A. Prequel to ‘The Hunger Games’ And new Ken Loach, ‘Old Oak’headlines movie premieres this weekend and discovers Malena Alterio in her first leading role in the adaptation of Juan José Millás’ “Nobody Sleeps.”
Additionally, Carlota Pereda’s second feature film, the supernatural drama ‘La Ermita’ starring Seminci award winner Belén Rueda, ‘La imatge Permanent’ and the animated film ‘El Sueño de la Sultana’ will also be released.
‘The Hunger Games’ without Jennifer Lawrence
‘The Hunger Games: A Song of Songbirds and Snakes’ The prequel to the famous dystopian trilogy by Suzanne Collins and the fifth film in the saga. Set in a post-apocalyptic Panem, the film predates the beginning of Katniss Everdeen’s adventures by several decades.
The story, which does not include Jennifer Lawrence in the cast, focuses on the characters of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), an ambitious young man who will become the cruel leader of Panem, and Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), who comes from the districts to join. in games. The cast also includes Hunter Schafer, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.
Ken Loach and the Syrian refugee crisis
Ken Loach, who twice won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his films ‘The Wind That Rocked the Barley’ (2006) and ‘I, Daniel Blake’ (2016), once again has screenwriter Paul. Laverty is in his new movie ‘The Old Oak Tree’, starring Debbie Honeywood, Ebla Mari and Dave Turner.
The movie is spinningAround the last remaining pub in a town in north-east EnglandIt is abandoned after the mines are closed. The fact that the houses are cheap and available makes this an ideal place for Syrian refugees.
Malena Alterio lends her face to Millás’ literary universe
Antonio Méndez Esparza, the director of the movie ‘Life and Nothing More’, relied on Malena Alterio, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and a group of non-professional actors. Adaptation of Juan José Millás’ novel ‘Let No One Sleep’.
After losing her job as a computer programmer, Lucía (Alterio) decides to change her life by starting to work as a taxi driver, and as she walks the streets of Madrid in search of love and new adventures, she eventually embarks on an adventure of revenge. his own story against those who robbed him.
Belén Rueda, ‘A bitter environment in La ermita’
Belén Rueda portrays a bitter and lonely environment in ‘La Ermita’, the second feature film by Carlota Pereda, director of ‘Cerdita’ (2022). Emphasizes mother-child relationships.
Emma (Maia Zaitegi) is an eight-year-old girl who wants to learn to communicate with the spirit of another girl who has been trapped in her town’s hermitage for centuries and tries to convince the incredulous Carol (Rueda). I taught him to talk to ghosts.
Eli Roth created panic with ‘Black Friday’
Eli Roth, a director specializing in horror, the writer of films such as ‘Hostel’ and ‘Cabin Fever’ and the producer of ‘Grindhouse’ directed by Robert Rodríguez and Quentin Tarantino, is presenting a new film set with Patrick Dempsey on Thanksgiving. as the protagonist.
Inspired by the Thanksgiving holiday, a mysterious killer is terrorizing Plymouth, Massachusetts, killing residents one by one in a bloodbath that combines humor and terror.
‘Permanent image’, Seminci’s Golden Ear
‘La imatge Permanent’ is the first feature film of Laura Ferrés (Barcelona, 1989), which won the Golden Spike award in Seminci.
The film explores the absence and connections of women who migrated from Andalusia to Catalonia through the story of Carmen, an advertising photographer who befriends a street vendor.
‘The Sultan’s Dream’ feminist animated tale
At the beginning of the last century, Indian writer Begum Rokeya wrote a utopian-feminist narrative about women exercising power over men who were intellectually inferior and devoted to household chores.
The story gives its name to this animated film directed by Isabel Herguera, who follows the steps of a young Basque woman who discovered this story and decides to look for traces of that utopian country and author in India.
John Malkovich replaces Seneca
John Malkovich steps into Seneca’s shoes in this historical drama directed by German Robert Schwentke, focusing on the Stoic philosopher’s last days and his relationship with Emperor Nero.
Geraldine Chaplin is also in the cast of the film, whose director presents the danger of excessive power and totalitarian systems as an analogy.
Marc Recha’s thriller ‘Wild Road’
Catalan filmmaker Marc Recha takes the audience to the Catalan Pyrenees in this thriller where his heroes are trapped with no power to wonder what we would do if the people we love most were in grave danger and we could do nothing to save them. to escape.
Ona (Montse Germán), who has worked as a gardener in luxury estates for ten years, is about to turn 50 and wants to quit her job to devote herself to piloting a tourist plane. But the arrival of strangers brings his past to the surface and changes his life.
Aura Garrido, a painful meeting with the past
Almería filmmaker Juan Francisco Viruega makes his debut with “Amanece,” an intimate story full of autobiographical fragments that speaks of reconciliation and reunion and is described by its director as a physical and emotional journey towards love and forgiveness.
Alba (Aura Garrido) returns to her hometown after a romantic breakup. There she meets her sister Candela again. The duo will heal their childhood wounds and accompany their sick mother in her final days.
The challenging ballet world of the 70s ‘Only dance remains’
Israeli Dana Nechushtan directs this drama, based on the life of Olga de Haas, part of the Dutch National Ballet, about two dancers trying to survive in the tough and ambitious ballet world of the 70s.
’21 Paradise’ is an erotic drama consisting of 21 sequenced shots
Néstor Ruiz Medina raises a reflection on sexuality and intimacy as a couple in this erotic drama played out in 21 moments and sequences, starring María Lázaro and Fernando Barona, who give life to a couple dedicated to amateur porn.
‘Heaven’s heartbeat’, religious cinema
‘Heartbeat of Heaven’, directed by Borja and José María Zavala, tells the story of the “Miracles of the Eucharist”, which Italian blessed Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, investigated in many countries. The film was shot in locations such as the Sanctuaries of Lanciano (Italy) and Legnica (Poland).
‘With you, with you and without me’ is an autobiographical documentary
Amaya Villar Navascués’ directorial debut is a documentary that combines real footage with animation to examine the four love affairs that marked her life over the course of two decades.