29/02/2024 - The Spanish city is hosting the 27th edition of the festival, which is growing every year with more titles in its sections and also includes films made on the other side of the Atlantic

The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival will welcome the stars and professionals of Spanish and Latin American cinema from 1 to 10 March. For example, its official competition section will include 19 feature films (eleven Spanish and eight Latin American), with an additional 18 (fifteen Spanish and three Latin American) in the non-competitive official section. In total, the festival will screen almost 250 titles.

As announced previously, the Chinese-Spanish co-production Dragonkeeper [+see also:
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interview: Salvador Simó
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film profile] will also have its world premiere, with Adriana Ozores and María Vázquez playing a mother and daughter in conflict, and there will also be the world premiere of Saturn Return [+see also:
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The same competition section will also include Nina [+see also:
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interview: Sonia Méndez
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film profile], by the directorial newcomer (until now a costume designer) Clara Bilbao, with Carmen Machi and Antonio de la Torre heading the cast; La casa, the new film by Valencian filmmaker Álex Montoya; Holy Mother [+see also:
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Alongside these Spanish films, the Latin American films Yana-Wara, by Óscar Catacora (his posthumous work) and Tito Catacora, a film from Peru; the Mexican productions Lluvia, by Rodrigo García Saiz, and Radical, by Christopher Zalla, will compete for the two Golden Biznagas awarded at this event; La mujer salvaje by Alán González (Cuba); Golán by Orlando Culzat (Colombia); Rest in Peace by Sebastián Borensztein (Argentina); and Los terrenos by Verónica Chen and Naufragios by Vanina Spataro, both produced between neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay.

Also, in the official out-of-competition section, the closing comedy La familia Benetón, by Joaquín Mazón (De perdidos a Río [+see also:
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interview: Miguel Faus
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film profile], by David Galán Galindo; El molino, by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas; Historias, by Paco Sepúlveda; La bandera, by Martín Cuervo;  Yo no soy esa, by María Ripoll; Por tus muertos, by Sayago Ayuso; and Solos en la noche, by Guillermo Rojas, about the coup d'état of 23 February 1981.

Finally, in the Zonazine section, dedicated to more radical cinema, the recently premiered films at the Berlinale The Undergrowth [+see also:
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interview: Macu Machín
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interview: Jaime Puertas Castillo
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The festival will also host its usual industry section MAFIZ (Málaga Festival Industry Zone), the details of which we will disclose shortly.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)