anna Alarcón to Lead Liliana Torres’ ‘Climacteric‘

LOCARNO, Switzerland – Anna Alarcón, co-star of Liliana Torres’ South by Southwest winner “mamífera” is attached to take the lead in Torres’ follow-up “Climacteric,” which is being brought onto the market at Locarno’s Match Me! networking forum.

In a parallel move, Barcelona-based boutique studio Filmax has acquired Spanish theatrical distribution rights to “Climacteric,” which is produced, like “Mamífera,” by Barcelona’s Distinto Films and Edna Cine.

Also written by Torres, “Climacteric” (“Climateri”) sees Selva (Alarcón) beginning to experience strange physical sensations after the death of her mother. She travels to her hometown to sell the family house, little knowing she will never return to her pleasant urban life-style. In the rural town she will discover that stockbreeding is ravaging the local landscape. The doctor diagnoses that she is suffering a premature menopause. But her conversion will go beyond the limits of the human body to vindicate the fight of nature to survive.

“With ‘mamifera,’ Liliana Torres talked about a subject that had not been much addressed in the cinema until then: the desire not to be a mother, in a sensitive and profound way, which provoked a very positive response from women who finaly saw themselves represented on the screen,” said producer Carla Sospedra Salvadó at Edna Cine, who is presenting the project to potential international partners at Locarno Pro’s Match me!