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Exclusive: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas has been picked up by Curzon for UK-Ireland release, as principal photography gets underway in Spain.

The deal was negotiated by Bárbara Peiró at El Deseo and Curzon Film managing directorLouisa Dent.

The film follows an advertising director whose mother dies during a long weekend in December. She throws herself into her work, until a panic attack forces her to take a break and a trip to Lanzarote.

Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit and Quim Gutiérrez star.

The Spanish-language feature is produced by Almodóvar and his brother...

Less than a year since his first English-language feature premiered, Pedro Almodóvar has already embarked on his next project. Bitter Christmas (translated from Amarga Navidad) is now shooting in Madrid and Lanzarote throughout the summer, with a cast including Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, and Quim Gutiérrez.

Variety reports the film will premiere in 2026 in Spain, courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Spain, followed by a streaming release on Movistar Plus+. We imagine it’s no time at all before Sony Pictures Classics announces its U.S. acquisition. With Almodóvar usually having a speedy post-production, one wonders if we could see a release around the holidays early next year or if he’ll hold out for a major festival debut.

Here’s the synopsis, translated from Spanish: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself...

Pedro Almodóvar has found his next project. The auteur is now at work on “Bitter Christmas” for Spanish streaming platform Movistar Plus+. Almodóvar also collaborated with the platform on his English-language feature debut, “The Room Next Door.”

“Bitter Christmas,” or “Amarga Navidad,” stars a slew of Almodóvar newcomers and staples, including Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”), and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”). The film will be released in Spanish theaters in 2026, with Warner Bros. Pictures Spain distributing. It will then debut exclusively on the Movistar Plus+ platform.

IndieWire has reached out to Almodóvar’s representatives for details about a possible U.S. release, though it can be assumed Sony Pictures Classics will release the film in North America, as it has all of Almodóvar’s recent outings. We’re told that festival play and a U.

Spanish streaming and production giant Movistar Plus+ has announced the next film from iconic director Pedro Almodóvar. “Bitter Christmas” (“Amarga Navidad”) will premiere in Spanish theaters in 2026, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Spain, before being made available exclusively on Movistar Plus+’s platform.

The acclaimed Spanish director’s new project, currently filming between Madrid and Lanzarote, is a production of Pedro and his brother Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo with the collaboration of Movistar Plus+.

“Bitter Christmas” boasts a stellar and predictably women-driven cast including European Film Award nominee Bárbara Lennie (“Petra”), Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”), Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (“Parallel Mothers”), Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”), Patrick Criado (“Riot Police”), Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”) and Quim Gutiérrez (“Darkbluealmostblack”).

An official synopsis for the film, translated from Spanish, reads: “Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend. She throws herself into work as a form of escape,...

Bárbara Lennie regresa al universo almodovariano más de una década después de ‘La Piel que Habito’. © Warner Bros

Tras el estreno de La habitación de al lado, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés –que le valió el codiciado León de Oro en Venecia–, Pedro Almodóvar regresa a casa con Amarga Navidad, su nueva película en castellano, anunciada el pasado mes de octubre y que comenzó su rodaje ayer entre Madrid y Lanzarote. Ahora, ya conocemos su reparto completo y sinopsis oficial.

Elsa es una directora de publicidad cuya madre muere durante un largo puente del mes de diciembre. Encuentra refugio en el trabajo, aunque es más bien una huida hacia adelante. Trabaja sin parar y, sin darse cuenta, no se da tiempo suficiente para guardar el duelo por la ausencia materna. Hasta que una crisis de pánico la obliga a parar y tomarse un descanso. Su pareja, Bonifacio, es...

Una mujer es abandonada por su pareja en plena Navidad en la tragicomedia del manchego. © Getty Images

Tras el estreno de La habitación de al lado, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés –que le valió el codiciado León de Oro en Venecia–, Pedro Almodóvar regresa a casa con Amarga Navidad, su nueva película en castellano, anunciada el pasado mes de octubre.

Ahora, la revista ¡Hola! ha desvelado los dos primeros rostros del reparto. Hablamos de Victoria Luengo (Reina Roja), con quien el cineasta manchego ya trabajó en La habitación de al lado, y Patrick Criado, primerizo en el universo almodovariano. Ambos intérpretes han compartido pantalla previamente en la serie Antidisturbios.

En conversación con Indiewire, el director de Volver definió el filme como «una comedia trágica sobre el género» en la que se entrelazan «momentos de comedia y momentos de tragedia».

Amarga Navidad girará en torno a una mujer que...

