A Contracorriente Films will distribute the film in cinemas in Spain before it comes exclusively to Movistar Plus+. Goodfellas are handling international sales.
Filming is already underway on The Beloved (El ser querido), the new Movistar Plus+ original film by Rodrigo Sorogoyen that will be filmed on location in Fuerteventura and Madrid over 10 weeks.
With a script by Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña, The Beloved stars Javier Bardem and Victoria Luengo.
After years of estrangement, an acclaimed director and his daughter, a struggling actress, make a movie together and are forced to confront a troubled past neither of them has wanted to face.
The Beloved is an original Movistar Plus+ film in co-production with Caballo Films and El Ser Querido AIE. Co-produced by Le Pacte and in association with Canal+ in France, with funding from the ICAA and Creative Europe Media and the support of the ICEC and the Community of Madrid.
The film will be released in cinemas and distributed by A Contracorriente Films. It will later become exclusively available on Movistar Plus+. Goodfellas will handle international sales.
The creative duo Sorogoyen-Peña returns to Movistar Plus+
Sorogoyen is one of the most recognised Spanish filmmakers. He has just released the series Los años nuevos (The New Years), which had its world premiere in the official Out of Competition section at the Venice International Film Festival, and is returning to feature films after the award-winning As Bestas (The Beasts), co-written with Isabel Peña and which received multiple awards, including the César Award for Best Foreign Film and nine Goya Awards, including Best Film, Direction and Original Screenplay.
Sorogoyen and Peña together form a solid and highly-regarded creative partnership that has also produced films such as Que Dios nos perdone (May God Save us), Silver Shell for Best Screenplay, El reino (The Realm), seven Goya awards, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, the feature film Madre (Mother), premiered at the Venice Film Festival, Stockholm and the series Apagón (Offworld), as well as the acclaimed Antidisturbios (Riot Police), Sorogoyen and Peña’s television debut. In 2019, Sorogoyen also received an Oscar® nomination for the short film Madre.
