Cinema and theatre

Articles about cinema and theatre

David Serrano

The king of the musical gets ‘serious’

David Serrano puts his fetish genres, comedy and musical, aside to adapt a libretto by Martin McDonagh ('The Pillowman', with Belén Cuesta and Ricardo Gómez) in a new example of the versatility of the Madrid-born creator.

PLATINO Awards

Our cinema reaches new heights

Iberia is, once again, supporting the 8th Edition of the PLATINO Awards, held in Madrid between the 30th of September and the 3rd of October.

Daniella Santiago

The role of her life

There’s no doubt that Daniella Santiago is one of the up-and-coming actors of the moment. After bringing La Veneno to life, the winner of an Ondas Award from Málaga makes her début with Almodóvar in 'Parallel Mothers'.

Mago Yunke

The impossible illusionist

With the second season of his show Hangar 52 Revolution just released, we talk to Yunke the Magician about the creative process, the so-called "classified illusions" and what it means to support local magic.

A Female Gaze

The Cine por Mujeres Festival is Back

Film Festival Cine por Mujeres (Cinema by Women) returns to Madrid: a date that aims to raise awareness about the work done by all the women in the film industry through screenings and a full educational programme. In its third edition, animation and cinematography also gain prominence.

Salvador Calvo

Stories To Be Told

The director returns to cinema with ‘Adú’, a tale that makes the audience ask itself how or why many of the things that surround us happen. We talk to Salvador Calvo about film and TV, and how digital platforms are quickly changing an industry in which, today, all well-told stories have their place.

Miquel Barcelona

Catharsis on the Stage

Miquel Barcelona was born in San Esteban de Sasroviras (Barcelona), which is also Rosalía’s hometown, but his career has gone a different way. For fifteen years, he has been devoted to what he likes most — dance, whether by creating musicals, singing opera or teaching at the Operación Triunfo Academy, the Spanish version of 'Pop Idol'. Now, he is going back to his alternative essence with [Kórps], a contemporary dance piece influenced by popular tradition and human practices of violence, vigil and death.

Begoña Vargas

The Big Leap

After working in theatre and series such as ‘La otra mirada’ or ‘High Seas’, Begoña Vargas makes the leap to the big screen and plays the leading role in the horror film ‘Malasaña 32’, directed by Albert Pintó. We’ll be on her tail...

Belén Sánchez-Arévalo

Stories in Tiny Flasks

The short is doing wonderfully. Ask Belén Sánchez-Arévalo, short writer with over two hundred awards in her cabinet. The latest being Best Spanish Fiction Short / Iberia Talent on Board Award for Best Spanish Script at the 9th edition of the ABC Spanish American Short Festival.

Greta Fernández

The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree

Greta Fernández is the breakthrough actor of 2019, after winning the Concha de Plata Award at the San Sebastian Festival and being nominated for the Goya Award for her leading role in ‘A Thief’s Daughter’. Daughter of writer Esmeralda Berbel and actor Eduard Fernández, with whom she shares credits on the film, it was obvious that math wasn’t going to be her thing.

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