Fresh from the Croisette as producers on the Jury Prize winner Oliver Laxe’s Sirât, Pedro Almodóvar is getting into the Yuletide spirit this June. WorldofReel did some digging and it looks like we are getting set for production this month with Spanish-speaking thesps Victoria Luengo and Patrick Criado. Bitter Christmas (fka Amarga Navidad) is a tragic comedy about a woman being abandoned by her partner during Christmas time. Filming is set for a Canary Islands backdrop.

Update: Variety reports that Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Milena Smit and Quim Gutiérrez are also cast. And here is the official synopsis below:

Elsa is an advertising director whose mother dies during a long December holiday weekend.…...

Building on bullish business between Berlin’s European Film Market and the eve of this week’s Málaga Festival Spanish Screenings, Madrid-based Latido Films has unveiled a slew of several dozen deals, led by sales in major European territories of Eva Libertad’s Berlin smash “Deaf” (“Sorda”) and a U.S. pick-up on Bartosz M. Kowalski’s horror film “Night Silence.”

“Deaf’s” release in France will be handled by Paris-based Condor Distribution. Piffl Medien bought the film’s rights for Germany & Austria, while Lucky Red inked Italian rights. The U.K. & Ireland rights were acquired by Curzon, and CineArt took Benelux.

Further “Deaf” buyers include Agora in Switzerland, Outsider in Portugal, Feelgood Entertainment in Greece, Lev Cinemas in Israel and the Association of Czech Film Clubs for Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The film has also been acquired in China by Wise Media, Australia (Madman), Japan (New Select) and Indonesia...

Isabel Peña y Sorogoyen firman el guion de esta original de Movistar Plus+. © Movistar Plus+

Ya está en marcha el rodaje de El ser querido, una película dirigida por Rodrigo Sorogoyen con guion del propio Sorogoyen e Isabel Peña. Esta producción original de Movistar Plus+ se rodará a lo largo de diez semanas en localizaciones de Fuerteventura y Madrid, para luego estrenarse en cines de la mano de A Contracorriente Films, antes de aterrizar en la plataforma.

En El ser querido un prestigioso director de cine y su hija, una actriz sin éxito, ruedan juntos una película tras años de distanciamiento y un pasado difícil del que ninguno de los dos ha querido hablar.

La película está encabezada por Javier Bardem (Dune: Parte dos) y Victoria Luengo (Reina roja). Completan el reparto Raúl Arévalo (El caso asunta), Marina Foïs (As Bestas), Mourad Ouani (Nos vemos en otra vida), Raúl Prieto...

Javier Bardem’s upcoming Spanish-language drama “El Ser Querido” from multiple Goya Award-winning writer-director Rodrigo Sorogoyen is heading to the EFM with the English title “The Beloved,” with Goodfellas launching the project to buyers.

The film — also starring Victoria Luengo (“The Room Next Door”) — is a drama about an acclaimed film director and his daughter, a struggling actress. After years of estrangement, they make a movie together, and are forced to confront a troubled past neither of them has wanted to face. Sorogoyen wrote the screenplay.

The film is being produced by Sorogoyen’s Madrid production label Caballo Films, with Movistar Plus+ and Le Pacte co-producing. The latter will release the movie in France.

Bardem earned a Golden Globe nomination this year for his turn in Netflix’s limited series “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez.” He was last seen in “Dune: Part Two” and Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” live-action remake,...

Exclusive: Goodfellas has unveiled one of its biggest European Film Market slates ever featuring upcoming films by Cristian Mungiu, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Saeed Roustaee, Claire Denis, Mario Martone and Raoul Peck.

The company is also handling a trio of Berlin Film Festival titles: Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Golden Bear contender The Ice Tower with Marion Cotillard; Burhan Qurbani’s No Beast. So Fierce. in Berlinale Special; and a fresh acquisition, Bálint Dániel Sós’ Growing Down.

The latter film, which premieres in the new competitive Perspectives section aimed at first films, revolves around a widowed father of two who is tested by fate when he becomes the only witness of a serious accident involving his stepdaughter caused by his youngest son.

Goodfellas will begin pre-sales on Romanian director Mungiu’s first English-language picture Fjord, with Oscar nominee Sebastian Stan (The Apprentice) and Cannes Best Actress winner Renate Reinsve (The Worst Person in the World...

Movistar Plus+, the Spanish pay-tv and SVoD service, is expanding its film production slate and has boarded Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s The Black Ball (La Bola Negra), set to shoot in the second half of 2025.

The Black Ball, inspired by an unfinished play by Federico García Lorca, will be a “queer vindication about three meen in three different moments of Spanish history: 1932, 1937 and 2017,” said Calvo and Ambrossi, best known as filmmaking duo Los Javis.

Los Javis’ outfit Suma Content is producing with Movistar Plus+.

Lorca was murdered at the start of the Spanish Civil War by rightwing military...

