COUNTRY
Spain, Belgium
PRODUCTION
La Claqueta, La Cruda Realidad, Amania Films, Menuetto
YEAR2026
DURATION98 min
WRITING Patricia Ortega, Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo, José Ortuño
CINEMATOGRAPHY Diego Dussuel
MUSIC
Paloma Peñarrubia
EDITION Fátima de los Santos
CAST Zack Gómez-Rolls, Jorge Sanz, María León, Sara Sálamo, Fernando Guallar, Kiti Mánver
DISTRIBUTION Caramel Films
INTERNATIONAL SALES Latido Films
CONTACT info@laclaqueta.com
SYNOPSIS A feel-good comedy about Ángel, a young and attractive personal trainer whose life seems to be going perfectly. After a gap year, he starts working at the best gym in the city, but everything changes when he begins to feel unwell and goes to the hospital, where he receives unexpected news: he is pregnant. Ángel is a trans man who must face a decision that will put his identity, his dreams, and his idea of masculinity to the test.
Patricia Ortega
She holds a degree in Social Communication and trained as a director at the EICTV in Cuba and the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg. She has directed short films and documentaries such as
Sueños de Hanssen and
Ausencias. Her fiction debut,
Yo, Imposible (2018), received international awards and was shortlisted for the Oscars. In 2022, she shot
Mamacruz (2023), which premiered at Sundance, and in 2025, the biopic
Caballé.
FILMOGRAPHY
Mamacruz (feature film, 2023),
Yo, Imposible (documentary, 2018),
Sueños de Hanssen (short film, 2020),
La boda de Blanco (short film, 2001)