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Galician language film is sold by Europe Film Sales.
Berlinale Panorama title Matria, the feature-debut of Spanish director Álvaro Gago, a Screen Star of Tomorrow, has sold to France.
French distributor Les Alquimistes has picked up the film from sales agent Europe Film Sales. Talks are ongoing for other territories.
Galician-language Matria focuses on the trials and tribulations of a 40-something single mother in a coastal town in northwestern Spain, and was well received by reviewers at Berlin.
Gago previously made a short film of the same name, featuring the same character, which won the short film grand jury prize at the 2018 Sundance film festival.
Berlinale Panorama title Matria, the feature-debut of Spanish director Álvaro Gago, a Screen Star of Tomorrow, has sold to France.
French distributor Les Alquimistes has picked up the film from sales agent Europe Film Sales. Talks are ongoing for other territories.
Galician-language Matria focuses on the trials and tribulations of a 40-something single mother in a coastal town in northwestern Spain, and was well received by reviewers at Berlin.
Gago previously made a short film of the same name, featuring the same character, which won the short film grand jury prize at the 2018 Sundance film festival.
- 3/31/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
On the Names of the Goats, Las facultades, Serpentarius and Bait also received awards at the Galician gathering. The successful fourth edition of Novos Cinemas (Pontevedra International Film Festival) was held in Pontevedra, Spain, from 10 to 15 December. The gathering founded by producer and screenwriter Daniel Froiz, producer Suso Novás and filmmaker Ángel Santos (The High Pressures) was opened last Tuesday, in Pontevedra’s Teatro Principal, with a showing of Arima by Galician director Jaione Camborda. The list of winners of the fourth edition of Novos Cinemas was announced this Sunday, moments before closing the festival with Endless Night by Galician director Eloy Enciso. The International Jury, made up of Lucero Garzón, Misha Bies Golas and Carlos Reviriego, bestowed the Novos Cinemas Award for Best Film in the Official Section to Just Don't Think I'll Scream by French director Frank Beauvais. The Latexos Jury,...
- 12/18/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Fresh from its triumphant win for Best Feature-Length Documentary at Idfa in Amsterdam, Cuban docu “In a Whisper” (“A Media Voz”) makes its market debut at Ventana Sur where it screens on Wednesday Dec. 4.
Picked up by Brazil-based Habanero Film Sales prior to Idfa, “In a Whisper” is a moving auto-ethnographic documentary about two childhood friends who, as part of the Cuban diaspora, find themselves far away from home and on divergent paths. Docu had its world premiere on Nov. 23 at Idfa where it received a standing ovation, according to Habanero’s Alfredo Calviño.
Co-directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Perez, best friends since meeting at a pool at the age of 7, are now in their early 40s. Both studied at Cuba’s prestigious International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Eictv) before emigrating to Europe, Hassan to Switzerland and Perez to Spain. “We started exchanging video letters, using...
Picked up by Brazil-based Habanero Film Sales prior to Idfa, “In a Whisper” is a moving auto-ethnographic documentary about two childhood friends who, as part of the Cuban diaspora, find themselves far away from home and on divergent paths. Docu had its world premiere on Nov. 23 at Idfa where it received a standing ovation, according to Habanero’s Alfredo Calviño.
Co-directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Perez, best friends since meeting at a pool at the age of 7, are now in their early 40s. Both studied at Cuba’s prestigious International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños (Eictv) before emigrating to Europe, Hassan to Switzerland and Perez to Spain. “We started exchanging video letters, using...
- 11/29/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Brazil-based Habanero Film Sales has snagged the international sales rights to “In a Whisper” (A Media Voz), a moving autoethnographic documentary about two childhood friends who, as part of the Cuban diaspora, find themselves far away from home and from each other. Docu had its world premiere on Saturday at Idfa where it received a standing ovation, per Habanero’s Alfredo Calviño.
“I need you back in my life,” says one as they begin to send each other videos, delving into their struggles with homesickness, finding work, partners, motherhood and most importantly, the siren call of cinema, of making films. “The Cuba you miss no longer exists,” says another as she implores the other to move forward with her life.
Co-directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Perez, best friends since meeting at a pool at ages 7, are now in their early 40s. Both studied at Cuba’s prestigious International Film School...
“I need you back in my life,” says one as they begin to send each other videos, delving into their struggles with homesickness, finding work, partners, motherhood and most importantly, the siren call of cinema, of making films. “The Cuba you miss no longer exists,” says another as she implores the other to move forward with her life.
Co-directors Heidi Hassan and Patricia Perez, best friends since meeting at a pool at ages 7, are now in their early 40s. Both studied at Cuba’s prestigious International Film School...
- 11/25/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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