Rafael Cobos, a Canneseries Winner, World Premieres His Feature Debut ‘Golpes,’ Capturing a Spain ‘Unable to Settle Its Score With the Past’

Rafael Cobos, whose “The Left-Handed Son” won Canneseries short form top prize in 2022, has just world premiered “Golpes,” his feature film debut which looks likely to consecrate him as one of Spain’s major new directorial voices.

Best-known as the co-scribe of Alberto Rodríguez – co-penning 2014 Goya best picture winner “Marshland” and 2017’s “The Plague,” Movistar Plus’ first big series, both set in or near Cobos’ native Seville – Cobos returns to the city again in “Golpes.” It stars three-time Goya winner Luis Tosar, and produced by Borja Pena and Emma Lustres at Vaca Films with France’s Playtime, part of the Vuelta Group, which also handles worldwide sales.

“Golpes” is set in the summer of 1982, as Spain gallops, it seems, to a modern, democratic future, seven years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

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