Best known in Hollywood for playing opposite Adam Sandler in “Spanglish,” Spanish actor Paz Vega is set to direct “Ana No,” a feature film starring Angela Molina (“That Obscure Object of Desire”) and sold at this year’s Cannes Festival by Film Factory Entertainment.
“Ana No” marks Vega’s second movie as a director after the well-received “Rita,” which world premiered in 2024 at Locarno’s Piazza Grande.
Set in late’60s Spain, “Ana No” turns on widow Ana, 75, who senses she has little time to live. Closing her home for ever in a tiny village in Almería, southern Spain, she sets off on an odyssey to see her only son who survived the Spanish Civil War – jailed for the last 30 years in Northern Spain. The journey proves a belated act of self-discovery.
Ana’s odyssey becomes an “intimate heart-rending epic which will move spectators deeply with its realism and rawness,” said Vega, who will present Ana no” at Cannes on May 17.
“Her journey towards death will also be a portrait of a a court wounded by a war between brothers, and of a generation of women silenced and forgotten,” Vega added. The film will be a cinema of atmosphere, suggesting rather than explaining, of a strange beauty.”
