Lluís Miñarro

Emergency Exit (2025)

It tells how 14 characters travel in a mysterious vehicle that they cannot easily get out of. Along the way, they fabricate about their identity and travel through unreal landscapes on a journey between life and death, sleep and wakefulness. According to t ...

Close to the Sultan (2024)

An early 20th-century sultan is introduced to the cinematograph with the help of a former operator for the Lumiere brothers. ...

Constel·lació Portabella (2024)

Constel·lació Portabella traces the exciting life of the great Catalan film director and artist Pere Portabella , which traverses the cultural and political history of the country and the last seventy years, letting us be carried away by the passion, the ...

The Dead Remain with Their Mouths Open (2023)

Central Apennines, 1944. The snowy landscape witnesses the escape of four hunted partisans. As they wander through the blizzard in search of a shelter, they meet a young girl. ...

Mighty Flash (2021)

Isa uses a tape recorder to record messages to herself and then reads them out. She is hoping for change to come, which isn't surprising. She lives in a small community in southwest Spain where nothing ever happens. All the young people have left. For thos ...

The Luminous View (2021)

Mr. Emmer is a jaded Film Director, Catarina the assistant of an absent Producer. Together they embark on a journey in search of Hölderlin's places, for a never forgotten project on the German poet. But during the journey their aspirations will prove to b ...

Tehran Blues (2020)

Different faces show us an Iran where tradition and modernity coexist and confront each other. Erfan Shafei invites us to discover a country through its music and its people. Erfan is a funny and ironic young Kurdish man who wants to become a film director ...

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 ...

Les Unwanted de Europa (2018)

In February 1939, the paths of those fleeing Francoist Spain on one side and the advancing Nazis on the other crossed along the Pyrenees. Anarchists and socialists, Jews and partisans, in an exodus with no safe destination. Among them Walter Benjamin, one ...

SebastianO (2016)

Fabrizio Ferraro's homage to Saint Sebastian, subject of three paintings by the Italian early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna, starts in the present day with colorful images of tourists in the ancient ruins of the Palatino and the Foro Romano in Rome. S ...

Street Name Pirate (2016)

Oleg and the Rare Arts (2016)

The legendary Oleg Nikolaevitch Karavaichuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the young director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the ...

Living and Other Fictions (2016)

Pepe has left the psychiatric hospital after serving time for stealing to work. Only the solidarity of Antonio, a disabled activist, allows him to build a fragile life on which to project his weak hopes. Nevertheless, his need to fit in a senseless world b ...

Meat Stew (2015)

Lluís Miñarro directs the beloved Rosa Novell in this orally narrated short film, which was the actress's first work in front of a camera. ...

Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, ...

Cábala caníbal (2015)

Villamediana uses his family history to unravel hidden memories of kabbala in Spain. With contemporary images, found footage, archival material, film, literature and ancient Hebrew texts, he creates a new cinematic language for unearthing cultural history. ...

Still the Water (2014)

On the Japanese island of Amami, despite lacking parental guidance, Kaito and his girlfriend Kyoko try to find their place in the world. While Kaito suffers from the absence of his father, who moved to Tokyo after his birth, Kyoko must come to grips with h ...

1 For 1 (2014)

An extraordinary black comedy that explores the limits of survival and absurdist political power games. The story takes place in times of elections in Mexico. A candidate for Governor runs over a pregnant migrant. After the accident, and to avoid a possibl ...

Falling Star (2014)

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the safety of life within the palace walls, the lonely, frustrated king and his servants succumb to playful adventur ...

The Inner Jungle (2013)

Before embarking on a long scientific expedition to the Pacific, Juan takes his girlfriend Gala to the town where he spent his childhood. During the visit, the couple talk about future plans and deep differences emerge. ...

La lapidation de Saint Étienne (2013)

Étienne is an old man who refuses to leave his home because he is convinced that the spirits of his wife and daughter still live there. Nevertheless, the apartment's owner will try to throw him away by any means. ...

The Dead Man and Being Happy (2013)

A Spaniard in Argentina becomes aware of his approaching death while staying at a hospital, so he decides to run away from Buenos Aires and start a trip up North, heading nowhere in particular. ...

Swirl (2012)

Bastu's grandchildren and friends help her pick up the strands of her life after her husband dies. ...

101 (2012)

An exploration of the movie "The strange case of Angelica" and an understanding Manoel de Oliveira's cinema. ...

Kanimambo (2012)

In Erati (Mozambique) is carried out since 2005 Erati Saude Program, focused on the development of the health network. It involves three Spanish NGO, together with the Ministry of Health of Mozambique, and with funding from the Generalitat Valenciana. In E ...

Hollywood Talkies (2011)

Hollywood, 1927. The talkies have just been born and the big movie studios, responding to the demand of millions of Spanish speakers, begin to produce Spanish versions of their most ambitious productions. It is when a group of Spanish directors, screenwrit ...

Sidewalls (2011)

Martin is a neurotic web designer taking baby steps out of the isolation of his one-room apartment and his virtual reality. Mariana is an artist fresh out of a long relationship. They are perfect for each other, live on the same street, in opposite buildin ...

The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

A photographer, Isaac is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter Angélica. When he looks at her through the lens of his camera, she appears to come back to life just for him. He instantly falls in love with her. From th ...

Father (2010)

An old empty house. The guard who takes care of it. The priest of the town. Spaces, sounds, lights and shadows. Time goes by and the memories are shown in its walls and in the most hidden nooks. ...

The Mosquito Net (2010)

Maria suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Luis, Maria's fifteen-year-old grandson, doesn't say very much either; he shuts himself off in his own silent world to escape his parent's marital crisis, spending time instead picking up stray cats and dogs off the ...

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. C ...

Finisterrae (2010)

Two ghosts walk along the Camino of Santiago. ...

Cinéclub (2009)

"Cinéclub" is the story of a small art and rehearsal cinema. The cinema dies with all its workers: the projectionist, the blockbuster, the viewers...One of the few spectators of this little film falls for the blockbuster, which feels no interest in it. Th ...

Blow Horn (2009)

The movie is filmed as if it were a Mandala, Sanskrit term which designates the symbolic circular diagrams characteristic of Hindu and Buddhist thought. Performer and co-writer is the Jinpa Gyamtso Lama, born in Terrassa, a monk since 1989 and director of ...

Familystrip (2009)

The Spain that fades. We assist to the painting of a family portrait that reveals a generation away: our elders. Two survivors of the civil war and postwar tell us about their most intimate secrets, which are none other than the commitment to life. Another ...

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009)

On a train to Algarve, a young man recounts to a fellow passenger his past relationship with an eccentric young woman. ...

The Blue Bull (2009)

A young man fascinated by the world of bullfighting lives isolated in the countryside trying to shape his obsession: internal bullfighting, bullfighting with no bull. A spiritual path based solely on the technique as an end in itself. To do this, after a p ...

Mohamed el sastre y otras historias (2009)

Mohamed, a Pakistani tailor, exploits his Indian assistant, Singh, in an extremely tiny shop in Barcelona. Two years later, Singh sets up his own business and lives a ruinous romance with a Russian woman, while his real wife waits for him in India. In the ...

Birdsong (2008)

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

Liverpool (2008)

A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive. ...

A Dream (2008)

From the beginning of time, a man walks in front of his flock to the rhythm of the seasons. The nomadic shepherd belongs to our collective imagination. Joan "Pipa" is one of the last representatives of an ancient tradition. We accompany him on his last nom ...

Listening Gabriel (2007)

"Listening Gabriel" it is a full of magic urban story about fear to the unknown, personal growth and love as the main force for live. Gabriel is a strange and solitary young boy who lives inside his own world. New in town, Sara is a passionate and independ ...

The Rind (2007)

An advertising creative dies unexpectedly while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departed's idea, taking over his place and making use ...

In the City of Sylvia (2007)

A man returns to a city to try to track down a woman he met six years earlier. ...

La silla (2006)

A man is consumed with the idea of acquiring a chair from a bric-a-brac shop. ...

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. ...

If Only a Lament (2005)

Luna, an amateur producer, meet Chico Ocaña after a concert and becomes fascinated with him. Both are well suited and decide to take foward an ambitious plan: to make a documental about "flamenco". ...

Where Is Madame Catherine? (2003)

The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, the ...

Things I Never Told You (1996)

Don is a real estate salesman who volunteers at a "hotline for hope". Ann, who works in a photo store, has been told by her boyfriend that he doesn't love her anymore and wants to break up. To try to win him back, she records a videotape where she tells hi ...

Uncertain Path (2021)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema. ...

No respires, el amor está en el aire (1999)