Laura Baumeister’s “What Follows Is My Death,” Alvaro Brechner’s “La piel de león” and Pablo Stoll’s “Dad Is No Punk Rocker” feature among 15 projects set to be unveiled at San Sebastián’s 2025 Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, the Spanish festival’s biggest industry centrepiece.
11 of the 15 projects are first or second features. That said, 2025’s lineup may be the most powerful to date. Counting producers and directors, the lineup features an Oscar winner – Spain’s Tornasol Media – a co-writer of an Academy Award nomination – Jacques Toulemonde and at least five directors and three producers who have had titles at Cannes, including multiple winners.
Baumeister’s second feature after “Daughter of Rage,” a high-profile Toronto player and San Sebastián winner, “What Follows Is My Death” is a “transgender story, narratively speaking: risky and entertaining” which “plays with the mixing of genres, starting from a realistic register and then taking...
11 of the 15 projects are first or second features. That said, 2025’s lineup may be the most powerful to date. Counting producers and directors, the lineup features an Oscar winner – Spain’s Tornasol Media – a co-writer of an Academy Award nomination – Jacques Toulemonde and at least five directors and three producers who have had titles at Cannes, including multiple winners.
Baumeister’s second feature after “Daughter of Rage,” a high-profile Toronto player and San Sebastián winner, “What Follows Is My Death” is a “transgender story, narratively speaking: risky and entertaining” which “plays with the mixing of genres, starting from a realistic register and then taking...
- 8/11/2025
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
The cinematic offering titled “Nora” ushers us into the world of its eponymous protagonist, Nora. She is a woman adrift in that particularly turbulent sea of early-middle-age motherhood, where the daily squalls of packed lunches and school drop-offs for her young daughter, Sadie, threaten to capsize any lingering vessel of a former self.
The narrative sets sail as Nora, with Sadie in tow, returns to the stagnant waters of her hometown. Her husband, Leo, a figure notable primarily for his absence, leaves Nora to navigate not only the choppy transition of Sadie into kindergarten but also the treacherous currents of a past she perhaps thought she’d outrun. There’s an almost palpable hum beneath the surface here, a suggestion that Nora’s life once played out in a different, possibly louder, key.
The Phantom Limb of Fame: Nora’s Dissonant Present
Nora, as she stumbles through PTA meetings and hometown encounters,...
The narrative sets sail as Nora, with Sadie in tow, returns to the stagnant waters of her hometown. Her husband, Leo, a figure notable primarily for his absence, leaves Nora to navigate not only the choppy transition of Sadie into kindergarten but also the treacherous currents of a past she perhaps thought she’d outrun. There’s an almost palpable hum beneath the surface here, a suggestion that Nora’s life once played out in a different, possibly louder, key.
The Phantom Limb of Fame: Nora’s Dissonant Present
Nora, as she stumbles through PTA meetings and hometown encounters,...
- 5/29/2025
- by Arash Nahandian
- Gazettely
Veeps, the live-streaming platform co-founded by Joel and Benji Madden and owned by Live Nation, has expanded its business to include narrative films, with the indie motherhood dramedy “Nora” among the first available titles.
Following a theatrical release by Suncatcher Productions and Blonde Dog Productions, “Nora” will make its global streaming debut via Veeps on Saturday, May 24.
The feature film — written, directed by and starring Anna Campbell — follows Nora, a singer-songwriter who gives up her music career and settles in suburbia to raise her child. But, as the film’s logline explains, “her dreams have other plans” — meaning that, as Nora contends with a precocious child, a new home and navigating the PTA moms, her musical aspirations live on through whimsical music video fantasies that capture her truth.
Described as “a visceral portrait of a woman in rediscovery,” the lyrical film premiered in March at the Cinequest Film Festival, where...
Following a theatrical release by Suncatcher Productions and Blonde Dog Productions, “Nora” will make its global streaming debut via Veeps on Saturday, May 24.
The feature film — written, directed by and starring Anna Campbell — follows Nora, a singer-songwriter who gives up her music career and settles in suburbia to raise her child. But, as the film’s logline explains, “her dreams have other plans” — meaning that, as Nora contends with a precocious child, a new home and navigating the PTA moms, her musical aspirations live on through whimsical music video fantasies that capture her truth.
Described as “a visceral portrait of a woman in rediscovery,” the lyrical film premiered in March at the Cinequest Film Festival, where...
- 4/28/2025
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
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