SAN SEBASTIAN — Beta Fiction Spain, the distributor of the opening and closing films at this year’s San Sebastian Festival, Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle” and John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” has tapped Arantxa Echevarría to direct its banner Spanish feature, “Dolores.”
Echeverría has already helmed for Beta Fiction “La Infiltrada,” about a police infiltrator in Basque terrorist org ETA, which bows Oct. 11 starring Luis Tosar and Carolina Yuste.
“Dolores,” an upcoming fiction film portrait of Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, a worldwide icon of the workers’ movement and struggle against fascism, was originally announced in 2022 when Beta Fiction Spain launched.
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