10 Standout Titles From the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Main Competition

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“Bionico’s Bachata” (Yoel Morales, Dominican Republic) The film which won Morales, production house Mentes Fritas and producer and co-writer Cristián Monica a South by Southwest 2024 Audience Award.

A mockumentary, shot in a box format, Biónico, an equally hopeless romantic and crack addict, battles to clean up his act and make some cash before his fiancée arrives back from rehab.

A “romantic story in a hostile Caribbean city” about a “serious topic but handled via the absurd and dark comedy that we have in our culture,” Morales has told Variety. “El Cuento del Lobo” (Norberto López Amado, Spain) The latest from López Amado, a director on big Spanish TV series such as “El Principe” and “The Time In Between,” plus notable films from upscale supernatural thriller “Nos Miran” (2002), his first feature, to prized doc-feature “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr.

Foster?” (2010). Here, Daniel Grao (“Julieta”) and Lucía Jiménez (“Desaparecidos”) play a middle-class couple who step in when the girl who comes to clean her house begins to receive threats.