Cinespaña in Toulouse showcases Spanish talent

by Fabien Lemercier

01/10/2010 - Kicking off today in Toulouse is the 15th Cinespaña Festival (see news), the most important event in France focusing on contemporary Spanish cinema. It will run until October 10.

In competition, eight titles will vie for the Golden Violet Award. These include Bon Appétit [trailer] by David Pinillos (see video interview); Julio Médem’s Room In Rome [trailer, film focus]; Alberto Rodrigues’s After [trailer]; Rodrigo Rodero’s Impossible Language [trailer]; Bad Day to Go Fishing [trailer] by Álvaro Brechner (see interview); The Most Important Thing in Life Is Not Being Dead by directorial trio Olivier Pictet, Marc Recuenco and Pablo Martín Torrado; Woman Without Piano [trailer] by Javier Rebollo (see video interview); and Laura Mana’s Life Begins Today [trailer].

In avant-premiere, the festival will present Isabel Coixet’s Map of the Sounds of Tokyo [trailer] (unveiled in competition last year at Cannes – see review).

Meanwhile, the Panorama section will screen 13 features, including Judith Colell and Jordi Cadena’s Elisa K [trailer] (Grand Jury Prize at the recent San Sebastian Festival); Miguel Albaladejo’s Born To Suffer [trailer] (unveiled in the latest Berlinale Panorama – see review); Fernando Trueba’s The Dancer and the Thief [trailer] (winner of nine Goya 2010 nominations and chosen as Spanish candidate in the nomination race for the 2010 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar); Vicente Molina Foix’s God of Wood [trailer] (see news); and Gerardo Herrero’s Night Runner [trailer] (see news).

Also in the line-up are Me Too [trailer] by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro (see video interview); Juana Macías’s Plans for Tomorrow [trailer] (prize-winner at Malaga); Eduard Cortés’s Ingrid [trailer]; Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso’s The Island Inside; Salvador García Ruiz’s 3some [trailer]; Manolo González’s Propios y Extraños [trailer] (“Own and Strangers”); Pablo Palazón’s Shevernatze: Una Epopeya Marcha Atrás (“Shevernatze: An Epic Step Backwards”); and Rage [trailer] by Sebastián Cordero (see video interview).

Finally, Cinespaña will give carte blanche to producer Lluís Miñarro (Eddie Saeta Production) and pay homage to actress Ángela Molina .

(Translated from French)