During a Movistar+ presentation at the historic Telefónica Building on Madrid’s Gran Via this afternoon, renowned writer-director-producer duo Los Javis – Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo – shared early details about their next project, “La bola negra,” a multi-timelined feature about what it is and has meant to be a gay man in Spain throughout the last century.

A day after their series “La Mesías” won the Rose d’Or Award for best mini or limited series at Content Americas, Ambrossi and Calvo – known locally as Los Javis – revealed that they’re in the final stages of putting the project together and will begin shooting later this year. Abrossi and Calvo are writing, directing, and co-producing the feature through their label Suma Content, which is teaming with Movistar+, its production and distribution partner, on “La Mesías.”

“La bola negra” is a “queer revisitation of a part of the history of our country,...

Now that the dust has settled following the 2024 ceremony, it's time to turn attention toward the 2025 Oscars and the movies that are competing to secure a Best Picture nomination and campaign for a win. As surprising nominees and winners at the 2024 Oscars proved, predicting the 2025 results so far ahead of time is no easy task. However, some serious contenders for awards season have emerged as Oscars 2025 predictions for all categories begin to take shape. This includes a strong group of movies competing for one of ten Best Picture nominations.

Even heading into the 2025 Oscars season, some movies were looked at early on as major contenders. Dune: Part Two is eligible after being delayed from its original 2023 release date, while new movies from Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimios, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Ridley Scott, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood were looked at as contenders to watch out for. Of course, awards season...

"I will not go out in mortifying anguish." Sony Picture Classics has revealed their final official US trailer for The Room Next Door, the first English language feature from Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. It's already playing in theaters in Europe now and also opens in the US next month in the awards season. The film won the Golden Lion top prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival a few months back (my review). Adapted from "What Are You Going Through" by Sigrid Nunez. Ingrid & Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. Starring Julianne Moore as Ingrid and Tilda Swinton as Martha, Alessandro Nivola,...

This week, there have been big changes in the global entertainment business across streaming platforms and production companies, with big announcements coming from several countries.

“The Road Trip,” a new love comedy show from Paramount+, will start on December 26 in the UK, Canada, and Australia. People say the show will be funny and romantic, like old movies like “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles” and “One Day.” The show is about a holiday romance that gets renewed and stars Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, and other great players.

Prime Video’s drama “Reina Roja” (Red Queen) is going forward with its second season in Spain. The new season is based on Juan Gómez-Jurado’s series of books. It follows detectives Antonia Scott and Jon Gutiérrez as they investigate a crime on Spain’s Costa del Sol with ties to the Russian mafia. Victoria Luengo and Hovik Keuchkerian will be back in the lead parts,...

‘The Road Trip’ Teaser On The Road At Paramount+

First-look images (above) and a teaser trailer have been released for The Road Trip, the Paramount+ rom-com launching on the streamer in the UK, Canada and Australia. December 26 has been pencilled in for a debut in those countries. The rom-com series about a camper van ride in Spain stars Emma Appleton, Laurie Davidson, David Jonsson, Isabella Laughland and Angus Imrie, and explores whether someone can be the right person but at the wrong time. The trailer reveals the love affair between Addie (Appleton) and Dylan (Davidson), which began two years before as a holiday romance before ending. Paramount claims the show has “all the fun of Planes, Trains and Automobiles and the romantic yearning of One Day.” Ryan O’Sullivan and Matilda Wnek wrote and created the show, with Miriam Brent, Eleanor Moran and Rory Aitken the executive producers. 42 is making The Road Trip...

Legendary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar received a hero’s welcome at the San Sebastian Film Festival where he arrived this morning to speak with the press before receiving the festival’s honorary Donostia Award for career achievement.

Almodóvar was accompanied by British actress Tilda Swinton.The maverick filmmaker will present their latest collaboration The Room Next Door as part of the Donostia Award celebrations this evening.

The press conference room was packed — which isn’t common at San Sebastian — and Almodóvar was swarmed by journalists who rushed to snap his picture. He was even presented with a handmade gift by one of the reporters in the room.

This evening’s Donostia ceremony coincides with Almodóvar’s 75th birthday and is headline news in Spain. Pedro Sánchez, the country’s President, will even attend the ceremony. Almodóvar was asked by one of the journalists in the room this morning if he...

"There are lots of ways to live inside tragedy..." Warner Bros UK has unveiled their official trailer for The Room Next Door, the first English language feature by beloved Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. It won the Golden Lion top prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival earlier this month (my review). Adapted from "What Are You Going Through" by Sigrid Nunez, the film opens in US theaters in December. It also opens in the UK starting in October. Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation. Starring Julianne Moore as Ingrid & Tilda Swinton as Martha, with Alessandro Nivola, John Turturro, Alex Høgh Andersen,...

Rodrigo Sorogoyen has secured Javier Bardem to star in his upcoming feature El Ser Querida, which will start shooting in January 2025.

Vicky Luengo, whose credits include Riot Police and The Room Next Door, will co-star in the film about the relationship between an acclaimed film director and his daughter, a struggling actress. They share a difficult past that neither wants to discuss. Until they shoot a film together after years of estrangement.

El Ser Querido is being produced by Spain’s Caballo Films and France’s Le Pacte, with backing from Movistar Plus+. A Contracorriente Films will release the film...

San Sebastian — Javier Bardem, at San Sebastián to pick up his 2023 Donostia Award for career achievement, announced he will star in “El Ser Querido,” the next film from Rodrigo Sorogoyen. The director’s “The Beasts” won a best foreign film Cesar Award in 2023, beating out four Cannes Festival winners.

Bardem will play opposite Vicky Luengo, star of Sorogoyen’s hugely popular TV series “Riot Police” in a story written by Sorogoyen and his longtime co-scribe Isabel Peña, which Bardem described at a Donostia Award press conference as a “father-daughter drama” who re-meet after many years.”

According to the film’s synopsis, “El Ser Querido” turns on an acclaimed film director and his daughter, an unsuccessful actress, who shoot a film together after years of estrangement and a difficult past that none of them want to talk about.

“El Ser Querido” is one from a first slate of six auteur event...

Javier Bardem announced this morning during a presser at the San Sebastian Film Festival that he has signed on to star in the next film from Spanish filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts).

The film is titled El ser querido and will be directed by Sorogoyen from a screenplay he penned with Isabel Peña. Also starring is Victoria Luengo (The Room Next Door).

The official synopsis reads: In ‘El ser querido’, an acclaimed film director and his daughter, an unsuccessful actress, shoot a film together after years of estrangement and a difficult past that none of them want to talk about.

The project is a Movistar Plus+ original film in co-production with Caballo Films, El Ser Querido Aie, and Le Pacte (France), financed by Icaa with the support of the Creative Europe Media Program. The film will be released in cinemas, distributed by A Contracorriente Films, and will later be available...

The Room Next Door is a sharp, solemn, and darkly funny English-language feature-length debut by filmmaker Pedro Almodvar. As it stands, his last two titles the short films The Human Voice (2020) and Strange Way of Life (2023) were also shot in English. And if they were teasers to a new level for Almodvar, then The Room Next Door is a veritable confirmation of many more exciting things to come from the Spanish writer and director, who is now in his 50th year behind the camera. His film, which just made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, contemplates death, perhaps even embraces it, but in doing so, Almodvar effectively underscores the need to embrace life and joy.

Based on the novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez, The Room Next Door stars Julianne Moore as best-selling author Ingrid, who finds herself in New York City to...

El Festival se celebra del 20 al 28 de septiembre. © Ssiff

La 72ª edición del Festival de Cine de San Sebastián contará con una notable presencia de cineastas, actores, guionistas y productoras de renombre que se darán cita en la ciudad.

La Sección Oficial será el epicentro de muchas de estas figuras, quienes presentarán sus últimas producciones y participarán en diversas actividades del festival. La inauguración del festival estará marcada por la película Emmanuelle, que llegará acompañada de la directora Audrey Diwan y los actores Noémie Merlant, Will Sharpe, Jamie Campbell Bower y Chacha Huang. Por otro lado, para clausurar el festival, el director John Crowley y el actor Andrew Garfield presentarán We Live In Time (Vivir el momento), una de las películas más anticipadas de esta edición.

El Festival de San Sebastián también recibirá a destacadas personalidades como la directora Gia Coppola y la icónica Pamela Anderson, quienes asistirán a la proyección de The Last Showgirl.

This year’s San Sebastian International Film Festival will feature the most eye-catching list of international superstars it has ever hosted, including A-list actors such as Cate Blanchett and Javier Bardem – who will both receive Donostia career achievement awards, Andrew Garfield, Pamela Anderson, Tilda Swinton and Lupita Nyong’o and filmmakers like local legend Pedro Almodovar – another Donostia award recipient, Adam Elliot, Gia Coppola, Mike Leigh and Walter Salles.

Other international actors who have confirmed they will attend this year’s festival include Monica Bellucci, Jamie Campbell Bower, Johnny Depp, Isabelle Huppert, Noémie Merlant, Ángela Molina, Franco Nero, Charlotte Rampling and Will Sharpe, among others.

Normally, many directors attend San Sebastian with their latest films, but the number of titles from consecrated directors at this year’s festival has increased noticeably. Filmmakers bringing their latest to this year’s festival include Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Leos Carax, Costa-Gavras, Audrey Diwan,...

