In 2023, in a matter of months, Angela Cervantes (Barcelona, ​​​​1993) chained the filming of the drama The fury, about an aspiring actress traumatized by rape, and the essays of the play Pack, about the victim of the Manada. A brutal immersion in the consequences of sexual violence that took a toll on her emotionally. Now, however, the fruits of that effort are beginning to arrive in the form of awards. like the one that won at the Malaga Festival for the role in The fury, which opens D'A this Thursday and is released in theaters the following day.

The furyGemma Blasco's powerful second feature film, is a film made entirely from the gut. When Alex, a neighborhood girl who aspires to become a professional actress, guts a freshly hunted wild boar in her aunt's backyard, Blasco's camera lingers on the details: first, the intestines, and finally, the heart. It is an unusually graphic scene in recent Spanish cinema (although it dialogues beautifully with The viscera, the fantastic short film by Elena López Riera), and which contrasts with the black screen with which Blasco films –leaving it out of the visual field, but not the sound– the most violent act of a film marked, from beginning to end, by violence: the brutal rape suffered by Alex during a night out.

The Malaga Film Festival continues to be a good time for Catalan cinema, which once again dominates the awards list by a landslide. Catalan productions Deaf, The Turtles, The fury and Very far They take a good part of the awards in the official section, and the film Breakfast with me, by playwright Ivan Morales, has swept the Zonacine section. The Golden Bisnaga for best film has gone to Deaf, directed by Eva Libertad, which also took home the Audience Award; in addition, the film's two leads, Murcia's Miriam Garlo and Barcelona's Álvaro Cervantes, won the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively. In Garlo's case, she shared the award with Ángela Cervantes, for The fury. A big party at Can Cervantes, then. The men's category has also been ex aequo, because in addition to the role of Álvaro Cervantes in Deaf has recognized Mario Casas in Very far, his first film in Catalan.