Spain’s Huelva Festival Celebrates the Vitality of Cinema in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, Honors Mexico’s Cecilia Suárez
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos The 49th edition of Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, Spain’s largest confab for films from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, will honor Mexican star Cecilia Suárez with its City of Huelva Award.
With leading roles in Netflix’s “The House of Flowers” and HBO Latin America’s “Capadocia,” Suárez has also be seen in ABC’s drama “The Promised Land” and has worked on films by as Tommy Lee Jones (“The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada”), James L.
Brooks (“Spanglish”), Ernesto Contreras (“Párpados azules”), Antonio Serrano (“Sexo, pudor y lágrimas”) and Fernando Colomo (“Cuidado con lo que deseas”).
The new edition of Huelva runs Nov. 10-18. Andalusia’s oldest film festival, Huelva will also grant a Light Award to Spanish actress Natalia de Molina, a two-time Goya winner, delivering acclaimed performance in films such as David Trueba’s “Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed” and Juan Miguel del Castillo’s “Food and Shelter.” Another Light Award will go this year to producer José Alba, founder of Malaga-based company Pecado Films, a symbol of the growth of Andalusia’s film industry behind two of Spain’s highest-profile titles of recent times: “Close Your Eyes,” the latest from Spanish master Victor Erice, and Patricia Ortega’s Sundance hit “Mamacruz.” For its current edition, suggesting a growing interest by Ibero-American creators in attending Huelva, the festival’s organizers received nearly 1,400 submissions, 10% up on 2022.
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