2024 - 69th Edition

The New Years Part 1

Los años nuevos Parte 1

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sandra Romero, David Martín de los Santos

Spain

- 2024

Special screening

Estreno nacional

The 69th edition of SEMINCI premieres in Spain, after its out-of-competition screening at the Venice Film Festival, Los años nuevos, a 10-episode series distributed by Movistar Plus+. One of the most eagerly awaited Spanish television productions of the year, it is directed and scripted by a team led by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (El reino, Que Dios nos perdone). The filmmaker returns to the television format, where he already directed the outstanding Antidisturbios, after winning nine Goya awards with As bestas (best film, director and original screenplay, among them) at the last edition of the awards. The plot of Los años nuevos, written by Sara Cano, Paula Fabra and Sorogoyen, together with Marina Rodríguez Colás and Antonio Rojano, covers the ten-year relationship of a couple in their thirties, Ana (Iría del Río) and Óscar (Francesco Carril) from 2015 to the present day. From the moment they meet and fall in love until their relationship goes hopelessly wrong. The good and bad moments of any couple; the doubts and the hurts; the feelings and the absence of them; along with the work and family circumstances and the friends that surround them and influence the couple's life. The series, directed by Sorogoyen, Sandra Romero (Por donde pasa el silencio) and David Martín de los Santos (La vida era eso), manages to delve into a couple's relationship, into what could have been and wasn't, into love and its wear and tear. He weaves these everyday moments into a melancholic tapestry of the passage from youth to maturity, of how we become the people we want to be, and the blur between the life we have and the life we wanted to have.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sandra Romero, David Martín de los Santos

Born in Madrid in 1981. After filming several short films, he made his feature film debut when he was barely 25 years old with ‘8 citas’, co-directed with Peris Romano. In 2012 he directed ‘Stockholm’, which won multiple awards at the Malaga Film Festival and a Goya for best new actor. In 2016 he released ‘May God Save Us’, which won best script at the San Sebastian

Film Festival and a Goya for best leading actor, and a year later he released the short film ‘Madre’, which earned him a Goya award and an Oscar nomination. With ‘The Candidate’ (2018) he won thirteen Goya nominations and seven statuettes, a year later he competed at the Venice Film Festival with ‘Madre’ (best actress award in the Orizzonti section), and in 2022 he presented ‘The Beasts’ at Cannes, awarded with nine Goyas including best film. His filmography also includes series like ‘Antidisturbios’ (2020), ‘Stories to Stay Awake’ (2021), ‘Apagón’ (2022) and ‘The New Years’ (2024), presented out of competition at Venice.

O.V. in Spanish subtitled in English and Spanish

Fri. 18, 21:00

Teatro Zorrilla

Presentation

Part 1

Sat. 19, 10:30

Sala Fundos

Part 1

Los años nuevos ©Ernesto Reguera

Los años nuevos Parte 1 ©Manolo Pav n