09/03/2023 - Between 10 and 19 March, the Andalusian city gets all dressed up to welcome 232 new titles, both feature films and short films and series, from Spain and Latin America

The 26th Malaga Film Festival will be held from 10 to 19 March with a programme featuring more than 230 projects in all its sections (fiction feature films, documentaries, short films and series), plus a wide range of activities for all audiences. The Malaga event will once again become a meeting point for Spanish-language audiovisuals with its Industry Zone: MAFIZ (Málaga Festival Industry Zone), growing year-on-year.

The event will showcase films that will be shown in Spanish cinemas in the upcoming months. The Official Section will include the debut of the writer Elvira Lindo Alguien que cuide de mí [+see also:
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Also competing for the Biznaga awards is Mario Hernández, debut director of Tregua(S) [+see also:
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The Ibero-American films in the official section will include filmmakers José Luis Rugeles, with the Colombian-Argentine-US production Rebelión; Haroldo Borges and the Brazilian film Saudade fez morada aqui dentro; Carlos Eichekmann Kaiser, who will bring Zapatos rojos (Mexico); Pablo Solarz, competing with Desperté con un sueño (Uruguay/Argentina); Kattia G. Zúñiga with Las hijas (Panama/Chile); Glorimar Marrero Sánchez, who will attempt to repeat her Sundance success with The Fishbowl [+see also:
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Other Spanish films to be screened in Malaga include Killing Crabs [+see also:
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And Málaga Premiere will feature Asedio [+see also:
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film profile], by Ana Murugarren; as well as Esperando a Dalí, by David Pujol, a special screening in the Cinema Cocina section.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)