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The best of Spanish cinema at Cinespaña

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- Eight Spanish titles, never released in France, including Wounded, are competing at the Festival in Toulouse, at the heart of a very rich programme

The best of Spanish cinema at Cinespaña

Una pistola en cada mano [+see also:
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(photo) by Cesc Gay (read the interview) and the documentary Con la pata quebrada by Diego Galán will open the 18th edition of Cinespaña tonight, the Toulouse Spanish Film Festival. Until October 6, the event will offer a very large selection of the still lively production of a country very affected by the economic crisis (decrease by 26% of the number of film shootings compared to 2012 and average budget for a Spanish film divided by two since 2011).

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Eight features never released in France will compete for the Golden Violet awarded by a jury presided by actress Nathalie Baye and which includes director Jérôme Bonnell. In competition, Wounded [+see also:
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interview: Fernando Franco
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(photo - La herida) by Fernando Franco (a film focusing on a young “borderline” nurse which just premiered in San Sebastian), El cuerpo [+see also:
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by Oriol Paulo (which begins with the disappearance of the cadaver of a powerful business woman), Fill by Caín by Jesús Monllaó Plana (the mishaps of a difficult teenager obsessed with chess), Frontera by Manuel Pérez Cáceres (a small group find themselves in isolation because of an epidemic in a prison), Ilusión by Daniel Castro (noticed at the last Malaga Film Festival; an unsuccessful screenwriter is one day called up by a producer), Impávido [+see also:
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byCarlos Therón Sánchez (a story about bad luck, with poker, mafia and strippers as a backdrop), Los Ilusos by Jonás Trueba (a film on the desire to make a film) and The Plague [+see also:
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(La plaga) by Neus Ballús (appreciated at the Forum of the Berlinale 2013 – read the review).

A Panorama is also worth noting with the screening notably of 15 Years + 1 Day [+see also:
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interview: Gracia Querejeta
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byGracia Querejeta (Spanish candidate for the next Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film), Diamantes negros [+see also:
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by Miguel Alcantud, El bosc by Óscar Aibar, El efecto K. El montador by Stalin [+see also:
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by Valentí Figueres, Stockholm [+see also:
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by Rodrigo Soroyen and Fènix 11.23 by duo Joel Joan - Sergi Lara.

Cinespaña’s rich programme also offers amongst others Witching and Bitching [+see also:
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interview: Alex de la Iglesia
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by Alex de la Iglesia (read the interview) in a Special Screening, a first film competition, documentaries, shorts, a tribute to Jose Coronado (Goya 2012 for Best Actor in No Rest for the Wicked [+see also:
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) and a carte blanche to distributor and producer Enrique González Macho.

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(Translated from French)

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