Valladolid: 10 Titles to Track from ‘All of Us Strangers’ to Germany’s Oscar Entry and Three Spanish World Premieres

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “All of Us Strangers,” Andrew Haigh, U.K., U.S.) Setting a high benchmark for Valladolid’s main competition, “a curious kind of ghost story, at once incredibly tender and profoundly devastating as it slowly reveals its secrets,” Variety wrote in its review.

Written and directed by Haigh. behind an impressive body of work taking in “Weekend,” “45 Years” and HBO series “Looking.” “Andrea’s Love,” (“El amor de Andrea,” Manuel Martín Cuenca, Spain) Sold by Film Factory, the latest from the always interesting Martín Cuenca (“Cannibal,” “The Daughter”) about Andrea, 15, attempting to reconnect with her estranged father. “A title opening up a new stage in Martín Cuenca’s career, his simplest, most tender and sincere of works,” Valladolid Festival notes run. “Gasoline Rainbow,” (Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross, U.S.) Produced by Mubi and sold by The Match Factory, the Venice Horizons world premiere follows five teens who pile into a van somewhere in Oregon heading for the Pacific Coast.

Judged the best to date from rising indie values the Ross brothers (“Bloody Nose,” “Empty Pockets”). “Hoard,” (Luna Carmoon, U.K.) A breakout at this year’s Venice Critics’ Week, where it won its Audience Award and a shred special mention for lead Saura Lightfoot Leon, “Hoard” announcing “that rare thing nowadays of a genuinely audacious, unnerving British debut,” said Indie Wire.

Certainly the tale of a late teen girl marked by a childhood of garbage collecting with mum, is not a conventional premise, which Carmoon develops into a tale of grief, trauma and sensual body horror self abuse.