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Alfonso Rivera


2135 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 07/07/2025.

The Heart crowned Best Debut Feature at REC 2018

The Heart crowned Best Debut Feature at REC 2018

The international jury at the 18th edition of the Tarragona International Film Festival has handed its prize to Fanni Metelius’ debut movie  

11/12/2018 | Festivals | Spain

Production continues apace on La pequeña Suiza

Production continues apace on La pequeña Suiza

Basque director Kepa Sojo is winding up filming for this comedy of manners, very much an ensemble piece, about a Spanish village that wants to annex itself to prosperous Switzerland  

07/12/2018 | Production | Spain/Portugal

Rodrigo Sorogoyen prolongs a mother’s grief in Madre

Rodrigo Sorogoyen prolongs a mother’s grief in Madre

Based on Mother, the short film that earned the director of The Realm the Goya Award, and featuring the same crew and lead actress, the feature-length movie wrapped shooting last month in Landes  

04/12/2018 | Production | Spain/France

Review: A March to Remember

Review: A March to Remember

First-time director Victor Cabaco recreates a tragic historical episode that took place in Spain in 1976, with support from the audio-visual archives  

04/12/2018 | Black Nights 2018 | First Feature Competition

The Image You Missed voted Best Film on Lanzarote

The Image You Missed voted Best Film on Lanzarote

The jury deliberated openly in front of the audience as it reasoned why Donal Foreman’s film deserved the top prize at the eighth edition of the island’s film festival, the Muestra de Cine  

03/12/2018 | Festivals | Spain

Review: Quinqui Stars

Review: Quinqui Stars

Juan Vicente Córdoba revisits the Spanish cinematic imagination of the 1970s and 1980s through a set of characters living on the margins of society, with indifferent results  

30/11/2018 | Films | Spain/France

Review: Rights-of-Man

Review: Rights-of-Man

Juan Rodrigáñez returns to the cast and format of his debut film with a second cinematographic adventure staked on liberty, improvisation and zany humour  

26/11/2018 | Gijón 2018

Applause, praise and accolades for Hong Sang-soo in Gijón

Applause, praise and accolades for Hong Sang-soo in Gijón

The 56th edition of the Asturian festival has bestowed its highest honour (and two more besides) on Hotel by the River, directed by the South Korean maestro  

26/11/2018 | Gijón 2018 | Awards

Review: Cantares de una revolución

Review: Cantares de una revolución

Asturian director Ramón Lluís Bande pays homage to the workers’ uprising of 1934 through the folk songs that commemorate this turbulent time, performed chiefly by Nacho Vegas  

22/11/2018 | Gijón 2018

Review: La felicidad de los perros

Review: La felicidad de los perros

David Hernández makes his directorial debut with this portrait of the wanderings of a man in the grip of an existential crisis, filmed in black in white over three years between Galicia and Madrid  

21/11/2018 | Gijón 2018

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