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Alfonso Rivera


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

Review: Window to the Sea

Review: Window to the Sea

Emma Suárez leads the cast in this drama directed by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, focusing on the final days of a woman who travels to a Greek island and finally finds freedom  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Miguel Ángel Jiménez  • Director of Window to the Sea

Interview: Miguel Ángel Jiménez • Director of Window to the Sea

“Fiction can be a salve, and it can bring us back to ourselves”

Spanish filmmaker Miguel Ángel Jiménez gives us the backstory to his new film, Window to the Sea — a co-production between Spain and Greece starring Emma Suárez and set on a Mediterranean island  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Review: Heroic Losers

Review: Heroic Losers

The Daríns are co-producing and starring in the adaptation of Eduardo Sacheri’s Argentine novel La noche de la Usina, directed by Sebastián Borensztein with mixed results  

26/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Special Screenings

Maider Fernández Iriarte  • Director of Jordi's Letters

Interview: Maider Fernández Iriarte • Director of Jordi's Letters

“When you make a film about people with disabilities, it can cause a certain discomfort”

Maider Fernández Iriarte presents her brave and moving debut, Jordi's Letters, in the New Directors section at the San Sebastián International Film Festival  

25/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Review: The Innocence

Review: The Innocence

Lucía Alemany’s debut feature, a fiction film about adolescent angst filmed in her own home town, and one of the first films to benefit from the support of The Screen, shimmers with truth  

25/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

A Swiss venture is this year’s winner of the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

A Swiss venture is this year’s winner of the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge

LargoAI outshone four other projects to scoop a prize of €10,000 at this second edition of the Zinemaldia & Technology event  

24/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | San Sebastián Industry

Review: A Dark-Dark Man

Review: A Dark-Dark Man

A co-production between France and Kazakhstan, Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s latest offering is an exquisitely shot crime film studded with humour that aims to shed light and hope on a grim situation  

24/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of The Endless Trench

Interview: Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga • Directors of The Endless Trench

“Fear could turn any of us into moles"

Basque trio Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga are in San Sebastián to present The Endless Trench, a sensitive, moving film rich in metaphor starring Antonio de la Torre and Belén Cuesta  

23/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Lucía Alemany • Director of The Innocence

Interview: Lucía Alemany • Director of The Innocence

"My film would look very different without The Screen"

The Innocence, one of the first films to emerge from the incubator program at ECAM’s The Screen, is our first introduction to debut director Lucía Alemany  

23/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | New Directors

Review: The Endless Trench

Review: The Endless Trench

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga revisit the horrific plight of the Spanish men who spent years in hiding for fear of Francoist reprisals  

22/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

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