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A professional basketball coach burdened with Un entrenador de baloncesto profesional, lleno problems and frustrations gets his life back de problemas y frustraciones, recupera su vida thanks to a team of intellectually disabled basket- gracias al equipo de personas con discapacidad ball players he ends up training through a strange intelectual que, por avatares de la vida, acaba twist of fate. entrenando. SYNOPSIS SINOPSIS

Marco is the assistant coach for a basketball team in ’s First Division. He has problems at work, problems with his wife, problems with almost everything. But the real problem is his approach to life.

One day, in the middle of a game, his frustrations lead to a brawl with the head coach, he gets drunk and crashes his car, and this lands him in the docket.

He is sentenced to coach a very special basketball team made up of the intellectually disabled. At the same time, he loses his job and his relationship falls apart.

To Marco’s surprise, he will be the one who learns from his adventure with the team, from their lust for life and their understanding of what is really important… Marco es el segundo entrenador de un equipo de baloncesto de la primera división española. Tiene problemas en el trabajo, con su pareja y con casi todo lo que le rodea. Es, más que nada, una cuestión de actitud frente a la vida.

Un día, en pleno partido de Liga, esas frustraciones desembocan en una tremenda bronca con el primer entrenador, que deriva en una borrachera y ésta en un accidente de tráfico que le sienta en el banquillo.

La sentencia le llevará a entrenar a un equipo de baloncesto muy especial, formado por personas con discapacidad intelectual. A la vez que pierde su trabajo y se rompe su relación amorosa.

De forma sorpresiva para el propio Marco, él será quien realmente aprenda de su aventura junto a un equipo donde imperan las ganas de vivir y el dar importancia a las cosas que realmente la tienen… CAST JAVIER GUTIÉRREZ Known for: Marshland (La isla mínima) REPARTO The Olive Tree (El Olivo) Assassin’s Creed

As we continued developing the project, we became more and more convinced of something we’d already sensed before: that the characters in the film affected with intellectual disabilities could only be portrayed by “actors” with the same disabilities. For consistency and credibility, and for the enormous capacity these people have to transmit their own particular tender- ness and humor.

They share the stage with the great Javier Gutiérrez, who portrays the coach destined to turn them into a very special basketball team. For us, for Fesser, and JESÚS LAGO SOLÍS ROBERTO SÁNCHEZ for the producers, that is an extraordinarily powerful combination.

Conforme avanzábamos en el desarrollo del proyecto, nos fuimos convenciendo de lo que intuíamos; los personajes con discapacidad intelectual de la película solo puedían ser interpretados por "actores" con dicha discapacidad. Por coherencia, por credibilidad y por la JULIO FERNÁNDEZ JESÚS VIDAL enorme capacidad de transmitir ternura y comicidad que atesoran.

Ellos comparten protagonismo/antagonismo con el gran Javier Gutiérrez, que interpreta al entrenador que les va a convertir en un equipo de baloncesto bien especial. Esa combinación nos parece, a Fesser y a los productores, de una potencia inusual. JOSÉ DE LUNA SERGIO OLMOS STEFAN LÓPEZ ALBERTO NIETO FRAN FUENTE

GLORIA RAMOS ATHENEA MATA JUAN MARGALLO

DANIEL FREIRE LUISA GAVASA LAURA BARBA TECHNICAL DETAILS FICHA TÉCNICA

director JAVIER FESSER director producers LUIS MANSO productores ALVARO LONGORIA

script writers DAVID MARQUÉS guionistas JAVIER FESSER

cinematographer CHECHU GRAF director de fotografía art director JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ director de arte wardrobe design ANA MARTÍNEZ F. figurinista editor JAVIER FESSER montador line producer LUIS FERNÁNDEZ director de producción

length: 100 MINUTES duración: 100 MINUTOS shooting format: DIGITAL 4 K formato de rodaje: language: SPANISH idioma: CASTELLANO JAVIER FESSER - filmography AQUEL RITMILLO EL SECDLETO DE LA TLOMPETA EL MILAGRO DE P. TINTO LA GRAN AVENTURA DE MORTADELO Y FILEMÓN SHORT - 1994 SHORT - 1996 FEATURE - 1998 FEATURE - 2003

