Jonás Trueba
He has written and directed the films All Songs Speak About Me (2010), for which he was nominated for the Goya for Best New Director, The Illusions (2013), which received awards and recognition from critics and audiences after his tour of international festivals, The romantic exiles (2015), Special Jury Prize at Malaga Festival among other awards and festivals, La reconquista (2016), which participated in the Official Section of the San Sebastian Festival, as well as in international festival numbers, and for which he received the RNE 2016 Critical Eye Award. At the end of that year, Who's Stopping Us begins, a project of cinematographic approach to different young adolescents that is shown in different pieces, such as a film in progress. His most recent film is The Virgin of August (2019), Fipresci Prize for International Critics and Special Jury Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Festival 2019.
The Wishful Thinkers (2013)
What some filmmakers do when they are not making movies: they waste time; they eat and get drunk; they take a walk after watching a movie; they fall in love; they are alone or with friends, building future memories for a future movie. (more)
What some filmmakers do when they are not making movies: they waste time; they eat and get drunk; they take a walk after watching a movie; they fall in love; they are alone or with friends, building future memories for a future movie. (more)
Every Song Is About Me (2010)
Film that revolves around the theme of love, but this time under the premise of a boy who tries to forget a girl, a story far more difficult to bear, especially when the girl you just separated from comes back again in each of the memories of your past and you feel ... (more)
Film that revolves around the theme of love, but this time under the premise of a boy who tries to forget a girl, a story far more difficult to bear, especially when the girl you just separated from comes back again in each of the memories of your past and you feel ... (more)
The Good Life (1996)
Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that survival ... (more)
Tristan is about to turn fifteen. He enjoys the good life his parents have built for him. And yet, it won't be long before his environment of protection, affection and comfort crumbles. From then on, he will learn the taste of loneliness, sadness and that survival ... (more)
The Reconquest (2016)
Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of time lost and ... (more)
Manuela and Olmo meet in a future as they had promised fifteen years earlier as teenagers, when they lived their first love. Based on this romantic situation, La Reconquista is in fact a film on a quest for time; or about the awareness of time: of time lost and ... (more)
The Romantic Exiles (2015)
Vito, Luis and Francesco are three Spanish friends around thirty who travel by van to Paris for no apparent reason, just looking for a reunion with their respective ancient, idyllic and yet ephemeral love affairs, perhaps with the only mission of surprising ... (more)
Vito, Luis and Francesco are three Spanish friends around thirty who travel by van to Paris for no apparent reason, just looking for a reunion with their respective ancient, idyllic and yet ephemeral love affairs, perhaps with the only mission of surprising ... (more)
The August Virgin
(2019)
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover ... (more)
Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover ... (more)
Who’s Stopping Us (2021)
Quién lo impide is a call to change our perception of adolescents and youths; our idea of those born in the early 21st century who have recently reached adulthood; those who now seem guilty of everything as they themselves see their hopes dashed. Somewhere between ... (more)
Quién lo impide is a call to change our perception of adolescents and youths; our idea of those born in the early 21st century who have recently reached adulthood; those who now seem guilty of everything as they themselves see their hopes dashed. Somewhere between ... (more)
You Have to Come and See It (2022)
Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside. (more)
Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside. (more)
The Other Way Around (2024)
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have an idea that might seem absurd: to organize a party to celebrate their breakup. This announcement leaves their loved ones perplexed, but they remain firm in their decision to separate. Or maybe not? (more)
After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have an idea that might seem absurd: to organize a party to celebrate their breakup. This announcement leaves their loved ones perplexed, but they remain firm in their decision to separate. Or maybe not? (more)