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After a jihadist attack, Santi is taken hostage by Hamza, the only surviving terrorist who forces him to help in his desperate escape with his cab. An unexpected twist switches their roles and Santi becomes a human bomb walking through Gran Vía in Madrid wearing an explosive vest. If he stops moving the bomb explodes.
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TODOS LOS NOMBRES DE DIOS | Daniel Calparsoro | Thriller, Action | Spain | Spanish | 100 min | 2023 | Tripictures, Second Gen Pictures, Wanda. |
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SAN SEBASTIAN - SECTION PERLAK
AUDIENCE AWARD - BEST EUROPEAN FILM
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AS BESTAS | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Thriller | Spain, France | Spanish, French | 2022 | 137 min | Arcadia Motion Pictures, Caballo Films, Le Pacte. |
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More than 320.000 admissions in France
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Oscar nominated Rodrigo Sorogoyen (San Sebastian’s awarded MAY GOD SAVE US, Toronto’s and 7 Goya winner THE REALM, Venice’s MOTHER) makes his most international work up to date. Making a Rural Thriller with reminiscences of Boorman or Peckinpah but with a modern twist and a surprising narrative structure, this film will step him from one of the most brilliant Spanish director of his generation to one universally acclaimed.
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THE YOUNG ARSONISTS | Sheila Pye | DRAMA | Canada | English | 93 min | Borrowed Light Films, Hawkeye Pictures. |
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Set in the 80’s amongst the sparse landscape of an isolated farming community, four restless adolescent girls band together to escape their troubled lives and patriarchal constraints by reclaiming an abandoned farmhouse as their own. However, when their secret world is threatened by a development corporation, the girls’ relationship will be tested to an extreme.
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SECTION - NEW DIRECTORS
DUNIA AYASO AWARD
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SECADEROS | Rocío Mesa | DRAMA | Spain, USA | Spanish | 98 min | La Claqueta PC, La Cruda Realidad, Un Capricho de Producción y Amplitud INC. |
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Seven-year-old Vera lives in the big city but adores spending the holidays in her grandparent’s town and particularly in their deserted tobacco barn. Nieves, a teenager native from there whose father forces her to help out at the family’s land, can’t avoid but feeling caged. The two girls, driven by the sense of adventure and the need to find oneself respectively, will be connected to a magical creature that will change the way they see their own reality.
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MALAGA FILM FESTIVAL - OFFICIAL SELECTION
BIG WINNER - 8 AWARDS
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CINCO LOBITOS | Alauda Ruiz De Azúa | DRAMA | Spain | Spanish | 2022 | 104 min | Encanta Films, Sayaka Producciones, Buenapinta Media. |
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From the producers of Oscar nominated THE MOLE AGENT and THE IMPOSSIBLE comes the striking debut of Variety’s 10 Directors to track Alauda Ruiz de Azua. Surrounded by a superb cast with Laia Costa (who returns to Berlinale after VICTORIA) and Almodovar’s regular Susi Sanchez, this emotional story about motherhood and generational gaps being narrowed day by day will strike a chord with audiences due to its empathetic portrait of life.
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The MOST AWARDED documentary of the year including
CRYSTAL BEAR AWARD & TEDDY AWARD
BERLINALE - GENERATION 14plus
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ALIS | DOCUMENTARY | Colombia, Romania, Chile | Spanish | 2022 | 84 min | Casatarantula, deFilm, Pantalla Cines. |
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In a Colombian shelter for teenage girls, directors Nicolas van Hemelryck and Clare Weiskopf ask a group of young women to close their eyes and imagine the life story of a fictional classmate named Alis. Like them, Alis‘s story begins on the merciless streets of Bogota, where she struggles to survive. Alis becomes their blank canvas, a projection of their past selves and experiences. As they gently open their eyes, we get to know these young women deeply, and see their perseverance to break the cycle of violence and embrace a brighter future.
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