Wilshire Screening Room, Beverly Hills Thursday, November 4 / 8:00 PM SPAIN EVEN In cooperation with THE RAIN and supported by: (TAMBIÉN LA LLUVIA)

Director: Icíar Bollaín

GENRE: Drama SYNOPSIS INSTITUTO DE LA CINEMATOGRAFÍA Y DE LAS ARTES AUDIOVISUALES (ICAA) LANGUAGE: Spanish Costa and Sebastian arrive in , , to shoot a period Rafael Cabrera COUNTRY: Spain film about Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. They’re on the tightest Madrid, Spain T +34 91 701 7000 CO-PRODUCTION France, Mexico of budgets, but the shoot gets off to a smooth start. But things get [email protected] COUNTRIES complicated when their extras and main actor, locals to Cochabamba, www.mcu.es/cine YEAR: 2010 rise up against the privatization of their drinking water. Their battle to get their film made intertwines with the fight of their Bolivian crew LENGTH: 104 minutes members, deprived of their most basic rights, prohibited from collecting FESTIVALS FORMAT: 35 mm; 2.35 even the rain. Toronto IFF (scope), Dolby Digital Valladolid IFF (SEMINCI), Official Selection

DIRECTED BY: Icíar Bollaín TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA sets up an intriguing dialogue about WRITTEN BY: Paul Laverty Spanish imperialism through incidents taking place some 500 years apart, while examining the personal belief systems of PERFORMANCES BY: , Gael the members of a film crew headed by director Sebastian (Gael Garcia Bernal, Karra Elejalde, Raul Garcia Bernal) and his producer Costa (Luis Tosar) who arrive Arevalo, Juan Carlos Aduviri in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about the conquest of . Set in February and March of 2000 when real-life protests against the privatization of water rocked the nation, the film reflexively blurs the line between fiction and reality INTERNATIONAL SALES in what Variety calls “a powerful, richly layered indictment WILD BUNCH of the plight of Latin America’s dispossessed.” Carlos Aduviri Paris, France is dynamic as a local who is cast as a 15th century native T +33 1- 5301 5020 in the film, but when the make-up and loin cloth come off, [email protected] he sails into action protesting his community’s deprivation www.wildbunch.biz of water at the hands of the government. Meanwhile, Gael PRODUCTION COMPANY Garcia Bernal’s Idealist film director is as relentless as Werner MORENA FILMS Herzog infamously was in making FITZCARALDO, pushing Juan Gordon ahead against all odds, ignoring the prevailing danger about Madrid, Spain to disrupt at any moment. Despite the devastation emerging T +34 91 700 2780 around him, Sebastian seems unable to engage with any [email protected] emotion over than a dogmatic desire to get his film done. And www. morenafilms.com of course, the film also recalls themes in Herzog’s AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and the film-within-a-film scenes are as CO-PRODUCING COMPANIES brutal as any in APOCALYPTO. MANDARIN CINÉMA, France VACA FILMS, Spain ALEBRIJE CINE Y VIDEO, Mexico For more, go to tambienlalluvia.com