Bitter Christmas
Amarga Navidad
Opening Screening
Spain | 2026 | 111 min
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
Not for persons under 12
Director(s): Pedro Almodóvar
Script: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Bárbara Lennie, Milena Smit, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Quim Gutiérrez, Patrick Criado, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Carmen Machi, Gloria Muñoz, Amaia Romero
Production: El Deseo
Distribution: Cinemanse
Comedy | Melodrama | Drama
Yearning Critics Choice Première Friendship Artists
Highlight
Screenings:
A legendary filmmaker, Raúl, stuck in a rut as he grows older, begins writing a story about a commercial director named Elsa, who is grieving the death of her mother and searching for her place in the world. The further Raúl takes his story, the clearer it becomes that Elsa is merely a self-portrait of her author – and that the boundaries between fiction and reality are only thin veils, torn apart by the slightest touch.
Set against the stark landscapes of Lanzarote, Autofiction asks what an artist is entitled to use as material, and what it ultimately takes from them. The result is an intimate, playful and deeply revealing work that feels both recognisably Almodóvar and like a new chapter in his filmography.
Timo Kuismin
