Country: Spain, Romania
Year: 2024
Duration: 113'
Germán is no ordinary driver: he transports women enslaved in brothels along Spain’s Costa del Sol. Broke and lost, he works for Cacho, a childhood friend now managing clubs for a local mafia. One night, Germán glimpses a way out and decides to take his chance — but what seems like an escape becomes a deadly trap. His only remaining option is the same one the girls like Alina dream of: to run.
Biography
film director
Lino Escalera
(Spain) studied film at New York University, then specialized in directing and screenwriting at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. After spending several years in New York, he returned to Madrid, where he worked as an assistant director and studied acting. His short film Elena quiere (2007) was screened and awarded at several festivals. In 2017, he made his feature debut with No sé decir adiós, which premiered in Málaga and went on to win over thirty international awards (notably in Manchester and Marseille), as well as being recognized at the Goya Awards, where lead actress Nathalie Poza won Best Actress. That same year, he also directed Australia, nominated for Best Fiction Short Film at the Goyas. In the following years, he worked with Netflix (Elite, 2018) and HBO (Escenario 0: The Mariachis, 2020). Hamburgo is his second feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Elena quiere (cm, 2007), No sé decir adiós (2017), Australia (cm, 2017), Elite (serie tv, 2018), Escenario 0: The Mariachis (serie tv, 2020), Hamburgo (2025).
Declaration
film director
“Directing Hamburg was an incredibly intense experience, both personally and professionally. The journey of recent years has taken me to places – both internal and external – that I might not have reached otherwise. Although the film explores themes already present in my debut feature – addiction, the distortion of reality, denial of pain, loneliness, and the need for communication – this time I do so through a genre I’ve always loved: film noir. Above all, it allowed me to dive deep into the world of human trafficking, portraying it with rawness and empathy.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Lino Escalera. SCREENPLAY: Lino Escalera, Daniel Remón, Roberto Martín Maiztegui. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Juana Jiménez. EDITING: Miguel Doblado. MUSIC: Marius Leftarache. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Sonia Nolla. COSTUME DESIGN: Charlotte Chadwick. SOUND: Antonio Mejías, Roberto Fernández, Marius Leftarache. CAST: Jaime Lorente, Ioana Bugarin, Roger Casamajor, Tamara Casellas, Asia Ortega, Manolo Caro, Mona Martínez, Antonio Buil. PRODUCTION: Antonio Asensio, Paloma Molina, José Nolla, Cristina Zumárraga, Pablo Bossi, José Alba, Rodrigo Ruiz-Tarazona per Zeta Cinema, Icónica Producciones and Tandem Films. COPRODUCTION: Pecado Films, Cinelabs.
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