Liberté

Liberté 2019

5.40

1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the legendary Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign. Their mission is to export libertinage, a philosophy of enlightenment founded on the rejection of moral boundaries and authorities, but moreover to find a safe place to pursue their errant games, where the quest for pleasure no longer obeys laws other than those dictated by unfulfilled desires.

2019

Pacifiction

Pacifiction 2022

6.40

Island of Tahiti. French government official De Roller is a calculating man with impeccable manners, capable of dealing with both high society and the locals he frequents in shady joints.

2022

Misericordia

Misericordia 2024

6.70

Jérémie returns to his hometown for an old friend’s funeral. In this village where so much goes unsaid, he must contend with rumours and suspicion, until he commits an irreparable act and finds himself at the centre of a police investigation.

2024

Afternoons of Solitude

Afternoons of Solitude 2025

1

The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.

2025

Honour of the Knights

Honour of the Knights 2006

7.20

Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them.

2006

Story of My Death

Story of My Death 2013

7.30

Casanova meets a new servant who will witness his last moments in life, from a castle with its libertine 18th century atmosphere to the poor, shadowy Northern lands. There, his rationalist way of thinking and mundane world will succumb to a violent and romantic force, represented by Count Dracula.

2013

Birdsong

Birdsong 2008

7.00

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.

2008

Filmoteca de Catalunya 10 anys al Raval

Filmoteca de Catalunya 10 anys al Raval 2022

8.00

Short film on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Filmoteca de Catalunya using fragments from unused footage of the film Pacifiction.

2022

Roi Soleil

Roi Soleil 2018

5.40

Catalan director Albert Serra’s follow-up to his magisterial The Death of Louis XIV is another forensic documentation of the Sun King’s final breaths. Here, however, Versailles is replaced with the glow of the gallery.

2018

The Names of Christ

The Names of Christ 2010

6.20

Episodic film, divided into 14 chapters, based on the play De los nombres de Cristo (1586), by Fray Luis de Leon and intended for exhibition "Are You Ready for TV?". Filmed partly in the rooms of MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona), is about the difficulty of naming or visually represent abstract concepts.

2010

The Lord Worked Wonders in Me

The Lord Worked Wonders in Me 2011

5.50

Part of the crew of Honor of the Knights travels to La Mancha to see the real settings of Quixote’s life in order to shoot a film.

2011

Bauçà

Bauçà 2009

5.50

Changing colors according to the music.

2009

Black Out

Black Out 1970

1

A successful black theatre and opera stage director, a very demanding and determined person, is going through a prolonged and devastating spiritual ordeal, of unknown origin, to which she seems to have become accustomed. She lives in a permanent drunkenness, shocking and implausible but paradoxically controlled and with hardly any excesses. She has a growing fascination for the talent and magnetism of one of the actresses, whose career she wants to dominate, as she considers herself responsible and owner of her triumph.

1970

Singularity

Singularity 2015

1

The film takes place in Ireland – an Ireland where people speak Catalan with a Fassbinder accent – from the 1930 to today, and follows in several parallel directions the sprawling saga of two rival gold mines, the exploitation of artists by Capital, and the simultaneous opening of a brothel where women do not like men. Because he does things his own way, Albert Serra’s most narrative and wordy film was not meant for cinema: produced by the Venice Biennale, it was part of an installation, its chapters shown simultaneously on several screens. Singularity could very well have been called “Velvet Goldmine”, as it sings the meeting of brothels and tunnels, of a golden stud and lustful bodies (both shown as abstractions).

2015

L’alto arrigo

L’alto arrigo 2008

10.00

A short film by Albert Serra, made in conjunction with his third feature film, Birdsong, from a small reference by Dante to the King Arrigo VII (Henry VII) in “Paradise” from “The Divine Comedy.”

2008

Crespià, the Film not the Village

Crespià, the Film not the Village 2003

5.60

Loving cult film and idiosyncratic musical portrait of summer festivities in the Catalan village of Crespià, with early performances by the well-known faces from the work of Serra.

2003

Rússia

Rússia 2007

6.60

A poetic portrait of Lluís Serrat Massanellas, an unprofessional actor and friend of Albert Serra since working with him on Honour of the Knights, and his father, Lluís Serrat Batlle.

2007

Out of This World

Out of This World 1970

1

An American delegation goes to Russia in the midst of the Ukrainian war to try to find a solution to an economic dispute linked to sanctions.

1970

A Little Death

A Little Death 2021

1

Eternal life is getting harder for the undead Tina, who subsists on the transfer of energies accessed during the male orgasm. When her partner-in-crime gives in to suicidal ennui, Tina is left alone to protect her species from extinction.

2021