Rodar y Rodar Cine y Televisión (Spain): 3

The Spanish biographical drama film, The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018), directed by Mar Targarona, is set in 1943 during the height of World War II. Life in the Mauthausen camp is a merciless and cruel existence for its inmates, including soldiers who fought and lost in the Spanish Civil War. These men were exiled from Spain by General Franco after his victory, considered ‘no man’s land’ and gifted to the Third Reich as free labor. Against this backdrop of eternal horror and brutality inflicted by Nazis and Kapos (violent inmate guards), a young man named Francesc Boix struggles to survive as a ...

Boy Missing (2016) is a Spanish mystery thriller directed by Mar Targarona and written by Oriol Paulo. The film features Blanca Portillo in the lead role. Víctor, a young boy, is discovered wandering along a country road. His mother, Patricia, a prominent lawyer known for handling high-profile cases that receive media attention, is informed of her son’s safe return. After Victor is taken to the hospital, Patricia joins him and explains that her son is both deaf and mute, using sign language as his mode of communication which may have caused his silence towards the ...

The Spanish mystery thriller film The Body (2012), co-written and directed by Oriol Paulo, follows Inspector Jaime Peña as he looks into an accident that has left night watchman Ángel Torres in a coma. Security footage reveals Ángel fleeing from his job at the morgue before being struck by a car. Peña is then informed that Mayka Villaverde, a middle-aged and wealthy businesswoman who was married to a younger man, has disappeared from the morgue after suffering a heart attack on a business trip. Her widower, Álex Ulloa, is shocked to hear this news while in the company of his young mistress, Carla Miller. While at the ...