Movies: Isabel Coixet

Two friends just find any temporary jobs to get by. One of them quits his job as a waiter to move to work as a messenger; the other is working as a taxi driver. The messenger, in his comings and goings at night, go through many offices, private homes...

Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that he's disappeared....

Sara lives in a foster-care facility. Her youth days seem to slip through her fingers while she awaits for her father to come back....

El culo del mundo' is a documentary directed by and starring comedian Andreu Buenafuente, the idea for which came about three months after the cancellation of one of his last television programmes, when he received an email from a viewer. This email ...

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Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet travels to Siberia to attend a film festival where an unknown man —with whom she cannot communicate and who reminds her of her father— hands her a box containing the photographs of a lifetime. In Barcelona, she tries t...

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An estranged man, Matt Heller, and a woman, Martha Parks, encounter each other by chance on a plane, and relive memories of their turbulent romantic relationship. Kirsty Sachs, a talk show host who has an affair with Heller and changes the course of...

Maruja lives with her husband in San Ildefonso, a working-class neighborhood of Cornellà, on the outskirts of Barcelona. She is 87 years old, she gets bored at home and often goes out in search of fresh air that makes her smile, always with her shopp...

MAREA BLANCA is a Corona Save The Beach documentary directed by Isabel Coixet. It is a tribute to the thousands of anonymous heroes who left everything to save the Galician coast. An example for all of us who fight for the recovery and conservation o...

Thousands of people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea these years trying to reach Europe. Through a mysterious voice from the bottom of the sea, Drowning Letters tells the most tragic years of the European contemporary history....

"This short film is a letter to a person whom I haven't seen for a long time. Since I couldn't find the words to explain to him what had happened in my life that time, I thought I'd show him in pictures what my days had been like without him."...

In 2018, a group of nine women filed a complaint against two of their teachers at Lleida’s Theatre School for sexual abuse carried out between 2001 and 2008, when they were teenagers. It was too late. Due to fear, embarrassment, because they took so ...

Documentary produced for the We Are Water Foundation, on the ecological disaster of the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Aral was just 50 years ago, the fourth largest lake in the world, with 66,000 square kilometers. Today is a vast desert with skeletons o...

"Parler de Rose" (Talking about Rose), narrated by Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche and directed by Isabel Coixet examines the life and death of Rose Lokissim a prisoner of Hissène Habré, the former dictator of Chad. Survivors of Habré's jails ...

How will a top cardiologist mend her broken heart in the wake of a failed relationship? She is clear about her symptoms: first, pain in the sternum and then an obsession that hijacks her brain as she goes over and over her most recent dates. Once she...

Daisy Brown is a thirteen year old girl with an unusual condition: her teeth won't stop growing. But that's the least of her problems....

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Advertising surrounds us. It is part of our lives, our memory and our culture: it is a pure reflection of our society. However, those who think and create ads are unknown people. Playing with the mechanisms of publicity as a narrative resource, we en...

Documentary made for the exhibition that the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Quiang made in the Prado Museum. The film reveals all the secrets of the work of Cai Guo-Qiang, one of the great international contemporary artists, famous for his original explosion...