21:00 Bitter Christmas / Amarga Navidad
Spain, 2026, 111’
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Belén Riquelme, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Bárbara Lennie, Rossy de Palma, Milena Smit…
Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia. Mixed with fiction, Elsa is, in a way, Raúl’s alter ego, who resorts to autofiction as a solution to a long period of creative drought. He looks inside himself, and he can’t help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe: his partner and his assistant. The film narrates the close relationship between reality and fiction, between inspiration and life, raising the debate about the limits of autofiction.
Festival: Cannes Film Festival
