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Three national films opening this Friday

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Great expectations in the Spanish Box Office this weekend with three national productions being released: Aupa Etxebeste!, directed by Telmo Esnal and Asier Altuna, La Doble Vida del Faquir [+see also:
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by Esteve Riambau and Elisabeth Cabeza, and Santiago Segura's Torrente 3, El Protector.

Recently shown at the San Sebastian Film Festival Zabaltegui sidebar section, where it received the Youth Award, Aupa Etxebeste is the first film shot entirely in Basque in more than 10 years. Produced by Irusoin and distributed by Barton Films, the film is a comedy about the limits of keeping up appearances, starring Ramón Agirre, Elena Irureta and Paco Sagarzazu. A family, the Etxebeste, find out they have no money to go in holidays to Marbella, as they hoped. They decide then to spend the holidays locked in their own home, so that nobody in the village knows their financial embarrassment.

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Also in the Zabaltegui programme in San Sebastian, La Doble Vida del Faquir is a documentary produced by Oberon Cinematografica and distributed by Nirvana Films. The film proposes a personnel view on the Spanish Civil War period, when a filmmaker, Felip Sagués, shot 'La doble vida del faquir' with the orphan children from the Sant Juliá de Vilatorta institution. Esteve Riambau and Elisabeth Cabeza, who wrote and directed the documentary, mixing extracts from the original film with interviews with several of its actors, who are now over 80 years old. La Doble Vida del Faquir becomes then a subjective portrait of the war years.

In a totally different registe,r the third Spanish film of the week is Torrente 3, El Protector, an Amiguetes Entertainment production, distributed by UIP. Torrente is one of the most successful series of Spanish film. Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley, attracted over 3 million moviegoers and Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella was watched by over 5 million people. Santiago Segura, who plays the lead role, as well as writing and directing the film, announced that Torrento's third part will be "a politically incorrect film, full of silly humour, thrilling action and wild sex".

The three Spanish productions will compete against three Europeans releases: Bertrand Tavernier's Holy Lola, Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now [+see also:
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and Jean-Marie Poiré's Ma femme s'appelle Maurice.

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