 Spanish and 5 Latin) in official non-competitive section, including the closing, which for the first time will be a series, Mariliendre, by Javier Ferreiro, produced for Atresmedia in collaboration with SUMA Content by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi and whose premiere has caused great expectation.

To the notorious selection of spanish tapes, composed of The good letter, by Celia Rico; good luck, by Gracia Querejeta; In anger, by Gemma Blasco; The turtles, by Belén Funes; Deaf, by Eva Libertad; animal heaven, de Santi Amodeo; John, sometimes, de Sara Fantova; The black earth, by Alberto Morais; What's left of you, by Gala Gracia; Very Far (Very Far), the straight Oms; Noise, by Ingride Santos; Everything I don't know, de Ana Lambarri; A Portuguese fiftha, by Avelina Prat; Ravens, by Mark Gill, and the inaugural film, The debt, the new work by actor and director Daniel Guzmán, is joined by a complete selection of Latin American films: zero guilt, by Valeria Bertucelli and Mora Elizalde (Argentina); The dog thief, de Vinko Tomicic (Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Ecuador, France and Italy); The devil on the road, by Carlos Armella (Mexico and France); I never went to Disney, de Matilde Tute Vissani (Argentina); Dogs, by Gerardo Minutti (Uruguay and Argentina); Sugar Island, by Johanné Gómez (Dominican Republic and Spain), and violent butterflies, by Adolfo Dávila (Mexico). The jury of the Official Section will be made up of the Argentine actress Mercedes Morán (president); the Spanish actress Irene Escolar; the Spanish director Carlos Marqués-Marcet; the Chilean actress Daniela Vega; the director Pilar Palomero; the actress Belén Cuesta; the singer of the group Vetusta Morla and great film buff, Pucho, and the director of the Guadalajara Festival (Mexico), Estrella Araiza.

In official section out of competition, the Spanish will appear 8, by Julio Medem; Enemies, by David Valero; Howl, by Sergio Siruela; They make irla (The island of the fasanes), de Asier Urbieta; Hamburg, by Lino Escalera; The trace of evil, by Manuel Ríos San Martín; The goat girl, by Ana Asensio; The Aitas, by Borja Cobeaga; Little ordeals, by Javier Polo; wolf beach, by Javier Veiga; This too will pass, by María Ripoll; no man's land, by Albert Pintó; after the summer, by Yolanda Centeno; one year and one day, by Alex San Martín; One X Two, by Alberto Utrera and Virgins, by Álvaro Díaz Lorenzo. As for the latin american productions out of competition, they will be What we wanted to be, by Alejandro Agresti (Argentina and France), director who will be awarded an honorary Biznaga for his entire career; Mazel Tov, by Adrián Suar (Argentina); The landlord, by Matías Luchessi (Argentina and Uruguay); a silent death, by Sebastián Schindel (Argentina) and message in a bottle, by Gabriel Nesci, also from Argentina.

Zonacine, short films, mosaic, series, Cinema Cocina…

He 28th Malaga Festival will have Zonazine, a commitment to new cinema that is now 22 years old; the sections of Short Films, Documentaries and Mosaic: Panoarma Internacional, where there will be eight non-Latin American films that have won important awards at festivals, or the proposal Affirming women's rights, where 11 audiovisuals have been selected from the 347 registered. On the other hand, in the selection of Series (non-competitive), participate, in addition to Mariliendre in closing: the song, created and written by Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo and directed by Alejandro Marín (Movistar Plus+ and Buendía Estudios); Losing my mind, created by Jaime Olías and directed by María Togores, Pablo Guerrero and Humberto Miró (Atresmedia in collaboration with Boomerang TV), and Weiss & Morales, directed by Oriol Ferrer and Lucía Estévez from Portocabo, NADCON, and ZDF STUDIOS in collaboration with RTVE and ZDF.

Regarding the gastronomic section of the Festival, Cinema Kitchen, in collaboration with Lumen, Gastronomic Productions and sponsored by Cervezas Victoria, features unpublished Spanish and Latin American documentary shorts and feature films. There will be 12 documentaries (7 feature films and 5 short films) from Spain, Mexico, Argentina, France and Portugal, competing for the silver medals in this section, which will also feature the usual round tables and Gala Dinner at the Gran Hotel Miramar.

Technology and industry, at the 28th Malaga Festival

This year, the Malaga Festival fulfills its objective of getting closer to the sea. will do it with The Sea Villa, a space on Malagueta beach in collaboration with the Digital Pole that will show the ties, projects and synergies between the audiovisual and cultural industry, and the technologies that are changing it day by day. In a versatile and dynamic environment, this environment will host from March 15 to 22 workshops, brand activations, outdoor concerts, immersive experiences, networking and conferences, being open to professionals and the general public.

The industry area also returns MAFIZ, made up of events that promote the financing, co-production, distribution and sale of cinema in Spanish, all from the support and promotion of new Ibero-American audiovisual talent in its consideration as a transversal objective for this broad industrial area. It will complement the initiative from March 18 to 20 Spanish Screenings Content, audiovisual market with the support of the Ministry of Culture through the ICAA, and the ICEX promoted in collaboration with the San Sebastián Festival.

Tributes from the 28th Malaga Festival

As for the tributes, the Malaga-South Award it will be for the actress Carmen Machi; the prize Ricardo Franco-Film Academy it will be for the screenwriter Lola Salvador; the prize Málaga Talent-The Opinion of Málaga, for Elena Martin Gimeno; the prize Retrospective-Málaga Today will go to the Argentine actor Guillermo Francella, and the Biznaga Ciudad de Paraíso, for the essentials of Spanish cinema, will be for María Luisa San José. In addition, the Festival will present an honorary biznaga to the Argentine director Alejandro Agresti and like every year, it will host the presentation of the Canal Sur Andalusian Talent Award.

The Golden Film of the 28th Malaga Festival it will be Stealths, directed in 1975 by José Luis Borau, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of its premiere. A tribute shared with the San Sebastián Festival, which will also remember this film in its Klasikoak section. This film can be viewed in a restored copy thanks to Videomercury and Flix Olé. And for this reason and in collaboration with Filmoteca Española and DAMA, the Festival will publish the book Sneaky. 50 years, written by Carlos Heredero.