Festival de Málaga

Festival de Málaga, with the support of the Junta de Andalucía, celebrates for the second year Málaga Goes to Cannes. Its aim is to promote the development of Andalusian audiovisual content and new forms of cinematographic expression, and to encourage their financing and international distribution. Five films in works-in-progress will be presented to industry professionals in collaboration with the Marché du Film.

📆 The Festival de Malaga Goes to Cannes showcase will be held on Monday 22 May 2023 from 9:30 – 11:30 (Palais K, Palais des Festivals).

Check out the teaser and find more project details below! 👇

Projects

Goes to Cannes

On the Go

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: María Gisèle Royo & Julia de Castro

Produced by: María Gisèle Royo & Julia de Castro - Jur Jur Productions, S.L.

Country of production: Spain

Original title: On the Go

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Runtime: 72'

Completed in: 2023

Milagros (37) stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility while Jonathan (24) seeks solace in Grindr to overcome abandonment issues. Milagros escapes her appointment for single-parent insemination. Jonathan triggers a reunion with a childhood sweetheart. The road and friendship alleviate the disorientation caused to these two friends by the deceptive freedom of the early 21st century. A delirious road movie, full of music, where a mysterious mermaid with a magic crown will set the course of the journey.

Goes to Cannes

Alone in the Night

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Guillermo Rojas

Produced by: Laura Hojman, Guillermo Rojas, Olmo figueredo (Summer Films)

Country of production: Spain

Original title: Solos en la noche

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Runtime: 90'

Completed in: 2023

Paco and his friends, a group of labor lawyers, hide in a house during the harrowing night of February 23, 1981, when there was an attempted coup d’état in Spain without really knowing what to do, whether to wait for events, flee the country or go out to fight for young Spanish democracy.

Goes to Cannes

Caleta Palace

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: José Antonio Hergueta

Produced by: José Antonio Hergueta (MLK Producciones)

Country of production: Spain

Original title: Caleta Palace

Language: Spain

Runtime: 97'

Completed in: 2023

The siege of Malaga in Feb 1937 shook the World: a libertarian revolution would end under Italian tanks. Out of memories of journalists and writers who lived or passed by Red Málaga, reenacted by 8 players, this fake documentary recreates the fall of the first Republican city in Spanish Civil War.

Goes to Cannes

Human / Animal

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Alessandro Pugno

Produced by: Jose Alba (Pecado Films & First Draft)

Country of production: Spain

Original title: Animal / Humano

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Runtime: 92'

Completed in: 2023

In a small misty village of the North of Italy, the son of a funeral home’s owner dreams of becoming a bullfighter. In the sunny Andalusian meadow, a male calf is born. Matteo and Fandango grow up in completely different worlds, but their lives reflect on each other. Only at the end, they will meet.

Goes to Cannes

Those Were The Days

Category: Málaga Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Bernabé Bulnes

Produced by: Enrique Guzmán (Rakia Films)

Country of production: Spain

Original title: Fueron los días

Language: Spanish with English subtitles

Runtime: 86'

Completed in: 2023

Alma, an actress who works as a waitress, receives an offer to audition for the next film by Gabino Robles, a prestigious film director with whom she had an intense relationship seven years ago. The former lovers will meet again and try to find answers to questions that are difficult to respond.