Produced by Galicia’s Kraken Media, Fernando Tato’s “Goodbye, Berta,” a buzzy venture heading for this week’s Málaga Pageant Fund Co-Manufacturing Occasion (MAFF), has added additional manufacturing companions in Spain’s Tornasol Media, behind Academy Award winner “The Secret in Their Eyes,” and Abano Producións, a producer of “Unicorn Wars.”
Disney will deal with the theatrical distribution of “Goodbye, Berta” in Spain.
Kraken Media’s Adrián Castiñeiras and Alba Gallego and director Tato will current the function at MAFF, one of many centrepieces on the Malaga Pageant’s MAFIZ trade discussion board.
Written by Ángela Andrada and Tato, the 2025 MAFF function marks an enlargement of Tato’s 17-minute brief, shot in Galician and Castilian Spanish on location in A Pobra de Caramiñal, a city on the Galician coast and penned and co-starring Andrade.
Within the function, when sister Berta is thrown out of her rehab middle, sister Alicia, who has cast a snug life in Galician capital Santiago de Compostela, feels obliged to return to Pobra do Caramiñal, the place she was born. “This reunion marks the start of an emotional journey for the 2 sisters, the place love and resentment intertwine and the previous turns into a burden too heavy to neglect,” the logline ends.
The screenplay for the function gained the 2023 twentieth SGAE Julio Alejandro Screenplay Award, one of the prestigious script plaudits in Spain. It additionally took an Rising Award on the 2023 D’A Movie Lab Producers Meet Producers. The function is being developed with the help of the Galician Company for Cultural Industries, Xunta de Galicia.
“Adeus, Berta is a movie that, with a unique perspective from the standard, addresses the battle of [Galicia’s] so-called ‘misplaced technology,’ younger individuals who, within the Nineteen Eighties, fell into the abyss of medication after the inclusion of drug trafficking in Galicia,” stated Tato.
“Informed from a deeply identity-driven perspective, the viewpoint is that of the collateral injury. The movie explores common themes, equivalent to household relationships and their disintegration, the way of living, empathy, ache, and above all, love,” he added.
Additionally an actor (“Pulsaciones,” “Lobos e cordeiros”), Tato heads up venture growth at Kraken Media, together with screenwriting and path. He has directed a string of shorts: “Selfpain” (2018), “Uganda” (2018), “El Jefe” (2019), “Fracturas” (2021), “A Entrevista” (2022), “Compañeiros” (2022) and “Te quiero demasiadas veces” (2023), climaxing in “Adeus, Berta” (2024).
Goodbye, Berta
Tato additionally helmed net sequence “Delicias Amargas” (2021), a winner on the 2023 Premios Mestre Mateo 2023. His function screenplay “El fin de la verdad” took the Daniel Domínguez prize for finest Galician-language screenplay.
“The language of the unique model of the function will probably be in Galician since it’s the language wherein the household relates, initially from a small city on the Galician coast with a really specific accent of that space wherein nobody makes use of one other language,” famous Loureiro.
“After they relate within the metropolis the place one of many protagonists works, Santiago de Compostela, they may converse in Spanish. One thing that occurs loads in Galicia, the place Galician is used within the intimacy of the house and Spanish from outdoors doorways,” she added.
Bi-lingual Spanish movies in Catalan and Castilian Spanish, the Spanish spoken in Latin America, have started to be embraced in Spain, as was the case of “El 47,” which grossed $4.3 million in Spain, and shared the Spanish Academy best-picture Goya in February.
“For Tornasol Media, it’s essential to find expertise and new voices. ‘Goodbye, Berta’ gained the SGAE Julio Alejandro Screenplay Award, we cherished the screenplay, and we enthused by the thought or working with Chelo and Fernando Tato’s manufacturing home,” Besuievsky added. “For us, Galicia is a second dwelling, since we’ve shot a whole lot of movies there and Galician cinema has immense expertise and potential.”
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