Spanish Screenings on Tour at MIA: Genre, Open Arthouse, Established Auteurs and a Slew of New Talent
variety.comSpanish Screenings on Tour, which unspools at Rome’s MIA forum, taking place Oct. 9-13. A platform of market premieres, projects, pics in post and potential remake titles, the Spanish Screenings also underscore the ever stronger emergence in Spain of open arthouse titles – Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return,” Arantxa Echeverría “Chinas,” Benito Zambrano’s “Jumping the Fence” and Gerardo Herrero’s “Under Therapy,” which was one of the best-selling titles at March’s Malaga Spanish Screenings.
With titles in Next from Spain set to present trailers, Spanish Screenings on Tour will also position a bevy of anticipated feature debuts, at different stages of production, from Spain’s seemingly bottomless well of new talent, such as Jaume Claret Muxart.
Many, but not all, however, are young female directors: Sara Gutiérrez Galve, Alicia Moncholí, Sandra Romero and Sonia Méndez.
A clutch of highly respected established auteurs – Manuel Martín Cuenca, Javier Rebollo, for example – lend breadth to the selection.
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