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Alfonso Rivera


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

Fernando Franco and Koldo Zuazua • Director and producer of The Rite of Spring

Interview: Fernando Franco and Koldo Zuazua • Director and producer of The Rite of Spring

"We dance well together; we complement each other perfectly"

We get to talk with the two experienced professionals, who with this film complete their third collaboration together  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

Interview: Rocío Mesa • Director of Tobacco Barns

“I’m rural and psychedelic”

In her first fiction feature, the filmmaker recreates her childhood and adolescence in southern Spain, armed with a dreamlike/fantasy style and non-professional actors  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | New Directors

Jaime Rosales • Director of Wild Flowers

Interview: Jaime Rosales • Director of Wild Flowers

"There is something so attractive about meeting someone who is untamed"

The Catalan filmmaker competes for the Golden Shell with his seventh feature film, a three-part chronicle of the sentimental experience of a young single mother  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Review: La maternal

Review: La maternal

Pilar Palomero’s Schoolgirls have grown up, and in this overly long and not always successful blend of fiction and reality, they wrestle with the social issue of teenage pregnancies  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Carlota Pereda • Director of Piggy

Interview: Carlota Pereda • Director of Piggy

“I wish to condemn normalised and institutionalised violence”

After premiering at Sundance, and prior to its screening at Sitges, the filmmaker’s brutal and bloody feature debut gets a berth in San Sebastián’s most daring section  

21/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Zabaltegi-Tabakalera

Pilar Palomero • Director of La maternal

Interview: Pilar Palomero • Director of La maternal

“It’s painful to see such a young girl experiencing something which isn’t suited to her age”

The Spanish director presents her second film after the award-winning work Schoolgirls, this time revolving around the issue of teenage pregnancies  

20/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Review: Wild Flowers

Review: Wild Flowers

In his new film, Jaime Rosales portrays the sentimental evolution of a young mother, played by Anna Castillo, in a film that is at times light-hearted and at others intense  

20/09/2022 | San Sebastian 2022 | Competition

Review: Rainbow

Review: Rainbow

Paco León has had a great time filming this colourful, lively and humorous film, the audience however does not enjoy watching it in the same way  

20/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022

Carlos Vermut • Director of Manticore

Interview: Carlos Vermut • Director of Manticore

"Making films about monstrous characters is rather appealing"

With his fourth feature film, the director goes even further in unsettling audiences, demonstrating that his is not an accommodating career or one for all audiences  

16/09/2022 | Toronto 2022 | Contemporary World Cinema

Juan Diego Botto • Director of On the Fringe

Interview: Juan Diego Botto • Director of On the Fringe

“Your primary obligation when making cinema is not to be boring”

The actor makes his feature-length directorial debut with a social drama starring Penélope Cruz, which premiered at Venice and is now stopping over in San Sebastián  

16/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | Perlak

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