Finest identified in Hollywood for enjoying reverse Adam Sandler in “Spanglish,” Spanish actor Paz Vega is ready to direct “Ana No,” a characteristic movie starring Angela Molina (“That Obscure Object of Desire”) and offered at this 12 months’s Cannes Pageant by Film Factory Entertainment.
“Ana No” marks Vega’s second film as a director after the well-received “Rita,” which world premiered in 2024 at Locarno’s Piazza Grande.
Set in late’60s Spain, “Ana No” activates widow Ana, 75, who senses she has little time to stay. Closing her house for ever in a tiny village in Almería, southern Spain, she units off on an odyssey to see her solely son who survived the Spanish Civil Struggle – jailed for the final 30 years in Northern Spain. The journey proves a belated act of self-discovery.
Ana’s odyssey turns into an “intimate heart-rending epic which will move spectators deeply with its realism and rawness,” mentioned Vega, who will current Ana no” at Cannes on Could 17.
“Her journey towards death will also be a portrait of a a court wounded by a war between brothers, and of a generation of women silenced and forgotten,” Vega added. The movie will probably be a cinema of environment, suggesting relatively than explaining, of an odd magnificence.”
Primarily based on a novel by Goncourt Prize finalist Agustín Gómez Arcos, “Ana no” will go into manufacturing this fall, capturing in Andalucía, the Madrid area and the island of Sardinia in Italy.
“This moving adaptation is a powerful testimony of resistance and memory,” mentioned Movie Manufacturing facility head Vicente Canales. “Pushed by Paz Vega’s masterful course and a rare efficiency by Ángela Molina, the movie guarantees an distinctive expertise.
“Ana no” is produced by Spain’s Aralan Movies (“Saturn Return”), a prime producer in Andalusia which backed “Rita,” and Madrid-based Blacklight Movies (“Aire”) together with Italy’s Ombre Rosse Movie Manufacturing (“Il sogno dei pastori).
BTeam Photos, which launched “Sirāt” and Sundays,” will deal with distribution in Spain.
Spain’s Marta Velasco and Paul Mateos Berdejo and Italy’s Andrea Di Blassio and. Luca Cabriolu function producers, Sandra Rodriguez as govt producer.
Scoring Vega a Spanish Academy Goya Award nomination for finest new director, “Rita” was described as a “subtly affecting directing debut” by U.Ok. newspaper The Guardian. As an actor Vega scored a finest new actress Goya Award for her efficiency Julio Medem’s “Sex and Lucía.”
Angela Molina received a finest actress award on the San Sebastián competition for her lead position in Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón’s “Half of Heaven,” a David di Donatella Award for Lina Wertmüller’s “Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)” within the lead actress class, and a extremely applauded lifetime achievement honorary Goya Award in 1921.
