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Alfonso Rivera


2146 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

Interview: Sandra Romero • Director of As Silence Passes By

“I’m interested in family ties and the filmmakers who analyse them”

Although she has already co-directed the series The New Years with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the director is competing with her feature debut, focusing on a return home, which she filmed in her home town  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Series review: Querer

Series review: Querer

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa proves not only that her sense of narrative has evolved, but also that she can offer an even more terrifying vision of the sacrosanct institution of the heteropatriarchal family  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: As Silence Passes By

Review: As Silence Passes By

Sandra Romero resorts to emotions within the family and quasi-documentary authenticity in her feature debut, as her character returns to his roots amidst conflicts and feelings of guilt  

27/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Surfacing

Review: Surfacing

Cecilia Atán and Valeria Pivato's second and stimulating feature joins the league of titles that strongly question the untouchable happiness that being a mother seemed to bring  

25/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | New Directors

Review: Most People Die on Sundays

Review: Most People Die on Sundays

The film by Argentina's Iair Said is a tragicomedy as minimal as it is everyday. Starring the director himself, with subtle humour it tackles heavy issues such as euthanasia, ageing and loneliness  

24/09/2024 | San Sebastian 2024 | Horizontes Latinos

Review: The Red Virgin

Review: The Red Virgin

Paula Ortiz revisits the 1977 Spanish classic directed by Fernando Fernán Gómez and although visually the result is more sophisticated, narratively it is less charming  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Special Screenings

Review: The Girls at the Station

Review: The Girls at the Station

Juana Macías’ new film brings originality, authenticity and emotiveness to the delicate and thorny topic of underage prostitution  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | RTVE Galas

Javier Bardem and Rodrigo Sorogoyen to join forces on El ser querido

Javier Bardem and Rodrigo Sorogoyen to join forces on El ser querido

The actor and the director of The Beasts will shoot this Movistar Plus+ original film, set to be sold by Goodfellas, in Fuerteventura in January, with Victoria Luengo as a co-lead  

23/09/2024 | Production | Funding | Spain/France

Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

Interview: Pilar Palomero • Director of Glimmers

“The proximity of a death places us in another place in our own lives”

In her third film, the Spanish filmmaker touches on accompaniment in illness and how she brought the original story by Eider Rodríguez on which it is based to her own region  

23/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

Interview: Icíar Bollaín • Director of I Am Nevenka

“Even when they’re fiction, my stories draw inspiration from reality”

The Spanish actress-director is back with a film based on real events, about a trailblazer who defied those around her and dared to report a politician in her town for harassment  

22/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

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