🗞️🌶️ Hot News! We invite you to a free and unbeatable Programme Launch evening with the screening of OJOS NEGROS + Q&A with Director Ivet Castelo. 13 Nov, ECA

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🔥🌻A brilliant portrait of one of those hot long summers in rural Spain. OJOS NEGROS was one of the greatest surprises of last Malaga Film Festival winning the ZonaZine award.

Don't miss this unique chance to see the film with director Ivet Castelo in person for a Q&A.

PROGRAMME LAUNCH

Come and be the first to grab our beautifully designed paper brochures and announce the full programme for this year's festival.

OJOS NEGROS

Director: Ivet Castelo, Marta Lallana

Info: - 2018 - 65 min. - Spanish with English subtitles

Event details:

"The theme of childhood in rural Spain has given the country some of its finest movies, including Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) and more recently Carla Simon’s 2017 critically garlanded pic Summer 1993. Marta Lallana and Ivet Castelo’s coming-of-ager debut delivers, during its short length, some really magical moments." (Hollywood Reporter)Synopsis:

Paula is a fourteen-year-old girl who has difficulty relating to her friends and family. When summer comes, she travels alone to Ojos Negros, the village where her mother grew up and where her family still lives. The distant character of her aunt and the illness of her grandmother create a suffocating climate in the house. It is then that she meets Alicia, who is outgoing and spontaneous. The end of this first friendship and the witnessing of her grandmother's death will make her see what growing up really means.

“This film has merits and virtues enough to compete with the very best of new Spanish cinema. Spanish cinema can rejoice in the discovery of two young female directors worth keeping a very close eye on.” (Cineuropa)

DIRECTORS TALK - IVET CASTELO

We are extremely proud to welcome director Ivet Castelo to join us in person for this event.

Ivet Castelo (1995, Vic). Graduated in 2017 in the degree of Audiovisual Communication at the Pompeu Fabra University. In 2016, she decided to study during a semester at Korea University (Seoul). Ojos Negros is her debut as a director and scriptwriter, which won the Silver Biznaga for Best Film in the Zonazine section of the recent Málaga Spanish Film Festival. She currently resides in Vienna, where she continues her career as a filmmaker.

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