Spain chose saturn returnis a biopic about Spanish indie rock band Los Planetas set in the 1990s, and will represent the country in the 2025 Oscar competition for Best International Feature Film.
Directed by Isaac Laquista and Pole Rodriguez, saturn return Premiered at the Malaga Film Festival and won Best Director, Best Editing and Best Spanish Film awards. It has been on the festival circuit, showing at the Seattle Film Festival, the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.
The film focuses on the band’s origin story in Granada in the late 1990s, when Los Planetas were facing a crisis and on the verge of making an album that would change them and the Spanish music scene forever. Starring Daniel Ibáñez, Cristalino, Stephanie Magnin, Marfo, Cesc Ruiz and Edu Rejon saturn return. Lacuesta and Fernando Navarro wrote the screenplay. Ikiru Films, La Terraza Films, Áralan Films, Bteam Prods, Sideral Cinema, Los Ilusos Films and Toxicosmos AIE produced the film, which was distributed in Spain by Bteam Pictures.
Lacuesta’s top features include next skin (2016), between two waters (2018), and One year and one night (2022). Rodriguez directed the 2016 film Si Tong De Pagoda.
Spain is a regular in the Best International Film race, with 21 nominations, most recently for JA Bayona last year Snow Associationand achieved 4 wins.
The submission deadline for the 96th Academy Awards is November 14, 2024. It will be held on Sunday, March 2nd.
