11/05/2023 - The thriller All the Names of God, starring Luis Tosar and Inma Cuesta, leads the Spanish agency's catalogue, which also offers Campeonex, by Javier Fesser

The film crew for All the Names of God [+see also:
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There will also be screenings of Spanish films that screened at the last Malaga Festival: Under Therapy [+see also:
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Another of the star titles in its catalogue is Javier Fesser’s Championext [+see also:
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Also at the Berlinale, in the Generation Kplus section, Longing for the World [+see also:
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Latido also represents Chinas [+see also:
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film profile] who this time portrays the conflicts of the new generations of immigrants in a film starring Pablo Marinero, Leonor Watling and, once again, Carolina Yuste. Another director, Belén Macías, will show snippets of her latest work: Verano en rojo [+see also:
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Other feature films managed by the Madrid agency but still in development include Pablo Hernando’s Una ballena (A Whale), (read more), with Ingrid García-Jonsson and Ramón Barea leading the cast; Saturn Return [+see also:
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Tobacco Barns [+see also:
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(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)