EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Golden Shell-winning director Isaki Lacuesta is set to direct the drama Close To Me, about two friends growing up in the 1980s in a small Catalan town, with Global Constellation handling international sales. Sergi López, Àlex Brendemühl and Alba Guilera are set to star.
The film follows Ivan, whose life is upended when his best friend Jan disappears. When he discovers Jan’s hiding place, the two enjoy a fleeting sense of freedom before a traumatic event exposes darker truths. It is inspired by an event that occurred when Lacuesta was a teenager and has haunted him ever since.
The producers are the Oscar-nominated team behind Society Ot The Snow, director Juan Antonio Bayona and producers Belén Atienza and Sandra Hermida.
Principal photography is set for this summer in the countryside around Banyoles, Lacuesta’s hometown, following an initial shoot carried out during the winter months.
Close To Me is a Spain-Belgium co-production with Belgian producer Benoit Roland. Backers include 3Cat, RTVE, Movistar Plus+, HBO Max and Netflix, with support from Catalan and Spanish film bodies ICEC and ICAA.
Bteam Pictures will distribute theatrically in Spain.
“Isaki Lacuesta brings extraordinary emotional precision and cinematic beauty to a profoundly moving story of friendship, trauma, resilience and self-discovery,” said Global Constellation’s Fabien Westerhoff of Lacuesta’s script.”With such an exceptional creative team behind the project, we are thrilled to introduce the film to buyers in Cannes.”
Lacuesta’s credits include Between Two Waters, The Double Steps or One Year, One Night.
Global Constellation is part of the pan-European Vuelta Group,
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