‘Lionel,’ Cleans Up at Málaga’s WIP, ‘The Queers Rise up,’ ‘Tenants,’

The Málaga Movie Pageant held the remaining rite for its MAFIZ business phase on Friday night time. Business-accredited representatives attended, celebrating the fruits of 5 days of intense networking and pitching.

The massive winner from this yr’s MAFIZ Paintings in Growth phase was once Carlos Saiz’s “Lionel,” produced via Bluconic Movies, Blur and Icónica in Spain and Prom Movies in France. The movie gained the Cine y Tele, Sideral, Yagán and REC Pageant prizes.

“‘Lionel’ is a tale of reconciliation between a father and son after twenty years aside. Thru an intimate highway shuttle, the movie explores the complexity of circle of relatives bonds and the lasting scars of Lionel’s paternal absence,” Saiz defined to Selection forward of this yr’s MAFIZ. “Impressed via the real-life tale of my good friend Lionel and his circle of relatives—who painting themselves within the movie—this challenge originated from a adventure he as soon as recounted to me. Now, now we have remodeled it right into a highway film between Spain and France that questions the very essence of what it way to be circle of relatives.”

Álvaro Samper, world gross sales at Sideral, which awarded “Lionel” a €10,000 distribution prize, mentioned of the movie: “‘Lionel’ is a type of uncommon tales that touches the center. An attractive and transferring adventure of reconnection between a father and son that speaks to common feelings in some way we haven’t observed ahead of. From the primary second we spoke with director Carlos Saiz and the manufacturers [Blur, Iconica], we knew it was once an ideal have compatibility, and now we’re excited to percentage it with the arena.”

Well-liked on Selection

Carlos Sánchez Giraldo’s “No Adventure With out Go back,” produced via Peru’s Rima Rima Cine, gained the Málaga Pageant prize for an Ibero-American WIP, the Chemistry Prize and the Yagán Prize. The function follows Amito, a person drawn via the decision of his goals, satisfied he will have to go back to his origins. Lizandro, a tender cameraman, follows him, keen to be told. However as their adventure unfolds, Amito discovers he isn’t who he concept he was once, whilst Lizandro is compelled to confront himself for the primary time.

The Málaga Pageant prize for a Spanish WIP went to Santiago Esteves’ “The Reborn,” about two estranged brothers and a gloomy trade: serving to other folks pretend their very own loss of life. “A fancy operation places their lives at stake and forces them to outline the future in their circle of relatives’s legacy,” reads the movie’s synopsis. Argentina’s Le Tiro, Spain’s Zabriskie Movies and Chile’s El Otro Movie produce the movie, which additionally scored MAFIZ’s Rio Bravo Award.

Honors had been cut up widely throughout this yr’s MAFF phase, with “The Queers Rise up,” “Tenants” and “Good-bye Berta” every scoring two prizes.

Directed via Wincy Oyarce, a Chilean LGBT pioneer celebrated for 2008’s “Empaná de pino” and 2022 breakout doc-feature “Tan Inmunda y Tan Feliz,” this fiction tale options documentary parts to chart the primary recorded gay demonstration in Santiago, Chile, arranged in April 1973 via a bunch of younger boy intercourse employees. Creas Movies is generating.

One in all two MAFF titles from María Paz Barragán, this time as co-writer, director and manufacturer, “Tenants” is an immigration horror function exploring magnificence, racism and xenophobia however via style, construction to what seems like a chilling finale. Appreciated at Iberseries Platino Industria and Ventana Sur’s Proyecta, it’s produced via Batiak Movies, at the back of Berlinale Fipresci winner “The Human Hibernation,” Ultimate Abierto and Elora Publish Area co-produce.

Produced via Galicia’s Kraken Media, Tornasol Media and Abano Producións, Fernando Tato’s “Good-bye, Berta” is a variety of Tato’s 17-minute wanting the similar title. Within the function, when sister Berta is thrown out of her rehab heart, sister Alicia, who has cast a relaxed existence within the Galician capital of Santiago de Compostela, feels obliged to go back to Pobra do Caramiñal, the place she was once born. “This reunion marks the start of an emotional adventure for the 2 sisters, the place love and resentment intertwine, and the previous turns into a burden too heavy to omit,” the logline ends.

