Elías León Siminiani (Directing)

Puzzle Proposal: Paseo por una guerra antigua (48 Pieces)

In 1948, the Spanish directors Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga made their first film together: "Paseo por una guerra antigua" ("Walk through an Ancient War"), now considered to be almost lost. In 2021, Léon Siminiani takes what's left of that film and builds a puzzle about war, Francoism and the creative process of two artists.

Release Date:2024-11-25

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Los Muchachos Revolution Circus

In the 1970s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a Spanish circus astonished the world: the Circo de los Muchachos, which was the visible face of Benposta, a children's republic run by Father Silva: the story of the rise and fall of one of the most unique utopias of the 20th century.

Release Date:2024-11-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

The Change of the Wheel

A flat tire shocks a passenger. Stopped at the roadside, she thinks about her life while the driver changes the tire, unsure if this is the right path.

Release Date:2024-06-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Emotional Architecture 1959

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.

Release Date:2022-12-23

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:4

800 Meters

In 2017, Spain suffered two terrorist attacks perpetrated by young members of its community. How could this happen? This incisive series investigates.

Release Date:2022-03-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:10

The Stillness Syndrome

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

Release Date:2021-04-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:2

The Alcàsser Murders

New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.

Release Date:2019-06-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:48

Notes for a Heist Film

Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.

Release Date:2018-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:18

Giants Don't Exist

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.

Release Date:2017-11-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:13

Lo que la verdad esconde: Caso Asunta

This true crime series investigates newfound evidence and unanswered questions in famous criminal cases, such as the murder of Asunta Basterra Porto.

Release Date:2017-05-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:8

Patient

PATIENT is the word that defines us as we follow medical instructions or have to stay calm while we wait. In Colombia, a country where the harsh health system requires its users to face absurd bureaucratic obstacles to access its services, PATIENT is not only the one who has the disease, but also the one in the daily struggle ensuring that his or her loved one receives all necessary needs. Nubia is a PATIENT, a mother who, despite living with the anguish of possibly losing her daughter to an aggressive cancer, firmly gets to overcome the labyrinths established by the Health System processes upon which her daughter's life depends.

Release Date:2015-11-15

Department:Editing

Job:Editorial Services

Vote Count:1

The Creator of the Jungle

This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. This is also the story of how he ended up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them, time after time, over decades. He is known as “Garrell”, also as “Tarzan from Argelaguer”, and he is not driven by any apparent purpose, except one: going “on the go”.

Release Date:2014-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Script Editor

Vote Count:5

Map

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-daily", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

Release Date:2012-11-09

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:7

El Premio

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

Release Date:2010-09-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Límites: 1ª persona

About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.

Release Date:2009-05-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Zoom

Fifty seconds of silence, calm and emptiness ... but only in appearance ...

Release Date:2007-08-11

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:1

Game Therapy

Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.

Release Date:2006-11-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Digital

Release Date:2005-06-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Archipiélago

Honeymooning with her husband Ben, Nina returns to the Caribbean island she left years ago for a new life. The two enjoy perfect love on a deserted beach until the past catches up with them.

Release Date:2003-01-01

Department:Directing

Job:Director

suburbIA

León Simiani closes the exhibition 'Suburbia' (CCCB, Barcelona) with this piece about suburban life in America and Europe.

Department:Directing

Job:Director