HARVEST 2019 During the last months, the most serious and prestigious film festivals in the world have come to realize the youthful vitality and the creative force that emerges from multiple areas of the Spanish cinema: from the realms of new generations and from the circles of the most independent cinema, but also from the undisputed talent of © MANOLO PAVÓN PAIN AND GLORY. Pedro Almodóvar already consolidated authors with a long projection abroad. The opening of that window is not the result of chance. The access to those essen- tial industrial and cultural showcases is a consequence of a reality and a collective impulse that is clearly visible indoors (in Spanish film festivals, cultural circuits and screens), but which also raises the interest of critics, programmers and festivals from all around the world. The first months of 2019 account for that growing visibility. It became already evident at the demanding appointment of Rotterdam, in whose Tiger Competition was included the newest movie by Carlos Marques-Marcet (Els dies que vindran / The Days to Come), while in parallel sections were Lluís Miñarro with Love Me Not © ROMAN YÑÁN LIBERTÉ. Albert Serra (selected in the Moscow Festival immediately after this), Andrés Duque (Carelia. Internacional con monumento) and Isaki Lacuesta, whose Entre dos aguas (Between two Waters; winner of the Golden Shell in San Sebastián) was picked for the occa- sion, while at the same time the Spanish-Uruguayan coproduction Belmonte, directed by Federico Veiroj, also found a place at the Dutch event. Immediately after, the great encounter of the Berlinale opened a space for Isabel Coixet’s Elisa y Marcela (Elisa & Marcela) to compete in its International Competition, which also picked two short films: Irene Moray’sSuc de síndria and Ion de Sosa & Chema García Ibarra’s Leyenda dorada. At the same time, another woman (Neus Ballús, with Staff Only) was greeted in the Panorama section, while Culinary Cinema FIRE WILL COME. Oliver Laxe screens hosted Y en cada lenteja un dios (A God in Each Lentil), by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, whose next work (Sumendia) is already in post-production. Meanwhile, overseas, the prestigious indie event South by Southwest (Austin; USA) summoned 7 razones para huir (7 Reasons to Run Away), by Gerard Quinto, Esteve Soler and David Torras. Finally, Spanish cinema comes back this year with honors and with a triple presence to the big festival in Cannes, with a movie selected at the competitive Official Section (Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film,Dolor y gloria / Pain and Glory, critically acclaimed in Spain) and two more within the frame of Un Certain Regard: Albert Serra’s Liberté and Oliver Laxe’s O que arde (Fire Will Come). Spanish cinema will also be present JE TE TIENS. Sergio Caballero at the Director’s Fortnight, with the short filmJe te tiens, by Sergio Caballero, and one coproduction with Perú: Canción sin nombre (Song Without a Name), by Melina León. The path cannot be wider: Spanish cinema has been present at the official selec- tion of the three biggest festivals of the first semester (Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes) and the list of filmmakers summoned to their most important sections (Carlos Marques-Marcet, Lluís Miñarro, Andrés Duque, Isaki Lacuesta, Isabel Coixet, Neus Ballús, Irene Moray, Ion de Sosa, Chema García Ibarra, Pedro Almodóvar, Albert Serra, Oliver Laxe...) allows us to see an invigorating generational range in which experience and youth, international prestige and hope for the future, avant-garde aesthetics search and splendid creative maturity that goes hand in hand within an SONG WITHOUT A NAME. Melina León enviable diversity. Promises and realities in the great harvest of 2019. 2 / icaa.es CANNES 2019 OFFICIAL COMPETITION PAIN AND GLORY © MANOLO PAVÓN FICTION Original Title: DOLOR Y GLORIA Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar Screenwriter: Pedro Almodóvar Director of Photography: José Luis Alcaine Editor: Teresa Font Cast: Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandía, Penélope Cruz, Nora Navas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Serrano Original language: Spanish Subtitles: English Running Time: 112’ Release in Spain: March 22nd, 2019 Production: El Primer Deseo-AIE, El Deseo D.A. S.L.U. (Spain) Contact: El Primer Deseo-AIE C/Francisco Navacerrada, 24 © MANOLO PAVÓN Madrid (Spain) +34 917 248 199 PEDRO ALMODÓVAR International Sales: Filmnation “Quite unintentionally, Pain and Glory is the third part of a spontaneously created trilogy that has taken thirty two years to complete. The first two parts areLaw of Desire and Bad Education. In the three films, Synopsis. Pain and Glory tells the protagonists are male characters who are film directors, and in the three desire and cinematic of a series of reencounters fiction are the pillars of the story, but the way in which fiction is glimpsed alongside reality differs in