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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent LOCARNO, Switzerland — Two affecting doc-fiction hybrids from Barcelona – “Dream of Another Summer” and “Downriver, a Tiger”– triumphed Sunday at Locarno’s First Look pix-in-post strand, focused on Spain. In other awards announced by Locarno Pro, the festival’s dynamic industry arm, Liliana Cavani’s 1970 “The Year of the Cannibals” won Locarno Pro’s Historical Restoration Contest. Laureates at European co-production initiative Alliance 4 Development took in, notably, “Bourgeois Paranoia” by Lukas Nathrath, a former Locarno First Look winner.

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Los Bunkers Board ‘The Last Witness,’ About Luis Poirot, a ‘Symbol of Latin American Front Line Photography’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Chile’s Los Bunkers, one of the most admired of Latin America’s rock bands, has signed on to score “The Last Witness” (“El Ultimo Testigo”), a doc feature portrait of Luis Poirot, a Chilean photographer who has snapped many key events and figures in the country’s history from Salvador Allende to the estallido outburst of social protests in 2019, and beyond. Some of Poirot’s earliest photos, all black and white, capture Allende on his successful 1959 presidential campaign trail, Poirot appointed its official photographer.

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Mar Coll’s Locarno Title ‘Salve Maria’ Pictures a Mother Who Fears Her Own Monstrosity

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent A founding mother of the Newest Catalan Cinema, Mar Coll, throughout a now 20 year career, has consistently questioned established thought, whether Catalan upper middle-class hypocrisy and emotional paralysis (“Three Days With the Family”), the comic patriarchy of paternal narcissism (“Matar al Padre”) and the superiority of Scandinavian social models (“The Is Not Sweden”). In “Salve Maria,” which world premieres in main international competition at Locarno, Coll questions a taboo, even for many in 2024: Whether all women are cut out for motherhood.

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Locarno’s Match Me! Projects Feature Steven Bauer, Alba Flores, Alfredo Castro, ‘Flow’ Co-Writer

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Spangled by stars – Steven Bauer in “My Uncle’s Movie,” Alba Flores in “The Shepherdess,” Larraín regular Alfredo Castro in “Dog Legs,” – the projects brought to Locarno’s networking confab Match Me! underscores the wealth of riches offered by emerging non-English language filmmakers from around the world. Featuring slates from 36 producers, this year’s lineup also takes in next titles from Matīss Kaža, co-writer of Gints Zilbalodis’ Cannes hit and Annecy multiple winner “Flow,” and Chile’s Oro Films, France’s Wrong Films and the Dominican Republic’s Mentes Fritas Film Production, who backed respectively Argentine genre auteur standout “To Kill the Beast,” Sundance Sundance Jury Prize winner “Animalia” and SXSW Audience Award laureate “Bionico’s Bachata.” A quick take on 2024’s Match Me! also underscores how how a global arthouse sector is increasingly – and excitingly – ever more mixing it up. That cuts multiple ways.

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Paz Vega’s Directorial Debut ‘Rita’ Re-Creates a Blissful, Then Blighted Childhood in 1984 Seville

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Write about what you know, the old adage runs. In “Rita,” her debut as a writer-director-producer, Spain’s Paz Vega has certainly taken that to heart. Years before breaking out with 2001’s “Sex and Lucia,” then starring opposite Adam Sandler in 2004’s “Spanglish,” Vega grew up in Triana, a district of Seville, in Spain’s Andalusia.

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‘The Tourist’s’ Ólafur Darri, ‘See’s’ Hera Hilmar to Star in ‘Reykjavik Fusion,’ from ACT 4, Wild Sheep Content, Arte (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Internationally celebrated Icelandic actors Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and Hera Hilmar are set to star in “Reykjavik Fusion,” an Iceland-set crime thriller series that is rapidly racking up pre-sales in multiple territories. The series’ deals underscore an increasingly attractive financing model, at least for selectively produced foreign-language shows, based on tying down partners and pre-sales among local broadcasters in Europe rather than waiting for a U.S.

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Cornelius Boards Lantica Studio’s ‘My Uncle’s Movie,’ With ‘Better Call Saul’s’ Steven Bauer, Dominican Newcomer Maia Otero (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In a sterling example of the globalized nature of the international film business, Barcelona-based Cornelius Films, behind Basque Country-set “Negu Herbilak” and buzzy upcoming stop-motion feature “Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake,” has boarded “My Uncle’s Movie,” a Dominican Republic feature starring “Better Call Saul’s” Steve Bauer. Now in pre-production and set to shoot in 2024, ““My Uncle’s Movie” (“La Película de Mi Tío”) marks the follow-up of Dominican Natalia Cabral and Catalan Oriol Estrada’s auspicious fiction feature debut “Miriam Lies” (2018) and multi-prized “Una Película Sobre Parejas” (2021).

