Alex de la Iglesia, ‘Money Heist’s’ Athresmedia, RTVE
The rich line -up of Spain at the Berlin Film Festival also contains a screening of Atresmedia’s “Red Flags”, which maps out the often punched sexual and emotional awakening of four Gen Tieners.
Selected titles in Berlin:
Berlinal Market selects
“Honor,” (Atresmedia TV, Portocabo)
The Spanish remake of the Israeli TV series “Kvodo”, with the often excellent Dario Grandinetti (“Talk to Her”) in the Bryan Cranston role of the famous showtime re-do “Your Honor”, as a principle judge trying To save his son afterwards, in a casual hit-and-run, he kills the son of a deadly drug-kingpin. Portocabo (“Hierro”, “RAPA”) produces with Atresmedia TV in an intense and thought -to -thinking series, “says José Antonio Salso of Atresmedia.
“Internal Affairs” (“Asuntos Internos,” RTVE-Mediacrest)
Following a first female police inspector in Spain, a series from 1979 set distinguishes by strong thriller drive, premium production values and a new female view of COP thrillers. It also offers a moving vision of the journey made by three women, police inspector Clara Montesinos, higher class widow Ana and submissive girl for empowerment and a focus on essential values, made an Odyssey and still made by femininity in Spain.
“Sanctuary,” (“Santuario”, Pokeepsie Films, atresmedia)
Produced by Carolina Bang and Alex de la Iglesia at Pokeepsie Films, a Banijay company, and atresmedia, a stylish climate change and a dystopian thriller with an AI theme. Engineer Valle and heavy pregnant Pilar gang together to discover the real goal of Sanctuary, a so-called idyllic dome-shaped birth retreat but whose monumentalistic architecture and speaker slogans hints from the start of more sinister goal. Plushly directed by Rodrigo Ruíz-Gallardón and Zoe Berriatúa.
Spanish thrillers
“Shades” (Secuoya Studios and Skyshowtime)
A thriller-driven thriller loaded by stars loaded by stars, in which a celebrated psychiatrist collects six patients in a remote winery to complete their treatment. After a fatal event, an intuitive police Lieutenant devotes the traumas of the patients. Elsa Pataky () Maxi Iglesias (“Valeria”), Enrique Arce (“Money Heist”), Hovik Keuchkerian (“Reina Roja”) and Juana Acosta (“La Templanza”) star. Sergio Cánovas from Stellarmedia (“Girls Night Out”) serves as a maker director. Beta -film has international distribution.
Spanish connection
“Dark waters, (“Aigües de Foscor,” Spain, Iceland)
The first co-production of Spain-Iceland, from Federation Spain, Barcelona’s Lastor Media and Cataluña Federation Studios and the new media arch from Iceland. Arnau, a Park Ranger finds the corpse of a woman who has the same unusual birthmark that he and his daughter share. This reveals a supernatural mystery. From an original idea of Maria Rocher, produced by Federation Spain’s Nacho Manubens and high-end Spanish producers Juan Solá and Mark Albela.
“Pink sound”, “ (Spain, Chile)
A group of striking women from history, led by Marie Curie, appears again in a dystopian world ruled by human cats, who fight them from the clandestine depths of the deep web. “A wild disrespectful, visually striking animation series that combines historical icons with digital dystopia. Think of ‘Monty Python’ Meet ‘Robotkip’, says co-maker Alvaro León. Co-produced by the Spain Lamola Studio and Bernadita Ojeda in Chile’s Pájaro.
“Truth North” (Spain, Finland)
From Spain’s Aurora and Finland’s Jamedia and co-created, written and directed by Anna Blom, “True North” has entangled the Egyptian refugee Layla in southern Spain with two troubled Scandinavian sisters, who appears a tense spiral of Chantal and power struggle. “The Nordic crime tradition brings tension and the Spanish tradition brings passion,” says Blom.
“The wheel”, ” (“La Roda,” Spain)
From Mr Miyagi van Barcelona (‘The Platform’, ‘Isaac’, the Astronaut lovers’), directed by Carles Torrens (‘Apocalypse Z’), written by Ana Analkim and Marta Ros and Showrun by Angeles Hernandez & David Matamoros. A corpse appears in a public park, consisting of parts from four different bodies that are sewn together. Irene’s resolution of the case will convert her from the victim into Beul. “We were very fascinated by such a complex character as protagonist Irene, she embodies well, but also the darkness and her fault make her very good at what she does,” says Matamoros.
