The Malaga Film Festival was born in 1998 and has been successfully celebrating its festivities every year since them. It is a way to promote Spanish films and with each year it is receiving more and more attention from European countries and beyond.

The festival promotes documenters as well as short length and feature films. The contestants premier their works this week and then awards are given out in different categories. This year the film about the life of the singer and dancer Lola Flores opened the festival and will compete along with 17 other  new films for the award – the local Biznaga de Oro.

The festival ends on March 17^th rounding up the best of the best. All movies are shown in the Cervantes Theater with parties and forums throughout the city.

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