Tag: Clara Roquet
2023 MyMetaStories: 1st Edition includes Roquet’s “Libertad”, Ido’s “Gravity” & Mitevska’s “The Happiest Man in the World”
The selections for the first edition of MyMetaStories - The Innovative European Film Festival were announced and among the seven feature films selected we...
Rebel Rodríguez: Paula Ortiz Traces Footsteps of Spanish Pioneer “Hildegart”
The other day Variety provided an update on Amazon’s Prime Video film items in the works for the Spanish market and one project that...
First Aid: Carlos Marques-Marcet Setting Up “They Will Be Dust”
Filmmaker Clara Roquet is a lucky star for several of her Spain filmmaker contemporaries as we just learned that she has contributed to one...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #76. Antonio Mendez Esparza’s Que nadie duerma
Que nadie duerma
Settling into his fourth feature film (and third fiction following 2020's Courtroom 3H) in February of last year, Spaniard Antonio Mendez Esparza...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #114. Elena Martín’s Creatura
Creatura
Barcelonian actress turned filmmaker Elena Martín (who was among the Spain Stars of Tomorrow 2022) brought her sophomore film project to San Sebastian Film...
Interview: Mounia Akl – Costa Brava, Lebanon
Arriving at TIFF after having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, first-time Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl who actually penned the screenplay with Clara Roquet...
2021 Cannes Critic’s Week: Clara Roquet, Leyla Bouzid & Vincent Le Port Selected
With a half dozen filmmakers vying for the Palme d'Or next month (and worth mentioning actress turned director Hafsia Herzi made the move from...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #77. Clara Roquet’s Libertad
Libertad
Another title we thought would appear in 2020 was the debut of screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014), Jaime Rosales’ Petra...
2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet’s Libertad
We advanced the idea same time last year mentioning that this directorial debut checks off a lot of boxes in terms of the type...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #85. Libertad – Clara Roquet
Libertad
Screenwriter Clara Roquet, who co-wrote Carlos Marques-Marcet’s 10,000km (2014) and Jaime Rosales’ Petra (notably premiered in Cannes 2018 in Directors’ Fortnight) makes her directorial...
The Conversation: Bringing Up Berlin – Predictions for the 2020 Berlinale
Berlin becomes a septuagenarian in 2020. The significant European springboard will also receive a new facelift in the early dawn of the new decade,...
2020 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Clara Roquet, Chad Hartigan, Lee Isaac Chung, Ana Lily Amirpour
Libertad
A burgeoning screenwriter on such films as 10,000 Km (2014) and Jaime Rosales' excellent Petra (2018), Clara Roquet workshopped this project at the 2019...
The Days to Come | 2019 New Horizons Intl. Film Festival Review
Becoming a We: Marques-Marcet Keeps it Real with a Micro-Drama of Love & Pregnancy
Completing a trilogy of sorts about life getting in the way...
Video: Jaime Rosales’ Petra | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Know for his deliberately difficult art-house films it's with this move away tragi-drama bliss where we're left scratching our head thinking why the hell...
