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 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Elena Trapé
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interview : Pablo Maqueda
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Also competing for the Biznaga awards is Mario Hernández, debut director of Tregua(S) [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mario Hernández
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interview : Burnin’ Percebes
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fiche film], which was screened at last year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival; and Paz Jiménez Díaz, director of Como Dios manda, which will be the festival’s closing feature film, out of competition.

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 [+lire aussi :
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Other Spanish films to be screened in Malaga include Killing Crabs [+lire aussi :
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And Málaga Premiere will feature Asedio [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by Ana Murugarren; as well as Esperando a Dalí, by David Pujol, a special screening in the Cinema Cocina section.