Pedro Almodóvar unveiled his latest feature, and his first in English, The Room Next Door, here at the Venice Film Festival this evening, receiving a mega 18-minute, 36-second ovation.

As soon as the lights came on and the audience stood, Almodóvar kissed the hands of both leading ladies, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The unusually long length of the ovation was likely due to the cast and Almodóvar descending from the gallery and staying for awhile, clapping along with the crowd.

The Spanish maestro was joined at the world premiere screening by stars Moore and Swinton. Also featuring in the cast are Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

In the film, Moore stars as Ingrid, a best-selling writer who rekindles a relationship with her friend Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, but Martha...

It's always fascinating to see a master filmmaker work in a different language, especially when their work is singular. Tone, personality, and rhythm can come across very differently, and sometimes be difficult to recreate, in a new cultural context. Some take to it right away, others require time to find their footing. Pedro Almodvar's first feature-length film in English, The Room Next Door , is somewhere in between. The Spanish director's fingerprint is there, undoubtedly. But the movie feels strangely incomplete, as if made with one hand tied behind his back.

The Room Next Door

Director Pedro AlmodovarRelease Date December 20, 2024Writers Sigrid Nunez, Pedro AlmodovarCast Paolo Luka No, Francesc Tort, Alvise Rigo, Anton Antoniadis, Sarah Demeestere, Esther McGregor, Victoria Luengo, Tom Johnson, Alex Hgh Andersen, Melina Matthews, Juan Diego Botto, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, Raul Arvalo, Alessandro Nivola, John TurturroCharacter(s) Ingrid, MarthaRuntime 106 MinutesGenres Drama

Adapted from What Are You Going...

After debuting his first English-language short, The Human Voice, here at the Venice Film Festival in 2020, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar has returned to the Lido with his first feature in English, The Room Next Door. The movie world premieres in competition this evening.

The filmmaker, along with stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, met with reporters this afternoon following the first press screenings. The trio talked about everything from euthanasia to climate change, female friendships and their mutual admiration.

In The Room Next Door, Moore stars as Ingrid, a best-selling writer who rekindles a relationship with her friend Martha, a war journalist played by Swinton. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, but Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond. Also featuring in the cast are Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

Related: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door...

La 69 edición del Festival de Cine contará con 18 producciones españolas. © Seminci

La Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, en su 69 edición, que se celebra del 18 al 26 de octubre, ha anunciado las producciones españolas que formarán parte de su programación.

Entre las películas anunciadas, cinco películas La Espiga de Oro competirán por la Espiga de Oro: la película inaugural de Carlos Marques-Marcet, Polvo serán, Javier Rebollo con En la alcoba del sultán, Mar Coll con Salve Maria, Marta Nieto con La mitad de Ana y Elena Manrique con Fin de fiesta.

La inaugural Polvo serán, de Carlos Marques-Marcet, tendrá en la Seminci su estreno nacional después de pasar por el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (TIFF). En esta película, definida como una tragicomedia musical y protagonizada por Ángela Molina, Alfredo Castro y Mònica Almirall, Tras ser diagnosticada con una enfermedad terminal, Claudia decide hacer su último viaje a Suiza y Flavio,...

Spanish director Pedro Almodovar makes his feature English language debut with The Room Next Door. Here’s the teaser trailer.

Pedro Almodovar has – of course – a hugely impressive filmography behind him, from his breakthrough film Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown to more recent successes like Volver, his highest grossing film worldwide to date.

After several English language short films, including Strange Way of Life starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, Almodovar makes his feature English language debut with The Room Next Door.

The synopsis reads as follows:

Ingrid (Julianne Moore) and Martha (Tilda Swinton) were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist while Martha became a war reporter, and they were separated by the circumstances of life. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.

Llegará a los cines en octubre. © El Deseo

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de La habitación de al lado, el primer largometraje de Pedro Almodóvar rodado íntegramente en inglés tras los cortometrajes The Human Voice y Strange Way of Life. La película tendrá su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, donde competirá en la Sección Oficial, y después se proyectará en Toronto, Nueva York y San Sebastián, donde Almodóvar recibirá un Premio Donostia.

La habitación de al lado sigue a Ingrid (Julianne Moore) y Martha (Tilda Swinton), que fueron muy amigas en su juventud. Ambas trabajaban en la misma revista, pero Ingrid acabó convirtiéndose en novelista de autoficción y Martha en reportera de guerra. Las circunstancias de la vida las separaron y, tras muchos años sin contacto, vuelven a encontrarse.

La película habla de la crueldad sin límites de las guerras, de las formas...

