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Malaga unveils austere, varied and comic edition

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There will be more comedy than ever at the leading festival of Spanish film, the Malaga Film Festival, which will run from April 17-24.

The full programme for the 13th edition was unveiled today. As every year, the Official Section stands out, with 13 titles, including 11 in competition. Although, as director Carmelo Romero pointed out, this year will be marked by “austerity", the festival continues to put the emphasis on variety, both in terms of the directors (established and debut names) and genres (although comedy dominates, there is no shortage of drama and suspense).

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The event will open and close with works by two established directors, Carlos Saura’s I, Don Giovanni [+see also:
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(an Italian co-production which premiered in October 2009 at the Rome Film Festival) and Julio Medem’s Room In Rome (see news), respectively. Both films will screen out of competition.

The Malaga fest has shown it is not afraid of including comedies in the Official Section, where they make up almost half the films in competition: Nacho García Velilla’s Que Se Mueran los Feos (“Death to Ugly People”, see news); David Serrano’s Una Hora Más en Canarias (“One More Hour in the Canary Islands”, see news); Laura Mañá’s Life Begins Today; German co-production Bon Appetit (see news), the debut film by David Pinillos; and Pau Freixas’s Heroes.

The following films explore immigration, from very different viewpoints: Ecuadorian director Sebastián Cordero’s Rabia (see news), which will finally be shown in Spain; and author Vicente Molina Foix’s latest foray into cinema, El Dios de Madera (“The Wooden God”, see news).

One of the key themes of the Official Section is the difficulty of communicating in modern society, an issue addressed in two debut features: Manolo González’s Propios y Extraños (“Our Own and Strangers”) and Rodrigo Rodero’s El Idioma Imposible (“The Impossible Language”), as well as in Xavier Ribera Perpiñá’s Circuit. The section is completed by Juana Macías’s debut feature, the drama Planes Para Mañana (“Plans for Tomorrow”).

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(Translated from Spanish)

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