Toni Bestard (Director)

The Hidden Filmmaker

The premiere in 2000 of the film "Presence of Mind" ("El celo"), a horror film starring Lauren Bacall, Sadie Frost and Harvey Keitel, augured a promising future for its director, Antoni Aloy, but after that experience the Mallorcan filmmaker disappeared from the film scene with little explanation. But what happened?

Release Date2022-12-10

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

The Exile

In Spain during civil war, a seminarian, Teo, is assigned to a small, remote fortress on the top of the mountain. Teo has to share a tiny place with Silverio who is already stationed there. They argue with each other over all aspects, including their personality, values and way of living. As time passes they come to understand each other and strike the subtle balance of everyday lives together. But the balance starts to shake when Solska, a wounded militia woman, comes and lives with them.

Release Date2015-01-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count7

I Am Your Father

David Prowse is an eighty years old actor, who has lived behind Darth Vader's mask during three decades. A group of Star Wars fans find out why he has been apparently forgotten by Lucasfilm during thirty years, and decide to give him back the glory he never had. This is their last opportunity.

Release Date2015-10-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Noctem

Adrian and Esteban have been missing for a year. The police are at a standstill, despite having found their personal belongings in Cozumel, an island 12 miles away from the Riviera Maya. Alex friend of both, manages to get their cell phones, with which he will start his own parallel research. And he will discover that the truth is much more terrifying than you could imagine.

Release Date2017-09-29

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count23

Voodoo Child

Two events, equally impressive, take place in July, 1968, in Majorca: Jimmi Hendrix plays at the Sargent Pepper's Disco and Pablo, 16 years old, experiences a forced rite of passage where he loses his innocence to become a little man...

Release Date2004-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Perfect Stranger

The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.

Release Date2011-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count15

The Trip

Two children handle an encounter with death.

Release Date2003-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Foley Artist

A sound technician who specializes in Foley effects (recreation of sounds for a film no directly recorded during shooting) has an accident that forces him to stay home for a few days. During that time the attractive neighbour across the street who has just arrived in the neighbourhood becomes his new sound muse.

Release Date2013-11-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Zama

Oliver finds a photograph buried on the beach. Behind that photo lies the story of human beings who sacrifice their lives every day in pursuit of a dream. One of them is Zama.

Release Date2022-03-15

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Background

Ruben is an anodyne guy attracted by the unusual beauty of Alba, an enigmatic woman. Both live in a peculiar silent universe, with established and surrealistic rules. Ruben must break some of these rules to get Alba's attention.

Release Date2018-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

El anónimo Caronte

A Goya award nominated short documentary.

Release Date2007-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rastres

Rita is a little 9-year-old girl who lives immersed in her own little world, full of illusions and innocence. After secretly hearing her parents say that they may have to leave their home behind forever, without really understanding the situation, Rita will find herself in the need to defend and protect her little world to prevent what she has heard from happening.

Release Date2023-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobCoordinating Producer

Pullman

Release Date2020-04-24

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count14

Fúria

Release Date2021-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Baggage Claim

Terminal Baggage Collection of an airport. Two travelers waiting for their bags, which are slow to exit. They don't know each other, but a bet arises: What will the first case?

Release Date2006-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Talia

Talia is a 13-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a boxer. But there is an obstacle more difficult to overcome than a boxing ring: to live with an abuser.

Release Date2017-03-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Norats

Release Date2025-03-30

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Episode Count4

Vuelve corazón franjiverde

Release Date2025-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Seeds

Spain, 1938. A woman is quietly planting seeds in her garden when two armed soldiers appear. Before being detained, she hides some of the seeds in her pocket.

Release Date2022-06-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Una vuelta a Mallorca en camello

The real story about the camel ride around Mallorca, that journalist Miguel Vidal and painter Gustavo Peñalver did in 1964. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is one of them.

Release Date2013-01-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1