Meet Ingrid & Martha. Sony Classics has revealed a first look teaser trailer for The Room Next Door, the first ever English language feature from beloved Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. A few of his recent short films have been in English (including The Human Voice and Strange Way of Life) but this is the first feature that's entirely in English; adapted from "What Are You Going Through" by Sigrid Nunez. The plot deals with the rift between two old friends Martha, a very imperfect mother and war correspondent, and the author Ingrid. They were close friends in their youth, working at the same magazine, but now they're writing entirely different things and have drifted apart it seems. The drama stars Julianne Moore as Ingrid, and Tilda Swinton as Martha, with Alessandro Nivola, John Turturro, Alex Høgh Andersen, Melina Matthews, Juan Diego Botto, Victoria Luengo, and Esther McGregor. Almodóvar's The Room Next Door...

Tendrá su estreno mundial en Venecia y llegará a nuestros cines en octubre. © El Deseo

La habitación de al lado, la nueva película de Pedro Almodóvar, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés tras los cortometrajes The Human Voice y Strange Way of Life, será la pieza central del Festival de Cine de Nueva York.

La habitación de al lado sigue a Ingrid (Julianne Moore) y Martha (Tilda Swinton), que fueron muy amigas en su juventud. Ambas trabajaban en la misma revista, pero Ingrid acabó convirtiéndose en novelista de autoficción y Martha en reportera de guerra. Las circunstancias de la vida las separaron y, tras muchos años sin contacto, vuelven a encontrarse.

La película habla de la crueldad sin límites de las guerras, de las formas tan distintas que tienen las dos escritoras de acercarse y escribir sobre la realidad, de la muerte, de la amistad y del placer sexual...

Tras su paso por Venecia, llegará a los cines en octubre. © El Deseo

“La Habitación de al Lado”, la nueva película de Pedro Almodóvar, su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés tras los cortometrajes “The Human Voice” y “Strange Way of Life”, tendrá su estreno mundial en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Venecia, donde competirá en la Sección Oficial.

“La Habitación de al Lado” sigue a Ingrid (Julianne Moore) y Martha (Tilda Swinton), que fueron muy amigas en su juventud. Ambas trabajaban en la misma revista, pero Ingrid acabó convirtiéndose en novelista de autoficción y Martha en reportera de guerra. Las circunstancias de la vida las separaron y, tras muchos años sin contacto, vuelven a encontrarse.

La película habla de la crueldad sin límites de las guerras, de las formas tan distintas que tienen las dos escritoras de acercarse y escribir sobre la realidad, de la muerte, de la...

The Venice Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its official, star-packed lineup for its 81st edition, which runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.

Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips’ sequel to his 2019 Golden Lion-winning Joker, will also bow in Venice. Joaquin Phoenix, who won a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Arthur Fleck, aka Joker, in the original, returns in the musical sequel, with Lady Gaga playing Harley Quinn, his love interest and partner in crime. Zazie Beetz, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener co-star.

Venice favorites Brad Pitt and George Clooney will return to the Lido with Wolfs, an action drama from Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home) about two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the same job. The film, an Apple Original Films production that Columbia/Sony will release theatrically worldwide, will screen out of competition, as will Broken Rage, the latest feature from legendary Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.

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Tilda Swinton y Julianne Moore protagonizan el nuevo largometraje de Almodóvar. © El Deseo

“La Habitación de al Lado” es la nueva película de Pedro Almodóvar, que protagonizan Tilda Swinton (“El Asesino”) y Julianne Moore (“Secretos de un Escándalo”) junto a John Turturro (“Mr. & Mrs. Smith”) . El director firma su primer largometraje rodado íntegramente en inglés tras los cortometrajes “The Human Voice”, también protagonizado por Tilda Swinton, y “Strange Way of Life”, protagonizado por Ethan Hawke y Pedro Pascal, que tuvieron sus estrenos mundiales en los Festivales de Venecia y Cannes, respectivamente.

La historia de “La habitación de al Lado” es la de una madre muy imperfecta y una hija rencorosa separadas por un gran malentendido. En medio, otra mujer, Ingrid (Julianne Moore), amiga de la madre, es depositaria del dolor y la amargura de ambas. Martha, la madre (Tilda Swinton), es reportera de guerra e Ingrid novelista de autoficción.

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Warner Bros has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro for release in Spain, the UK and key international territories.

The studio will additionally release the film in Italy, Germany, the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Poland), Latin America and select Asia-Pacific markets including Japan.

Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door was shot between Madrid and New York, with the support of Movistar Plus+.

The film also features Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

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Warner Bros has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro for release in Spain, the UK and key international territories.

The studio will additionally release the film in Italy, Germany, the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Poland), Latin America and select Asia-Pacific markets including Japan.

