FILMS | TV | THEATRE
Director: Pepón Montero | Writers: Juan Maidagán and Pepón Montero
Story in 12 short episodes (around 40′ each), one per month of the year, on an anodyne couple living in Madrid and their routine stories involving their own relation, work, family, friends and neighbors.
Director and writer: Miguel Pons
A story about the fight of any ordinary person who needs to muster the necessary strength to face a big challenge. This short film intends to be a positive metaphor for the heroism of people who find a reason to fight and don’t give up when things get really bad, because, at some point in life, all of us need to believe that we are some kind of superhero to overcome hard times.
Directors: Jordi Frades, Salvador G. Ruiz and Juan Noguera | Writers: Daniel M. S. de Parayuelo, Laura Sarmiento Pallarés, Fernando Navarro, Nacho Cabana and Chus Vallejo
In the small Castilian-Leonese town of Torrecillas, meat-processing businessman Francisco (Antonio Garrido) imports cheap and low-quality pigs from Portugal. The veterinarian in his slaughterhouse is his brother-in-law Alfonso (Pepe Viyuela), a weak man who is fed up with looking the other way and certifying animals of dubious quality.
Director: Miguel Pons | Writers: Emilia Uutinen and Miguel Pons
Directors: Laura Caballero and Miguel Albaladejo | Writers: Alberto Caballero, Daniel Deorador and Laura Caballero
Follow the lives of the residents of a relatively luxurious block, the problems of sharing housing, the housing bubble, and young people’s difficulties finding apartments.
Director and writer: Indalecio Corugedo
The play explores the power of the arts in general, and theatre in particular, as a tool for resisting the rise in violence and war in contemporary society.
Directors: Rubén Torrejón, Alexandra Graf and Nacho Guilló | Writers: Tirso Calero and Fran Carballal
Fresh from the academy, Officer Alicia joins the South District police station. As she learns from veteran detective Miralles and streetwise officer Batista, she’ll attempt to uncover the truth about her mother’s death.
Director: Miguel Pons | Writers: Emilia Uutinen and Miguel Pons
Alice and Vincent run a high-risk mission in Minsk.
Directors: Iñaki Mercero, Norberto L. Amado and Iñaki Peñafiel | María Dueñas, Susana López Rubio, Alberto Grondona and Carlos Montero
The life of Sira, a dressmaker consumed by the love of a man, left the turmoil of Madrid prior to the Civil War at Tangier, where she inadvertently becomes part of an espionage scheme.
Director and writer: Miguel Pons
Everything we do, everything we see, eventually leaves its mark on us, and sometimes it follows us into our nightmares.
Director: Miguel Albaladejo | Writers: Mariano Baselga, Paula Fernández and Darío Madrona
Trini is a singer that traveled Spain for many years until unexpected news obligates her to return to the neighborhood, La Gloria, where she grew up.
Director and writer: Daniela López Lugo
When the Seventh World War breaks out, a depressed factory worker embarks on an impossible mission to repair her broken sex toy.
Director: Isidro Ortiz | Writers: David Alonso and Cristóbal Garrido
A group of doctors that investigate the capacities of the human brain and the dreams discover that the reality can be more dangerous that the nightmares.
Director and composer: Miguel Pons
When the clouds roll in and the rain begins to fall, time bends, and the past bleeds into the present.
Director: Manuel Tera | Writers: David Abajo and David Fernández
As a result of the financial crisis, a number of displaced families take up permanent residence at a vacation campground north of Madrid.
Director and writer: Ainhoa Menéndez
In an idyllic village, the inhabitants raise hens, knead bread, tend to their crops. And guard a dark secret.
Director and writer: Raúl Díaz
After her father’s sudden death, Aida returns to her childhood neighborhood and tries to help her children get ahead in life.
Director and composer: Miguel Pons
A pianist and composer seeking inspiration in London.
Directors and writers: Esteban and Josemi Ibarretxe
A down on his luck writer witnesses an armed robbery and the police want him to finger a dangerous criminal who threatens him.
Writer: Diana Son
Stop Kiss tells the story of Sara and Callie, who are assaulted on the street after their first kiss.
