 Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has returned to the New York Film Festival to bring his new film Parallel Mothers Staring Actress Benelope Cruz and film shines a spotlight on the tens of thousands of people who disappeared during the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship. Last month the film was praised as it opened Venice Film Festival and Cruz walked away with the best actress prize. Cruz leads the cast as one of the two women given birth in the same Madrid hospital on the same day which is a reflection on motherhood and the importance of family ties. But it also dwells on a painful chapter of Spanish history that the country is still struggling to come to terms with. I'm happy to be back in New York because you know it's been a long time because of COVID and everything. I actually have some family members that live in the States in LA but we haven't been able to see each other so often so it's really great to be able to to be back and I'm so happy to be part of this incredible film. I feel like I feel always so grateful because he trusts me so much and he gives me all these incredible characters so it's one of the reasons why I decided to to try to become an actress and now it's 25 years of friendship and career together so I hope many more. You know Penelope is like part of my family and so I mean we we invest so much working together so it's easier for me I mean just to to work with Penelope than with other with other actress and with Minela it was a big surprise because I mean she's she's very new she just made only one movie and but it's a natural born actress and when you are a director and you are you see for the first time someone I mean that is going to be very big and this is an incredible privilege an incredible present hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates