Bitter Christmas (2026)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar Run Time: 111 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2026
Starring: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bárbara Lennie, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Patrick Criado, Victoria Luengo
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish, English, Latin
About the film:
Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own.
Bitter Christmas (2026) had its international premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.
About the filmmaker:
Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally celebrated Spanish filmmaker known for his complex and passionate stories. Unable to attend film school, he purchased a Super 8 camera and began making short films with friends, later becoming a star of “La Movida”, the pop cultural movement of late ’70s Madrid. After founding the production company El Deseo with his brother, he crafted Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), which was nominated at the 61st Academy Awards. He won his first Academy Award with All About My Mother (1999) and his second with Talk to Her (2002). His other acclaimed projects include Bad Education (2004), The Skin I Live In (2011), Pain and Glory (2019), The Human Voice (2020), and The Room Next Door (2024), which was his first English-language feature film. Almodóvar is a regular at major film festivals and has received numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.
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