Icíar Bollaín
Nascimento : 1967-06-12, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
História
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Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez (Madrid, June 12, 1967) is a Spanish actress, director and writer.
Her father was an aeronautical engineer and her mother was a music teacher. She made her début when she was 15 years old. She is a member of the Academia Española de Cinematografía. She began her work in cinema at the age of fourteen as part of the cast in Victor Erice's film El Sur (1983). Since then she has acted in fourteen films.
Hola, estas sola? (Hi, are you alone? in English) (1995) was her first feature film as director, a story about two young girls who dream of finding an earthly paradise, and undertake a long trip towards the sea.
Flores de otro mundo (Flowers from another world in English) (1999) was her second feature film, which she co-wrote with Julio Llamazares. It is the story of four women who travel to rural Spain with the hopes of finding love.
Her latest film as writer and director is Te Doy Mis Ojos (I'll give you my eyes in English) (2003) which won seven Goya awards including Best Film. The movie is about the abusive marriage relationship between Pilar and Antonio.
Her 2010 film Even the Rain was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards. In January 2011, the film made the final nine shortlist.
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Director
Self
Uma análise profunda sobre a carreira do polêmico crítico espanhol Carlos Boyero e as mudanças vividas pela crítica cinematográfica como gênero na era das redes sociais.
Writer
Maixabel Lasa perdeu seu marido, Juan María Jaúregui, assassinado pelo ETA em 2000. Onze anos depois, recebe um pedido inusitado: um dos assassinos pediu para se encontrar com ela na Cadeia de Nanclares de la Oca / Álava, no qual cumpre pena por ter rompido os laços com a quadrilha terrorista. Apesar das dúvidas e da dor imensa, Maixabel concorda em se encontrar cara a cara com pessoas que acabaram a sangue frio com a vida de quem era sua companheira desde os dezesseis anos.
Director
Maixabel Lasa perdeu seu marido, Juan María Jaúregui, assassinado pelo ETA em 2000. Onze anos depois, recebe um pedido inusitado: um dos assassinos pediu para se encontrar com ela na Cadeia de Nanclares de la Oca / Álava, no qual cumpre pena por ter rompido os laços com a quadrilha terrorista. Apesar das dúvidas e da dor imensa, Maixabel concorda em se encontrar cara a cara com pessoas que acabaram a sangue frio com a vida de quem era sua companheira desde os dezesseis anos.
Screenplay
Prestes a fazer 45 anos, Rosa percebe que sempre viveu em prol dos outros e decide finalmente apertar o botão nuclear, mandar tudo pro ar e se encarregar de sua própria vida.
Director
Prestes a fazer 45 anos, Rosa percebe que sempre viveu em prol dos outros e decide finalmente apertar o botão nuclear, mandar tudo pro ar e se encarregar de sua própria vida.
Director
Yuli is the nickname given to Carlos Acosta by his father, Pedro, who considers him the son of Ogun, an African god and a fighter. As a child Yuli avoids discipline and education, learning from the streets of an impoverished and abandoned Havana. His father, however, has other ideas, and knowing that his son has a natural talent for dance, sends him to the National Ballet School of Cuba. Despite his repeated escapes and initial poor behaviour, the boy is inevitably drawn to the world of dance, and begins to shape his legendary career from a young age, becoming the first black dancer to be cast in some of the most prestigious ballet roles, originally written for white dancers, in companies such as the Houston Ballet or the Royal Ballet in London.
Director
Alma (Anna Castillo), uma habitante do interior da província de Castellón, na Espanha, é uma jovem de apenas 20 anos que decide embarcar em uma improvável jornada de caminhão para a Alemanha.
Screenplay
A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment.
Director
A documentary about the life of young Spanish immigrants in Edinburgh, Scotland, who had to leave Spain due to recession and unemployment.
Director
Lorenzo del Escorial (Madrid), where normally, protection and improvement are much more than words. A tale of fears and anxieties, dreams and illusions, games and entertainment, full of nostalgia and the harshness of a reality that was not always happy. Accompany a child grow is a difficult, almost impossible when you have to help you recover and find their way. Aldeas Infantiles SOS does it every day. For an adult, you must first be a child.
Screenplay
Laia é uma professora espanhola que viaja a Katmandu para trabalhar em uma escola dos bairros mais pobres. Ali, se dará conta de toda a miseria que a rodeia, e seu maior desafio será levar a cabo um projeto educativo para que as crianças mais pobres recebam uma formação de qualidade que as ajudem a sair dessa situação.Ela é ajudada por uma professora nativa, Sharmila. Para poder realizar seu objetivo e permanecer trabalhando no Nepal, Laia se verá obrigada a contrair um matrimônio de conveniência com um cidadão de Katmandu, Tsering, do qual acabará se apaixonando.
Director
Laia é uma professora espanhola que viaja a Katmandu para trabalhar em uma escola dos bairros mais pobres. Ali, se dará conta de toda a miseria que a rodeia, e seu maior desafio será levar a cabo um projeto educativo para que as crianças mais pobres recebam uma formação de qualidade que as ajudem a sair dessa situação.Ela é ajudada por uma professora nativa, Sharmila. Para poder realizar seu objetivo e permanecer trabalhando no Nepal, Laia se verá obrigada a contrair um matrimônio de conveniência com um cidadão de Katmandu, Tsering, do qual acabará se apaixonando.
