The Island Inside

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A dark-hued family drama set in Spain’s Canary Islands, The Island Inside relates the story of three siblings on the run from themselves. Martin wants to leave home and become a writer in Paris. Gracia wants to put some reality back into the fictional world that her life has become. Coral just wants to be loved. The sudden death of their father forces them to leave the inner island that isolates them from their loved ones, from their dreams… and from being themselves. With Pedro Almodovar as their cinematic godfather, the filmmaker duo Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso deliver a superb psychodrama with astounding performances by the best Spanish independent actors working today: Alberto San Juan, Candela Peña, Cristina Marcos, and a superb Geraldine Chaplin as the mother.

"Writer-directors Dunia Ayaso and Félix Sabroso are sometime accomplices of Pedro Almodovar and usually work in a similar comedic vein; here they re-purpose much of his signature style to far darker ends. The acting is uniformly superb." — The Chicago Reader

"A dark family drama set in the bright, bleak landscapes of Spain's Canary Islands, The Island Inside adds a new dimension of emotional complexity to the previously comic oeuvre of helming team Felix Sabroso and Dunia Ayaso." — Variety

"If you were able to imagine The Fall of The House of Usher told through a series of paintings by Edward Hopper, the result might resemble The Island Inside." — El País

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Main credits

Ayaso, Dunia (film director)
Ayaso, Dunia (screenwriter)
Sabroso, Félix (film director)
Sabroso, Félix (screenwriter)
Romero, Juan (film producer)
Herrero de Egaña, José (film producer)
Peña, Candela (actor)
San Juan, Alberto (actor)
Marcos, Cristina (actor)

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Cinematography, Juan A. Castaño; editor, Ascen Marchena; music, Lucas Vidal.

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Keywords

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