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2006 | B/N | 119:00

Spain, 1944. The Spanish Civil War is officially over, but a small rebel group continues to fight in the mountainous northern region of Navarra. Ten-year-old Ofelia moves to Navarra with her pregnant mother to meet her stepfather, a fascist captain determined to annihilate the rebels. The captain lives in a decrepit mill with a tumbledown labyrinth behind it. There lives Pan, a satyr who claims to know the girl’s true identity and fate.


Direction: del Toro; Guillermo
Script: del Toro; Guillermo
Production: Torresblanco; Frida, Augustín; Álvaro, Cuarón; Alfonso, Navarro; Bertha, del Toro; Guillermo
Photography: Navarro; Guillermo
Sound: Polo; Miguel
Music: Navarrete; Javier
Cast:López; Sergi, Baquero; Ivana, Verdú; Maribel, Jones; Doug, Angulo; Alex, Gil; Ariadna
Art direction: Caballero; Eugenio
Participation year at FICM: 2017

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Pan’s Labyrinth

El laberinto del fauno

The year is 1944. Thirteen-year-old Ofelia and her mother Carmen move to a small town due to the work of her stepfather, a cruel captain in the Francoist army whose mission is to quell republican resistance in the area. Ofelia discovers the ruins of a labyrinth and meets a faun with an extraordinary revelation for her: she is actually a princess, the last of her lineage, and her people have been awaiting her for a long time.

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Pinocchio

Pinocho

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents Carlo Collodi’s classic tale of the wooden marionette who is magically brought to life in order to mend the heart of a grieving woodcarver named Geppetto. This whimsical, stop-motion film follows the mischievous and disobedient adventures of Pinocchio in his pursuit of a place in the world.

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The Devil's Backbone

Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, The Devil's Backbone tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets.

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