Produced by Almodóvar’s El Deseo, The Room Next Door was shot between Madrid and New York, with the support of Movistar Plus+.

The film also features Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

The Room Next Door...

Warner Bros Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, for release in a host of key international markets including the filmmaker’s home turf of Spain.

Other markets to figure in the deal are the UK, Germany, Italy, the Nordics, Central & Eastern Europe (excluding Poland), Latin America and some of Asia-Pacific, including Japan.

Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, The Room Next Door follows the story of a very imperfect mother and a spiteful daughter separated by a serious misunderstanding. Between them, another woman, Ingrid (Moore), the mother’s friend and an auto fiction novelist, is the keeper of their pain and bitterness. Martha, the mother (Swinton), is a war reporter.

The film is described as addressing the endless cruelty of war, and the very different ways in which the two female authors approach and write about reality, death, friendship and sexual...

Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language film debut “The Room Next Door” for key international territories, including the U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany and Latin America.

Starring Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton and John Turturro, “The Room Next Door” will also be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe (excluding Poland) and some of the Asia Pacific markets, including Japan.

Produced by Almodóvar’s banner El Deseo, “The Room Next Door” was shot between Madrid and New York, with the support of Movistar Plus+. The cast is completed by Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Melina Mathews and Victoria Luengo, among others.

“The Room Next Door” follows the story of Martha, a flawed mother working as a war reporter, and Ingrid, her spiteful daughter who is an auto-fictional novelist. While the mother and daughter are separated by a serious misunderstanding, another woman...

Warner Bros. Pictures has picked up Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro, for multiple international territories, the studio announced Wednesday.

Warners will release the feature across much of Europe, including in Spain, Italy, Germany and the U.K., as well as across the Nordics and Central and Eastern Europe, excluding Poland. The studio will also bow the film in Latin America and some Asian markets, including Japan.

Sony Pictures Classics has domestic rights to The Room Next Door, the first English-language feature from the Oscar-winning Spanish director. It follows Almodóvar’s English-language shorts A Strange Way of Life (2023), a queer cowboy drama starring Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal, and The Human Voice (2020), a loose adaptation of a Jean Cocteau play, also starring Swinton. SPC released both stateside, screening A Strange Way of Life and The Human Voice as...

La serie española se ha convertido en un fenómeno global, alcanzando los primeros puestos en el ranking de Prime Video en más de 120 países. © Prime Video

Prime Video ha anunciado que habrá una segunda temporada de “Reina Roja” gracias a su gran éxito tanto a nivel nacional como internacional. La serie, protagonizada por Victoria Luengo y Hovik Keuchkerian, ha estado en el top 10 de los títulos más vistos en países como Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Alemania, India, México y Australia desde su lanzamiento.

María José Rodríguez, Head of Spanish Originals de Prime Video, expresó su entusiasmo: «Estamos encantados de ver que “Reina Roja” ha cautivado al público español y se ha convertido en un éxito rotundo. Antonia y Jon han cautivado a la audiencia mundial de Prime Video con su química y habilidad para resolver crímenes». James Farrell, VP International Originals de Prime Video, también celebró el éxito de la serie: «Reina Roja nos demuestra,...

Amazon's Red Queen is a top Spanish TV show with stellar performances and a captivating storyline. Vicky Luengo shines as Antonia Scott, a genius investigator with haunting visions. The ensemble cast, including Hovik Keuchkerian and Celia Freijeiro, elevates Red Queen's success.

Amazon’s Red Queen (Reina Roja) includes a large ensemble that provides compelling performances to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Created by Amaya Muruzabal, the thriller follows a woman named Antonia Scott, who gets wrapped up in an investigation of a string of vicious kidnappings and murders. This is one of the best Spanish-language TV shows to stream due to its compelling storyline, twists and turns, and incredible performances.

The main actors in Red Queen anchor the series, pushing the series forward at a rapid pace. Additionally, the rest of the ensemble provides some of the most moving performances. The overall success of the series is unsurprising,...

A sign of Spain’s rising profile as a top market for Prime Video, Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios, and James Farrell, the L.A.-based VP of international originals at Prime Video, flew to Madrid this week, with the world premiere of “Red Queen” (“Reina Roja”), the series adaption of the first book in Juan Gómez-Jurado’s hit trilogy, taking place on Monday night.

The streamer is rolling off the record-breaking finale of its first weekly live entertainment show “Operación Triunfo,” and has revealed that the top three of the the ten most-watched Spanish Originals of 2023 – “My Fault,” “Awareness” and “Los Farad” – have received on average 80% of streams outside of Spain, reaching a milestone for the international reach of Prime Video’s non-English language content.

“The last 12 months has been a truly remarkable time for Spanish-language content,” said Salke, head of Amazon MGM Studios at Prime Video.

