Watch The Trailer For EVEN THE RAIN starring Gael García Bernal

Gael Garcia Bernal is the latest actor from Spain making his way into big time Hollywood following the suit of Antonio Banderas, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz.One great thing about many of these international actors that break into Hollywood (or at least English speaking movies) they never forget there routes and still actively make movies in there homeland, Bernal is no different. His break may not yet be as big as the previous name she still keeps one foot firmly in Spanish movies until the big stepping stone appears and his latest movie También la lluvia or EVEN THE RAIN is making big splashes internationally. 
Last week the movie won the nomination in the Foreign movie award for this years Oscars it the story of Christopher Columbus and his journey to latin/southern America and the Bernal plays a filmmaker along with Luis Tosar cataloguing the exploitation of Columbus with the local natives, when they get there they see things havent changed. The movie comes with a strong political stance highlighting a race of people who get no protection or even help from there government simply because of who they are, like the aboriginals in Australia the first people of that land suffering in silence.
The movie is going to get a limited release in USA(February 18th), no word yet on a British or Irish release but if the movie does do well at the Oscars do expect some release sometime this year.Check out the International trailer below that comes courtesy of Apple

The film TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA (Even the Rain), directed by Iciar Bollain and written by Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, is about, in the director's words, [resistance and friendship. It's a personal journey -- an adventure undertaken by characters which brings the past into the present.] The story intertwines Columbus' arrival in the Americas with the making of a film; it mixes the Spanish crown's exploitation of gold in the 16th century with the fight for water in Cochabamba in the year 2000. The film takes us from the fiction of a period film to the reality of a film set in a small Bolivian city. And from that reality to another which is deeper and more dramatic, that faced by people with practically no rights, prohibited by law from collecting even the rain. But Tambien la Lluvia (Even the Rain) does much more than compare historic events. It transcends the detail and delves into something much deeper and more universal. Deep down it's a story about loyalty, camaraderie, and empathy.