Cinema is her life. In 1990, she began her career in cinema as an editor for films and documentaries by Carlos Saura, Víctor Erice, Ramón Barea, Chus Gutiérrez, Rafael Gordon, Alberto Moráis, Paula Cons, Bobby Moresco, Mark Steven Johnson, Carmen Chaplin, etc. In 1992, she attended the editing process of the film Trespass by Walter Hill, edited by Davis Freeman in Los Angeles.

She has studied Medicine, has taken photography courses at the Spectrum gallery in Zaragoza and the specialisation course in Imagining Realities: Authorship in Documentary Cinema at the UAB. She also makes photography collages, installations of different contents, paints film negatives which he then projects, and makes light boxes and installations with them.

As a director, she tries to discover other forms of narrative within experimental film and video art: Kamarada, Emigración, El lenguaje de los objetos about the artist Marijose Recalde, El grito de Guernica, Mankind (5 min) which was chosen by Lars Von Trier's GESAMT project and El vuelo de Dora Salazar.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, the European Film Academy and the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Film Academy for ten years.

She has received the Ricardo Franco Award at the Malaga Festival, the Simone de Beauvoir Award, the Cinema Writers Circle Award, the Basque Cinema Big Award at the Bilbao Film Festival and was nominated for the Goya in 2006.
 

She is an Associate Professor in the Communication Department at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), holding degrees in Audiovisual Communication and in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. She holds a PhD in Communication from the URV and is a member of the Asterisc Research Group. Her work focuses on the study of memory and postmemory narratives of traumatic pasts in non-fiction cinema, as well as narratives exploring gender identity and gender perspectives.

She has been the main researcher of the I+D projects “Memorias en segundo grado: posmemoria de la guerra civil, el franquismo y la transición democrática en España” (CSO2013-41594-P, 2014-2017) and “Articulaciones del género en el documental español contemporáneo. Una perspectiva interseccional” (PGC2018-097966-B-I0, 2019-2023). Both of them were financed by the Spanish Ministry for Science, Innovation and Universities.

She has published in several national and international journals and co-edited, along with José Carlos Rueda, the book Posmemorias de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo. Narrativas audiovisuales y producciones culturales en el siglo XXI (Comares, 2017). In April 2023, she held the Mercè Rodoreda Chair at the City University of New York, where she taught a seminar and delivered a lecture on representations of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism in contemporary Catalan documentaries. She has also been a guest lecturer and speaker at Bates College (United States), Canterbury Christ Church University (United Kingdom), Universiteit Gent (Belgium), and MUSAC (Spain). Currently, she is a member of the research team for the I+D project “De espacios de perpetración a lugares de memoria. Formas de representación” (PROMETEU/2020/059).
 

Cuban filmmaker based in Madrid. He debuted as the author of one of the three stories that make up Tres veces dos, winner of the Silver Zenith for Best First Film at the Montreal Festival. His first solo feature, La Edad de la peseta, Oscar and Goya nominated for Best Ibero-American Film; premiered in Toronto and was screened and awarded prizes at numerous festivals. His next film, Omertà, premiered in San Sebastian after winning Best Unpublished Screenplay in Havana.

Playing Lecuona won the Merit Award at the New York International Film Festival, it was the best documentary at the Montreal International Film Festival and part of the official selection at IDFA. El Acompañante was her second Oscar nomination, and it was also nominated for the Platino and Forqué Awards. It also won the Audience Award at several festivals and was released in the United States by HBO.

His most recent film, El caso Padilla, winner of the Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Documentary and nominated at the Forqué Awards and the CEC Awards, premiered at Telluride and San Sebastian, and was later included in the official selections of festivals such as Rome, BAFICI, É Tudo Verdade, Miami and Toulouse, among others.

In 2024, he finished shooting the film named Comandante Fritz and published his novel named Habana Nostra, which made it to the final of the Azorín Prize in 2022.
 

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1981. He is studying Philosophy and the Master's Degree in Creative Documentary at the Pompeu Fabra University.

He has made the feature films La ciudad oculta, winner of the Feroz Award for Best Documentary, and Edificio España, nominated for the Goya Award for Best Documentary. He is also the author of the medium-length film La piedra and the short film El extraño, both of which have won international awards. His work has been watched at festivals in over 100 countries, including IDFA, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Viennale, San Francisco, Bafici, Tallinn, Visions du Réel and Malaga, and has been screened at centres such as the Lincoln Center in New York, the Pompidou Museum in Paris, the Barbican Centre in London and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.

He also teaches at several film schools and has lectured on his work at universities such as La Sorbonne (Paris) and the University of Southern California (Los Angeles). He is a founding partner of the production company KVFILMS, where he has produced all his films, as well as co-producing other projects.

His most recent work is the short film Meteoro, winner of the Punto de Encuentro Award for Best Short Film at the Valladolid International Film Festival 2023. This year he will be shooting El exterior, his first fiction feature film, selected at Torino Script Lab and Rotterdam CineMart.