Barcelona-based studio Filmax, behind a brace of latest titles on the American Movie Market – survival thriller “Balandrau,” time loop comedy-thriller “5 Extra Minutes,” Spanish ladies’s soccer origins story “One other League” – has secured world gross sales rights outdoors Spain to “A Son” which bows Nov. 15 in predominant Worldwide Competitors on the Cairo Movie Competition.
As already introduced, Filmax has home distribution rights to “A Son” in Spain and can launch it in Spanish cinema theaters in the course of the first half of 2026.
“A Son” adapts a Spanish publishing phenomenon, Barcelona author Alejandro Palomas’ illustrated novel “Un Hijo,” translated into over 20 languages. “Un Hijo” additionally gained Spain’s Nationwide Prize for Kids’s and Younger Grownup’s Literature.
A world premiere at Cairo, “A Son” additionally marks the reside motion characteristic debut of well-respected Seville and Madrid-based writer-producer-director Nacho la Casa, who co-penned and directed 2016 animated characteristic “Ozzy.”
La Casa is greatest recognized afterwards for producing two extra toon pics, 2014’s “Superklaus” and this 12 months’s “Norbert.” “A Son,” which he additionally co-wrote, stays on the earth of youngsters, not as a audience however reasonably as its topic.
Co-written by Juan R. Apolo (“When Brooklyn Met Seville”), “A Son” kicks off when María, an inexperienced faculty psychologist, begins to suspect that one thing may be very improper with Guille, 8, new to the varsity, who appears merely immensely and suspiciously completely satisfied, hiding possibly a dramatic scenario with doubtlessly horrible penalties. She determines to decipher Guille’s drawings, in addition to overcome his father’s aggressive resistance to any investigation.
A Son
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“The e book is for no particular age. I had’t learn something about an ‘emotional’ detective of youngsters. One thing’s improper with Guille and what’s improper may be very deep,” Palomas stated when the novel appeared in 2016.
“This highly effective movie explores concern, silence and the delicate bond established between a toddler and the one grownup who dares to take heed to him, the varsity psychologist,” Filmax stated in a press release.
“A Son” stars Macarena García (“La Mesías,” “Home on Hearth”), quick rising as one of many prime actors of her era, and Hugo Silva (“Un amor”) who demonstrated his vary in Movistar Plus+ hit sequence “Marbella.”
“My favorite sorts of movies are people who fire up your feelings, and if there’s one high quality that ‘A Son’ has, it’s exactly that,” stated La Casa. “Once I completed studying the novel, I knew I needed to make it into a movie. ‘A Son’ challenges us as grownups, in addition to taking us again to that innocence of once we have been youngsters. A childhood that’s, sadly, turning into more and more endangered in our society.”
“It is a challenge we’ve been following for a very long time. We all know how deeply so many individuals have been touched by the novel and the expectation round its movie adaptation is large,” added Ivan Díaz, Filmax head of worldwide. “Its current choice on the Cairo Movie Competition is an excellent recognition and proves that it’s a movie able to shifting individuals all over the world over.”
“A Son” is produced by Capitán Araña and Guion Alto, La Casa’s Madrid and Seville labels, in addition to Veleta Movies AIE. It’s backed by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, pay TV/SVOD dinar Movistar+ and Andalusian state TV Canal Sur, and supported by the Andalusian Regional Authorities, the Madrid regional authorities, the Provincial Council of Álava within the Basque Nation and the E.U. Media Program, receiving funding from Spain’s Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO).
