Pere Portabella Movies

2004 Portabella short in which a narrator explains the severe consequences of a proposed hydrological plan.

Experimental silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s.

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical...

An itinerary through the great creations of Catalan art: Romanesque, Gothic, Modernist and Contemporary; with interviews to Catalan creators such as...

Five ex-political prisoners meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974 on the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk...

Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although...

While waiting to get started on the production of his feature Liberxina 90 (1970), Carlos Duran shot this short (with very expressive support by...

Commissioned by the Maeght Gallery with the exhibition of Joan Miró, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the Grand Palais,...

Short film by Spanish/Catalan film maker Pere Portabella.

a one-woman stage reading of a Joan Brossa play

A Pepe Carvalho adventure.

"Mudanza" (Removal) came to be made after the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was asked for involvement in a project in the Huerta de San Vicente, the...

The film is divided into two antithetical segments ‒ The first is made up of a couple of fixed shots of the pianist, Carles Santos, playing...

Part of the full-length feature ¡Hay motivo!, made up of 32 shorts directed by Spanish actors and directors protesting against the policies of...

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the...

Eight people from very different backgrounds cross paths in Barcelona, Spain. Lawyers, musicians, translators, security guards, call center agents....