Hierro is a 2009 psychological thriller

Psychological thriller

Psychological thriller is a specific sub-genre of the broad ranged thriller with heavy focus on characters. However, it often incorporates elements from the mystery and drama genre, along with the typical traits of the thriller genre...

 directed by Gabe Ibáñez and starring Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya

Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995.Anaya is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella .Her best-known Hollywood film...

, Kaiet Rodríguez, Bea Segura

Bea Segura

Beatriz "Bea" Segura i Folch is a Spanish actress.- Filmography :- External links :* at the Internet Movie Database * at the Internet Movie Database...

, and Andrés Herrera.

Plot

Six months after her young son Diego mysteriously disappears while travelling by ferry to the island of El Hierro, Maria is finally overcoming the pain of her loss. However, a phone call notifying her of the discovery of a child's body on the island forces her to go back to the island. Her return to the sinister island full of malevolent characters marks the beginning of a nightmarish journey where she learns that "some mysteries should never be revealed".

Cast

• Elena Anaya
  Elena Anaya
  Elena Anaya is a Spanish actress whose career dates back to 1995.Anaya is the youngest of 5 children. She first received international attention in 2001 for her role in the sexually explicit drama Lucía y el sexo and also appeared in Pedro Almodóvar's Hable con ella .Her best-known Hollywood film...
  
   as María
• Hugo Arbues as Mateo
• Jon Ariño as Forense
• Miriam Correa as Julia
• Tomás del Estal
• Andrés Herrera as Antonio
• Javier Mejía as Matias
• Kaiet Rodriguez as Diego
• Raquel Salvador as Elena
• Bea Segura
  Bea Segura
  Beatriz "Bea" Segura i Folch is a Spanish actress.- Filmography :- External links :* at the Internet Movie Database * at the Internet Movie Database...
  
   as Laura
• Mar Sodupe as Tania

Production

The film is from the producers of Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...

and The Orphanage

The Orphanage (2007 film)

The Orphanage is a 2007 Spanish-Mexican horror film and the debut feature of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona. The film stars Belén Rueda as Laura, Fernando Cayo as her husband, Carlos, and Roger Príncep as their adopted son Simón. The plot centers on Laura, who returns to her childhood home, an...

, it was directed by short film director Gabe Ibáñez, who shot his film of the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

 in El Hierro

El Hierro

El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano , is the smallest and farthest south and west of the Canary Islands , in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, with a population of 10,162 .- Name :The name El Hierro, although phonetically identical to the Spanish word for 'iron', is generally thought...

, Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria is the second most populous island of the Canary Islands, with a population of 838,397 which constitutes approximately 40% of the population of the archipelago...

 and Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

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Release

The Director Ibáñez’s first feature premiered on 2 October 2009 at Sitges 42nd Fantastic Film International Festival and had an appearance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

2009 Cannes Film Festival

The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 13 to May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury. It was announced on March 19, 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival...

in the critic's week category, it runs of several film Festivals includes UK FrightFest 2009.