Directors: Juan Luis Iborra and Laura Caballero | Writers: Daniel Deorador
Spanish tv sitcom. 12 seasons.
Director: Miguel Pons
Five players on poker night stake everything on one hand.
Director: Juan Pablo Lacroze | Writers: Damián Szifron, Patricio Vega and Marcos Osorio Vidal
Daniel, a cop, takes in his 11-year-old half-brother Lorenzo after their father’s death. Lorenzo’s high IQ helps Daniel solve intricate murder cases, making him a little Sherlock Holmes.
Director and writer: Ramón Salazar
A narcoleptic transgender woman who yearns to have sex reassignment surgery dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she’s the star.
Director: Indalecio Corugedo | Writer: Caryl Churchill
Caryl Churchill’s profound and surreal play explores the depths of grief and the tantalising allure of alternative futures. The story centers on Someone, a bereaved individual grappling with the loss of a loved one.
Staged reading: Emilia Uutinen
Staged reading of Kalevala
Staged reading: Ignacio García May and Emilia Uutinen
Staged readings of texts by a range of Nordic authors, taking a satirical look at the figure of the Nordic Man.
Director: Nuria Alkorta | Writer: Calderón de la Barca
Calderón’s only surviving burlesque comedy, staged at the Royal Palace for Carnival, turns the tragic myth of Cephalus and Procris into farce.
The jealous couple and the rival who covets Cephalus become comic fodder, and the play also spoofs Calderón’s own serious works.
Director: Nuria Alkorta | Writer: Calderón de la Barca
In Calderón’s Celos aun del aire matan, Diana punishes her nymph Aura, whom Venus saves by turning her into the wind, and sends a fury to fill Pocris with jealous suspicions about her husband Céfalo.
Pocris overhears Céfalo calling to “Aura”, mistakes the breeze for a rival and dies of jealousy, so jealousy kills even over the air.
Director: Beatriz Anton and José Gamo | Writer: Javier Salas /C.Goldoni
Goldoni’s La famiglia dell’antiquario (also titled La suocera e la nuora) centers on Count Anselmo Terrazzani, an elderly collector obsessed with antiques who squanders the dowry that his merchant daughter-in-law’s father provided. Swindlers like his servant Brighella sell him worthless pieces at high prices, while his proud wife Isabella feuds with their bourgeois daughter-in-law Doralice, and their son Giacinto dares not displease his mother. In the end, Doralice’s father Pantalone, the one sensible man in the house, takes control from the count, stops the senseless spending and restores peace, a comic image of the nobility’s decline and the rise of the middle class.
Director: Charo Amador | Writer: Sófocles, María Zambrano, Bertold Brecht, Jean Anouilh, and Marguerite Yourcenar
Theatre research workshop on texts by Sophocles, María Zambrano, Bertold Brecht, Jean Anouilh, and Marguerite Yourcenar.
Director: Charo Amador | Writer: William Shakespeare
In As You Like It, Rosalind is banished by her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, and flees to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia and the fool Touchstone, disguised as a young man called Ganymede. There she meets Orlando, who has also fled his brutal brother Oliver and is lovesick for her, and she offers to “cure” him by playing the part of Rosalind herself. Amid a tangle of mistaken identities and rival lovers, the play ends with multiple marriages, the exiled Duke Senior restored to power and the usurper’s change of heart.
Choreographyr: T. Djupsjöbacka and K. Martin | Music: Miguel Poveda and Rauli Rantanen
A contemporary flamenco dance work inspired by the Finnish epic Kalevala.
Director: Sointu Angervo | Music: Kurt Weill
Down in the Valley (Kurt Weill, 1948) is a one-act folk opera told in flashback. On the eve of his hanging, Brack Weaver escapes from jail to see his sweetheart, Jennie. Together they recall how Jennie, against her father’s wishes, went to a dance with Brack instead of the wealthy Thomas Bouché. There, a drunken Bouché drew a knife, and in the fight that followed he was killed. Convinced of Jennie’s love, Brack gives himself up to face his fate.
Selected Work
Selected moments from Emilia Uutinen’s work across stage, screen, and character.
