Malaga Festival: With Cinema as the Path and Destination

The Málaga Festival kicked off its twenty-eighth edition with an intimate evening at the Cervantes Theater, where it aimed to defend its trademark and showcase the best content from its newly inaugurated call for entries. Welcome to a nine-day week entirely dedicated to the best of cinema made in Spanish.

 The hypnotic and silky voice of Judeline, accompanied only by a piano and with the lighting of a starry sky on the back screen, opened, in an intimate and collected manner, the inaugural gala of the twenty-eighth edition of the Málaga Festival. Hosted by actress Patricia Montero, who replaced Bárbara Lennie at the last minute, the evening held at the Cervantes Theater presented the best of the ten days (now nine) of upcoming Spanish cinema.

"Culture is the path, let's walk it together through cinema at the Málaga Festival," Montero invited before detailing some of the most significant and promising aspects of the newly inaugurated call. The most applauded by the audience was, undoubtedly, a distinctive fact, a trademark of our festival: its support for cinema directed by women, which this year has materialized in that 60% of the films in the Official Competition Section are directed by women.