Director: Arantxa Echevarría

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Born in: Bilbao, Spain
Biography: Arantxa Echevarría Carcedo was born in 1968 in Bilbao. She studied a degree in Sciences of the Image and a specialization in audiovisual production at the Complutense University of Madrid, and pursued further studies at Sydney Community College. She has worked in cinema and television since 1991. Her short film De noche y de pronto earned a nomination to the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film. Her feature debut Carmen & Lola (2018) earned her the Goya Award for Best New Director, past her fifties. It was followed by her second feature The Perfect Family (2021). She also directed one episode of El Cid's first season. In 2022, she began shooting her third feature, Chinas.

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Carmen & Lola

Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.
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2018

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The Perfect Family

Lucía (Belén Rueda) is a woman for whom leading a model life and taking control of her life is the most important thing. Since she got married, she has focused all of her efforts on caring for her family, until achieving what for her is a perfect family. However, her entire world begins to collapse with the arrival of Sara (Carolina Yuste), the girlfriend of her son; a young girl with great freedom and without mincing words who has a very different family from what Lucia always dreamed of as a political family. Now, Lucia must accept that the perfect family was not exactly what she thought.
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2021

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Políticamente incorrectos

Spain boils with tension, the country is totally polarized and social networks burn daily... The NEW LEFT and LIBERAL SPAIN parties face each other in the next general elections.
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Políticamente incorrectos

2024

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Chinas

In Madrid, Spain, Lucía and Xiang, two nine-year-old Chinese girls, meet at the beginning of the school year.
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Chinas

2023

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The Infiltrator

Aranzazu Berradre Marín was the pseudonym under which a national policewoman infiltrated terrorist group ETA. When she was only 20, the young woman managed to enter the gang by presenting herself as a militant of the Movement of Conscientious Objection of Logroño, being the only woman who lived in an apartment with ETA leaders. During her infiltration, she made possible the dismantling of the Donosti commando at a crucial moment when the gang was falsely declaring a truce.
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The Infiltrator

2024

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