Icíar Bollaín

Director, screenwriter and actress, Icíar Bollaín began in the cinema as an actress at the age of 15 under the command of Víctor Erice in El sur (1983). In 1991, she founded Producciones La Iguana to promote her own projects as a director. Hola,¿estás sola? (1995) was her first feature film. Later came films like Flores de otro mundo (1999); Te doy mis ojos (2003), for which he received two Goya awards for Best direction and Best screenplay; Mataharis (2007); También la lluvia (2010), with a script by Paul Laverty and Kathmandu, un Espejo en el cielo (2011). The filmmaker tries the documentary genre with En tierra extraña (2014) to return to fiction with El olivo (2016). Two years later, she releases Yuli (2018) and in 2020 she directs Candela Peña in La boda de Rosa. Founder of CIMA (Association of women filmmakers and audiovisual media), she is one of the Spanish directors who has succeeded in putting together closeness to viewers with her own style that combines sensitivity and elegance.

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