The filmmakers Carla Simón and Oliver Lax will compete for the Golden Palm

As much as Pedro Almodóvar, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz They have given us several joys on the red carpet of the Oscar, there is a contest that has been resisting the charm of homeland cinematography for several years. Yes, obviously we refer to Cannes Film Festival. The most relevant author of Europe, which looks from you to you in terms of prestige to American academics, does not reward a Spanish film For more than half a century. Specifically we must go back to 1961, when Luis Buñuel received the gold palm by Viridiana (Ex Aequo with A long absence). However, the announcement of the tapes that will compete in the next official selection have aroused the hope of the Iberian cinephilia: the filmmakers Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe They will participate in the festival’s main award with their next two jobs.

The film curriculum of these two authors in the European artistic circuit is well known. The Catalan director already broke the curse of the Berlin Festival in 2023, when the gold bear took Alcarrásafter almost 40 years of drought from Spanish production in said contest. Consideration that served him little in his corresponding edition of the Goya, where the filmmaker went with a empty questionable in each of the 11 categories in which I was nominated. On the other hand, Laxe is not unknown to the French awards. In 2019 he won the jury award in the section of A Celerin Regardthanks to What burns. Even with the arduous competition to measure themselves from the scene as relevant as Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater either Julia Ducornau (Winner of the Gold Palm in 2021 by Titane), The level and vision demonstrated by Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe offers a wide range of possibilities for “Touch metal” by the Spanish industry. Of course, we will have to wait for your preview in the middle of next month to know the impact of these two feature films through national criticism. The Cannes Film Festival will be held between Tuesday 13 and Saturday May 24. Almost two weeks in which the attention of the seventh art will perch in the Gallic country.

The Hispanic presence to the contest of both will not be the only national accent that will have the 78th edition of Cannes, because as we knew a few days ago the director also Rodrigo Sorogoyen He will preside over the Jury of Critics’ Week. But what about the two new Simon and Laxe films and when we can see them in theaters?

The new Carla Simón and Oliver Laxe

Franco-Spanish author’s bet is called SIRAT And it is produced by Movistar Plus+ and by the desire, the seal of the brothers Almodóvar. The official synopsis is as follows: «A man and his son reach a lost rave in the middle of the mountains south of Morocco. They look for Mar, their daughter and sister, missing months ago at one of those parties without dawn. They distribute their photo again and again surrounded by electronic music and a type of freedom that they do not know. There they decide to follow a group of raveros in the search for a last party that will be held in the desert, where they hope to find the missing girl ». SIRAT It will be screened in the Spanish rooms in The month of June.

Carla Simón’s tape is called Pilgrimage And it is how a classic within his work is already a dramatic reflection on Growth and adolescence. The plot puts us on the skin of the marine, a young woman who travels to Vigo to meet her biological father’s family, who died of AIDS, like her mother, when she was very small. Through the meetings with these, Marina will try to reconstruct the story of her parents. The movie Close the thematic trilogy of family memory of the author, composed of Summer 1993 (2017) and Alcarràs (2022). It will be released in cinemas next September.

OFFICIAL SELECTION: The complete list

Next, we review the official list of the feature films that They will compete for the golden palm:

• The Phoenician plot (Wes Anderson)
• Eddington (ARI ASTER)
• Jeunes Mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
• Alpha (Julia Ducornau)
• Renoir (HAKAWA)
• The History of Sound (Oliver Hermanus)
• The Petite Dernière (Hafsia Herzi)
• SIRAT (Oliver Laxe)
• New vague (Richard Linklater)
• Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
• Fuori (Mario Martone)
• Or secret agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
• Dossier 137 (Dominik Moll)
• A simple accident (Jafar Panahi)
• The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
• Eagles of the Republic (Tarik Saleh)
• Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
• Pilgrimage (Carla Simón)
• Sentimental value (Joachim Trier)