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Alfonso Rivera


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

Series review: Hierro

Series review: Hierro

The mighty Candela Peña rules the roost again in the second season of this series set on the titular Canary Island, as she plays a judge with ironclad principles  

18/02/2021 | Series | Reviews | Spain/France

Jaime Rosales shooting the life-affirming Wild Flowers

Jaime Rosales shooting the life-affirming Wild Flowers

The filmmaker is directing Anna Castillo and Oriol Pla in an optimistic, passionate and intense story that unfolds in various settings in Catalonia and the city of Melilla  

17/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Spain/France

Jorge Coira • Director of Hierro

Interview: Jorge Coira • Director of Hierro

“Justice is far from perfect”

The Galician filmmaker returned to the titular Canary Island, which won the Award for Best European Film Location in 2019, in order to shoot season two of his series starring Candela Peña  

16/02/2021 | /Spain/France

Belén Rueda and José Coronado toplining La familia perfecta

Belén Rueda and José Coronado toplining La familia perfecta

The second fiction feature by Arantxa Echevarría, a comedy also starring Jesús Vidal, Gonzalo de Castro and Carolina Yuste, is nearing the end of post-production  

12/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Spain

Juan Pinzás shooting El corazón de Europa

Juan Pinzás shooting El corazón de Europa

The filmmaker – who’s impossible to pigeonhole – is shooting his tenth movie in various locations, continuing the trilogy project that he began three years ago with El vientre de Europa  

11/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Spain/Germany

Félix Viscarret adapting From the Shadows

Félix Viscarret adapting From the Shadows

The Juan José Millás novel is being turned into a psychological thriller by the Spanish filmmaker; the cast includes Leonor Watling, Paco León and Álex Brendemühl  

10/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Spain/Belgium

Series review: Vitals

Series review: Vitals

Three chapters are all Fèlix Colomer needs to show the most humane, tenacious, luminous and inspiring side of this cruel and devastating COVID-19 pandemic  

08/02/2021 | Series | Reviews | Spain

Amalia Ulman • Director of El planeta

Interview: Amalia Ulman • Director of El planeta

“I don’t understand this crusade against humour”

We had a chinwag with the artist, who has made her feature debut with a film shot completely independently, and toplined by the director herself and her mother  

05/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: El planeta

Review: El planeta

Centring on a mother and daughter scraping by in the midst of the crisis, the feature debut by artist Amalia Ulman is brimming with freshness, levity and a sense of humour  

04/02/2021 | Sundance 2021 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Penélope Cruz to be one of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers

Penélope Cruz to be one of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers

The filmmaker's new movie will star the Madrilenian actress, a familiar face in his features, alongside Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Julieta Serrano and Rossy de Palma  

04/02/2021 | Production | Funding | Spain

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