Two-year-old girl abducted and flown abroad via Glasgow Airport

Marta Balaga Finland’s Tekele Productions, composed of Julia Elomäki, Miia Haavisto, Marja Pihlaja and Tia Talli, will present three new projects at the Finnish Film Affair this year. “Bad Women” will be shown in the Fiction in Progress section, Variety has learned, while Ulla Heikkilä’s “Viva la Vida” – about a Finnish expat family living in southern Spain – and “The Beast Friend” will make their way to Fiction in Development.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLast year, September’s San Sebastian worked a minor miracle, staging a safe on-site festival as second-wave COVID-19 built up in Spain. This year, on-site attendance will be up, though travel problems, caution and costs in Latin America, the U.S and Asia will prevent a full attendance.That said, this year’s festival, running Sept.

Emily Atack wasted no time heading off for a last-minute summer break as she flew out to sunny Spain the morning after the 2021 National Television Awards.The 31-year-old updated her Instagram followers on her latest adventure as she jetted off with her sister Martha and close pals earlier today. Former The Inbetweeners star Emily dazzled last night as she attended the NTAs, hosted at London's O2 arena and sponsored by OK!.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOpening up what could be a rich vein in Spanish movies coming onto the open market, Film Factory Entertainment has acquired world sales rights outside Spain to “Modelo 77,” the next film by Alberto Rodríguez, director of “Marshland” and “The Plague.”A potential jewel in Spanish cinema’s 2022 crown, “Modelo 77” is produced by Spanish pay TV/VOD giant Movistar Plus and Madrid-based Atípica Films, Rodríguez’s career-long producer.

Spain’s primary film event, the San Sebastian Film Festival, was one of the few major international fests to host a physical edition last year as the pandemic raged around the world. Flash forward 12 months and Covid is far from behind us, but festivals are pushing on in this strange new world.

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The fifth season of Money Heist just premiered on Netflix and stars Jaime Lorente and Esther Acebo are celebrating at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Ester Exposito is looking amazing at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

There are shades of Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square”, if it were remade to target the film world, in Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat’s crowd-pleasing Spanish comedy “Official Competition” starring Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. Controlled pacing, visual punchlines, and an insider knowledge of the varied pretensions within filmmaking make this a consistently amusing – if never downright hilarious – vehicle for the well-honed comic sides of two of Spain’s most famous exports.

“You need to know what kind of country you’re living in!” Janis snaps at Ana — the much younger woman who shared her hospital ward when she was giving birth — in Parallel Mothers, the Venice Film Festival’s opener.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Not bad for a feature debut. “They Carry Death” (“Eles Transportan a Morte”), from first-time Spanish film directors Helena Girón y Samuel M.

Gracie-May Rogers was reported missing to police on Friday after she went missing from her home in Lancaster. The two-year-old girl arrived in Spain on Wednesday after boarding a plane to Alicante at Glasgow Airport, police said.

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