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Cande Lázaro’s ‘The Shepherdess,’ Resurrecting Famed Spanish Maqui Florenci Pla, Casts ‘Money Heist’s’ Alba Flores (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Alba Flores, Nairobi in “Money Heist,” and Spanish Academy Goya new actor nominees La Dani and Julio Hu Chen, are attached to star in Cande Lázaro’s “The Shepherdess,” a potential standout at this year’s Locarno Match Me! co-production forum. Flores also starred as Saray Vargas in women’s penitentiary-set international breakout “Locked Up.” La Dani, a non-binary singer and now actor, won his 2024 Goya nomination for “Love & Revolution,” well received by critics; Spaniard Hu Chen’s nomination at the same Goya awards came for “Chinas,” where his role and performance bucked stock stereotypes of Chinese immigrants in Spain.

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MoreThan Films Secures Locarno Title ‘Listen to the Voices,’ About the Wonder and Violence of French Guiana (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Spain’s MoreThan Films has secured international sales rights outside France to “Listen to the Voices” (“Kouté vwa”), from Brussels/Paris based Maxime Jean-Baptiste, in the run-up to August’s Locarno Film Festival where the film world premieres in Filmmakers of the Present. Jean-Baptiste’s feature debut, the fiction film tracks young Melrick, 13, who travels from Stains in the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris to spend with his grandmother the summer holiday in Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana. For Melrick, the summer may well mark him for life.

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Iciar Bollaín’s San Sebastián Entry ‘I Am Nevenka,’ About a Pioneering Spanish Sexual Harassment Case, Gets a Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent One of the most awaited of Spanish films in this year’s San Sebastian main competition, Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” has a trailer, shared in exclusivity with Variety. Written with Isa Campo, a co-scribe on two San Sebastian Golden Shell winners, 2011’s “The Double Steps” and 2018’s “Between Two Waters,” and sold by Film Factory Entertainment, “I Am Nevenka” is inspired by true events: the case of Nevenka Fernández, a member of the Ponferrada City Council who in 2001 became the first woman in Spain to win a court case for sexual harassment against a high-ranking politician – her ex boyfriend and all-powerful Ponferrada mayor Ismael Alvárez. She won, however, at a price, fighting her case almost on her own, in the face of the opposition of most of her colleagues and branded a social climber by the media, or a whore.

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SkyShowtime Unveils ‘Shades,’ Its Second Locally Commissioned Original in Spain, with Maxi Iglesias, Enrique Arce (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SkyShowtime confirmed Friday that production in underway on “Shades” (“Matices”), its new original series in Spain, made in collaboration with Secouya Studios and Stellarmedia and featuring a Spanish star cast renown internationally from involvement in big Spanish series and movies. Shooting in Zamora, Madrid and the Canary Islands, the new series stars Maxi Iglesias (“Valeria”), Enrique Arce (“Money Heist”), Hovik Keuchkerian (“Reina Roja”) and Juana Acosta (“La templanza”) Also starring are Fariba Sheikhan (“The Unit”), Miriam Giovanelli (“Nacho”), Eusebio Poncela (“Merlí.

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The Mediapro Studio Acquires Fresco Film, ’Game of Thrones’ Production Services Provider in Spain

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In another expansive move, The Mediapro Studio, the content arm of Grup Mediapro, has acquired Fresco Film, the doyen of Spanish production service companies. Headed by Peter Welter, Fresco became an industry legend bringing “Game of Thrones” to Spain for Season 5, prompting Spain to introduce incentives for foreign shoots in early 2015 partly to encourage HBO to return for the rest of the series.

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‘Wild Woman’s’ Lola Amores to Star in ‘Her Lightness,’ Which ‘Opens an Historical Gap’ in a Cuban Cinema Mostly Made by Men (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Cuba’s Lola Amores, star of fest hits “Wild Woman,” “Miki Maniaco” and “Santa & Andrés,” will topline “Her Lightness,” the feature debut of compatriot Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo who “opens up an historical gap in the midst of a cinematography made mostly by me in Cuba,” producers Martha Orozco and Cristina Gallego told Variety. Also produced by Armando Capó, Rodríguez’s partner in life and at Cuba’s GatoRosafilms, “Her Lightness” (“La Levedad de Ella”) weighs in at Switzerland’s Locarno Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-summer film event, as one of the highest-profile entries in Open Doors, a carefully curated showcase of projects and recent pics from smaller countries around the world, for the last three years from Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Rotterdam, Cannes Winner Paz Encina Preps ‘The Unique Time,’ ‘About What Happens to Someone When They Face an Absence’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent A Rotterdam Tiger Award winner for “Eami,” and Cannes Un Certain Regard Fipresci laureate for “Paraguayan Hammock,” Paz Encina is prepping her fourth feature, “The Unique Time” (“El Tiempo Único”), set to be brought to market at Locarno’s Open Doors. In development, and written by Encina, the film begins – though Encina suggests she will conflate pasts and present, suggesting one continuum – in Paso de la Patria, in Argentina, Paraguay across the confluence of two rivers.