The rite concluded with emcee Annabelle Aramburu saying that Panama would be the visitor of honor on the twenty ninth version of the Pageant, within the presence of Panama’s Deputy Minister of Tradition, Arianne Benedetti, and the Ambassador to Spain, Héctor Infante de Seda.

MAFIZ AWARDS

MÁLAGA WORK IN PROGRESS

Málaga Pageant Prize (Spain)

“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)

Málaga Pageant Prize (Ibero-The us)

“No Adventure With out Go back,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)

Arcane Virtual Cinema Prize

“Caro nanni,” (Pablo Maqueda, Spain)

Chemistry Prize

“No Adventure With out Go back,” (“No hay ida sin retornom,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)

Cine y Tele Prize

“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)

E-28 Prize

“Water By no means Harm,” (“El agua nunca dolió,” Ana Clara Bustelo, Uruguay, Argentina)

Latamcinema.com Prize

“Demise and Existence Madalena,” (“Morte e Vida Madalena,” Guto Parente, Brazil, Portugal)

Song Library Prize (Spain)

“Long run Fog,” (“Futura, L. a. niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)

Song Library Prize (Ibero-The us)

“Tropical Fragance,” (“Fragancia tropical,” Alexander Viola, Dominican Republic)

Rio Bravo Award

“The Reborn,” (“Los Renacidos,” Santiago Esteves, Spain, Argentina, Chile)

Sideral

“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)

Yagán Prize (Spain)

“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)

Yagán Prize (Ibero-The us)

“No Adventure With out Go back,” (“No hay ida sin retorno,” Carlos Sánchez Giraldo, Peru)

Abycine Lanza Participation

“Long run Fog,” (“Futura, L. a. niebla,” María Abenia, Spain)

FIDBA Document Participation

“The Voice of God,” (“A voz de Deus,” Miguel Antunes Ramos, Brazil)

REC Pageant Participation

“Lionel,” (Carlos Saiz, Spain, France)

SANFIC Participation

“The Evening is a Farce,” (“A noite é uma farsa,” Lucas Weglinski, Brazil)

MÁLAGA FESTIVAL FUND CO-PRODUCTION EVENT (MAFF)

Song Library (Ibro-American)

 “Good-bye Berta,” (“Adeus, Berta,” Fernando Tato, Spain)

Song Library (Latin The us)

 “The Queers Rise up,” (“L. a. Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Movies, Chile)

Song Library Girls Display screen Business

 “I’m No longer Common,” (“No Soy Common,” Celia de Molina, Spain)

Bolivia Lab. Participation

 “3 Summer time Days,” (“Tres días de verano,” Álvaro López Alba, Spain)

Cántico Producciones First Prize

 “A Decorous Lady,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)

Cántico Producciones 2nd Prize

 “Woodland Stroll,” (“A Estirada,” Sérgio de Carvalho, Pedro von Krüger, Brazil)

ECAM Discussion board Prize

 “A Decorous Lady,” (“Una Señorita de Buena Presencia,” Natalia Luque, Chile, France)

FIDBA Participation

 “The Queers Rise up,” (“L. a. Rebelión de las Raras,” Wincy Oyarce, Creas Movies, Chile)

SANFIC Participation

“Anoche creí que nadaba,” (Catalina Torres, Eugenia Olascuaga)

Sideral Prize

 “Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)

Térrea Prize

“Claros de bosque,” (Alejandro Salgado e Irene Hens)

 “Tenants,” (“Se buscan inquilinos,” María Paz Barragán, Peru, Spain)

MÁLAGA SHORTS CORNER

Festhome Very best Brief

“L. a. sangre,” (Joaquín León)

Sarajevo Brief Mission Prize

“Mi casa en una maleta,” (Andrea Torres Sánchez)

“Mar a noite,” (Pablo Garví)

Festivalito Prize

“De Madrid al cielo,” (Pablo Pérez)

“Ya están viniendo,” (Miguel Guindos, Mario Alejandro Arias)