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10 Standout Titles From the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Main Competition
Huelva's competition lineup is loaded with Spanish premieres this year, so we've picked 10 that attendees should make an extra effort not to miss.
The latest from López Amado, a director on big Spanish TV series such as “El Principe” and “The Time In Between,” plus notable films from upscale supernatural thriller “Nos Miran” (2002), his first feature, to prized doc-feature “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?” (2010). A brutal coming-of-age tale, the fruit of a decade-long research by first fiction director Brennand, “Manas” turns on Tielle, 13, who lives in an Amazonian forest, suffers sexual abuse at home, and determines that her little sister will escape a similar fate. Dina, 16, falls pregnant in her staunchly patriarchal home mining town of La Lágrima, prompting her to attempt to flee across its surrounding desert, perhaps with sister Sariri, 11, who has just had her first menstruation, which locals deem malignant.
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