The REC Tarragona International Film Festival is a gathering centring on new creations and the promotion of emerging talent, which will take place from 4-8 December in the city of Tarragona, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Every year, through its internationally orientated Feature Debut competition, boasting debut works by emerging creators, as well as its parallel sections, it establishes itself as a valuable showcase for current trends in cinema.

Standing out in the main section are pictures hailing from the most recent Cannes Film Festival, such as France’s Queens of Drama [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jonathan Millet
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interview : Agathe Riedinger
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interview : Kostis Charamountanis
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interview : Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
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Also locking horns in this strand are the USA’s No Sleep Till [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alexandra Simpson
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interview : Akinmuyiwa Bisola, Okechuk…
fiche film] by Nigerian collective Agbajowo, which was presented in the Centrepiece section of Toronto; and Skin in Spring by Colombia’s Yennifer Uribe, first presented in the Horizontes Latinos section of San Sebastián.

Furthermore, standing out particularly in the festival’s programme is the section dubbed Xiuxiuejos (Shared Intimacies), hinging on the ways in which we represent ourselves when alluding to our private lives and those of the people around us. This features works by the Vigília Collective (their debut, The Imminent Age), Klaudia Reynicke (the co-production Reinas [+lire aussi :
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interview : Klaudia Reynicke
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fiche film], which picked up the FIPRESCI Award in the Berlinale competition).

In the Vermut sessions, audiences will be able to enjoy three stand-out Spanish titles from this season: the animated flick Rock Bottom [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pilar Palomero
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Last but not least, shining bright among the festival’s special screenings are The Quiet Maid [+lire aussi :
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interview : Miguel Faus
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interview : Anton Alvarez
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interview : Alain Guiraudie
fiche film] by France’s Alain Guiraudie (Golden Spike at the Seminci); and the hard-hitting Salve Maria [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mar Coll
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