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Alfonso Rivera


2141 articles available in total starting from 16/11/2007. Last article published on 14/07/2025.

Laura Herrero Garvín  • Director of La Mami

Interview: Laura Herrero Garvín • Director of La Mami

“I never look for stories; they come to me”

The Spanish filmmaker headed to Mexico City to shoot this excellent documentary that explores the Barba Azul cabaret, a female-dominated world governed by sisterhood, familiarity and empathy  

08/03/2021 | /Mexico/Spain

Schoolgirls strikes gold with four Goya Awards

Schoolgirls strikes gold with four Goya Awards

Pilar Palomero’s début feature was the winner of some of the Spanish Film Academy’s most coveted accolades, presented last Saturday at a ceremony broadcast from Malaga  

08/03/2021 | Goyas 2021

Álvaro Gurrea  • Director of Ancient Soul

Interview: Álvaro Gurrea • Director of Ancient Soul

“I started filming like a man possessed”

BERLINALE 2021: We chatted to the first-time director, who shot his debut, hybrid film (half-fiction, half-reality) immersed in the stunning natural surroundings of Indonesia, using local actors  

05/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Forum

Review: Ancient Soul

Review: Ancient Soul

BERLINALE 2021: Álvaro Gurrea’s feature debut might be an enigmatic, free-spirited and suggestive plunge into Indonesian spirituality, but it ends up being weighed down by its slow pace  

05/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | Forum

Review: La Mami

Review: La Mami

Spaniard Laura Herrero Galvín lays bare the private lives and intimate moments of women who work as bargirls in a crowded Mexico City cabaret  

05/03/2021 | Films | Reviews | Mexico/Spain

The Feroz Awards confirm Schoolgirls as the ultimate champion

The Feroz Awards confirm Schoolgirls as the ultimate champion

In the run-up to the Goya Awards ceremony, Pilar Palomero’s feature debut has scooped the three most important trophies handed out by the Association of Spanish Film Journalists  

03/03/2021 | Festivals | Awards | Spain

Berlin lifts the lid on where to discover up-and-coming Spanish talent

Berlin lifts the lid on where to discover up-and-coming Spanish talent

At an online meeting organised by the ICAA, international professionals will get to know the labs and markets where the most promising Spanish film projects are presented  

02/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | EFM

Two Basque directors head off to Berlinale Talents

Two Basque directors head off to Berlinale Talents

Lur Olaizola Lizarralde and Zuri Goikoetxea have been selected to take part in the gathering involving up-and-coming filmmakers from all over the world, which is unspooling online  

01/03/2021 | Berlinale 2021 | EFM

MiradasDoc gives non-fiction cinema a helping hand from the Canary Islands

MiradasDoc gives non-fiction cinema a helping hand from the Canary Islands

The gathering is being held in a hybrid format from 26 February-6 March, offering an array of standout non-fiction titles and facilitating documentary co-productions  

26/02/2021 | MiradasDoc 2021

Review: The Diver Inside

Review: The Diver Inside

With his first fiction film, Austria’s Günter Schwaiger sounds the alarm on how abuse also causes profound collateral damage in children  

26/02/2021 | Films | Reviews | Spain/Austria/Germany

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