
Carles Mira
Directing
Biography
Carles Mira was born on March 14, 1947 in València, València, Comunitat Valenciana, Spain as Carles Mira Franco. He was a director and writer, known for Biotopo (1973), Daniya, jardín del harem (1988) and Con el culo al aire (1980). He died on January 12, 1993 in València.
Known For

With the help of drawings and comic strips. brings together short films, on children's themes, in which rights that children and adults should enjoy are defended. For the first time, a whole series of important Spanish directors meet to make a children's film.
Cuentos para una escapada

The action takes place in the 14th century, in times of the reconquest, in the Kingdom of Valencia. Father Vicente is a chaste monk who fights against all kinds of vices and sins, against superstition and against the beliefs of Muslims and Jews. Carles Mira's first feature film was inspired by the great amount of popular imagery that has provoked the supposed miracles of Saint Vicente Ferrer. The repertoire includes anecdotes of grotesque and eschatological character with an eminently esperpento touch.
The Prodigious Life of Father Vincent
Daniya is the story of a trip. A man of culture and resolute, the younger brother of the Countess of Barcelona, leaves the Catalan court for the kingdom of Denia (Daniya). The purpose of his trip is to accept the ecclesiastical authority entrusted to him by the Muslim king of Mozarabic Christians living in the territory of the Kingdom of Denia. It is an interesting but dangerous journey, described as an adventure. A journey that will enrich the spirit of the youth that will be seduced by Al Andalus.
Daniya, the emir's garden

Juan, a young man from the provinces, meets a singer from a small band. Thanks to her, he discovers sex, but the experience shocks him so much that he is committed, labeled insane, to a mental asylum run by nuns.
Caution to the Wind

A story of loves, abductions, sultans, eunuchs, dancers, pumpkins, children's cars, parades, barbarians, virgins ... All these elements are the pretext of a cinematographic spectacle, the motive of an authentic Mediterranean party, between the historical parody and the musical magazine.
Que nos quiten lo bailao

The daily routine of a female worker from the moment she wakes up to the very end of it all.
Viure sense Viure

Don Martin, the owner of a repair company, hires Jamaican Ali to fix television antennas. The boy, besides being an excellent professional, causes a furor among the neighbors because of his great attractiveness, so the men will do everything possible to make him leave and stop competing with them.
El rey del mambo

Once upon a time, there was an empire where the sun never set. This empire had a court. This court had a king, but this king had no heir. They married the king, who understood that copulation was a duty of state and attempted it with exemplary dedication, but failed. The entire court, from the nobility to the jesters, gets down to work, sparing no means or methods, to produce the desired heir, and they reach a conclusion: the king has been bewitched and needs be exorcised.
Royal Jelly

Jaumet is about lo live his most unforgettable adventure. Traveling by car, he arrives in a village whose inhabitants are quite outlandishly, as if they were plunged in a rare carnival behavior.
Karnabal

A brief documentary about L'Albufera, a nature park located next to the spanish city of Valencia, in front of the Mediterranean Sea.
Biotopo
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Michana

A short TV film in which Carles Mira adapted a piece by Franz Kafka.