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Malaga’s Spanish Screenings Host 222 Titles, Underscore Industry Drivers: NextGen Talent, Animation, the Rise of Spain’s Regions

Co-production, ecological and gender issues thread various titles while many turn on gender dynamics

Directorial first features take in Jaime Puertas Castillo’s “Tale of Shepherds,” charting not only the physical but mental landscape of fast-disappearing rural Spain; Coré Ruiz’s dysfunctional family drama “I Gonna Disappear” and “We Treat Women Too Well,” from Clara Bilbao, responsible for the “knock-your-socks-off memorable costume design” – Variety’s phrase – of “Sunday’s Illness.” 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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