Bio

Francisco Kosterlitz (Buenos Aires) works as a screenwriter between Spain, Argentina, Mexico and the United States. He co-wrote Suro (2022), directed by Mikel Gurrea, which won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film in the Official Selection at the San Sebastian Film Festival, as well as the award for Best Screenplay for a Basque Film. It also received two Goya Award nominations and three Gaudí Award nominations, including Best Screenplay.

He also wrote El silencio del cazador (The Silence of the Hunter, Martín Desalvo), which won two Silver Biznagas at the Malaga Film Festival, received the SGAA Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for the Silver Condor in the same category. He is currently writing Clara Roquet's second feature film, as well as upcoming feature films by Mikel Gurrea, Pedro Martín-Calero and Alex Sardà.

Project

During his stay at Faberllull, he will co-write the script for the feature film Els Salvatges with Alex Sardà.

Set between Barcelona and Equatorial Guinea, the story follows a couple trying to escape their respective family legacies, but everything begins to go wrong when Magí's ambition drives him to replicate colonial behaviours and Àngela begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. The shadow of a mysterious curse linked to Magí's family past forces them to question the very foundations of everything they have built within the last Spanish colony.