Isaki Lacuesta

Flores para Antonio (2025)

A daughter sets out to find out the truth about the man who was her father, a legendary musician, who died when she was 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores, and she the also famous actress Alba Flores. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio and is now de ...

Chaplin: Spirit of the Tramp (2025)

A revealing exploration of Chaplin's Romani heritage constructed from intimate interviews, film extracts, home movies and contributions from renowned contemporary Romani artists. ...

Saturn Return (2024)

A rock band has to record their third LP, which will either propel them to stardom or fade into oblivion. Despite executives' reservations, their idea is to have the recording take place in New York. But everything complicates, and the creative process tur ...

Foremost by Night (2023)

Exploring the issue of stolen children in Spain, the plot tracks Vera's search for her biological son, given in adoption, thereby coming across Cora and her adoptive son Egoz. ...

One Year, One Night (2022)

Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar o ...

Equilibrio (2022)

On the day of the blackout, Alicia prepares for the inevitable as she heads to her parents' country house. When the power goes out, she discovers she is not alone: some farmhands are stranded on the estate. Forced to live together, the group learns to orga ...

Under listening. The defendant (2020)

This documentary recalled the terrible murder of Michelangelo and Maria, an eight-year-old father and daughter, who were murdered after receiving a total of 15 stabs. This terrible event is still to be resolved after the only defendant, Francisco Javier M ...

Between Two Waters (2018)

Isra and Cheito are two brothers who have taken very different paths in life. When Isra gets released from prison and Cheito comes home after a long tour with the Marines, they both return to the island of San Fernando. The reunion of the two brothers will ...

Rêve de mousse (2018)

The Next Skin (2016)

A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor. ...

Lunaby (2015)

Portrait poem, made for the Eiga Ongaku Project. ...

Dying Beyond Their Means (2014)

Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spa ...

The Creator of the Jungle (2014)

This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. This is also the story of how he ended up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them, time after ...

El moviment perpetu (2013)

Documentary about the transmission of gestures and movements, from body to body, from generation to generation, embodied from some key moments in the history of dance in Catalonia, from the beginning of the 20th century to the first companies of the mid-19 ...

The Killing of the Pig (2012)

Conversations with an amateur film-maker and real state developer. ...

The Double Steps (2011)

Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to ...

3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day. ...

El cuaderno de barro (2011)

Isaki Lacuesta documentary conceived in collaboration with painter Miquel Barceló. The artist, who lives long periods in Africa, has learned to paint from termites and scorpions, adapting to the conditions of a wild environment. Lacuesta enters the Africa ...

El rito (2010)

A glimpse into a slaughterhouse in Girona. The slaughter of the animal is deprived of its sacred nature, of all ritual; and human gestures become mechanical, almost automatic, when carried out day after day. ...

2012 (2010)

All Night Long (2010)

Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories: the plot and the tale of the bodies filmed. This film narrates what happened between two images: a first shot ...

Garbo: The Spy (2009)

A compelling account of Juan Pujol, an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of history. ...

Los Condenados (2009)

Two ex-guerrillas meet again 30 years later in an illegal excavation, where they will search for the body of a third companion who disappeared at the time. The tension and secrets hidden during that time will surface as you approach the unpredictable final ...

Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (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 ...

Places That Do Not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) (2009)

The project Places that do not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) consists of a series of portraits and films of places which do not appear on Google Earth, which we travelled to in order to document their true appearance through vid- eos and photographs, which in t ...

Alpha, and again (2008)

The Marker Variations (2007)

"If Isaki Lacuesta wants to use some of my footage, that's ok by me, at the end of the day, I have spent my life copying others" (Chris Marker). An act of cinematic love for the director of La Jetée. "To shoot under the pseudonym Chris Marker, you need to ...

Marte en la Tierra (2007)

Dos cuentos que caben en la palma de la mano (2007)

The Legend of Time (2006)

A documentary/fiction mix inspired by the flamenco singer Camarón. ...

Teoría de los cuerpos (2004)

Microscopías (2003)

Various objects are observed using a high-resolution electron microscope: some paint pigments from a supposed 19th-century painting, a dollar bill, and a piece of old film celluloid in the process of decomposition. Microscopic observation will reveal the m ...

Ressonàncies magnètiques (2003)

Cravan vs. Cravan (2002)

In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank Nicotra, begins an investigation that will take you behind the mysterious steps Cravan from Switzerland to Mexi ...

Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase (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 ...