Catalan Films @ Donostia Zinemaldia San Sebastian International Film Festival

21-29 September 2018

Supporting the Catalan audiovisual industry worldwide

Donostia Zinemaldia San Sebastiรกn International Film Festival

catalanfilms@gencat.cat | www.catalanfilms.cat

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Mes 2018 | Cover image: Entre dos aguas / On this page: Yuli

Catalan Films at San Sebastian International Film Festival 4

Official Selection 4 6

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Zinemira – Closing Night Film 15

Entre dos aguas Yuli 16 Official Selection Special Screenings

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New Directors

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Apuntes para una película de atracos Viaje al cuarto de una madre

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Con el viento I Hate New York La enfermedad del domingo Les distàncies Mi querida cofradía Querido fotogramas The Bookshop Trinta lumes

Industry Club

Horizontes Latinos 12

Made in Spain 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Tiempo después

Black is Beltza

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VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

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XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-production Forum

Figuras Zabaltegi - Tabakalera

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Teatro de guerra Perlak

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Petra

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Official Selection

Entre dos aguas

Screenings Thu 27

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09:30

Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Thu 27

12:00

Kursaal 1

Thu 27

18:30

Kursaal 1

Thu 27

20:00

Príncipe, 3

Fri 28

16:00

Antiguo Berri, 2

Sales Agent Filmax International Ivan Díaz filmaxint@filmax.com

by Isaki Lacuesta Produced by La Termita Films, B-Team Pictures, All Go Movies, Mallerich Films, Bord Cadre Films Sarls, Studio Indie Productions

Isra and Cheíto are two Roma brothers: Isra was sent to prison for drug dealing and Cheíto signed up for the Marines.

When Isra is released from prison and Cheíto returns from a long mission, they return to San Fernando. The reunion between the siblings brings memories of their father’s violent death when they were only boys. Twelve years have passed since La Leyenda del tiempo (The Legend of Time), Lacuesta’s film when Isra and Cheíto were teenagers. Now Isra returns to San Fernando to recover his wife and kids. But will he manage to go straight in a place with the highest unemployment rate in Spain? Their search for redemption, their need to sort out their lives and to find reconciliation between them unites Isra and Cheíto once again.

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Official Selection

Yuli

Screenings Sun 23

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09:00

Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Sun 23

12:00

Kursaal 1

Sun 23

19:00

Kursaal 1

Mon 24

20:30

Antiguo Berri, 2

Mon 24

20:30

Antiguo Berri, 7

Sales Agent The Match Factory Michael Weber michael.weber@matchfactory.de

by Iciar Bollaín Produced by Morena Films, Galápagos Media, Hijo de Ogún AIE, Potboiler Productions, Match Factory Productions

Yuli tells the story of the Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta (who plays himself), from his beginnings in a poor neighbourhood of Havana until becoming the star of one of the biggest ballet companies in the world.

Yuli (Carlos’s nickname) is a gifted boy who doesn’t want to be a dancer but who, forced by his father Pedro, and tutored by the professor and director of the Cuban National School of Ballet, Cherry, will become one of the best dancers of his generation, breaking taboos on becoming the first black dancer to play Romeo at the Royal Ballet in London, where he forged his stellar career and his legend for 17 years. Yuli is a film about roots, about the relationship between Carlos and his father, with his family, with Cuba. Yuli is about art, about the sacrifice of dedicating one’s life to that art and, above all, about what we are.

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Official Selection – Special Screenings

Tiempo después

Screenings Mon 24

12:00

Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Tue 25

18:45

Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Wed 26 16:00 Trueba,1

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Thu 27

16:00

Antiguo Berri, 6

Fri 28

22:00

Antiguo Berri, 6

Sales Agent Filmsharks Lic. Guido Rud guido_rud@filmsharks.com

by José Luis Cuerda Produced by El Terrat, Atresmedia Cine, Tiempo despues AIE, Estela Films,Polvora Films, Lanube películas, Planar Gestao de Equipamentos Cinematográficos

In 9177, give or take a thousand years (there’s no point in being finicky about these details) the whole world, and, according to some authors, the universe too, has been reduced to a single Representative Building and squalid suburbs inhabited by all of the out-ofwork and hungry in the cosmos. One of the down and outs, José María, decides that by facing up to the difficulties and selling his delicious homemade lemonade in the Representative Building, another world is possible.

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New Directors

Apuntes para una película de atracos

by León Siminiani Produced by Pandora Cinema, Tusitala PC, Avalon PC

Contact Avalon PC María Zamora mzamora@avalon.me

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Elías was a documentary filmmaker that fantasized with making a heist film. Flako was the most wanted bank robber in the hard times of the Spanish Crisis. Flako was in jail.

