The Orphanage, presented by Oscar-Nominee Guillermo del Toro, centers on a Laura (Belen Rueda from The Sea Inside) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place. The film is directed by Juan Antonio Bayona and produced by Guillermo del Toro. The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 20, 2007. It opened Spain's Sitges Film Festival on October 4, 2007. The film is set to open in the U.S. on December 28, 2007. It will be a limited release. The Orphanage has been chosen by the Spanish Academy of Films as Spain's nominee for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The film has been nominated for 14 Goya Awards, including Best Picture.

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