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Alfonso Rivera


2170 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 05/09/2025.

Márgenes V: Flinging open the window to independent film

Márgenes V: Flinging open the window to independent film

The fifth edition of the online festival, with films from Spain, Portugal and Latin America, will kick off this Thursday with On Football and the handing-out of its Special Award to Emma Suárez  

02/12/2015 | Festivals | Spain

Hong Sang-Soo and Arturo Ripstein are the stars of Gijón’s awards list

Hong Sang-Soo and Arturo Ripstein are the stars of Gijón’s awards list

The jury of the official section opted for Korean film Right Now, Wrong Then as Best Feature of the festival and thought the Spanish-Mexican title Bleak Street was worthy of the Best Director Award  

30/11/2015 | Gijón 2015 | Awards

Mauro Herce  • Director

Interview: Mauro Herce • Director

"For me, cinema is a necessity"

Spanish filmmaker Mauro Herce is showing his multi-award-winning first work, the enthralling Dead Slow Ahead, shot on a cargo ship, in Gijón  

27/11/2015

Ave y Nada: The beginning and the end

Ave y Nada: The beginning and the end

Cristobal Arteaga's third feature-length film is a rewriting of the Book of Genesis featuring two actors and no dialogue  

26/11/2015 | Gijón 2015

Bleak Street: Of tender whores and masked dwarves

Bleak Street: Of tender whores and masked dwarves

A slice of pure Arturo Ripstein, produced by Mexico and Spain, opened the Gijón Film Festival with its loose recreation of a tragicomic real-life event from the Mexico City underworld  

23/11/2015 | Gijón 2015

Spanish films sell more and better abroad

Spanish films sell more and better abroad

Ramón Colom, the FAPAE chair, offered an overview of the Spanish industry at a press conference during the IX Madrid de Cine – Spanish Film Screening  

20/11/2015 | Industry | Spain

The 53rd edition of the Gijón International Film Festival starts with an attractive programme

The 53rd edition of the Gijón International Film Festival starts with an attractive programme

On 20 November the Asturian competition opens with the Spanish-Mexican Bleak Street by Arturo Ripstein, an enticing starter to a rich menu  

19/11/2015 | Gijón 2015

Paula Ortiz  • Director

Interview: Paula Ortiz • Director

“Lorca’s women harbour a great deal of desire, love and hatred”

Cineuropa chatted to Paula Ortiz about her second feature film, The Bride, which is based on Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding and competing in Tallinn  

18/11/2015

John From: The logic of passion

John From: The logic of passion

Joao Nicolau unveiled a sensitive, infectious and dreamy ode to young love in the form of a fanciful journey into the oceans of the South in the Las Nuevas Olas section of the 12th SEFF  

17/11/2015 | Seville 2015

The Academy of Muses lauded at Seville

The Academy of Muses lauded at Seville

José Luis Guerín's latest experiment has become the first Spanish film to snag the Golden Giraldillo. In second place at the Andalusian event was Arabian Nights by Miguel Gomes  

16/11/2015 | Seville 2015

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