15/02/2024 - The Irish filmmaker is currently shooting Re-creation, starring Vicky Krieps, and the Basque director will soon orchestrate 8, with Javier Rey and Ana Rujas

Actress Vicky Krieps, who will star in Jim Sheridan's new film Re-creation (© Fabrizio de Gennaro/Cineuropa)

The Spanish agency Latido Films will start to manage the international (pre-)sales of Re-creation at the European Film Market  of the 74th Berlinale (15-25 February). A co-production between Ireland and Luxembourg by the companies Hell's Kitchen and Joli Rideau Media, it is directed and written by Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father and In America, among others) and David Merriman, and stars Vicky Krieps (seen last year in Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert [+see also:
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Another eagerly awaited title from the line-up of this Madrid-based company that is coming to Berlin is 8, the next film by Julio Medem, which marks the return of the director of iconic Spanish films such as The Red Squirrel and Lovers of the Arctic Circle and whose filming begins at the beginning of March. Produced by Eidan Produce, Morena Films and Quexito Films and starring Javier Rey (Unknown Origins [+see also:
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Two Spanish films that will premiere at the upcoming Malaga Film Festival are also part of Latido Films' line-up in Berlin: Little Loves [+see also:
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interview: Celia Rico Clavellino
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interview: Isaki Lacuesta
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interview: Isaki Lacuesta
film profile], and selected for the Berlinale competition with his latest One Year, One Night [+see also:
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The sales company headed by Antonio Saura also manages three fruitful film partnerships between Ibero-America and Europe: the Spain-Argentina co-production Lo que quisimos ser (What We Wanted to Be), a dramatic comedy by Alejandro Agresti (Valentín [+see also:
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film profile], the American La casa del lago); Aire: Just Breathe, a futuristic dystopia produced between Spain and the Dominican Republic by Leticia Tonos Paniagua that was at the IFFR; and the political thriller Justicia artificial (Artificial Justice) (Portugal/Spain), directed by Galician Simón Casal (Dirty Wolves [+see also:
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Other titles in this line-up include Summer in Red [+see also:
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interview: Hugo Ruiz
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(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)