{"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 &#8211; Japan, Sao Paulo, Casablanca, Guadalajara &#8211; Mexico, Reykjavik, &#8230;).\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}]}}