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El corazón del Teatro Real
Director
event2018 star_border 8
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Documentary about an emblematic institution of the Spanish Arts, Madrid's Teatro Real, or Royal Theatre, released to celebrate it's 2nd centenary anniversary.
Spain: The First Globalization
Director of Photography
event2021 star_border 7.8
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A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516) and the discovery of America (1492), as well as an analysis of its undeniable influence on the subsequent evolution of the history of Spain and the world.
7 Lakes, 7 Lives
Writer
event2021
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Dabiz Riaño explores the scenic lakes of Eastern Europe in this ode to being differently-abled and the wonder of being alive.
The Shanghai Spell
Director of Photography
event2002 star_border 5.6
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A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty cinema-ticket girl takes to the streets at night and a young anarchist dedicates himself to telling tall stories. Far away, in Shanghai, a hero of the Republic meets a beautiful femme fatal with oriental eyes. Reality and fiction become fused in an embrace.
The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab
Director
event2008 star_border 5.8
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A documentary that chronicles Spanish master chef Jesus Almagro's preparation for the Bocuse d'Or, an international cooking contest.
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Director
event2022 star_border 7.4
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French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
Últimos testigos
Director
event2009
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A film work made up of two different documentaries based on the same concept, made about and with the participation of Manuel Fraga and Santiago Carrillo.
Asaltar los cielos
Director of Photography
event1996 star_border 6.5
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Documentary about the killer of Trotsky
Mientras haya luz
Director of Photography
event1987 star_border 5
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Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course of the chase, he takes shelter in a small motel. When he settles down, he keeps writing in his personal diary, reflecting his impressions about his work in it.
Finding Altamira
Screenplay
event2016 star_border 5.8
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The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
Rioja: The Land of a Thousand Wines
Cinematography
event2023 star_border 8
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By telling the human stories behind the entire value chain that gives life to the Spanish wine with the greatest international projection, ‘Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines’ portrays a currently blooming wine region underpinned by the talent and the work of the new generations of winemakers that operate side by side with the region’s historic wineries. The film puts the focus on the match between territory and product, wisdom and tradition, and lays a bridge between the origins and the future of Rioja. An immersion into a fascinating world that, through captivating cinematography and careful editing, attempts to find the keys to understanding what Rioja wine is and what makes it so special.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión
Director
event2006 star_border 8
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What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
Speaking of Buñuel
Director
event2000 star_border 5.9
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Surrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing such groundbreaking works as Un Chien Andalou, Exterminating Angels, and That Obscure Object of Desire, yet his personal life was clouded in myth and paradox. Though sexually diffident, he frequently worked in the erotic drama genre; though personally quite conservative, his films are florid, flamboyant, and utterly bizarre.
Madregilda
Director of Photography
event1993 star_border 5.4
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Madrid, Spain. On Monday, December 22, 1947, Charles Vidor's Gilda, starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford, premieres. That same week, as every first Friday of the month, Hauma organizes a peculiar card game in an old tavern.
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
Director of Photography
event2019 star_border 7.2
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French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
Jerez y el misterio del Palo Cortado
Director
event2015 star_border 9
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Documentary about the wines of Jerez, particularly the delicious "Palo Cortado"
La boca del lobo
Cinematography
event1988 star_border 7.2
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The military anti-terrorist army takes control of "Chuspi", an unknown and faraway small village, isolated by the terrorist group "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path). A soldier called Vitin Luna, and other young soldiers face an invisible, perhaps superior force. Their unit is commanded by a brutal lieutenant who declares the entire village guilty of treason. In the face of this crisis, Vitin must choose between blind obedience and his own conscience.
Ni contigo ni sin ti
Cinematography
event1992
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Guillermo is a lonely old man who sees his methodical existence interrupted with the appearance of a new neighbor. A relationship full of fights, misunderstandings and aggression breaks out between them
Bunuel and King Solomon's Table
Director of Photography
event2001 star_border 4.8
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The old Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900-83) imagines a movie plot, set in Toledo in the future 2002, about the fantastic adventure of three actors, who play him and his friends, the painter Salvador Dalí (1904-89) and the poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), and their search for King Solomon's table, a mythical artifact capable of revealing the past, present and future.
Extras
Cinematography
event2003
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Pablo Piñeiro, an enthusiast extra, remembers with emotion his youth works, those works of crowds and profitable profits together with Bronston and the Hollywood stars or of the National cinema. But the world of walk-on part has changed a lot.
Bosch: The Garden of Dreams
Director
event2016 star_border 7.2
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2016 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch. It is almost the only information about the artist of The Garden of Earthly Delights that we can put a precise date to. Bosch, the garden of dreams is a film about his most important painting and one of the most iconic paintings in the world: The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Portrait of Carlos Saura
Director
event2004 star_border 6
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A documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur Carlos Saura.
Little Bird
Director of Photography
event1997 star_border 6.1
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Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature, and lush, warm family, Manu find his first love and the first signs of adulthood.
El Sur
Script Supervisor
event1983 star_border 7.7
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A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.
