08/05/2019 - ¿Qué hicimos mal? is currently being shot in Northern Spain; it reflects on relationship crises by blending reality and fiction, with the director-screenwriter herself starring as the protagonist

Liliana Torres (Vic, Barcelona, 1980) provided us with a pleasant surprise when her Núria Gago-starring feature debut, Family Tour [+see also:
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The film, which boasts a storyline written by Torres, stars the director herself, Xulio Abonjo (María (and Everybody Else) [+see also:
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“When I first met Liliana – I found out about the project at a lab at the Novos Cinemas Festival in Pontevedra two years ago, where I was actually a tutor – I thought she was a very interesting director,” María Zamora, a producer at Avalon, tells Cineuropa. “I liked this idea she had about how, today, people question romantic relationships a lot more than they did in the past. She herself takes a look back at the most significant relationships in her life, from her first to her last love, pondering how the people involved messed up. She uses an interesting method of fusing the biographical with the fictional, as happens in another of our recent films, Carlos Marqués-Marcet’s The Days to Come [+see also:
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¿Qué hicimos mal? – the shoot for which kicked off in Galicia at the end of April, and will take place on location in Seoane do Courel, Ourense and Vigo for three weeks, before heading to Mexico and Italy in September – is a production by Matriuska, Avalon and Miss Wasabi (Isabel Coixet’s company), which has secured backing from TVE, the Regional Government of Galicia and TVG. Its distribution will be handled by Avalon.

(Translated from Spanish)