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Alfonso Rivera


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

Liza, the Fox Fairy demolishes the competition at Nocturna 2015

Liza, the Fox Fairy demolishes the competition at Nocturna 2015

The Hungarian film towers above the rest at a festival fuelled by screams and pure fun, which featured priceless visits from the fantastic genre’s cult filmmakers  

01/06/2015 | Festivals | Spain

Filmadrid: A new arthouse film festival for the Spanish capital

Filmadrid: A new arthouse film festival for the Spanish capital

The gathering will unspool from 5-13 June, and will offer audiences the posthumous work by Manoel de Oliveira and the latest film by Godard in its original 3D version, among other wonders  

28/05/2015 | Festivals | Spain

A heartfelt adiós to the great filmmaker Vicente Aranda

A heartfelt adiós to the great filmmaker Vicente Aranda

The man behind such memorable films as Lovers: A True Story, Fanny Straw-Top and Time of Silence has passed away in Madrid at 88 years of age  

27/05/2015 | People | Spain

Icíar Bollaín is scouring Europe for an olive tree in El olivo

Icíar Bollaín is scouring Europe for an olive tree in El olivo

The filmmaker has kicked off the shoot for this Spanish-German co-production about losing one’s roots, starring award winner Javier Gutiérrez  

20/05/2015 | Production | Spain

A Perfect Day: Humour as an antidote

A Perfect Day: Humour as an antidote

CANNES 2015: Fernando León de Aranoa has come up with a tragicomedy: 24 hours in the lives of a group of aid workers in a war-torn country, peppered with the laughs needed to alleviate the horror  

16/05/2015 | Cannes 2015 | Directors’ Fortnight

Fernando León de Aranoa  • Director

Interview: Fernando León de Aranoa • Director

“I feel comfortable with the absence of a defined genre”

CANNES 2015: Spanish filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa is making his Cannes debut with A Perfect Day, a film that boasts an international cast  

15/05/2015

No todo es vigilia: Life as a couple at 80

No todo es vigilia: Life as a couple at 80

Few titles show the routine of people entering the final stretch of their lives so realistically, soothingly and truthfully as this documentary by Hermes Paralluelo  

14/05/2015 | Films | Spain

Nocturna sharpens its horns for its third edition

Nocturna sharpens its horns for its third edition

More ferocious than ever, the Madrid International Fantastic Film Festival is about to pounce, boasting a programme brimming with creatures ready to possess viewers’ “cinemaniac” souls  

13/05/2015 | Festivals | Spain

Montse Triola

Interview: Montse Triola

Producer on the Move 2015 - Spain

We met up with the lively Catalan producer Montse Triola, who is behind the films from the remarkable director Albert Serra  

12/05/2015

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year victorious at DocumentaMadrid 2015

Tell Spring Not to Come This Year victorious at DocumentaMadrid 2015

The British documentary has gone home with the top prize from the 12th edition of the international doc festival, which was held last week in the Spanish capital  

11/05/2015 | Festivals | Spain

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