Co-produced with Arte France, and one of the most anticipated of new shows from Movistar Plus, “Killing a Bear” (“Matar a un oso”) will also bow in the national competition, with top showrunners Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo and cast on hand.
Inspired by real events, the six-parter centers on the first criminal investigation in Spain into the killing of a wild animal, following the death of bear Cachou in the Pyrenees’ Aran Valley in 2020. In the title roles are Eduard Fernández, María Rodríguez Soto, Miki Esparbé, Pol López, Nora Navas and Àlex Monner.
Filming of ‘Killing a Bear’
Based on the diaries of Dutch writer Etty Hillesum, Arte France’s banner drama turns on a young woman’s turbulent affair with her psychologist against the background of a contemporary Nazi-occupied Amsterdam which promotes Hillesum to take a extraordinary and exemplary ethical stand. It will arrive in Barcelona after festival runs in Venice -out of competition- and Series Mania.
Hagai Levi’s series ‘Etty’
Courtesy of Anne Wilk
In another genre, “Dirty Business” to be showcased in Spain on Movistar Plus, is a factual drama ordered by Channel 4, in which David Thewlis and Jason Watkins play two unlikely detectives, investigating an environmental disaster.
Other sections focus on immigration, with Belgium’s “The Best Immigrant” and Germany’s “All Heroes Are Bastards” as well as comedy in all its shapes.
Making their Spanish debut are NBC’s US sports mockumentary “The Fall and Rose of Reggie Dinkins,” Focus Features’ “Lorne,” about Saturday Night Live’s creator Lorne Michaels, and TVNZ’s parody of spy pics “New Zealand Spy.”
