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San Sebastian Unveils Spanish Titles, Led by an Ester Expósito Chiller, New Pics From Albert Serra, Iciar Bollaín, Pilar Palomero
Pics from Iciar Bollaín, Albert Serra, Pilar Palomero and Pedro Martín-Calero make San Sebastian’s main competition cut.
A Special Screening, “The Red Virgin” (aka “Hildegart”) is directed by Paula Ortiz, who helmed “Across the River and Into the Trees” with Josh Husherton and Liev Shreiber, who returns to Spanish filmmaking with a real events inspired drama which will debut in theaters across Spain on Sept. 27 as the first Prime Video original to get a wide theatrical release in the country. Spanish titles’ competition presence is currently rounded up by “Tardes de Soledad” “The Wailing”(“El Llanto”, toplining Ester Expósito, one of the stars of Netflix global hit “Elite,” and co-written by Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s regular co-scribe Isabel Peña (“The Beasts”). Lead produced by on-the-rise Madrid production house Caballo Films(“The Beasts,” “La ruta”), and the feature debut of Martín Calero, whose work to date includes Weeknd pop video “Secrets,” commercials – the vertigo-inducing Honda Civic –Up spot, for instance – or fiction vignettes, such as “Julius Cesar.”
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