Prominent titles also take in Locarno winner ‘The Riverbank,’ high-caliber doc features and a change of direction for the ‘reliably superb’ actor Alfredo Castro, as Variety once called him
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'Pepita, the Gunslinger,' direced by Lucía Puenzo Coirtesy of the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Look at the U.S. summer box office and beyond. ‘The Odyssey’ is a film made for the public, but from a personal vision, as indeed is ‘La Bola Negra,’” says Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Director Manuel H. Martín.
This year’s 52nd edition indeed screens “La Bola Negra,” as well as “The Beloved,” in a catch-up Accent Cine Español panorama in a year when Spanish cinema has never had it so good, fielding three titles in Cannes main competition: Pedro Almodóvar’s “Bitter Christmas, “Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beloved” and “La Bola Negra.”
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