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Alfonso Rivera


2168 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 01/09/2025.

Flowers: a bouquet by the roadside

Flowers: a bouquet by the roadside

Jose Mari Goenaga and Jon Garaño are releasing a touching, beautiful and heartfelt movie about pain, absence and lack of communication, starring three brilliant actresses  

30/10/2014 | Films | Spain

Traces of Sandalwood: the desperate search for Sita

Traces of Sandalwood: the desperate search for Sita

Valladolid presents the fifth fiction film by Catalan director María Ripoll, filmed between Bombay and Barcelona by a mostly female crew  

24/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

Marry Me: everyone’s spouse

Marry Me: everyone’s spouse

The Valladolid International Film Festival is world-premiering a comedy directed by Belgium’s Kadir Balci, who gracefully depicts a clash of different cultures, personalities and ethnic groups  

23/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

Noah’s Ark: parallel universes

Noah’s Ark: parallel universes

Adán Aliaga and David Valero combine their peculiar universes in the only Spanish film competing in the Official Section of the 59th Valladolid International Film Festival  

22/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

Juan Barrero  • Director

Interview: Juan Barrero • Director

"I learned to direct by editing other people’s films"

The Inner Jungle, Juan Barrero’s debut feature is finally released in Spain. We chatted with the director  

21/10/2014

André Cruz Shiraiwa  • Director

Interview: André Cruz Shiraiwa • Director

“Neither producers nor exhibitors take risks lightly nowadays”

From Brazil, but based in Barcelona, André Cruz Shiraiwa made his feature debut with L´altra frontera, which competed in the Official Section in Sitges  

15/10/2014

Another Frontier: in No Man's Land

Another Frontier: in No Man's Land

André Cruz Shiraiwa's debut feature, filmed in Catalan and starring Ariadna Gil, is an Orwellian fable that is very critical of the state of dehumanisation to which the human race seems doomed  

14/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

Sitges reinforces its audience’s devotion to fantastic films

Sitges reinforces its audience’s devotion to fantastic films

I Origins, a US film by Mike Cahill, has been crowned Best Film at an awards ceremony that sang the praises of genre films in a programme that was as exhaustive as it was fresh and outstanding  

13/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

The Distance: mission impossible?

The Distance: mission impossible?

The second film by Sergio Caballero, screened in Sitges, puts the viewer on the edge of indignation or praise  

10/10/2014 | Festivals | Spain

Sergio Caballero  • Director

Interview: Sergio Caballero • Director

“Cinema is suffering under the yoke of narrative”

Sergio Caballero, awarded in Rotterdam with Finisterrae, competes in Sitges with The Distance, a film which, once again, defies the boundaries of cinema  

09/10/2014

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