Hispanoamérica: Song of Life and Hope
Writer
event2024 star_border 8.8
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A renewed and truthful vision of how Spanish America was born and prospered, an epic story developed over more than three hundred years, that of those who bequeathed to humanity an immense architectural, sculptural, pictorial, literary and musical heritage.
Un instante en la vida ajena
Producer
event2003 star_border 6
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Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.
Palace
Director of Photography
event1996 star_border 5.9
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While three brothers, heirs of a hotel owner, want to restore the glamour of yesteryear to the establishment, a Health Department official tries to find a way to close it down for good.
Fallen from Heaven
Director of Photography
event1990 star_border 6
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An ambitious black comedy that tells three loosely related stories: a couple of elderly landowners, laid low by economic conditions and reformist politics, are trying to gather enough money to build themselves a marble tomb that would keep their remains in the style to which they still aspire; they give their now blind former housekeeper a pig that proves to be more trouble than it's worth as the effort to fatten it up destroys what little family the woman has; and one of the couple's tenants, who is presenter of a relentlessly optimistic radio self-help show, tries to put his own counsel into effect when he saves a young woman from suicide.
Dream of Light
Director of Photography
event1992 star_border 7
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Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.
El primer siglo del Prado
Director
event2007
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Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work.
¡Campeones! La Roja
Director
event2012 star_border 6.5
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Spain had not won a major tournament in over 40 years, but all is about to change at the 2008 European Championship and the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Follow the Spanish national team on the pitch and inside the locker room as they achieve their historical run.
Salomé
Director of Photography
event2002 star_border 6.3
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Salomé's story interpreted by a director and a troupe of flamenco dancers.
Virgin & Extra: The Land of the Olive Oil
Director
event2018
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Olive oil is arguably the most essential ingredient of the Mediterranean diet. In the stunning southern Spanish city of Jaén, olive oil is a way of life. Recently, a revolution broke out in this region sparking a new appreciation for Jaén’s emblematic Picual olive oil that was pivotal in bringing this city to the zenith of olive oil production. This documentary introduces us to the challenges raised by these radical changes as seen through the eyes of the people from the Jaén olive groves, the chefs who experienced the gastronomical transformation, the olive-producers and the all-important consumers. With precision and emotion, the cast describes the life cycle of olive oil, from the tree to the table, allowing the audience to share the vibrant spirit and culture surrounding olive cultivation and oil production in the largest producing region in the world.
The Thrill of Nature
Director
event2009
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Joaquín Sorolla is one of the most internationally well known Spanish painters of his time and one of the key figures of Spanish art history. This film traces the life and work of this artist coinciding with the retrospective exhibition held at the Museo del Prado from May to September 2009, the most important selection of works both inside and outside Spain. A perfect way to understand the art of Sorolla, fully connected with his life.
The Man Who Lost His Shadow
Director of Photography
event1992 star_border 5.3
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Paul has left his wife and children. Now his wife and ex-mistress is on the hunt for him.
El amor y la muerte
Producer
event2018
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Documentary that recreates the biography of the Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916), his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, his sensitive nature, the struggle to make his way in life despite the family economic straits and his first successes The story, built from vintage images, is interspersed with versions of the Granados repertoire by interpreters such as Rosa Torres-Pardo, Evgeny Kissin, Cañizares, Arcángel, Rocío Márquez, Carlos Álvarez and Nancy Fabiola Herrera, among others.
Altamira: el origen del arte
Director
event2018
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A documentary to 'rediscover' the so called Sistine Chapel of Rock Art and to tell the story of the discovery of a cave and some paintings that astonished the world 138 years ago. Filming this documentary lead its director, José Luis López Linares, through many rock caves around the world, grasping information about the life of the Magdalenian man -who lived twenty thousand years ago- and about an art form, the paintings, that make Altamira "the Prado museum of prehistory".
El guardián de la cueva
Director
event2018 star_border 6.5
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A very special trip to one of the most inaccessible sites of the Spanish heritage: the Altamira cave. A guided visit to its impressive painted walls and all its secret nooks and crannies.
Formentor: el mar de las palabras
Director
event2020 star_border 7
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A documentary about the most charismatic and legendary hotel on the island of Mallorca: the Hotel Formentor, known as "the hotel of the stars".
Fados
Director of Photography
event2007 star_border 7
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A series of musical performances showcasing the diverse facets of fado, a musical genre from Lisbon.
Sweet Hours
Second Assistant Director
event1982 star_border 5.8
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Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the people who have influenced him in his past. They recreate the same situations of yesteryear and Juan acts as the child he was, to relive the memories already forgotten.
Rough Winds
Director of Photography
event2006 star_border 4.3
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Two strangers flee from their past and settle in an urbanization on the Cádiz coast. There, hundreds of kilometers from Madrid, they try to rebuild their lives, even though the memories are still very strong.
Amo tu cama rica
Director of Photography
event1992 star_border 6
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Pedro goes out searching for a girl, but the night doesn't seem to be good. While he is talking with a friend, he sees Sara breaking up with a boy. He goes after her, and they end up sleeping in his house. Time goes by and they continue together. But Sara has too many men around and Pablo can't stand that. Their relation is difficult, they love each other but, at the same time, they can not be together.
Softly from Paris
Director of Photography (2 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5.8
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An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
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