La Bola Negra

“A rich and rewarding movie.” ★★★★ The Guardian

A beautifully woven triptych of queer stories from Spain, La Bola Negra was the toast of Cannes and with good cause: ambitious, stirring and mysteriously poetic, its marks a major new voice in filmmaking. Told across two moments of repression in Franco’s fascist Spain, as well as modern day tale, the continuities and contrasts of this story build to a beautiful whole.

Presided over by the spirit of the poet Lorca, La Bola Negra shows different sides to life as a gay man, the insidious power of totalitarian states and their long shadow, but also the power to transcend them. Produced by Pedro Almódovar, this is bravura filmmaking not to be missed.