{"id":780128,"date":"2026-05-07T17:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780128\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:38:18","slug":"forastera-trailer-director-alenar-iglesias-explores-family-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780128\/","title":{"rendered":"Forastera Trailer: Director Alenar Iglesias Explores Family Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tZoe Stein plays a holidaying teenager coming of age during a sun-drenched Majorca summer, only to suddenly find herself caring for her grief-stricken family after her beloved grandmother dies in the trailer for Spanish filmmaker\u00a0Lucia Alenar Iglesias\u2019 debut feature, Forastera, set for a theatrical release on May 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStein\u2019s character, Cata, at one point in the trailer is seen putting on a vintage dress that belonged to Catalina, her late grandmother played by (Marta Angelat), and unexpectedly taking on the caretaker role for her heartbroken grandfather in the movie meditation on memory, grief and the ghosts of our pasts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cEnough! Catalina is no longer here! It\u2019s over!\u201d her grandfather Tomeu, played by Spanish acting legend Homar Iglesias, cries out as Cata sees her grandparent\u2019s home gradually overtaken by ants, as her grandmother eerily prophesized just before her untimely death.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tGrasshopper Film\u00a0will release Forastera on May 29 for a weeklong run at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/film-forum\/\" id=\"auto-tag_film-forum_1\" data-tag=\"film-forum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Film Forum<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/new-york-city\/\" id=\"auto-tag_new-york-city_1\" data-tag=\"new-york-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>, with other U.S. dates to follow for the Spanish film. \u201cI couldn\u2019t ask for a better partner in Grasshopper for the theatrical release of Forastera. The first few drafts of Forastera were written in New York, so to be opening at Film Forum in May is a real full-circle moment. I\u2019m very excited to have the opportunity to share this intimate film with a wider audience,\u201d filmmaker\u00a0Alenar Iglesias said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tForastera won the\u00a0FIPRESCI Prize after its world premiere in Toronto. The indie drama also stars\u00a0Nuria Prims,\u00a0 Martina Garc\u00eda and\u00a0Nonni Ardal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Spanish-Swedish-Italian co-production is produced by\u00a0Ariadna Dot, Marta Crua\u00f1as, Tono Folguera, B\u00e0rbara Ferrer, Cesc Mulet, Olivier Guerpillon, Marta Reguera\u00a0and\u00a0Giovanni Pompili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Stein plays a holidaying teenager coming of age during a sun-drenched Majorca summer, only to suddenly find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,319327,53,403,77123,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-780128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-film-forum","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-toronto-film-festival","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534516636787184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}