Raquel Laguna/ SUCOPRESS. Entrevista con la directora española Arantxa Echevarría, tras la entrega de los Premios PLATINO del Público 2025. Su película La Infiltrada recibió el Premio PLATINO del Público a la Mejor Película Iberoamericana de Ficción. La realizadora nos habla de los retos que enfrentó durante el rodaje de la película, del momento que vive el cine español, así como de sus próximos proyectos. Los Premios PLATINO son promovidos por EGEDA (Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales) y por FIPCA (Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales). Su objetivo es promover y difundir la cinematografía y la industria audiovisual iberoamericana a través de la entrega de galardones a la producción anual de cine y series en castellano y portugués, impulsando su reconocimiento y expansión a nivel mundial. A lo largo de sus ediciones, han contado con sedes en Panamá, España, Uruguay y México, reuniendo a las figuras más destacadas del sector.
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00:00What does it mean for you this nomination to the Platinum Prize for Infiltration?
00:06It means a lot. For me, for the film, but especially for the people who are helping us,
00:13that is the Covid-19, all the people of the victims who are behind us.
00:18And we have won the public prize, so I am already a winner because the public is the most important thing.
00:26What was the biggest challenge in dealing with such a sensitive topic, but so necessary?
00:32There were many challenges. First, I am from the Basque-Vasco, I lived in the era of plomo,
00:37the terrorism in its own own, and then to meet the victims of the victims.
00:44When Amelia Mora and I wrote the script, we thought about the attack of Gregorio Ordóñez,
00:49because it was at 3 o'clock in the middle of a very famous restaurant in Donosti.
00:54It was a social crime, and we had to talk with the family of Ordóñez to ask permission to write it.
01:00And suddenly, you find the victims of those victims, you start to see the pain, you start to see all that happened behind you.
01:08And then you know the police that were in the operation, and you know what we were talking about before.
01:13You start to open with the left hand, if you fly the email and you don't give them to the right.
01:20You start to see the brakes, you start to see all the time that your life has turned out of a hilo.
01:24And you start to keep in the Basque-Vasco, a lot of times.
01:27Many, many. I mean, I didn't know where to put the hand on the issue. It was very complicated.
01:32And how was the work of documentation?
01:34Well, it was long and very beautiful, because, thanks to all, it was Pablo Muñoz,
01:41an interior period of those who know everyone in the entire life,
01:45who started, for two years, doing the search of information, talking to all the 12 policemen
01:51that were in the operation, collecting the information of one, contrasting it with the other,
01:56because the memory has passed a lot of time, and it was also the person with whom we presented
02:02to the Inhumane, to the próprio comissary, to the other police.
02:05He was a little bit our documentalist.
02:08But then, the best was to talk to them, with the police.
02:11They said, I was listening to Sergio Polo, I was listening to Kepa, I was listening to Arancha,
02:17I was listening to Arancha, and that's the most important story of all.
02:20How important is it that the young people of today, who seem to live in another world,
02:25know this part of the history of Spain?
02:28Well, it is important. There is something called history memory that we never would ever forget.
02:32This has happened since nothing.
02:34You and I have the memory of Irene Villa when it was released on the television in direct.
02:39I remember that I was impacted.
02:42They don't know.
02:43Even some, as it is a thing of izquierdas, anti-sistema,
02:48they can even believe that ETA was something interesting, and no, they were murderers.
02:53So, I think that remembering our past does not repeat the same mistakes.
02:58And it is very important that the new generations that did not study it,
03:01did not have lived it, they know what we are talking about.
03:04The movie is not the definitive film of ETA, it does not explain the conflict,
03:08but many young people have told me to see it.
03:10I came home and I looked at the internet and looked at what happened.
03:14That was very important.
03:16What do you mean the Platinum Prize for you?
03:20Well, for me the Platinum is like the closing of a whole trip,
03:23that are the last prizes that there are,
03:26and that better closing than this, the Prize for the Public Prize.
03:29Well, for me it is very interesting,
03:32because it also allows me to connect with other people from other countries,
03:35from Iberoamérica,
03:36where I think they are going to be very bad in the cinema,
03:39countries that are suffering from courts and censorship,
03:45but that have some techniques and some wonderful ideas.
03:48And here in the Vieja Europa,
03:50we are perhaps more tranquil in that aspect,
03:53but we have to realize that everything can happen,
03:56that we have to be prepared for anything,
03:58that we have to fight for the rights of the cinema,
03:59which is always important.
04:00How do you see the role of the women director in the industry?
04:04Well, you know, you know.
04:05But you know what?
04:07I think there are more voices,
04:08and we are more interested in the audience,
04:10and we are more interested in the audience,
04:12which is also important.
04:14The Infiltrata is one of the most tech-year-olds of the year,
04:18and it is a masculine thriller,
04:20supposedly,
04:21a very testosterone genre,
04:23made up by a woman.
04:24And it has liked the people.
04:25So I think that, well,
04:27they are Laudar,
04:28they are now in Cannes,
04:31they are Carla again.
04:32We are telling many things very important to women,
04:35and it is about the 50% of the population,
04:37and it is the time to listen to how we live our lives.
04:42What time do you see the Spanish cinema?
04:44I think it is a very good moment.
04:46The Spanish cinema is also demonstrating
04:48its international character.
04:50The Infiltrata is now,
04:52that has been released in Uruguay,
04:54it is in Seattle,
04:56we are doing very interesting things,
04:58and finally I think there is an apostasy to the history,
05:01more than to the taquilla.
05:04And there is a combination of history,
05:07more taquilla.
05:08There is 47,
05:09there is The Maestro Que Prometió el Mar,
05:12there are movies that like Casa en Llamas,
05:15that are not mainstream,
05:16but that are still liking the people.
05:19And they are original stories.
05:21That is wonderful.
05:22Your next project is something very different,
05:25a comedy.
05:26Every day nace a listo.
05:27How many lists have you been in life?
05:30Well, I have been with many lists,
05:32and as a girl, you know,
05:34we have lists for abusing,
05:35a long list.
05:36But if I tell you the truth,
05:38with the years,
05:40one learns that the list that comes to you and says,
05:43hey, beautiful.
05:44You say, yes, yes, you are in the way.
05:46We have that power,
05:47the age does not have that power.
05:48So I think I want to find myself more lists.
05:51If we give us a push and we go ahead,
05:55and the list ends up disappearing.
05:57What can you tell me about this project?
05:59Well, that is a comedy very satirical
06:01and very crazy,
06:03about what difficult it is to be
06:06to be rich working.
06:08You have a pool with a pool?
06:11I do not.
06:12Why do people have a pool with a pool?
06:14No, I should be working.
06:16I am very happy
06:17about the social media,
06:18of the work that is the good and poor,
06:19but what I am most happy is
06:21by the
06:35the most happy that I am.
06:36I am doing with Susi Sánchez,
06:37I am making comedy,
06:38When did you know that you wanted to dedicate to the cinema, that you wanted to tell stories?
06:43I was 8 years old, I went to Maita and said to myself, I want to be director of the cinema,
06:49and he said to myself, well, beautiful, I don't have any contact, this is impossible,
06:54but well, I think the dream is when you really want it, and you put it on your own, you get it.
07:00Thank you very much and that you keep your success.
07:03Thank you very much, very much.