A predictably spectacular sunset spreads streaks of pink and orange across a northern Spanish late September sky, heralding the end of another packed edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival, where at the closing gala, “The Rye Horn” the second feature from Spanish director Jaione Camborda has just been handed the Golden Shell, the festival’s top award.

It is perhaps a surprising win, but does now mark the fourth consecutive year that the festival’s most prestigious prize has gone to a female director. But in another way it has to be a first: the international jury, comprising French director Claire Denis, alongside Chinese actor and producer Fan Bingbing, Colombian producer-director Cristina Gallego, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, Spanish actor Vicky Luengo, Canadian producer and distributor Robert Lantos and German director Christian Petzold, has chosen to award not just a Spanish film, but one from a female director who was...

Javier Bardem, winner of a San Sebastian 2023 Donostia Award for career achievement, is putting back his on-stage acceptance of the distinction until the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival.

The postponement is due to the “limits imposed under the strike called by the U.S. Actors Union (SAG-AFTRA),” the San Sebastian Festival announced Friday.

It deprives this year’s Festival of its biggest on-stage major star moment this year.

The fest will, however, enjoy its customary bullish presence of world-class auteurs, led this year by Claire Denis, main competition jury chair, and Victor Erice, will accept his Donostia Award on Sept. 29. San Sebastian announced Friday that Hayao Miyazaki will also accept a Donostia Award online.

Gabriel Byrne, François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Griffin Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Mads Mikkelsen, James Norton and Dominic West have confirmed their attendance, Byrne and Gillen for one of the festival’s biggest tickets, James Marsh’s official selection closing film “Dance First.

The festival is set to open with Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy And The Heron’ on September 22.

French filmmaker Claire Denis will chair the official selection jury for the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival.

The director of Beau Travail and Stars At Noon will be joined by Chinese actress Fan Bingbing; Colombian producer, moviemaker and writer Cristina Gallego; French photographer Brigitte Lacombe; Hungarian producer Robert Lantos; Spanish actress Vicky Luengo; and German director Christian Petzold.

They will decide the winners of the Golden Shell for best film and Silver Shell for best director, leading performance and supporting performance, and will...

Hayao Miyazaki will receive a Donostia Award Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival French filmmaker Claire Denis will chair San Sebastian Film Festival's official during this year.

The 35 Shots Of Rum director will be joined by Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (The Lady In The Portrait), Colombian filmmaker and producer Cristina Gallego (Birds Of Passage), French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, Hungarian producer Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises), Spanish star Vicky Luengo (Cork) and German director Christian Petzold, whose Afire is screening in the festival's Pearls section.

The festival has also announced that Hayao Miyazaki, whose The Boy And The Heron is this year's opening film, will receive a Donostia Award for lifetie achievement in a virtual ceremony.

Among the other filmmakers in attendance will be Maite Alberdi, Ja Bayona, Robin Campillo, Isabel Coixet, Víctor Erice, Michel Franco, Matteo Garrone, Craig Gillespie, Jonathan Glazer, Kitty Green, Todd Haynes, Tran Anh Hung, Ladj Ly,...

French filmmaker Claire Denis has been announced as the jury president for the Official Section of the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival, running from September 22-30.

Denis will be joined by the German director Christian Petzold; Chinese actress Fan Bingbing; Colombian producer, director, and writer Cristina Gallego; French photographer Brigitte Lacombe; Hungarian producer Robert Lantos; and Spanish actress Vicky Luengo.

The jury awards the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell awards for Best Director, Best Leading Performance, and Best Supporting Performance, as well as jury prizes for Cinematography and Screenplay. The Official Awards will be announced and presented at the festival’s Closing Gala on September 30.

The festival also announced today that it will hand Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki an honorary Donostia Award for career achievement. Miyazaki will receive the award virtually during the opening ceremony on September 22.

Filmmakers also set to attend San Seb include Maite Alberdi,...

Amazon’s Prime Video has announced a 2023 Spanish production slate which takes in movies and series from directors, writers and above all producers who have set Spain’s box office and global streamer rankings on fire over the last decade.

Talent attached to the three new movies and three series unveiled Tuesday in Madrid at a Prime Video Presents Spain event include “Hildegart,” from the producers of 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” “Un hipster en la España vacía,” produced by Lazona Films, which made ”Spanish Affair,” the highest grossing Spanish film ever in Spain; and “Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin,” backed by Nostromo Pictures, behind “Through My Window,” the sixth-most watched non-English movie ever on Netflix.

Another title, docuseries “El Circo de los Muchachos” is co-written by Pepe Coira, co-scribe of “Hierro” and “Rapa,” two of the most popular series to date on Telefonica’s Movistar+.

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