The 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival will welcome the stars and professionals of Spanish and Latin American cinema from 1 to 10 March. For example, its official competition section will include 19 feature films (eleven Spanish and eight Latin American), with an additional 18 (fifteen Spanish and three Latin American) in the non-competitive official section. In total, the festival will screen almost 250 titles.

As announced previously, the Chinese-Spanish co-production Dragonkeeper [+lire aussi :
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interview : Salvador Simó
fiche film], directed by Salvador Simó and Li Jianping, an animated film for the whole family, will open the festival. And the official competition section will also include El hombre bueno [+lire aussi :
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The same competition section will also include Nina [+lire aussi :
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interview : Sonia Méndez
fiche film], by the new Galician filmmaker Sonia Méndez, supported by Pedro Hernández (Aquí y Allí Films); We Treat Women Too Well [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by the directorial newcomer (until now a costume designer) Clara Bilbao, with Carmen Machi and Antonio de la Torre heading the cast; La casa [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a return to directing by producer Antonio Chavarrías, who competed at Berlinale in 2012 with his penultimate work Childish Games [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a road movie by Catalan Pau Durà; and Un hipster en la España vacía, a rural comedy by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (creator of the box office hit Spanish Affair [+lire aussi :
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Alongside these Spanish films, the Latin American films Yana-Wara, by Óscar Catacora (his posthumous work) and Tito Catacora, a film from Peru; the Mexican productions Lluvia, by Rodrigo García Saiz, and Radical, by Christopher Zalla, will compete for the two Golden Biznagas awarded at this event; La mujer salvaje by Alán González (Cuba); Golán by Orlando Culzat (Colombia); Rest in Peace by Sebastián Borensztein (Argentina); and Los terrenos by Verónica Chen and Naufragios by Vanina Spataro, both produced between neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay.

Also, in the official out-of-competition section, the closing comedy La familia Benetón, by Joaquín Mazón (De perdidos a Río [+lire aussi :
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interview : Miguel Faus
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fiche film], by David Galán Galindo; El molino, by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas; Historias, by Paco Sepúlveda; La bandera, by Martín Cuervo;  Yo no soy esa, by María Ripoll; Por tus muertos, by Sayago Ayuso; and Solos en la noche, by Guillermo Rojas, about the coup d'état of 23 February 1981.

Finally, in the Zonazine section, dedicated to more radical cinema, the recently premiered films at the Berlinale The Undergrowth [+lire aussi :
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interview : Macu Machín
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fiche film], by Ingrid Pokropek, presented in Forum and Generation respectively, as well as Tale of Shepherds [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jaime Puertas Castillo
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The festival will also host its usual industry section MAFIZ (Málaga Festival Industry Zone), the details of which we will disclose shortly.