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.

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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Estíbaliz Urresola
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intervista: Álvaro Gago
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intervista: Elena Trapé
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intervista: Félix Viscarret
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intervista: Pablo Maqueda
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Also competing for the Biznaga awards is Mario Hernández, debut director of Tregua(S) [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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Other Spanish films to be screened in Malaga include Killing Crabs [+leggi anche:
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And Málaga Premiere will feature Asedio [+leggi anche:
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scheda film], by Ana Murugarren; as well as Esperando a Dalí, by David Pujol, a special screening in the Cinema Cocina section.