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Alfonso Rivera


2174 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 11/09/2025.

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

Three European female directors added to San Sebastián’s Official Section

Three European female directors added to San Sebastián’s Official Section

The latest offerings from Sarah Gavron, Malgorzata Szumowska and Alice Winocour round off the main strand of the Basque gathering, together with a further three titles announced earlier today  

22/08/2019 | San Sebastián 2019 | Competition

15 projects have been selected for the inaugural Film Academy Residencies Programme

15 projects have been selected for the inaugural Film Academy Residencies Programme

Acclaimed filmmakers and newcomers alike are among the first intake of this international training scheme, due to start in October in Madrid  

16/08/2019 | Industry | Market | Spain

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