Published: June 21, 2016| 12:30 PM

Spanish movie actor Sergi López will join actress Emma Suárez in Karlovy Vary for the screening of directors Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo’s The Next Skin, which is being shown in main competition at the 51st KVIFF.

Sergi López hails from Barcelona, but he began his acting career in Paris with the main role in French director Manuel Poirier’s La petite amie d’Antonio (1991). López and Poirier worked together on several occasions; their biggest international success was Western (1997).

Sergi López’s next international success was with Frédéric Fonteyne’s love story An Affair of Love (1999), for which he took home best actor awards from the Venice Film Festival. The following year, Sergi López shone in the title role of Dominik Moll’s Harry, He’s Here to Help, for which he won a César and a European Film Award. Soon after, he appeared in Stephen Frears’s critically acclaimed Dirty Pretty Things (2002).

In 2006, he played the role of Captain Vidal in Guillermo del Toro’s mysterious drama Pan’s Labyrinth. Although he declared that it was the most hideous role of his life, the film won three Oscars, a BAFTA and several dozen other international awards. López continues to develop his multifaceted European cinematic acting career in films such as Leaving, The Monk, Tango libre and Tenderness – these two were shown at the Karlovy Vary IFF – and the drama A Perfect Day.

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