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Completed in 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. Images by Stupendastic, Adrià Goula. In the neighborhood of Torre Baró in Barcelona, at the lower part of the Collserola mountain range allowing the geographical exit from the north of...

09/08/2023 - Filming finished a few days ago on this social drama based on real events, produced by Grup Mediapro and starring the same actor as the Catalan filmmaker's previous feature film, Eduard Fernández

Inspired by the simmering one-man rebellion that kicked off a tremendous tide-change in Barcelona, writer-director Marcel Barrena (“Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea”) and Spain’s The Mediapro Studio have begun filming “The 47.” TMS has released first look images. The premise centers on social activist bus driver Manolo Vital, played by three-time Goya Award winner Eduardo […]

The pic tells the story of Manolo Vital, a bus driver who helped create modern Barcelona during the city's 1970s boom.

The film tells true story of a bus driver who, during the city's expansion in the 1970s, help shape the Barcelona of today.

February 25, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — The February 14 elections in Catalonia took place in a phantasmagorical setting created by the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ruling of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia that they had to go ahead despite the danger of an increased infection rate in a country where 20,000 have already died of the pandemic. As a result, 25% of the 90,000 citizens chosen by ballot to staff polling stations requested ex...

Following Catalonia's February 14 election, writes Dick Nichols, pro-independence parties will need to find an agreed path to force the Spanish government to meet the demands of Catalans for amnesty and an independence referendum.