Elías was in the street. Some films must be prepared in the distance…

Screenings Fri 21

14:00 Principal

Fri 21

21:30

Kursaal, 2

Sat 22

09:30

Kursaal, 2

Sat 22

18:15

Antiguo Berri, 6

New Directors

Viaje al cuarto de una madre

by Celia Rico Produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, Noodles Production, Amoros Producciones, Pecado Films, Sisifo Films AIE

Contact Arcadia Motion Pictures Sandra Tapia sandra.tapia@ arcadiamotionpictures.com

Leonor wants to leave home but she doesn’t dare tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her daughter to go, but she isn’t able to keep her by her side. Mother and daughter will have to face a new time in their lives in which the world they share is wavering.

Journey to a mother’s room is a film about the ties that tightly bind a mother and a daughter, so intimate and delicate they can easily tangle and trap them Screenings Mon 24

16:30

Sala Principal

Mon 24

19:30

Kursaal, 2

Tue 25

22:00

Antiguo Berri, 6

Wed 26

22:30

Trueba, 1

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Horizontes Latinos

Figuras

by Eugenio Canevari Produced by Faneca Films, MamĂĄ HĂşngara, Chroma Teatre, Waking Films

Sales agent The Open Reel Cosimo Santoro cs@theopenreel.com

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Stella suffers from ALS and her life expectancy is decreasing very fast. Her partner and her daughter manage her daily care. With humour, love, and rows, they try to cope with a distressing situation.

Screenings Tue 25

12:00

Kursaal, 2

Tue 25

19:30

Antiguo Berri, 6

Wed 26

20:30

Trueba, 1

Zabaltegi- Tabakalera

Teatro de guerra

by Lola Arias Produced by Gema Films, BWP, Sutor Kolonko, Sake Argentina, SWR/ARTE

Sales agent Ramonda INK Pascale Ramonda pascale@pascaleramonda. com

Theatre of War is an essay on how to represent war, performed by former enemies.

British and Argentinian veterans of the Falklands/Malvinas war come together to discuss, rehearse and re-enact their memories 35 years after the conflict.

Screenings Sun 23

19:00

Tabakalera-Sala 1

Mon 24

16:00

PrĂ­ncipe, 10

Tue 25

20:15

Trueba, 2

Wed 26

16:15

Antiguo Berri, 7

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Perlak

Petra

by Jaime Rosales Produced by Fresdeval Films, Wanda Vision, Oberon Cinematogràfica, Les Productions Balthazar, Snowglobe

After her mother’s death, Petra goes in search of the father whose identity was always kept secret from her. And all roads seem to lead to one heartless and powerful man.

Screenings

Sales agent Film Factory Entertainment Laura Fornelio laura@filmfactory.es

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Fri 28

16:30 Principal

Fri 28

20:45

Fri 28

20:45

Príncipe 3

Sat 29

18:15

Trueba 1

Teatro Victoria Eugenia

Zinemira – Closing Night Film

Black is Beltza

by Fermín Muguruza Produced by Setmàgic Audiovisual,EiTB - Euskal Irrati Telebista, Black is Beltza AIE, Talka Records, Elkar

Sales agent Film Factory Laura Fornelio laura@filmfactory.es

October 1965. Pamplona’s troupe of giant figures, a typical sight at the San Fermín festivities, is invited to parade along Fifth Avenue in New York. Black is Beltza tells the story of Manex, who was supposed to carry one of the black giants, banned because of American racial discrimination. Manex, seeking justice, moves to Cuba where he accepts a dangerous mission travelling around the world.

Screenings Fri 28

18:30

Clausura Zinemira K2

Fri 28

20:00

Antiguo Berri 7

Sat 29

17:00

Príncipe 9

Sat 29

22:00

Príncipe 9

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Made in Spain

Con el viento

by Meritxell Colell Produced by Polar Star Films, Habitación 1520, Paraiso Production

Contact Polar Star Films Belen Sánchez belen@polarstarfilms.com

Mónica, a 47-year old dancer, receives a call from Spain: her father is terminally ill. After 20 years, Mónica must return to the remote village where she was born. When she arrives, her father has already passed away and her mother decides to sell the family home asking Mónica to stay to help her. Winter comes. The perpetual silence, the extreme cold and the difficulty of living with her mother are proving tough for Mónica, who takes refuge in what she knows best: dance.

