Madrid-based Sideral, an built-in production-distribution-sales label which debuted in 2023 at the Berlinale, has introduced plans to provide and distribute “Los Relatos” a femicide drama by Miguel del Arco with Juan Diego Botto (“The Room Subsequent Door”), Marta Etura (“Cell 211”) and Ainara Elejalde (Mr. No One”) main the forged.
Sideral will deal with each worldwide gross sales and distribution in Spain.
Principal images kicks off in September with Aquí y Allí Films additionally producing. Its launch is focused for late subsequent yr.
“Los Relatos” explores the lasting, painful repercussions of a femicide — much more than 20 years after the crime was dedicated. It follows Pablo (performed by Botto), who returns to his hometown after serving time for the homicide of his spouse — the very place the place all of it occurred. Solely the viewers can resolve whether or not he deserves a second probability — ostensibly one his sufferer won’t ever have.
Stated del Arco: “Scripting this script has stored me on a continuing edge, forcing me to confront deep contradictions. However the act of empathy is exactly what makes us human. Attempting to place oneself in one other’s place is, I imagine, the one manner we will transfer ahead as a society.”
Expressing his full confidence in del Arco and his forged, Sideral’s Roberto Butragueño stated: “’Los Relatos’ is a daring, needed challenge, filled with sensitivity.”
The drama explores the emotional and ethical complexities that come up when a assassin decides to confront his previous moderately than vanish into anonymity. It delves into the wants of victims and their households as they search to reclaim dignity within the aftermath of violence. At its core, the story examines the uneasy coexistence of reintegration and justice, the opportunity of forgiving the unforgivable and the pursuit of redemption within the face of irreparable hurt.
“What’s actually invaluable about this movie is the variety of questions it raises. We might love for ‘Los Relatos’ to be an accessible proposal for audiences, with out giving up on exploring the human points that generate contradictions, doubts and even rejection,” stated Aquí y Allí Movies’ Pedro Hernández.
Based by Butragueño of Elamedia Estudios, Sideral first made its debut presenting characteristic challenge “Cheaper Than Stealing” on the Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market two years in the past. It launched with a robust slate of twenty-two titles in both manufacturing, distribution or gross sales. These included Javier Rebollo’s “Within the Sultan’s Bedchamber” and “I Have Electrical Goals” from Costa Rican Locarno a number of winner, Valeria Maurel.
Its distribution unit, led by Maria Oliva, has a slew of high-profile pics slated to launch, together with Michel Franco’s “Goals” starring Jessica Chastain, and “The Chronology of Water,” starring Imogen Poots, Thora Birch and Jim Belushi.
Different Sideral options in manufacturing are Anxos Fazàns’s “Damaged Traces” (“Las lineas discontinues”), Manuel Gómez Pereira’s “The Dinner” (“La Cena”) and Igor Legarreta’s “Blind Ants” (“Las ciegas hormigas”).