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France’s Wrong Films, Behind Sundance Jury Prize Winner ‘Animalia,’ Preps Beirut-Set Thriller ‘’Thaoura’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent France’s Wrong Films, behind Sofia Alaoui’s Sundance Jury Prize winner “Animalia,” a sci-fi drama, is prepping another Arabic-language genre movie, David Arslanian’s feature debut “Thaoura,” which is set in Lebanon’s 2019 public protests against its worst economic crisis since 1850. “Thaoura” will be introduced by Wrong Films’ Mathilde Warisse to potential partners at the Locarno Film Festival’s Match Me!, which runs Aug.

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Latido Swoops on San Sebastian Premiere ‘As Silence Passes By,’ One of Spain’s Awaited Feature Debuts of 2024 (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Madrid-based Latido Films has boarded Andalusian Sandra Romero’s “As Silence Passes By,” taking international sales rights to one of the most awaited Spanish debuts of 2024. Written by Romero, her first feature was announced last week as one of a first 10 titles confirmed for San Sebastian’s New Directors competition, its most impactful sidebar. Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” “straddles the border between fact and fiction, enlisting real people to play poetically embellished versions of themselves in order to reach a deeper truth,” said a Variety review.

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It’s Official: Ventana Sur 2024 Relocates to Montevideo, Uruguay

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent It’s official. After months of rumors and talks, Ventana Sur organizers confirmed Wednesday that the 16th edition will take place in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, over Dec.

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San Sebastian Unveils New Directors Strand, With New Pic From ‘Sound of Silence’ Director Michael Tyburski

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival has unveiled the lineup of its New Directors competition, which takes in “Turn Me On,” the new feature from Michael Tyburski, helmer of Sundance hit “The Sound of Silence.” Starring Bel Powley and Nick Robinson, an IFC Films U.S. pick-up, “Turn Me On,” a sci-fi romantic comedy, joins buzz titles in the section, the festival’s biggest sidebar, such as “In the Name of Blood,” a Nice-set Georgian mafia movie from Georgia’s Akaki Popkhadze, prized at Clermont Ferrand for his latest short, and “Gulizar,” the first feature from Turkish moviemaker Belkis Bayrak, about a young victim of sexual assault in the run-up to her wedding.

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María José Rodríguez Steps Down as Amazon MGM Studios Head of Spanish Originals (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent María José Rodríguez, a driver of Prime Video’s large success in Spain, has stepped down as Amazon Studios’ head of Spanish originals. Announced Monday by Nicole Morganti, Amazon Studios head of local originals for Southern Europe, Rodríguez’s departure comes just a week after Prime Video unveiled its 2024 slate in Madrid, reviewing what it hailed as a “banner” first semester.

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How Spain’s Euro 2024 Win Is a Step Forward in the Country’s Fight for Inclusivity

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent An icon of Catalonia, FC Barcelona is, it maintains, “more than a club.” In Spain, where soccer often has larger political reverberations, it was hugely symbolic that the country secured the lead in its 2-1 victory over England at Sunday night’s Euro 2024 final. In the 47th minute, Lamine Yamal took the ball on the right, cut in-field ahead of England’s Luke Shaw and played a lovely weighted pass into the path of Nico Williams. He screeched off the left wing, free of marker Kyle Walker, to side-foot the ball into the net with a clinical finish.

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Led by Star Elena Rivera, Team Behind Global Hit ‘Alba’ Back for Atresmedia’s ‘Perdiendo el Juicio’ (EXCLUSIVE)

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Following on “Alba,” one of Spain’s biggest recent Netflix hits, star Elena Rivera, Spanish network Atresmedia and Madrid-based production powerhouse Boomerang TV will reteam on “Perdiendo el juicio,” a 10-episode drama which will go into production this summer. Set to air on Antena 3, Atresmedia’s most-watched free-to-air channel, and its streaming service Atresplayer, “Perdiendo el Juicio” production is led by executive producer Luis Santamaría and Montse García, Atresmedia director of Fiction, both of whom were behind “Alba.” “Alba” scribes Susana López Rubio and Javier Holgado also repeat on “Perdiendo el juicio,” where they are joined by Jaime Olías (“Cómo mandarlo todo a la mierda”).

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