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Isaki Lacuesta, David Trueba, Antonio Chavarrías Make Malaga Main Competition Cut
Bowing with ‘Dragonkeeper,’ Malaga’s main competition features latest films from David Trueba, Isaki Lacuesta, Antonio Chavarrías and Sebastián Borenzstein.
Set in the Han Dynasty, young servant girl Ping’s fantasy adventure which is based on weighty IP – the first title in the best-selling trilogy of Carole Wilkinson – and produced by Movistar Plus+, Atresmedia Cine (“Klaus”) and China Film Animation. From Spanish giallo “Una ombra en el jardín” (1989) to immigrant-junkie drama “Susanna” (1996) from brother from hell imbroglio “Volverás” (2002) through procedural “Las vidas de Celia” (2005) and Trotsky assassination thriller “The Chosen” (2016), Chavarrías has directed a huge gamut of open arthouse films enrolling in multiple ways a sense of genre. Produced by Arcadia Motion Pictures, on fire after backing Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” Oscar nominated animated feature “Robot Dreams” and Netflix hit “Burning Body.” Rico showed in her debut, “Journey to a Mother’s Room,” selected for San Sebastián’s New Directors, how well she portrays a suddenly evolving mother-daughter relationship.
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