2024 film
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Spanish | Los Tortuga |
Directed by | Belén Funes |
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Cinematography | Diego Cabezas |
Edited by | Sergio Jiménez |
Music by | Paloma Peñarrubia |
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Distributed by | A Contracorriente Films |
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The Exiles (Spanish: Los Tortuga) is a 2024 drama film directed by Belén Funes. It stars Antonia Zegers and Elvira Lara.
Plot
The plot tracks a mother-daughter relationship, in which both parts are mourning the passing of Julián, with the mother (Delia, Julián's wife) being a Chilean taxi driver in Catalonia and the daughter (Anabel; Julián's daughter) holding a close relationship to the land of Jaén, from which her father emigrated. They both face eviction from their apartment in Collblanc [es], acquired by a vulture fund.
Cast
- Elvira Lara as Anabel
- Antonia Zegers as Delia
- Mamen Camacho as aunt Inés
- Lorena Aceituno
- Pedro Castellano
- Pedro Romero
Production
The film is a Spanish-Chilean co-production by Oberon Media, La Claqueta PC, Quijote Films, and Los Tortuga AIE. It was shot in between the provinces of Barcelona and Jaén in late 2023.
Release
The Exiles was presented in September 2024 in the 'Centrepiece' section of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It is expected to be released theatrically in Spain on 15 November 2024 by A Contracorriente Films.
Reception
Michael Talbot-Haynes of Film Threat wrote that "there are times where The Exiles is so real that you can feel the air around the characters on the hairs of your arms".
See also
Release
- Martos, David (13 September 2024). "Kinótico Extra. 'Los Tortuga', la historia de duelo y exilio de Belén Funes, se lanza en Toronto". Kinótico.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (29 August 2024). "EXCLUSIVA: Teaser poster de Los Tortuga, programada en la sección Centrepiece de Toronto". Cineuropa.
- Velasco Martín-Grande, Marcos (29 August 2024). "De 'La virgen roja' a 'La habitación de al lado': El cine español que queda este 2024". Ecartelera.
- ^ Talbot-Haynes, Michael (25 September 2024). "The Exiles (Los Tortuga)". Film Threat.
- ^ "The Exiles". Film Factory Entertainment. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ^ Rivera, Alfonso (13 June 2024). "Belén Funes da los últimos retoques a su segundo largometraje, Los Tortuga". Cineuropa.
- Casas, Quim (10 September 2024). "Lo último del cine español se luce en el Festival de Toronto". La Opinión A Coruña. Prensa Ibérica.
- 2024 films
- Films shot in the province of Barcelona
- Films set in Catalonia
- Films set in Andalusia
- Films shot in the province of Jaén (Spain)
- 2024 drama films
- 2020s Spanish films
- 2020s Chilean films
- 2020s Spanish-language films
- La Claqueta PC films
- Films about internal migration
- Films about taxis
- Films about mother–daughter relationships
- Films about immigration to Spain
- Films about social realism
- Films about eviction in Spain
- Spanish drama films
- Chilean drama films