La mancha negra

Set in 1971 in Aljarria, a small town in southern Spain, 'La mancha negra' focuses on the wake of Doña Matilde Cisneros. On the one hand, his three daughters, Modesta, Manuela, Mercedes Eugenio and, on the other, Eugenio, the eldest son of Doña Matilde whom his own mother expelled from the village 15 years before. But what about Matilde?s inheritance? During the night of the wake all the hatred, resentment, frustration and the darkest secrets of the Cisneros will come out before the present body of his mother. With Don Andrés, the priest of the town, antagonizing the unfortunate neighbors of Aljarria with the family.

The third film by director Enrique García has a choral cast consisting of actors Pablo Puyol, Virginia DeMorata, Juanma Lara, Natalia Roig and Cuca Escribano.

" 'La mancha negra' was the first feature film script I wrote in 2005, when I was making the long late-night press closures. That 14 years later I was shooting the film with a quarry of actors from the earth who do not stop giving truth in every plane is for me a celebration of cinema that goes from Carlos Saura to Hitchcock. From Agatha Christie to Lorca. From Sam Peckimpah to Miguel Delibes," explains Garcia.

The film has had a successful tour of numerous international film festivals, which have reported a total of 20 awards.