experienced by Salvador Mallo, each one of them. Fiction and life are two sides of the one coin, and life always includes pain and a film director in his physical desire. (…) If you write about a director (and your work consists of directing films), it’s impossible not decline. Some of them in the to think of yourself and not take your experience as a reference (…). I remember that during rehearsals flesh, others remembered: his I said to Antonio: If you think that in any sequence it’ll help if you imitate me, you can do it. Antonio said childhood in the 60s, when he no, that it wasn’t necessary. And he was right, his character wasn’t me, but it was inside me”. emigrated with his parents to a (Excerpt from Pedro Almodóvar’s text in the movie’s pressbook) village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the 80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense, writing as the only therapy to forget the unforgettable, the early discovery of cinema, and the infinite void that creates the incapacity to keep on making films. Pain and Glory talks about creation, about the difficulty of separating it from one’s own life and about the passions that give it meaning and hope. In recovering his past, Salvador finds the urgent need to recount it, and in that need he also finds his salvation. © MANOLO PAVÓN CANNES 2019 icaa.es / 3 FICTION Original Title: LIBERTÉ LIBERTÉ Directed by: Albert Serra Screenwriter: Albert Serra Director of Photography: Artur Tort Editor: A. Serra, A. Ribas & A. Tort Cast: Helmut Berger, Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet Original language: French, German, Italian Subtitles: English Running Time: 131’ Estimated Release: May, 2019 (Cannes) Production: Pierre-Olivier Bardet (Idéale Audience; France), Joaquim Sapinho (Rosa Filmes; Portugal), Montse Triola & Albert Serra (Andergraun Films; Spain) Associate Producer: Felix Von Boehm (Lupa Film; Germany) Contact: Andergraun Films [email protected] [email protected] +34 931 84 34 27 International Sales: Films Boutique Louis Balsan [email protected] © ROMAN YÑÁN Synopsis. 1774, before the French Revolution. Madame de ALBert Serra Dumeval, the Duc de Tesis and We are in Louis XV’s France, in the eighteenth century. A group of libertines have been expelled the Duc de Wand, libertines from the royal court, they are lost somewhere in Europe, they don’t know what to do or where expelled from the puritanical to go. In a mysterious space, desire arouses while they are watched. There are many things in court of Louis XVI, seek the the story close to Marquis de Sade, such as the opposition between passion and will, rules and support of the legendary Duc arbitrarity, desire and reason. Licentiousness becomes something somber. The movie begins as de Walchen. Their mission is to a historical fiction, but ends up projecting something very dark that defines our current society. export libertinage, a philosophy I couldn’t tell if I’ve made a movie against political correctness or if it is about the unease of of enlightenment founded on the the contemporary world. I tend to think it’s the latter. There is something very strange and rejection of moral boundaries disquieting in our societies, that appears at the end of the movie (…). There are things that and authorities, but moreover to connect with Story of my Death or with the exhibition Singularity, but here everything is darker, find a safe place to pursue their as our present. errant games. (Excerpt from the interview with Àngel Quintana; Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, nº 82/133; May, 2019) FICTION DIRECTOR’S FORTNIGHT - SHORTS Original Title: JE TE TIENS Directed by: Sergio Caballero JE TE TIENS Screenwriter: Sergio Caballero Director of Photography: Claudia Mallart Editor: Bernat Vilaplana Synopsis. The road trip of Cast: Ángela Molina, Virginia Rousse, a mother and her daughter Sosaku Miyazaki Original language: Spanish, French through strange worlds. The Subtitles: English, Spanish, French daughter wants to kill herself Running Time: 22’ and the mother will try to talk her Estimated Release: May, 2019 out of it. Production: Advanced Music S. L. (Spain) Contact: [email protected] +34 933 20 81 63 International Sales: [email protected] +34 933 20 81 63 4 / icaa.es CANNES 2019 UN CERTAIN REGARD FICTION FIRE WILL COME Original Title: O QUE ARDE Directed by: Oliver Laxe Screenwriter: Oliver Laxe & Santiago Fillol Director of Photography: Mauro Herce Editor: Cristóbal Fernández Cast: Amador Coro, Benedicta Sánchez Original language: Galician Subtitles: Spanish, French, English Running Time: 86’ Estimated Release: December, 2019 Production: Andrea Vázquez, Xavi Font (Miramemira; Spain) Andrea Queralt. Mani Mortazavi (4A4 Productions; France) Co-Produced by: Koldo Zuazua (Kowalski Films; Spain), Elise André, Donato Rotunno (Tarantula Luxembourg; Luxembourg) Contact: [email protected] +34 667 755 484 International Sales: [email protected] +33 142 96 02 20 [email protected] Synopsis.