The film ‘Petra’ won big at the 34th edition of the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), which took place in the Mexican city from the 8th to the 15th of March.

The festival has awarded the film by Jaime Rosales a total of three awards, which have been received with great joy and gratitude: Best Ibero-American Fiction Feature, Best Direction, and the Mayauel Award for Best Actress celebrating Barbara Lennie.

Jaime Rosales wins the Best Direction award

Bárbara Lennie wins the Mayauel Award for Best Actress

The film ‘Vida Privada’, a co-production of Oberon Cinematogràfica with TV3 and directed by Sílvia Munt, has won the Gaudí prize for the Best Television Film during the 11th Gaudí Awards Gala, this Sunday, the 27th of January.

But this has not been the only prize to celebrate. Oriol Pla, actor from the film ‘Petra’, directed by Jaime Rosales and also produced by Oberon, has been awarded with Gaudí for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for a total of 8 categories.

‘Vida Privada’, Best Television Film

Oriol Pla, Best Secondary Actor

The Catalan Film Academy have revealed the nominees for the XI Gaudí Awards in a public reading at the emblematic Gaudí building of La Pedrera.

Jaime Rosales’ movie received a total of 8 nominations. ‘Petra’ is nominated for Best Film in non-Catalan language, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Leading Actress (Bárbara Lennie), Best Leading Actor (Alex Brendemühl), Best Supporting Actress (Marisa Paredes) and Best Supporting Actor (Oriol Pla). Sílvia Munt is nominated for her television adaptation of ‘Vida Privada’ in the category of Best Film for TV.

The results will be revealed on the 27^th of January at the Congress Palace of Barcelona in a Gala presented by Mag Lari.

Jaime Rosales’ ‘Petra’

Sílvia Munt’s Vida Privada’

Barbara Lennie has been nominated for Best Actress in the European Film Awards (EFA) for her role in ‘Petra’, a film by Jaime Rosales. The Madrid-born actress is nominated alongside Marie Bäumer (‘3 Days in Quiberon’), Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (‘Woman at War’), Joanna Kulig (‘Cold War’), Eva Melander (‘Border’) and Alba Rohrwacher (‘Lazzaro Feliz’).

The results will be revealed on the 15^th of December in Sevilla, where the 31^st European Film Academy Awards Gala will take place. Barbara Lennie is joined in a Spanish bid by Almudena Carrancedo, with a Best Documentary nomination for ‘El silencio de los otros.’ Carmen Maura will receive an Honorary Award for her career.

EFA 2018: Best Actress nominees

Following the film´s preview at Filmoteca de Cataluña, ‘Petra’ arrives in theatres this Friday, October 19th. The feature, directed by the Catalan filmmaker Jaime Rosales, was successfully received at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and at the San Sebastian Film Festival earlier in the year.

In Barcelona the film will be screened in the following cinemas:

• Gran Sarrià
• Comedia
• Heron City
• Balmes
• Renoir Floridablanca
• Verdi (VOSE en ingés)
• Icaria
• Ocine (Arenys de Mar)
• Yelmo (Castelldefels)
• El Punt (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
• Full HD (Cornellà de Llobregat)
• ACEC Bages (Manresa)
• Cine Imperial ACEC (Sabadell)
• Yelmo (Sant Cugat del Vallès)

In Girona:

•  Ocine
• ACEC Multisalas Figueres
• Cinemes Olot

In Tarragona:

• Cine Amposta UCC

And in Lleida:

• Funatic

Belén Funes has begun shooting her first feature, ‘A Thief´s Daughter’. Greta Fernández leads the cast with her father, in reality and in fiction, Eduard Fernández (Goya award winner with a Concha de Plata). Àlex Monner, known for his participation in the TV series Polseres Vermelles, completes the film´s leading cast.

Eduard and Greta Fernández, father and daughter in real life and in fiction

Belén Funes, director of the short films ‘Sara a la fuga’ and ‘La inútil’, was inteviewed regarding her debut feature titled ‘La hija del ladrón’, starring Eduard and Greta Fernández -father and daughter both in reality and in fiction.

In the interview, Belén Funes talks about the similarities shared by her two short films and her feature film: the representation of lost young girls, unable to find their place in this world. ‘La hija del ladrón’ is the continuation of ‘Sara a la fuga’, and although the same actress will not play Sara, we will find the same character, now an adult woman, facing motherhood away from the standards of happiness.

The director explains how she finds few interesting female characters on screen, in general women are usually “the protagonist’s girlfriend, used to define the character of the man and almost never themselves”. She believes this reality is beginning to change for the better as there are more female filmmakers, and because she is surrounded by women who actively participate in the world of cinema.

Belén Funes will begin shooting the film in September in the periphery of Barcelona, ​​where the action takes place and where the characters of the story belong.

Image from the short film “Sara a la fuga”, by Belén Funes.

Imatge of the actresses Nausicaa Bonnín, Greta Fernández (who plays the main character in “La hija del ladrón”) and Maria Rodríguez during the filming of “La Inútil”

The screening of ‘Vida Privada’, miniseries based on the homonymous novel by the author Josep Maria de Sagarra and directed by Sílvia Munt, has closed the 24th edition of the Latin American Film Festival of Catalonia, held at the Teatre de la Llotja de Lleida. The protagonists, Aida Folch and Pablo Derqui, attended the event.

‘Vida Privada’ is a production shot in different locations in Lleida and Cervera. It had the collaboration of CECAAC, located in the facilities of Magical Media, in Lleida, where the post-production phase of the miniseries took place. The City Council of Lleida also collaborated in the production of the miniseries.

This is Jaime Rosales’ fifth participation in the French festival, after his 2003 debut with ‘The hours of the day’, for which he also received the FIPRESCI International Critics Award. After 2003, he returned to the renowned festival three more times with ‘Solitary Fragments’, ‘Dream and silence’ and ‘Beautiful youth’, awarded with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in 2014.

‘Petra’ narrates the story of a search that turned to tragedy. A cruel road of no return, away from truth, that unleashes a spiral of evil, family secrets and violence for its protagonists. On the other side, love, hope and redemption also claim their place.