{"id":3312,"date":"2018-11-07T18:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbrainthefilm.com\/_POLARSTARFILMS2020\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2021-03-23T14:20:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:20:58","slug":"facing-the-wind-on-national-release-in-selected-cinemas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/facing-the-wind-on-national-release-in-selected-cinemas\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing the Wind on national release in selected cinemas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaga Best Spanish Film Winner\u00a0<strong><em>Facing the Wind (Con el Viento)<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0produced by Polar Star Films goes on release with\u00a0<strong>Numax Distribution<\/strong>\u00a0from 23rd November at selected cinemas across Spain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/img\/4news\/CON-EL-VIENTO_digital_small.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After wowing the public at the film\u2019s debut in the Berlinale,\u00a0<em>Facing the Wind<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>went on to win the\u00a0<strong>Silver Biznaga for Best Film at Malaga Film Festival<\/strong>\u00a0and gained a\u00a0<strong>Special Mention at D\u2019A Film Festival<\/strong>, Barcelona and has been shown at numerous festivals (San Sebasti\u00e1n, SEMINCI, Abycine, Granada, Cinema Jove, Chicago, Nara \u2013 Japan, Sao Paulo, Casablanca, Guadalajara \u2013 Mexico, Reykjavik, \u2026).\u00a0 Now Meritxell Colell\u2019s debut fiction feature sets its sights on cinema audiences across Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Meritxell Colell heads a new generation of talented Catalan, female filmmakers, such as Carla Sim\u00f3n (<em>Summer 1993<\/em>), Elena Trap\u00e9 (<em>Las distancias<\/em>) or Elena Mart\u00edn (<em>J\u00falia Ist<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Her debut feature film\u00a0<em>Facing the Wind<\/em>\u00a0is a delicate dissection of human relations and family ties, located in a majestic rural environment that resists disappearing (UNESCO World Heritage site Las Loras in Castilla y Le\u00f3n).<\/p>\n<p>Starring four actresses: the dancer M\u00f3nica Garc\u00eda, Concha Canal, Elena Mart\u00edn (<em>Las amigas de \u00c1gata, Julia Ist<\/em>) and Ana Fern\u00e1ndez (Goya prize for best new actress for\u00a0<em>Solas<\/em>), the film \u201cclaims humble inheritance from Oriental filmmakers such as Yasujiro Ozu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien or Naomi Kawase, directors for whom the daily and domestic are the receptacle of a certain transcendental truth\u201d (Manu Y\u00e1\u00f1ez, Fotogramas).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA ballet of immediate sentiments, melancholy and longing. Cinema that dances while hardly moving\u201d Salvador Llopart, La Vanguardia<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smallest gestures end up making a dent in the armour of those who left their world behind\u201d Alfonso Rivera, Cine Europa<\/p>\n<p><em>Facing the Wind<\/em>\u00a0is a Spain-Argentina-France coproduction produced by Polar Star Films, Habitaci\u00f3n 1520 and Paraiso Production, supported by Eurimages, ICAA, INCAA, Cin\u00e9fondation L\u2019Atelier, REC and Sources 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaga Best Spanish Film Winner\u00a0Facing the Wind (Con el Viento)\u00a0produced by Polar Star Films goes on release with\u00a0Numax Distribution\u00a0from 23rd November at selected cinemas across Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4885,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions\/4885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polarstarfilms.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}