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Conquering NantesJAVIER YUSTEEl Cultural 03/04/2014Nantes Spanish Film Festival begins this Thursday with a packed programme of Spanish films made in 2013 and guests as important as David Trueba, Álex de la Iglesia and Javier Cámara.‘Colloquiums are all the same at festivals all over the world, except at Nantes’. This is the impression director Mar Coll came away with after her talk at the Spanish Film Festival held in the capital of the Loire. On that occasion, in 2010, she was presenting Tres días con la familia, and although back then she was just starting to make a name for herself on the Spanish film scene, the host of questions the audience had prepared for her was worthy of a world-famous filmmaker. ‘It’s very encouraging’, Coll explains. ‘I’m really excited to be going backbecause it’s a festival that functions very well. The audience is very demanding and comes from a very wide cultural background. And the cinemas are always packed’.The Catalan director will have the privilege of opening the festival on Thursday the 3rd with her latest film Todos queremos lo mejor para ella.For the following 13 days, Nantes will become the nerve centre of Spanish cinema. Its four competitive sectors (Official, Opera Prima, Documentaries and Short) and the rest of the programme provide an almost perfect overview of the films premiered in 2013, with more than 60 films never previously shown in France ranging from the most commercial to the riskier. For example, the four films nominated for last year’s Goya awards will beCinema184Results ‘14