Calle Malaga, FilmAfternoon

Maria Angeles, 74, leads a quiet life within the close-knit Spanish community of Tangier, Morocco. Her world wavers when her daughter Clara comes from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has lived her whole life. Determined to stay in the city that shaped her, Maria fights to keep her home and her memories. During that struggle, she discovers, to her own surprise, the power of love and desire again. After conquering both critics and audiences with Le Bleu du Caftan, director Maryam Touzani returns with a new, warm, and deeply human film: Calle Málaga. An intimate and at the same time universal story that once again confirms her talent for telling emotions with great finesse. The film is carried by the impressive performance of Carmen Maura, a true icon of Spanish cinema and muse of Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, Matador, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). On screen, she plays a lively and free woman who refuses to be limited by her age and who celebrates life in all its complexity. Direction: Maryam Touzani Genre: drama, romance 116’