Director
Uma equipe de filmagem espanhola, de baixo orçamento, chega em Cochabamba, Bolívia, para rodar um filme sobre a chegada de Cristóvão Colombo, e a relação dos conquistadores espanhóis, que praticamente dizimaram a civilização indigena que ali habitava, explorando-os comercialmente, e matando os insubordinados. A equipe escala atores e figurantes locais, mas o que não esperavam é que a população enfrenta o governo, por conta do uso de água, e isso atrapalha o rendimento das filmagens, pondo em risco a vida de todos, após a eclosão de uma rebelião civil.
Marimar Torres
A romantic thriller about a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid.
Writer
Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.
Director
Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job, these three surveillance specialists will have to cross the thin line dividing public and private matters, bringing their own issues to light in order to solve more than just their professional cases.
Julia
The Night of the brother ("La Noche del Hermano") is a chiaroscuro tale in which the characters' not always explicit feelings cover the gamut from darkness to light through the thin line between love and fear. Because the events of life are often less astonishing than the way they are shown to us.
Director
A multi-part feature on the governing body of Spain, the Popular Party under Jose María Aznar. Themes include the bombing of Iraq, immigration, U.S. fire in Baghdad, and the manipulation of the media.
Screenplay
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Director
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Maria
An inexplicable crack in the Pyrenees Mountains provokes excitement and scientific curiosity. As the geological fracture deepens and widens, the European community begins to disassociate itself from the calamity, and panic ensues among tourists and residents attempting to escape. When Spain and Portugal physically separate from the continent, the detached Iberian peninsula aimlessly floats off to sea, becoming home to a group of god-like humans.
Julia
Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him.
Writer
Lucía, una joven maestra que vive en Madrid, regresa a su tierra con su hija Clara tras la muerte de su padre. Allí se reencuentra con el pueblo de su infancia, La Isla. Al lado de su mundo delimitado por el mar y el constante soplar del viento, Lucía descubre otro universo.
Writer
The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.
Director
The two million Spanish women who are victims of domestic violence and the death each week of a woman at the hands of her partner is not fiction but pure reality.
Leo
Salva working as security guard in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Madrid. There he meets Leo, a girl who makes a living collecting cardboard. Gradually Salva be falling in love for the young, but the life of Leo holds a dark past.
Writer
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.
Director
Patricia, a woman from Dominican Republic, needs a home and an economic security that her illegal status in Madrid does not provide her. Milady, twenty, born in Havana and dying to travel the world. Marirosi has a job, a home, and the most complete solitude... just like Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, men from the St. Eulalia, a village lacking both marrying women and future. A bachelors' party forces the encounter between them and the beginning of this bittersweet story of sharing a living.
Paula
Asun
Unbenownst to a middle-aged teacher of handicapped children, his long-term suffering girlfriend is pregnant with his child. The film philosophically explores the ideas of free will and destiny as they relate to the characters and their life choices.
Amaya
Cantante en karaoke
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Author
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Director
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
Maite
Primavera de 1936, um jovem comunista desempregado, David, deixa sua cidade natal Liverpool para se juntar à luta contra o fascismo na Espanha. Ele se junta a um grupo internacional de milícia, homens e mulheres, o POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). Depois de ser ferido, ele vai para Barcelona, onde decide se juntar a outro grupo de milícia. Eles permanecem em Barcelona e acabam brigando outros grupos antifascistas. David está decepcionado e decide voltar para sua antiga milícia.
Araceli
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade.
Story
María
Writer
Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they have reasons to kill Carlos, and they all are... friends of the deceased.
Director
Carlos is 50 years old. It has a cake with candles and seven friends to celebrate him. The police have one dead and seven suspected murder. All they have reasons to kill Carlos, and they all are... friends of the deceased.
Writer
A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...
Director
A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...
A touch of horn is enough for the girl to meet with her boyfriend...
Laura
Laura is a young woman from Madrid who lives in the most degraded area of New York. There he lives a series of anecdotes that make up his day-to-day life in the United States
Having just split up with their respective partners, Maria and Daniel meet in a shop where they argue over a bed. From then on, they keep running into each other in all sorts of strange places and in all sorts of circumstances. They are mutually attracted and begin to intrepret the coincidences of their meeting as sign of fate, but they are hesitant to take the plunge. This little game of love and fate becomes even more complicated when Pierre, a French teacher, and Alicia, Maria's friend, become involved..Who will seduce whom?...Who will be seduced by whom?...After a series of misunderstandings, love settles the question.
Anita
Rocío
An intrigue based on a failed relationship with touches of dreams and magic filmed on the streets of Seville.
María
Marisa, a 38 years old woman, tells a stranges story to her daughter while they're walking through a level crossing in Madrid. An anthropologist, Jaime, is chased by a mysterious jeep. In the course of the chase, he takes shelter in a small motel. When he settles down, he keeps writing in his personal diary, reflecting his impressions about his work in it.
Icíar
Estrella - 15 años
Jovem que vive em uma pequena aldeia, no norte da Espanha, rememora, na sua maturidade, a infância, o relacionamento com o pai, os avós e a Guerra Civil Espanhola.