Screenings

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Wed 26

22:45

Fri 28

20:45

Príncipe 7

Fri 28

16:00

Antiguo Berri 8

Príncipe 9

Made in Spain

I Hate New York

by Gustavo Sánchez Produced by J.A Bayona (Executive Producer), Colosé Producciones, Silent Soundsystem, Gustavo Sánchez with the collaboration of Películas La Trini

Contact Festivals Distribution: Movies for Festivals Johanna Tonini info@moviesforfestivals.com Colosé Producciones Soledad Martinez sole@colose.es Silent Soundsystem Ricard Robles silentssoundsystem@gmail. com

New York, 2007-2017. Over a decade, and filming only with a home video camera and no script, the director delves into the private world of Amanda Lepore, Chloe Dzubilo, Sophia Lamar and T De Long; four artists and transgender activists from the city’s underground scene. Little by little, their testimonies reveal fragments of a past – sometimes dramatic, always fascinating and simply extraordinary– that formed their identities and transformed their lives. Their words, fears and hopes take the audience from an outsider’s point of view to being emotionally invested in their destiny.

Screenings Mon 24

22:30

Príncipe 9

Tue 25

16:30

Trueba 1

Wed 26

19:30

Antiguo Berri 8

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Made in Spain

La enfermedad del domingo

by Ramon Salazar Produced by Zeta Cinema Contact Zeta Cinema Pablo López Muñoz oyejuan@gmail.com

Anabel abandoned her daughter Chiara when she was barely eight years old. Thirtyfive years later Chiara returns with a strange request for her mother; she asks her to spend ten days with her. Anabel sees in that trip the chance to get her daughter back, but she does not know that Chiara has a hidden agenda and that she will have to face the most important decision of her life.

Screenings

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Thu 27

16:00

Príncipe, 9

Fri 28

18:15

Príncipe, 10

Sat 29

22:15

Antiguo Berri, 8

Made in Spain

Les distàncies

by Elena Trapé Produced by Coming Soon Films with the associate production of Televisió de Catalunya, Miss Wasabi and Busse & Halberschmidt

Sales agent True Colours Catia Rossi catia@truecolours.it

Olivia, Eloy, Guille and Anna travel to Berlin to pay a surprise visit to their friend Comas, who is turning 35. His welcome is not as they expected and during the weekend their friendship is put to the test as their contradictions emerge. Together they discover that time and distance can change everything.

Screenings Tue 25

20:30

Wed 26

18:15

Trueba, 2

Thu 27

22:30

Antiguo Berri, 8

Príncipe, 10

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Made in Spain

Mi querida cofradía

by Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz Produced by Escac Films, La Zanfoña Producciones, Sacromonte Films

Sales agent Film Factory Laura Fornelio laura@filmfactory.es

Carmen, a devout Catholic woman from Malaga, is about to be chosen leader of her local religious guild. But it all goes up in smoke when her biggest rival is chosen: Ignacio, a ridiculous, arrogant man who is also hell-bent on demoting her from her post.

After an unfortunate “accident”, Ignacio is left unconscious in the bathroom and Carmen is forced to keep him hidden in her home all the while she receives a series of unexpected visitors. What at first seems like a terrible predicament could turn into Carmen’s chance to fulfill her dream.

Screenings

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Fri 21

17:00

Príncipe 9

Sat 22

19:00

Trueba 2

Sun 23

22:00

Antiguo Berri, 8

Made in Spain

Querido fotogramas

by Sergio Oksman Produced by Cine365 Films, DZ Largometrajes y audiovisuales AIE, Virtual Contenidos

Contact Cine365 Films Raquel Ameijeiras raquel@cine365films.com

The starting place of the film is the 70th anniversary of Fotogramas magazine and it’s developed as a sentimental trip through Spanish cinema history, hand in hand with more than 30 key characters, which, through their memories, they run through magazine’s history.

The documentary is introduced as a tribute to Fotogramas readers through some key characters of Spanish cinema that will read the most representative letters received in the editorial office along these seven decades of history.

Screenings Sat 22

19:30

Príncipe, 10

Sun 23

19:30

Príncipe, 7

Mon 24

16:30

Antiguo Berri, 8

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Made in Spain

The Bookshop

by Isabel Coixet Produced by A Contracorriente Films, Diagonal TelevisiĂł, Green Films AIE, Zephyr Films, One Two Films

England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but Sales Agent ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.

