Latido takes world sales on Lacuesta's Flamenco Sketches for San Sebastian close
Madrid-based Latido Films has picked up international sales rights to Isaki Lacuesta's Flamenco Sketches (Jaleos), Variety reported on 21 September 2026.
The deal lands just as the film prepares to close the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The festival's 2026 edition runs from 18 to 26 September.
Lacuesta is no stranger to San Sebastian. He has twice won its top prize, the Golden Shell, for The Double Steps and Between Two Waters, according to Variety. That history gives his return added weight on home ground.
Flamenco Sketches is a 78-minute documentary from Spain, listed in the festival programme as Jaleos / Flamenco Sketches. Latido Films catalogues it as a creative documentary that traces flamenco from its origins to the present day, Latido Films notes. The festival describes it as a history built from archive material in a fragmented, polyphonic structure, according to the San Sebastian Film Festival.
The film follows flamenco's links to modernity, politics and the avant-garde. It is a non-fiction tour of the music and dance form, narrated in part by singer C. Tangana and actor Alba Flores.
The script credits go to Lacuesta, Pedro G. Romero and Luis Parés. Voices in the film include C. Tangana, dancer and choreographer Rocío Molina, Romero and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman, Variety reported.
Behind the camera, the producers are Tono Folguera for Lastor Media and Guillermo Cascante for Goroka Contents, with La Termita Films as co-producer. BTeam Pictures will distribute the film in Spain, while Latido will license it to distributors in the rest of the world. That split is standard practice: a local company handles cinemas at home, and a sales agent sells the same film territory by territory abroad.
San Sebastian is showing a strong Spanish contingent this year, with new titles from Lacuesta, Fernando Trueba, J.A. Bayona, Elena Martín Gimeno and Sandra Romero among the local premieres.
What makes this stand out for audiences is access. A closing slot in Zabaltegi-Tabakalera puts the film before buyers, programmers and press in one room. With world sales now organised, its next stops will depend on those deals.
