Spanish Juan Antonio Bayona Leading the participation of Spaniards at the 80th Venice Film FestivalWith the presentation of the closing film, which will be held between 30 August and 9 September, “Snow Community”It tells the story of survivors of a plane crash in the Andes in 1972.
Bayonne movie under Netflix umbrella This will be the first Spanish production to complete the Venice competitionAs confirmed by the director of “Impossible” (2012) and “Un Monstruo Viene a Verme” (2016), which shot the film between the mountains of Granada, Chile and Uruguay last July.
Oscar-winning film, although not Spanish, in the Golden Lion competition Penelope Cruz Targets Volpi Cup for best female player The Madrid actress’s participation in Mostra is not guaranteed, as she is one of the protagonists of “Ferrari”, the biopic about Enzo Ferrari directed by Michael Mann.
On the other hand, intermittent and versatile Jordi Mollá surprises with two films in this Mostra: an experimental non-competition project titled “Aggro Dr1ft” directed by Harmony Korine, and Horizontes Extra in the parallel episode, “Pet Shop Days” by Elm Schnabel .
“Aggro Dr1ft” is the first project to emerge from Edglrd, a studio created by Korine to produce video games and experimental films. Mollá appears as the protagonist alongside American rapper Travis Scott.
The story is about a hitman looking for his next target in Miami’s seedy underworld; however, according to Korine, this is not a movie, but something “after the movie”, “more like a video game”, combining animation and entertainment. artificial intelligence technology.
“Pet Shop Days”, on the other hand, marks the debut of Julian Schnabel’s son. Romantic drama set in New York The cast includes Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, as well as Mollá and Maribel Verdú.
In the second most important episode, Horizontes, poet Rafael Alberti and writer María Teresa León’s granddaughter Marina Alberti will present the short “Aitana” that focuses on the memories of her mother, which is remembered and engraved in the memory of the country. a whole century.
Dedicated to the eccentric French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, the memorial will also feature a Spanish stamp. salvador dali. Cast by Anais Demoustier and Gilles Lellouche, the film “Daaaaaali” is about a journalist and an artist from Figueres (Girona) meeting to shoot a documentary.
Like the extended version of the documentary “Frente al Guernica” commissioned by the Museo Reina Sofia to enrich the documentation of Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, this work will be out of the competition.
Basque Víctor Uriarte will make his debut with “Sobre todo de noche” at Jornadas de los Autores, a parallel and independent event of Mostra. Thriller starring Lola Dueñas and Ana Torrent A story where the paths of three characters, a mother, a son, and an adoptive mother, cross paths.