Calle Málaga

12A

Drama · 116 mins · 2025

Director: Maryam Touzani

Starring: Carmen Maura, Marta Etura, Ahmed Boulane, María Alfonsa Rosso, Miguel Garcés

María Ángeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman living alone in Tangier, Morocco, leads a quiet life filled with memories in her modest apartment on Calle Málaga. Her peaceful routine is disrupted when her daughter, Clara, arrives from Madrid determined to sell the family home to ease her financial troubles. Unwilling to leave the city that shaped her, María Ángeles fights to keep her home and reclaim the objects that tell the story of her life. Against the backdrop of contemporary Tangier, her act of resistance becomes a journey of rediscovery—of love, desire, and an unexpected sense of late freedom that challenges the expectations others have imposed on her.
This is the cinematic equivalent of a blissful weekend at the spa, a relaxing respite from the stressful news cycles of our times." G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

Awards

  • Winner | Venice International Film Festival | Audience Award (Venice Spotlight)
  • Winner | Mill Valley Film Festival | Audience Favorite - World Cinema
  • Winner | Tromsø International Film Festival | Audience Award (popular vote)
  • Winner | Mar del Plata International Film Festival | Best Film - International Competition; Audience Award; Best Actress: Carmen Maura

Screenings

  • Oct
    3
    2026
    Edinburgh - Filmhouse
    5.30pm
    Discussion with Nuria Capdevila (University of Exeter) and Mar DIestro-Dópido
Brief nudity and sex, mild bad language

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