Llorenç Soler

Monólogos de un hombre incierto (2010)

A War in Hollywood (2009)

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sym ...

Ser Joan Fuster (2008)

Family Life (2007)

This is a story based on true events that tells the misadventures of Martha, a woman who is near 40 years old and wants to have a child. She will encounter many problems, some due to their sexual status (she is lesbian) and by the age difference between he ...

El viaje inverso (2007)

Kenia and Her Family (2005)

Spain passed a law in 2005 allowing same-sex marriages. This is the story of a gay couple, Julia and Aída, who decide to have a baby. They approach Francesc, a gay friend of theirs, as a sperm donor. The documentary charts the 3-year story from the start ...

Del roig al blau (La transició valenciana) (2005)

A series of interviews to relevant personalities who lived the valencian transition to democracy. ...

Lola vende cá (2002)

Lola is a young gypsy of uncertain origin who was adopted, as a newborn, by a family among whom she has grown up with gypsy customs and traditions. When the young woman finishes high school, she considers, against her family and her social environment, to ...

Francisco Boix: A Photographer in Hell (2000)

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes from Spain; but is captured by the Nazis in 1940 and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria, a year later. There, he works as a prisone ...

Saíd (1999)

Ivorsi (1993)

Mark, a contemporary art painter based in New York, investigates some dreamlike outcrops that take him to the context of 12th century Romanesque art in the Catalan Pyrenees. ...

La última frontera (1992)

Rateta, Rateta (1990)

She wanted to be rich, to have lovers, to go to Barcelona: but Montserrateta had to make do with living in a village in the Pyrenees, with her boyfriend, and milking cows on her parents' farm, until one day, she finds a lottery ticket. ...

Gritos... a ritmo fuerte (1984)

Maria, the last member of a good provincial family of long tradition, wants to live the atmosphere of these musical groups that proliferate all over the world. He meets Ricardo, a former partner in the advertising world, who has self-marginalized because h ...

Como un adiós (1983)

El viatge a l’última estació (1982)

¡Votad, votad, malditos! (1977)

On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask passers-by which party they are going to vote for. ...

Gitanos sin romancero (1976)

Carnet de identidad (1970)

El cuarto poder (1970)

The documentary is divided into three large segments, which ironically about the "press of the movement" ...

El largo viaje hacia la ira (1969)

After the experience with 'Será tu tierra,' Soler becomes aware of this cruel reality, until then unknown; Soler makes this documentary on his own initiative and with complete freedom. The film analyzes and quantifies, using extensive data, the social and ...

Será tu tierra (1965)

A film commissioned by the Municipal Housing Authority that was meant to praise the city council's social housing policy; It was screened in a private session for Mayor Porcioles and was not accepted; a new, happier, more hopeful ending was added, but even ...

52 Sundays (1965)

The misadventures of a group of young people who seek a better life by becoming bullfighters, the only way to leave their poor existence in the slums of Barcelona. ...

Contra el NO-DO. Llorenç Soler o la pulsión por la honestidad (2018)

Life and filmography of Llorenç Soler (1936 – 2022), a creative pioneer of independent documentary cinema under Franco's dictatorial regime in Spain during the 1960s and '70s, when the information monopoly belonged to state-controlled NO-DO newsreels an ...

Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español (2010)

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of "the other" Spanish Cinema — films that brazenly explored their artistic, poetic and conceptual potential. Spanish experimental cinema can be glimpsed in ...

Joaquim Jordà i... (2001)

A documentary structured as a series of interviews in which Joaquim Jordà, both on his own and in dialogue with José Luis Guerín, Llorenç Soler or Esteve Riambau, reviews his career, the Barcelona School, his opinions on cinema and documentary, etc. ...