Films by Country

Spain

The Beloved

El ser querido

Rodrigo Sorogoyen

A ferocious Javier Bardem performance headlines Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s tense and unsettling family filmmaking drama, about the fraught relationship between a controversial filmmaker and his estranged actress daughter.

Bitter Christmas

Amarga Navidad

Pedro Almodóvar

An intricate nesting doll structure provides Spain’s most iconic auteur a lens with which to reflect on his own creative foibles, in frequently scathing terms, in this lacerating self-portrait.

The Black Ball

La Bola Negra

Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi

A queer epic spanning 85 years of Spanish history, inspired by an unfinished work by poet Federico García Lorca and brought to the screen with breathtaking ambition — The Black Ball left Cannes audiences on their feet for 16 minutes, and it's easy to understand why.

Calle Málaga

Maryam Touzani

An intimate and warm story of a life entwined with a deep-rooted sense of belonging, and the inconvenience of aging in a world that continues to move at pace.

Iván & Hadoum

Ian de la Rosa

Ian de la Rosa’s queer romance asks how much of yourself can you afford to give when survival is already a struggle, in this Teddy Award winning feature direct from Berlin.

Sad Girlz

Chicas Tristes

Fernanda Tovar

Winning awards in Berlinale's Generation section, this sensitive debut feature honours the power of female teenage friendship in the aftermath of a sexual assault at a New Year’s Eve party.

Sleepless City

Ciudad sin sueño

Guillermo Galoe

Guillermo Galoe’s feature adaptation of his own award-winning short film is a vivid depiction of the maligned, frequently misrepresented Roma shanty-towns on the fringes of Madrid.

Strange River

Estrany Riu

Jaume Claret Muxart

In this film seeped in sunshine with rhythmic hints of fleeting childhood fantasy, Jaume Claret Muxart's debut is a sensitive, poetic and intuitive exploration of adolescent awakening.

Sundays

Los domingos

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa

Coming off a win for Best Film at the San Sebastián Film Festival, Sundays is a coming-of-age drama with the fragility of family and faith at its forefront.