Albert Serra

Red Rocks (2026)

On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in the perilous game of cliff jumping. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart emerge again ...

Magellan (2025)

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous journey across the uncharted Pacific, where his fleet fac ...

Afternoons of Solitude (2025)

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses. ...

Misericordia (2024)

Jérémie returns to his hometown for the funeral of his former boss, the village baker. He decides to stay for a few days with Martine, the man's widow. A mysterious disappearance, a threatening neighbor and a priest with strange intentions make Jérémie ...

Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema (2024)

A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard. ...

Être Résistances (2023)

Vienna Waltz (2022)

A Spanish Fighting Bull gazes at us. A steady, strong gaze from the animal; a nervous, worried gaze from us, even as we sit on the safe side of the screen. Photographically, there is a strange, misty, aestheticising sheen. These mixed signals weave a spell ...

Pacifiction (2022)

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints. ...

Filmoteca de Catalunya 10 anys al Raval (2022)

Short film on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Filmoteca de Catalunya using fragments from unused footage of the film Pacifiction. ...

My Influences (2020)

In "Spaces #3", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book " ...

Liberté (2019)

1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, Germ ...

Personalien (2019)

In an ambiance loaded with tension, intellectual doubts and creative frustration, Rainer Werner Fassbinder writes and teaches the staging of a theater piece about the 18th century Libertiage at a great theater in Berlín. ...

Love Me Not (2019)

A powerful international army assigns a regiment the task of guarding a mysterious man, held in a maximum security prison in the middle of the desert. Soldier Salome, daughter of Commander Antipas, becomes obsessed with him... Eros and Thanatos together re ...

I Am An Artist (2019)

Roi Soleil (2018)

Catalan director Albert Serra's follow-up to his magisterial The Death of Louis XIV is another forensic documentation of the Sun King's final breaths. Here, however, Versailles is replaced with the glow of the gallery. ...

The Death of Louis XIV (2016)

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of ...

Singularity (2015)

The film takes place in Ireland – an Ireland where people speak Catalan with a Fassbinder accent – from the 1930 to today, and follows in several parallel directions the sprawling saga of two rival gold mines, the exploitation of artists by Capital, an ...

Cubalibre (2014)

An homage from Serra to one of his idols, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, shot in a nightclub full of characters that resemble the ones of Fassbinder films. The title comes from the favourite drink of "Beware of the Holy Whore" characters. ...

An Afternoon in Geneva (2013)

In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person a ...

Story of My Death (2013)

Casanova meets a new servant who will witness his last moments in life, from a castle with its libertine 18th century atmosphere to the poor, shadowy Northern lands. There, his rationalist way of thinking and mundane world will succumb to a violent and rom ...

The Three Little Pigs (2012)

A 101-hour long reflection on the construction of Europe, its cultural identity and its foundations through the complete adaptation of the texts 'Conversations with Goethe' by J. P. Eckermann, 'Hitler's Table Talks' and 'Fassbinder über Fassbinder: Die un ...

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, Estonia ...

The Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011)

Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote's life in order to shoot a film. ...

The Names of Christ (2010)

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play De los nombres de Cristo (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for exhibition "Are You Ready for TV?". Filmed partly in the rooms of MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), is about the ...

Reading a Poem (2010)

A 2010 Catalan language documentary directed by Albert Serra. ...

Bauçà (2009)

Changing colors according to the music. ...

Cinematic Correspondences: Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso (2009)

The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant ...

Birdsong (2008)

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way. ...

L’alto arrigo (2008)

A short film by Albert Serra, made in conjunction with his third feature film, Birdsong, from a small reference by Dante to the King Arrigo VII (Henry VII) in "Paradise" from "The Divine Comedy. ...

Fiasco (2008)

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra's piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin's legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces ...

Atlètic Club Banyoles (2007)

The filmmaker Albert Serra and producer Àngel Martin present their last work on the web dedicated to the club Atlètic Club Banyoles and authentic football. ...

Rússia (2007)

A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle. ...

Honour of the Knights (2006)

Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them. ...

Super 8 (2006)

Short film. ...

Sant Pere de Rodes (2006)

Lluís Carbó and Lluís Serrat, i nubliables Quixote and Sancho d'Honor de Cavalleria, philosophize, improvise and rehearse, as if at the top of the world, under the eye of Albert Serra. ...

Crespià, the Film not the Village (2003)

Loving cult film and idiosyncratic musical portrait of summer festivities in the Catalan village of Crespià, with early performances by the well-known faces from the work of Serra. ...

The Cause of The Accident That Started The Fire (2024)

Room 999 (2023)

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca ...

My Influences (2020)

In "Spaces #3", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book " ...

Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me (2019)

My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once "most handsome man in the world". As a consequence, t ...

I Am An Artist (2019)

Roi Soleil (2018)

Catalan director Albert Serra's follow-up to his magisterial The Death of Louis XIV is another forensic documentation of the Sun King's final breaths. Here, however, Versailles is replaced with the glow of the gallery. ...

Adolfo Arrietta, (cadré - décadré) (2015)

A "Cinéma, de notre temps" series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired sometime around 2015. ...

Cubalibre (2014)

An homage from Serra to one of his idols, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, shot in a nightclub full of characters that resemble the ones of Fassbinder films. The title comes from the favourite drink of "Beware of the Holy Whore" characters. ...

The Lord Worked Wonders in Me (2011)

Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote's life in order to shoot a film. ...

The Names of Christ (2010)

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play De los nombres de Cristo (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for exhibition "Are You Ready for TV?". Filmed partly in the rooms of MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), is about the ...

El asesino a sueldo (2009)

Cinematic Correspondences: Albert Serra – Lisandro Alonso (2009)

The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant ...

Waiting for Sancho (2008)

Waiting for Sancho is an ontological investigation into a place where cinema becomes something more than cinema. Filmed in high-definition colour over five days in the Canary Islands of Fuerteventura and Tenerife, Waiting for Sancho is a kind of experiment ...

Fiasco (2008)

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra's piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin's legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces ...