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| Malas temporadas |
| Hard Times |
| Competing for the Altadis-New Directors Award and the Montblanc Award for New Screenwriters. |
| Set in the heart of Madrid, this is the tale of Mikel, Ana and Carlos, people searching for their place in the world, a place increasingly more distant from the one they had imagined, leaving them the only solution of starting to try and achieve it based on reality. People that fate has finally led along unexpected paths. Ana works for an NGO that helps refugees. Carlos, an exiled Cuban who earns his life illegally dealing in cigars, was a pilot in Cuba and Ana?s last boyfriend, although now they?re only friends. Just out of prison, Mikel is obsessed with the idea of finding his former cellmate. The lives of Ana, Carlos and Mikel increasingly interweave. Although they all have to deal with their own problems and take their own decisions, they all influence and help each other. These are hard times for them, but they?re fighting back. |
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| Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| Almeria, 1964. A graduate in Information Sciences, he started in the world of cinema as an assistant director and casting director. In 1991, he directed his first short film, El día blanco, followed by Hombres sin mujeres (1998) and Nadie (1999), plus the documentary feature film Puntos cardinales (2001) and El juego de Cuba (2001). In 2002 he made his first feature film, La flaqueza del bolchevique, presented in the Zabaltegi section of San Sebastian Festival in 2003 and Goya Award for Best New Actress (María Valverde). |
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TIME |
CINEMA |
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| 21 |
19:30 |
Principal |
Only press and accreditation-holders. Priority Press. New Directors
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| 22 |
09:00 |
Kursaal 1 |
New Directors
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| 22 |
22:00 |
Kursaal 1 |
New Directors
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| 23 |
16:00 |
Warner 6 |
New Directors
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| 23 |
20:30 |
Warner 6 |
New Directors Last screening.
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| DIRECTOR |
| Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| SCREENPLAY |
| Alejandro Hernández, Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| PRODUCTION |
| Fernando Victoria de Lecea, Pedro Zaratiegui
Iberrota / Golem / Loma Blanca |
| PHOTOGRAPHY |
| David Carretero |
| EDITION |
| Ángel Hernández Zoido |
| MUSIC |
| Pedro Barbadillo |
| CAST |
| Javier Cámara, Nathalie Poza, Eman Xor Oña, Leonor Watling, Fernando Echebarría |
| SALES |
| Golem
Avda. Bayona, 52
31008 Pamplona
Tel 34 948 17 41 41
Fax 34 948 17 10 58
golem@golem.es |
| RUNNING TIME |
| 115 m. |
| COUNTRY |
| Spain |
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