FILMS TV OPERA CINEMA NEWS PRESS News RSS '' LOVING PABLO '' CLOSING THE "PEARLS" SECTION OF THE SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL September 20, 2017 Fernando León de Aranoa, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz will present the film on Saturday 30 at the Velodrome in front of 3,000 spectators after their successful passage through the Venice and Toronto competitions. LOVING PABLO, the long-awaited film by Fernando León de Aranoa starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, will close out of competition the Pearls section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival on Saturday, September 30. '' ERREMENTARI "WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE 65TH SAN SEBASTIÁN FESTIVAL September 19, 2017 Official presentation of the trailer on Wednesday, September 27 at 12:30 pm at Cines Príncipe. Confirmed attendees: Paul Urkijo, Kandido Uranga, Uma Bracaglia, Eneko Sagardoy and Ramón Agirre. '' EL AUTOR '', BY MANUEL MARTÍN CUENCA, RECEIVES THE FIPRESCI AWARD AT THE TIFF, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL September 18, 2017 Martín Cuenca is the first Spanish director to receive this award in the Special Presentations section of the American competition. The film was presented in the Special Presentations section reserved for the most relevant directors of world cinema. Based on “El Móvil”, the first novel by Javier Cercas, the film has Javier Gutiérrez, as the main character, along with María León and Antonio de la Torre, the Mexicans Adriana Paz and Tenoch Huerta and the Malaga-born Adelfa Calvo. The film will hit theaters throughout Spain on November 17 from FILMAX. This afternoon, the International Federation of the Film Press has awarded the FIPRESCI Award to EL AUTOR, the new feature film by Manuel Martín Cuenca , premiered worldwide during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) that concludes today. The announcement was made official during the awards reading that took place in Cinema 1 of the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Although TIFF is not a competitive festival, the public and the press award various awards to the most outstanding films. Thus, the Special Presentations section where THE AUTHOR was presented is subject to evaluation by the demanding international press specialized in film criticism whose jury was chaired by the influential American critic Jonathan Rosenbaum (Artforum, Film Comment and Sight and Sound) who thanked programmers the opportunity to enjoy and choose from a large selection of titles. In this selection, Manuel Martín Cuenca's film has been measured with the latest from Wim Wenders, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Darren Aronofsky, Alexander Payne, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Frears or the directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, among others , which highlights the importance of the award received by the Spanish director's film. It also happens that it is the first time that a Spanish director receives this award in the Special Presentations section of the prestigious Toronto festival , which has already become one of the most relevant film competitions in the world and undoubtedly the main reference in the North American continent. Feng Xiaogang (for I Am Not Madame Bobary), François Ozon (for Dans la maison), Oren Moverman (for Time Out Of Mine), Gianni Amelio (for The First Man), Jonás Cuarón (for Desert) Pawel Pawlikowski (for Ida ), Bruno Dumont (for Hadewijch), Pierre Thoretton (for L'Amour fou) and Steve Jacobs (for Disgrace) are 9 directors who preceded Martín Cuenca as deserving of this award that international critics have awarded at the Toronto Festival since 2008. Martín Cuenca, who feels the event is one of the mentors of his career, has expressed his gratitude for the award : "It was a surprise. I didn't expect it. Toronto has been fundamental in my career as a filmmaker since I was selected the first Once with Half an Oscar in 2010. There have always been joys, but this one has been unexpected and the most beautiful. I am very grateful to the critics jury and, in a very special way, to the Toronto festival that has bet on my previous works and now this movie. Thank you !! " . The Fipresci award is a prestigious endorsement in the presentation race of the film that, after passing through TIFF, will compete in the Official Section of the San Sebastian Festival on Saturday, September 23, being the only Spanish production shot in our language present in the competition. EL AUTOR , which will be released commercially on November 17 , is the filmmaker's fifth fiction feature that has counted on Alejandro Hernández for the adaptation of “El Móvil”, the novel by Javier Cercas on which it is inspired. With Javier Gutiérrez as the protagonist, the film recreates the internal conflicts of a budding novelist who, obsessed with writing, will turn his closest reality into fiction. "Álvaro" will start a path of no return that will lead him to manipulate those around him. María León, Antonio de la Torre and the renowned Mexican actors Adriana Paz and Tenoch Huerta (winners of two Ariel awards) surround Javier Gutiérrez in a cast that is completed by numerous Andalusian actors, among which the Malaga-born Adelfa Calvo and the Sevillian Rafael Tellez . "El Móvil", Javier Cercas' first novel published in 1987 within a collection of five short stories, has served as the basis for the process of creating the screenplay by Martín Cuenca and Hernández in which the original spirit of the artist has always been present. Author. "What matters is not knowing whether Álvaro has become a great writer or not, what matters is his effort, his obsession to raise the word and materialize it." - Martin Cuenca points out. The film, whose filming took place in different locations in Seville, a city that infuses history with its essence, is produced by ICÓNICA, LAZONA and LA LOMA BLANCA PC. in co-production with the Mexican ALEBRIJE, CINE Y VIDEO and has the support of the ICAA, the Junta de Andalucía, Televisión Española and Canal Sur. “ERREMENTARI” INAUGURARÁ EL 28 DE OCTUBRE LA 28ª SEMANA DE CINE FANTÁSTICO Y DE TERROR 14 de septiembre de 2017 El sábado 28 de octubre se inaugurará en el Teatro Principal la 28ª Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de San Sebastián con la proyección de ERREMENTARI (2017), dirigida por el cineasta vitoriano Paul Urkijo Alijo. El pase supondrá el estreno del film en Euskadi tras su paso por el Festival de Sitges. PREMIER MUNDIAL DE ''EL AUTOR'' DURANTE EL XIV FESTIVAL DE CINE EUROPEO DE SEVILLA 8 de septiembre de 2017 La premier mundial de EL AUTOR de Manuel Martín Cuenca, con Javier Gutiérrez, Antonio de la Torre y María León, y ‘Bajo la piel de Lobo’ de Samu Fuentes, protagonizada por Mario Casas, Irene Escolar y Ruth Díaz, podrán verse en sendos pases especiales. FILMAX DISTRIBUYE 3 PELÍCULAS QUE FORMARÁN PARTE DE LA PROGRAMACIÓN DE LA 65ª EDICIÓN DEL FESTIVAL DE SAN SEBASTIÁN 28 de julio de 2017 OPERACIÓN CONCHA en el VELÓDROMO, EL AUTOR en la SECCIÓN OFICIAL a COMPETICIÓN y LOVING PABLO en las PERLAS. 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