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Spanish cinema honoured in Nantes

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- The 23rd edition of the event dedicated to Spanish cinema has selected films in competition by Rebollo, Uribe, Trueba, Ferreira Gay and Rodríguez

I'm So Excited [+see also:
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by Pedro Almodóvar (review) will open the 23rd Nantes Spanish Film Festival tomorrow (the day it is released on French screens), out of competition and in the presence of Lola Dueñas, Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Blanca Suárez. Until April 9th, the event in Nantes will propose a very complete panorama of a paradoxically flamboyant production (though the movies were filmed before 2012), while the Spanish cinema industry has been suffering since last year from a bitter dose of financial austerity.

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In competition, six fiction feature films will compete for the Jules Verne Prize, notably The Dead Man and Being Happy [+see also:
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by Javier Rebollo (review – read the interview in Spanish – Goya and Best Actor award in San Sebastián for José Sacristán), Miel de Naranjas [+see also:
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 by Imanol Uribe (winner of the Jury's Special Grand Prix at the Montreal Film Festival, Best Director and Best New Screenwriter awards in Malaga) and Una Pistola en Cada Mano [+see also:
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 by Cesc Gay (review – Goya award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Candela Peña). Also in the running, The Artist and the Model [+see also:
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by Fernando Trueba (Best Director award inSan Sebastián and 13 nominations for the 2013 Goya Awards), Els Nens Salvatges [+see also:
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by Patricia Ferreira (four prizes last year in Malaga) and Unit 7 [+see also:
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by Alberto Rodríguez (review - Goyas 2013 for Best Supporting Actor and Best Male Newcomer).

The competitive Opera Prima section will decide between the animated documentary 30 ans d’obscurité by Manuel H. Martín, Animals by Marçal Forés (review), the fiction-documentary Carmina o Revienta [+see also:
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by Paco León (interview), Seis Puntos Sobre Emma [+see also:
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by Roberto Pérez Toledo and The End [+see also:
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by Jorge Torregrossa.

The out-of-competition selection features La banda Picasso by Fernando Colomo and Hold Up! [+see also:
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by Eduard Cortés, which will close the festival. Also worth mentioning, the competitions for documentaries and short films, a panorama which notably includes Insensibles [+see also:
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by Juan Carlos Medina, a Fenêtre Basque selection, "carte blanche" for Costa Gavras who will present the documentary Les deux mémoires by Jorge Semprún (1972 – a copy restored by the French Film Library and the Filmoteca Española, in collaboration with the Filmoteca of Cataluña) and a tribute to the sadly missed filmmaker José Luis Borau.

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(Translated from French)

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