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Close Your Eyes

Directed and co-written by celebrated Spanish filmmaker Victor Erice (The Spirit of the Beehive), this engrossing and powerful drama is a poignant meditation on memory, forgetting, ageing and cinema itself. With a talented Spanish ensemble cast that includes Manolo Solo, José Coronado, Ana Torrent and Mario Pardo, the film is co-produced by UK-based Vodafone.

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A film production in the 1990s was abandoned after the lead actor, Julio Arenas (José Coronado) - and close friend of the director Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo) - went missing in mysterious circumstances. Reconnecting in the present day with the film’s crew, as well as those who knew Julio well, Miguel tries to unravel the mystery of his friend’s disappearance via a new project.