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Netflix Spain unveiled two new film projects at the San Sebastian International Film Festival that it is producing with Spanish filmmakers and production companies.

Carlos Sedes’ La Viuda Negra (which translates as The Black Widow) is being produced by Ramón Campos’ film and TV outfit Bambú Producciones, whose credits include Cable Girls and Isaki Lacuesta’s One Year, One Night.

The race-against-time thriller is about a body found in a parking lot in Valencia and the unexpected suspect the investigation digs up. It is now in pre-production.

Sedes is best known for TV series Fariña and, more recently, The Asunta Case.

Netflix launched two new film titles and shared details on several projects currently in development at a buzzy showcase this afternoon at the San Sebastian Film Festival.

The streamer announced at the event that it will back two new genre projects, Cortafuego directed by David Victori (Cross The Line), and The Black Widow from filmmaker Carlos Sedes (The Summer We Lived).

The Black Widow will be produced by Ramón Campos, Bambú Producciones. The official synopsis shared by the streamer reads: August 2017. The body of a man appears in a parking lot in Valencia, stabbed seven times. Everything points to a crime of passion. The city’s Homicide Group, led by a veteran inspector, begins an investigation against the clock that soon leads them to a suspect that no one expected: Maje, the young widow, sweet and serene, who had been married to the victim for less than a year.

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San Sebastian — At one of the biggest industry gatherings at this year’s San Sebastián Festival, Netflix has announced new Spanish movies from “Cable Girls” showrunner Ramón Campos and “Cross the Line” director David Victori, as it unveiled new talent details on four other banner titles.

Produced by Ramón Campos at his Madrid-based label Bambú Producciones, also behind “Grand Hotel,” “Velvet” and “Fariña,” and directed by Carlos Sedes “The Asunta Case,” “Cable Girls”), murder mystery “La Viuda Negra” begins with a body stabbed seven times is discovered in a car park in Valencia. The prime suspect for the city’s Homicide Group is Maje, the dead man’s Maje, young and kind widow to whom the deceased had been married for less than a year.

Billed as a psychological thriller, Victori’s “Cortafuego” is produced by Anxo Rodríguez y Ferrán Tomás of ESpotlight Media and stars a topnotch cast of Joaquín Furriel,...

Ibon Cormenzana dirige esta inspiradora historia basada en hechos reales. © AContracorriente

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de la película “El Bus de la Vida”. Una película que promete conmover al público con una trama cargada de emotividad y esperanza.

“El Bus de la Vida” sigue a Andrés, un profesor de música que trabaja en Madrid y que tiene que trasladarse a un pueblo vasco para cubrir una vacante en un instituto. Con 40 años recién cumplidos y sin haber superado nunca el miedo escénico, siente que su nueva vida le aleja de su sueño de ser músico. Cuando llega allí, en su primer día de clase se desmaya a causa de un fuerte zumbido en el oído: es cáncer. Para recibir tratamiento, tiene que viajar al hospital de Bilbao en el Bus de la Vida, un viejo autocar que transporta gratuitamente a todos los enfermos de la zona. Gracias a las risas,...

La película promete ser una mirada honesta, conmovedora y esperanzadora sobre la lucha contra el cáncer. © AContracorriente

Ya se ha publicado el primer avance de la película “El Bus de la Vida”. Una película que promete conmover al público con una trama cargada de emotividad y esperanza.

“El Bus de la Vida” sigue a Andrés, un profesor de música que trabaja en Madrid y que tiene que trasladarse a un pueblo vasco para cubrir una vacante en un instituto. Con 40 años recién cumplidos y sin haber superado nunca el miedo escénico, siente que su nueva vida le aleja de su sueño de ser músico. Cuando llega allí, en su primer día de clase se desmaya a causa de un fuerte zumbido en el oído: es cáncer. Para recibir tratamiento, tiene que viajar al hospital de Bilbao en el Bus de la Vida, un viejo autocar que transporta gratuitamente a todos los enfermos de la zona.

Susana Abaitua y Raúl Arévalo lideran el elenco de esta historia basada en las experiencias reales de agentes encubiertos en la lucha antiterrorista.

Netflix ha anunciado el comienzo del rodaje de “Un Fantasma en la Batalla”, un thriller político inspirado en las vivencias de varios miembros de la Guardia Civil que estuvieron directamente involucrados en la lucha antiterrorista.

“Un Fantasma en la Batalla” cuenta la historia de Amaia, una joven guardia civil que permanece más de una década trabajando como agente encubierta dentro de Eta con el objetivo de localizar los zulos que la banda tenía escondidos en el sur de Francia.

La película está protagonizada Susana Abaitua (“Compulsión”), Andrés Gertrúdix (“El Orfanato), Iraia Elias (“Amama”), Raúl Arévalo (“Tarde para la ira”) y Ariadna Gil (“El Laberinto del Fauno”).

Su director, Agustín Díaz Yanes (“Alatriste”), ha comentado lo siguiente: «Hace unos cinco años Belén Atienza me propuso que escribiera una historia sobre Eta.

Netflix has released information on two Spanish features it has punished into production including the political thriller Un Fantasma en la Batalla produced by Society of Snow filmmaker J.A. Bayona.

Directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, the film stars Susana Abaitua, Andrés Gertrúdix, Iraia Elias, Raúl Arévalo, and Ariadna Gil. Producing along Bayona are Belén Atienza and Sandra Hermida.

The film’s synopsis reads: Inspired by the lives and experiences of several members of the Guardia Civil directly involved in the fight against terrorism and grounded in the historical, political, and social context of the 1990s and 2000s, Un fantasma en la Batalla tells the story of Amaia, a young civil guard who spends more than a decade working as an undercover agent within Eta, with the aim of locating the band’s hideouts in the South of France.

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"Rule Number 1 – the less you know about the target, the better." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for an assassin film called American Star, directed by Spanish filmmaker Gonzalo López-Gallego. There are no American actors in this movie, however, and the title is actually a reference to big shipwreck called the "American Star", which really exists and can be found on the west coast of the Fuerteventura island in the Canary Islands – which is where this film was shot and it also takes place. This 2024 films follows an assassin on his final assignment on Fuerteventura, who remains on the island while his target is delayed in arriving. He becomes drawn to the people he meets and a ghostly shipwreck which complicates his mission greatly when the target arrives. Ian McShane stars + produces, with Nora Arnezeder, Adam Nagaitis, Fanny Ardant, Oscar Coleman, Andres Gertrudix, and Thomas Kretschmann. This really doesn't look that bad,...