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Alfonso Rivera


2173 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 10/09/2025.

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

Review: I Am Nevenka

Review: I Am Nevenka

In a narrative that swings back and forth between drama, thriller and indictment, Icíar Bollaín reconstructs one of Spain’s most high-profile recent cases of workplace and sexual harassment  

21/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Competition

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Zafari by Mariana Rondón

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Zafari by Mariana Rondón

The fourth feature by the director, who won the Golden Shell for Bad Hair, will be shown in the Horizontes Latinos section of the San Sebastián Film Festival  

20/09/2024 | San Sebastián 2024 | Horizontes Latinos

31 features receive support from the ICAA

31 features receive support from the ICAA

The Spanish institution is handing out €30.3 million in its first round of grants for the 2024 tax year, with Pedro Almodóvar and Maryam Touzani among the directors being backed  

19/09/2024 | Production | Funding | Spain

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