Screenings

Sales agent Celsius Entertainment Thierry Wase-Bailey twb@celsiusentertainment. com

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Tue 25

20:30

PrĂ­ncipe, 9

Wed 26

16:00

Trueba, 2

Thu 27

19:30

Antiguo Berri, 8

Made in Spain

Trinta lumes

by Diana Toucedo Produced by Diana Toucedo Films, Lasoga Films

Sales agent The Open Reel Cosimo Santoro cs@theopenreel.com

Alba is twelve years old and wants to discover the mysterious, fascinating and unknown reality of death. With her best friend Samuel, she enters abandoned houses, travels through forgotten villages and explores remote mountains that hide another parallel world.

Hers is a journey to reveal the unexplainable conflict between the living and the dead.

Screenings Sun 23

16:15

PrĂ­ncipe 9

Sun 23

16:00

Trueba 1

Tue 25

22:15

Antiguo Berri 8

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Industry Club VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum 25 26

Dúo Libertad

XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-production Forum The Mistery of the Pink Flamingos 27 We die 28 La Flota de Indias 29 Mal de Caña 30

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VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

Dúo

by Meritxell Colell Produced by Polar Star Films, Pensilvania Films, Paraiso Production and Manufactura de Películas

Two choreographers travel across the northwest of Argentina in their last tour together. After 24 years sharing professional and personal universe, the trip opens a gap between them. The sense of their life begins to teeter.

Contact Polar Star Films Belen Sánchez belen@polarstarfilm.com

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VII Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum

Libertad

by Clara Roquet Produced by Lastor Media, Avalon P.C., Snowglobe

Sales agent Lastor Media Sergi Moreno sergi.mcastillo@lastormedia. com Avalon P.C. MarĂ­a Zamora mzamora@avalon.me

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A sheltered and privileged teenage girl is forced to come of age when the wild teenage daughter of the family’s Colombian maid comes to spend the summer with them and they form a dangerous friendship.

XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-Production Forum

The Mistery of the Pink Flamingos

by Javier Polo Produced by Los Hermanos Polo, Japonica Films

Contact Japonica Films Gerard RodrĂ­guez gerard@japonicafilms.com

The Mystery of the Pink Flamingos is a documentary where an eccentric character employs unusual research ef- forts to reveal the true story behind the hot pink queen of kitsch, the pink amingo. In his hilarious attempt to unravel this sociocultural phenomenon, the protagonist gathers together theories and interpretations from a bizarre selection of sources that eventually leads him to discover the powerful influence that these birds have on the world that surrounds us.

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XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-Production Forum

We Die

by Rebeca Sรกnchez Produced by Kepler Mission Films, White Leaf Producciones, Perro Negro Cine

Contact Kepler Mission Films Rebeca Sรกnchez rebeca@keplermissionfilms. com

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Documentary that exposes the magicalrealistic conception of death, in three very unique minority communities: the Tana Toraja in Indonesia, the widows of Vrindaban in India and the Mayas of Pomuch in Mexico. Through the stories of our main characters we will discover the collective imaginary that feeds their culture and mortuary beliefs. We will travel through the different phases of death according to their autochthonous traditions: waiting, death and mourning.

XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-Production Forum

La flota de Indias

by Antonio P. Molero Produced by Inicia Films, Trueday Films

Contact Trueday Films Laura Collado laura@truedayfilms.com

The discovery of America opened a source of incalculable riches for Spain. To protect their newfound treasure they devised an unprecedented naval system: the Spanish Treasure Fleet.

Other European powers would attempt to break the Spanish monopoly over America‌ this, however, would prove to be a substantial challenge.

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XIV Lau Haizetara Documentary Film Co-Production Forum

Mal de caĂąa

by Juan Alfonso Zapata Produced by SomBatabat Produccions, IFilms

Contact Oriol Cortacans ocortacans@batabat.cat

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Documentary on slavery in the 21st century from the situation of Haitian immigrant workers in the sugarcane plantations in the Dominican Republic. In these spaces housing becomes the tool to condition the lives of these workers and keep them in miserable conditions.

ICEC - Catalan Films & TV The Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC) is a public institu­ tion of the Government of Catalonia’s Ministry of Culture that looks after the development and the consolidation of the Catalan creative sectors as an uplift for its professionalization. ICEC advises and accompanies Catalan companies in their development pro­cess in several sectors such as: music, performing arts, visual arts, audiovi­sual, books and digital culture.

Catalan Films & TV is the program used

by ICEC for the international promotion of Catalan audiovisual industry. Catalan Films & TV aims to increase the participation of the Catalan audio­visual industry at international markets and to encourage the co-production and the distribution of Catalan pro­jects. In addition, it also supports films and talent that have been selected to attend international festivals around the world and acts as the industry’s official representative at key festivals and markets.

On-site contact Mar Medir Coordinator mmedir@gencat.cat

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