Fernando Méndez-Leite

Marisol: llámame Pepa (2024)

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who, in just twenty-five years of intense career, went from being Marisol, child prodigy of the Franco dictatorship, to being one of the first communist milita ...

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite (2023)

A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances. ...

Icónica Chamorro (2023)

Journalist Paloma Chamorro symbolized openness and modernity in Spain in the early 1980s. Her personality and her shows on TVE (then the only TV channel in the country) made her an influential transgressive icon. ...

Stories of Our Cinema (2019)

In Spain, on May 11, 1896, at the Price circus, the first moving images ever shown in the country are projected. From that event, the Spanish actor Antonio Resines intends to compile a series of anecdotes to shape the amazing history of Spanish cinema, hol ...

El Quijote desde la platea (2019)

How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago ...

Eduardo Ducay: el cine que siempre estuvo ahí (2015)

Por la gracia de Luis (2009)

A walk through the work of Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) that is neither a documentary nor a narrative movie, but a tribute to one of the greatest directors of Spanish cinema. Anything can happen: the performers are not themselves, but their characters ...

La extraña pareja: Pajares y Esteso (2008)

Howard Hawks, San Sebastián 1972 (2003)

In 1972, the American film director Howard Hawks travelled to San Sebastian to preside over the jury of the Film Festival. Two young film buffs, Jesús Martínez León and José Luis Cuerda, came from Madrid in the hope of interviewing him. After thirty ye ...

La corte de Ana (2020)

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starring children, a child prodigy unlike any other; a girl who, in time, would become a symbol of freedom and a total artist. Actress, singer, friend, lover. This ...

Wild Session (2019)

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a low-budget cinema and great popular acceptance that exploited cinematographic fashions: westerns, horror movies, erotic comedies and thrillers about petty cri ...

¡Ay, Carmen! (2018)

The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right. ...

The Blind Sunflowers (2008)

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. ...

El productor (2006)

A conspirator? A man with his own ideas, obstinate in making them come true? An arm-wrestler? The greatest mocker of Franco's censorship? Someone determined to change the world by putting a mirror in front of it? A schemer? The most important name in the h ...

La Regenta (1995)

The imaginary city of Vetusta, a symbol of anachronistic and oppressive traditions, is the realm of hypocrisy and intolerance that makes Ana Ozores's life unbearable and inevitably tragic. ...

El hombre de moda (1980)

Pedro Liniers, a literature teacher, comes back to Madrid after his wife has just left him. Meanwhile, Aurora Villalba, came to Spain from Argentina, running away from the militaries, she has a special way of living her own way. Pedro wants to get back the ...