28 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 23 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 9 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS CLERMONT-FERRAND GOYA AWARDS GOYA AWARDS Best Narrative Short Film Youth Jury Award Best Production Design Special Mention of the Jury Best First Feature Film (Nominee) FILMFEST DRESDEN Best Editing LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL Best Production Supervision Audience Award Best European Short Film REGENSBURG SHORT FILM WEEK Special Mention Best Make Up & Hairstyles PREMIERS PLANS Audience Award Golden Leopard (Nominee) Best Costume (Nominee) Audience Award Best European Short Film SUNDANCE OFFICIAL SELECTION ALBANY FILMFEST PREMI SANT JORDI DE CINEMATOGRAFIA BIGGEST OPENING IN SPAIN EVER Best Director 1.200.000 VIEWERS IN SPAIN THEATERS 6.000.000 VIEWERS IN SPAIN THEATERS BINTA Y LA GRAN IDEA CAMINO MORTADELO Y FILEMÓN VS JIMMY EL CACHONDO BIENVENIDOS SHORT - 2005 FEATURE - 2008 ANIMATION - 2014 SHORT - 2014

102 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 29 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 800.000 VIEWERS IN SPAIN THEATERS 67 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS 79th GOYA AWARDS GOYA AWARDS ALCALÁ DE HENARES SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Nominee Best Live Action Short Best Film Best Animation Feature Film ‘Diario de Alcalá’ Audience Award Best Director Best Adapted Screenplay ALCALÁ DE HENARES SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Best Original Screenplay Best Original Song (Nominee) Best Short Film BURBANK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Best Actress / Best Supporting Actor / Best New Actress Best Production Design (Nominee) Best Foreign Short CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FF Best Production Supervision (Nominee) Montgomery Prize SAN SEBASTIAN INT’L FILM FESTIVAL Best Sound (Nominee) WOODSTOCK FILM FESTIVAL Best Short Narrative DIXIE FILM FESTIVAL PREMIS GAUDÍ Best Foreign Film PREMIS GAUDÍ Best Animation Film RIVER’S EDGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Best European Film Best of the Fest PELÍCULAS PENDELTON

Películas Pendelton, founded in 1992, is a Spanish film production company alternating multi-awarded publicity activity with film produc- tion: from award-winning films, such as Camino, with 6 Goyas, or Oscar-nominated short Binta y la gran idea, to one of the highest blockbuster Spanish films in history: La gran aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón; from decidedly Spanish productions such as El milagro de P.Tinto or Cándida, to movies filmed on five continents, such as Real, co-produced with Real Madrid. The latest feature-length work, Mortadelo y Filemon contra Jimmy el Cachondo (2014), was awarded a Goya for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. MORENA FILMS

MORENA FILMS is an independent production house based in Madrid with branches in Paris and Los Angeles. The company was founded in 1999 with the objective of producing innovative, high-quality content aimed specifically at the international market. Since then, the company has produced more than 40 feature films, documentaries and TV series with international talent such as: Steven Soderbergh, , , Laurent Cantet, , , Iciar Bollain, Vincent Cassel, Ricardo Darín, Gael García Bernal, Josh Hartnett, Penélope Cruz, Gerard Depar- dieu, Diane Kruger, Paul Laverty and many others.

Morena´s productions have participated in the most prestigious film festivals and have garnered both national and international awards and recogni- tion. They include Even the Rain (Iciar Bollain, 2010), which was nominated at Toronto Film Festival, won the People’s Choice award at Berlinale, represented Spain at the Oscars (2011) and received the Silver Ariel for best Latin American film, as well as three Goya Awards in 2011; Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón, 2009), nominated for 16 Goya Awards in 2010, winning eight including Best Film; Sons of the Clouds (Alvaro Longoria, 2012), a documentary on the Saharan conflict, produced and presented by Javier Bardem, was awarded the Goya Award for Best Documentary in 2013, and was selected by major film festivals like Berlinale, San Sebastián, Havana, Moscow and Toronto and Che: Part I and Che: Part II (Steven Soderbergh, 2008), the two films that tell the life of Che Guevara, for which Benicio del Toro won Best Male Actor at Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

In 2016, Morena released Finding Altamira (by Hugh Hudson and starring ), To Steal from a Thief (by Daniel Calparsoro and starring ) and The Olive Tree (by Iciar Bollain). Projects in post-production to premiere in 2017 include Submergence, directed by Wim Wenders starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander and Curro Velázquez’s Que baje Dios y lo vea.