Malaga Best Spanish Film Winner Facing the Wind (Con el Viento) produced by Polar Star Films goes on release with Numax Distribution from 23rd November at selected cinemas across Spain.

After wowing the public at the film’s debut in the Berlinale, Facing the Wind went on to win the Silver Biznaga for Best Film at Malaga Film Festival and gained a Special Mention at D’A Film Festival, Barcelona and has been shown at numerous festivals (San Sebastián, SEMINCI, Abycine, Granada, Cinema Jove, Chicago, Nara – Japan, Sao Paulo, Casablanca, Guadalajara – Mexico, Reykjavik, …).  Now Meritxell Colell’s debut fiction feature sets its sights on cinema audiences across Spain.

Meritxell Colell heads a new generation of talented Catalan, female filmmakers, such as Carla Simón (Summer 1993), Elena Trapé (Las distancias) or Elena Martín (Júlia Ist).

Her debut feature film Facing the Wind is a delicate dissection of human relations and family ties, located in a majestic rural environment that resists disappearing (UNESCO World Heritage site Las Loras in Castilla y León).

Starring four actresses: the dancer Mónica García, Concha Canal, Elena Martín (Las amigas de Ágata, Julia Ist) and Ana Fernández (Goya prize for best new actress for Solas), the film “claims humble inheritance from Oriental filmmakers such as Yasujiro Ozu, Hou Hsiao-Hsien or Naomi Kawase, directors for whom the daily and domestic are the receptacle of a certain transcendental truth” (Manu Yáñez, Fotogramas).

“A ballet of immediate sentiments, melancholy and longing. Cinema that dances while hardly moving” Salvador Llopart, La Vanguardia

“The smallest gestures end up making a dent in the armour of those who left their world behind” Alfonso Rivera, Cine Europa

Facing the Wind is a Spain-Argentina-France coproduction produced by Polar Star Films, Habitación 1520 and Paraiso Production, supported by Eurimages, ICAA, INCAA, Cinéfondation L’Atelier, REC and Sources 2.