“They throw us from the central neighborhoods for the tourist floors”

It’s here. The twenty -eighth edition of the Malaga Festival, the second most important event in Spanish cinema after the Goya Gala, returns one more year to value the Spanish film industry and serve as a showcase for the best fiction, documentary and short films productions. This 2025, the city of the Costa del Sol will celebrate its most anticipated event from March 14 to 23, in an intense week of cinema that promises to surprise the most cinephiles. Daniel Guzmán has been in charge of giving the departure pistol with The debta social denunciation film that directs, produced and stars. Has told Informalia.

Inaugurate the festival with this feature film supposes for the filmmaker “a luxury and a responsibility”. “Being an official section for us was already a total award. It is very difficult to enter the 15 or 16 films of the year in Malaga and that made us a very special illusion. Then they called us two or three weeks and explained that it would be very interesting that the film opened the festival,” he explained. His desire is to “be up to par.” The “gratitude” for what has been achieved, yes, nobody takes it away.

The also director of Canallas (2022) y Under the same roof (2019) has insisted on the importance of social cinema. Therefore, he presents Lucas on this occasion. The protagonist of the tape tries to get the necessary money to avoid the loss of the house, but a wrong decision will change the rest of their lives. In the case of Guzmán, his work “leaves the experiences”: “In the end, one belongs to a society as an individual and as a collective and the films come out from there, from experiences.”

“In this case, gentrification is a starting point. Right now it is a problem that is very tensioning society because We have no capacity to assume that these people throw to the population of the central neighborhoods for the exploitation of tourist floors. That also avocates you to be a country of services where everything is proposals for tourism, and that changes the identity of a country; Change the roots and the city and geography. So that as a starting point seemed very interesting, but above all The debt It is a love story of different generation people who love each other, take care of and need. Talk about the most vulnerable and how far a person can go for an emotional debt with someone “he commented.

The director tells us that “the life of vulnerable people is much more interesting”, although it is not clear why their taste for drawing characters in little privileged situations. He also believes that it is worth attending to this type of stories. Even the political class, he says, should see this movie: “They should see her all,” he said, “starting with Feijóo, by Ayuso, by Almeida and Abascal.” “I have also said that Pedro Sánchez must see it. And also Pablo Iglesias, Aitor Esteban, Óscar Matute …”.

“Anyway, I would like this movie to see it in Congress in case it makes them question at some point in their life the social difficulties or difficulties for access to housing. Cinema is a good tool to reflect and politicians are also human. So if they can put it on the agenda of social needs as it is being demanded right now, because right now we are at a very complicated moment, it would be wonderful, the truth, “the interpreter sentenced shortly before the start of the gala, at the Cervantes Theater.

Carmen Machi and Ode Diversity Award

The acclaimed Carmen Machi He has been chosen to receive in this edition of the festival a special tribute after a whole trajectory dedicated to fiction. The one who was the protagonist of Aída You will receive the Malaga Award, an award, delivered in collaboration with the newspaper Sur, which recognizes its extensive film tour.

On the other hand, Diversity will shine as part of the whole. It is the main theme that combines all the details of the poster of the Malaga 2025 Festival. “It is the result of a work of narrow and positive collaboration with the direction of the festival. It is about trying The organization explains on its web portal.

Among the most anticipated titles are Sordathe debut in the feature film of Eva Libertad, which has caused a rage after passing through the Berlinalewhere he won the public prize in the Panorama section. It will also be presented To angerGemma Blasco’s first feature film, which already had its premiere at the South By Southwest.