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Alfonso Rivera


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

Alejandro Amenábar  • Director of While at War

Interview: Alejandro Amenábar • Director of While at War

"Changing our minds is what makes us human"

The man behind smash hits such as The Others and Agora returns to historical period films with While at War, in which he relives a decisive political moment in 20th-century Spanish history  

22/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Leticia Dolera • Director of Perfect Life

Interview: Leticia Dolera • Director of Perfect Life

“What’s life all about in 2019?”

Leticia Dolera gives us the inside scoop on Perfect Life, a double award winner at Canneseries now screening at the San Sebastián International Film Festival  

20/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Velodrome

Series review: Perfect Life

Series review: Perfect Life

Leticia Dolera writes, directs and stars in eight lively episodes that bring us up close and personal with three women in crisis, in all their unfiltered, delusional and conflicted glory  

20/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019

Daniel Calparsoro begins the shoot for Sky High

Daniel Calparsoro begins the shoot for Sky High

Ubiquitous Galician actor Luis Tosar is working with the tireless filmmaker again after performing in another heist film of his, To Steal From a Thief  

20/09/2019 | Production | Funding | Spain

Review: While At War

Review: While At War

Alejandro Amenábar reconstructs a difficult and decisive moment in Spanish history with his usual sense of precision, but he doesn’t manage to inject the emotion and energy this conflict requires  

20/09/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

Icíar Bollaín invites us to a wedding in La boda de Rosa

Icíar Bollaín invites us to a wedding in La boda de Rosa

The Madrilenian filmmaker is shooting her new film in Valencia; it stars Candela Peña and boasts a script written by Bollaín and Alicia Luna, who worked together on Take My Eyes  

12/09/2019 | Production | Funding | Spain

The 2019 CIIF Market calls for international projects

The 2019 CIIF Market calls for international projects

The call for the 16th audiovisual, literary and transmedia market, which will unspool from 8-12 October in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, is open until 15 September  

11/09/2019 | Industry | Market | Spain

Paco Plaza • Director of Eye for an Eye

Interview: Paco Plaza • Director of Eye for an Eye

"I desperately needed to make this film"

Paco Plaza’s Eye for an Eye, a hard-hitting revenge flick and existential thriller that is guaranteed to leave you rattled, starring Luis Tosar and shot in Galicia, is on general release now in Spain  

30/08/2019

Review: Eye for an Eye

Review: Eye for an Eye

Paco Plaza proves the Spanish thriller is far from dead with a feature that has a powerful psychological impact, a tragic tone, strong mise-en-scène and a finale that will shake you to your very core  

30/08/2019 | Films | Reviews

San Sebastián tops off its surprising Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section

San Sebastián tops off its surprising Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section

The Basque festival’s most daring sidebar will offer viewers works by Bertrand Bonello, Damien Manivel and Anne Sofie Hartmann, among other fascinating and gutsy filmmakers  

23/08/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

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