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Alfonso Rivera


2136 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 08/07/2025.

Review: The Plan

Review: The Plan

Polo Menárguez brings to the big screen all of the tension, scathing humour and harsh criticism from the stage play on which his first feature, starring Raúl Arévalo and Antonio de la Torre, is based  

20/02/2020 | Films | Reviews | Spain

Woody Allen putting the finishing touches to Rifkin's Festival

Woody Allen putting the finishing touches to Rifkin's Festival

The new film by the veteran US director, starring Gina Gershon, Wallace Shawn, Elena Anaya, Louis Garrel, Sergi López and Christoph Waltz and set in Spain, will be released internationally in 2020  

18/02/2020 | Production | Funding | Spain/USA/Italy

Pedro Almodóvar set to finally shoot in English

Pedro Almodóvar set to finally shoot in English

The Spanish director is working on an upcoming short film starring Tilda Swinton plus a film adaptation of five Lucia Berlin stories, included in her book A Manual for Cleaning Women  

13/02/2020 | Production | Funding | Spain

Ibizacinefest 2020 hands the Bulgarian-Japanese film A Picture with Yuki the Best Fiction Feature Award

Ibizacinefest 2020 hands the Bulgarian-Japanese film A Picture with Yuki the Best Fiction Feature Award

The fourth edition of the gathering dedicated to indie and alternative film wrapped up on 9 February, handing its top prize to the movie directed by Lachezar Avramov  

12/02/2020 | Festivals | Awards | Spain

La visita crowned Best Documentary at the 13th MiradasDoc

La visita crowned Best Documentary at the 13th MiradasDoc

While the top prize went to Argentina, the Spanish competition saw the triumph of the short Carne and the audience plumped for Manoliño Nguema, a Spanish-Guinean co-production  

11/02/2020 | MiradasDoc 2020 | Awards

Miguel G. Morales and Silvia Navarro • Directors of On the Names of the Goats

Interview: Miguel G. Morales and Silvia Navarro • Directors of On the Names of the Goats

"We try to preserve the film’s freedom at all times"

We met with Canary Islander directors Miguel G. Morales and Silvia Navarro, whose documentary On the Names of Goats is screening at MiradasDoc  

07/02/2020 | MiradasDoc 2020

Alexis Delgado Búrdalo • Director of This Film Is About Me

Interview: Alexis Delgado Búrdalo • Director of This Film Is About Me

"I never imagined I would be filming inside a prison"

We spoke to Alexis Delgado Búrdalo, who is taking part in MiradasDoc with This Film Is About Me, a doc that made a splash during its screenings at Visions du Réel and Seville, among other festivals  

07/02/2020 | MiradasDoc 2020

Nora Navas becomes a bloodsucker in The Barcelona Vampiress

Nora Navas becomes a bloodsucker in The Barcelona Vampiress

The actress stars in the feature-length fiction debut by Lluís Danés, which recently wrapped shooting: the gothic thriller is based on real-life events that took place in Barcelona in the early 1900s  

06/02/2020 | Production | Funding | Spain

Ten documentary projects being presented at MiradasDoc Market

Ten documentary projects being presented at MiradasDoc Market

Until Friday 7 February, Tenerife is playing host to the International Documentary Film Market, attended by a plethora of African, Latin American and European filmmakers  

06/02/2020 | MiradasDoc 2020 | MiradasDoc Market

Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz to act side by side again

Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz to act side by side again

The two stars will be the protagonists of the Spanish flick Official Competition, directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, who were festooned with awards for The Distinguished Citizen  

05/02/2020 | Production | Funding | Spain

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