The shoot has just begun for Flores para Antonio (lit. “Flowers for Antonio”), a new, original feature-length documentary from Movistar Plus+ that will look back on the life and oeuvre of late Madrilenian musician and composer Antonio Flores (1961-1995) from the point of view of his daughter, actress Alba Flores, who is a familiar face in popular series such as Locked Up, Holy Family, Romancero, Queer You Are and Money Heist, among others. She has also appeared in films like last year’s Love and Revolution [+lire aussi :
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The movie is written and directed by Isaki Lacuesta (who was triumphant at the Málaga Film Festival with his latest feature, Saturn Return [+lire aussi :
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In Flores para Antonio, Alba Flores rummages around in her father’s keepsake boxes, listens to his rehearsal tapes, learns his songs and takes part in the first concert held in his honour. All this while gaining an understanding of who her father was and discovering still-untold stories together with her mother, Ana Villa, and her aunts: singers Lolita (winner of the Goya Award for Best New Actress in 2002 for Rancour) and Rosario, who was an Almodóvar girl in Talk to Her [+lire aussi :
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Alba Flores states, “This film started life as an offering of love to Antonio and his fans. What I didn’t know is just how much some people from my father’s circle needed something like this. It’s a film that we are shooting in a raw and sensitive fashion, for an artist who also created in a raw and sensitive manner.”

Flores para Antonio is a Movistar Plus+ original being produced by Flower Power Producciones, LACOProductora, Caballo Films and Flores para Antonio la película AIE. The movie will be released in Spanish theatres courtesy of A Contracorriente Films, and subsequently, it will land on Movistar Plus+ as an exclusive. The international sales will be entrusted to French sales agent Goodfellas.