Malaga’s Spanish Screenings: A Drill Down on Titles

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“Ainarak,” (“Swallows,” Maluta Films, 601 Prods.Audiovisuales)Directed by Juan San Martín and starring singer-songwriter Anne Etchegoyen, the documentary follows the annual diaspora from 1870 to 1940 of hundreds of women from Navarre and Aragon to Mauléon in the French Pyrenees, where they worked from fall to spring making canvas shoes.

First presented at Conecta Fiction in 2021. “Beach House,” (Zabriskie Films, Spain)Hector H. Vicens, co-director of the genre-twisting “The Corpse of Anna Fritz,” which caught some heat at 2016’s SXSW, is back with a reportedly acerbic beach-set young adult comedy which lifts off as a thriller.

Carles Torras, director of Malaga winner “Callback,” produces.“The Buried World,” (“La palabra maldita,” Javier Solís, Troppomedia)A doc feature turning on suicide, its stigma, stereotypes and prevention.“Cosmic Chant, Niño de Elche,” (“Canto cósmico, niño de Elche,” Señor y Señora)A feature-length documentary from directors Leire Apellaniz y Marc Sempere-Moya about revolutionary flamenco dancer Niño de Elche.

Produced by award-winning firm Señor y Señora.“The Empty Walls,” (“Los muros vacíos,” Albella Audiovisual)Documentary duo Isabel Soria and José Manuel Herraiz’s follow-up to their RTVE-aired “The Spanish Skies” taking on the preservation of historical medieval artwork across Spain.