
Arantxa Aguirre
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Biography
Arantxa Aguirre Carballeira (Madrid, 1965) is a Spanish documentary director, screenwriter, and writer. The daughter of actress Enriqueta Carballeira and film director Javier Aguirre, she has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in film, working as an assistant director for filmmakers such as Mario Camus, Pedro Almodóvar, Carlos Saura, and Luis García Berlanga, among others. She also holds a doctorate in Hispanic Philology and has published two books: 'Buñuel, lector de Galdós' (winner of the Pérez Galdós Research Prize in 2003) and '34 actores hablan de su oficio' (Ed. Cátedra, 2008), the latter a sequel to her documentary 'Hécuba, un sueño de pasión'.
Known For

After being estranged for 15 years, flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo re-enters her daughter Rebeca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebeca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs...
High Heels

During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
Ay, Carmela!

Documentary that recreates the biography of the Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916), his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, his sensitive nature, the struggle to make his way in life despite the family economic straits and his first successes The story, built from vintage images, is interspersed with versions of the Granados repertoire by interpreters such as Rosa Torres-Pardo, Evgeny Kissin, Cañizares, Arcángel, Rocío Márquez, Carlos Álvarez and Nancy Fabiola Herrera, among others.
El amor y la muerte
What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.
Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

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La conquista de la democracia

A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a unique spectacle in Tokio that Béjart choreographed with the Ninth symphony of Beethoven. Béjart ballet dances with Tokio ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Israel. A marvellous combination of dancers movements and expression of different feelings along the four movements of the symphony with absolute elegance and strength.
Dancing Beethoven

Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.
Shadows in a Conflict

Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work.
El primer siglo del Prado

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nineteenth century, daughter of Dr. Andreu, famous for its pills and cough syrup.
Un instante en la vida ajena
Pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo presents the figure of Antonio Soler. Father Soler composed one of the largest and most amazing musical corpuses in the history of Spanish music. The documentary is a journey of the pianist who set out to find lost musical scores.
Una rosa para Soler

The journey around the world depicted in Zurbarán's series "Jacob and His Twelve Sons" serves as a thread to guide us through the life and work of one of the titans of Spanish Baroque, while also revealing the unique history of this series. After being exhibited in Dallas, New York, and Jerusalem, the paintings return to Auckland Castle as the heart of a project that seeks to regenerate this area in the northeast of England.
Zurbarán y sus doce hijos

Daybreak in summer. A young girl from San Sebastian makes her way to the Peine del Viento (Wind Comb). She remembers the old sculptor Eduardo Chillida, who had been coming here since he was a boy. Today his three sculptures anchored to the rocks, in permanent conversation with the sea and the wind, have become a distinguishing feature of his city and of the whole Basque coast. At dawn, the young Jone asks herself about the sculptor and promises herself that she will go and find him.
Freedom to Dreams
Follows the dancers during their arrival at the Opéra Garnier, the shows and the backstage life. The film includes extracts form four of Béjart's choreographies on contemporary music (Boulez, Bartók and Webern): Le Marteau sans maître, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Webern Opus V, and Sonate à trois.
Béjart Ballet Lausanne au Palais Garnier
The death of the brilliant Maurice Béjart in 2007 is an irreparable loss for the world of Dance, but above all, it means a cataclysm for his own company. Forty dancers from all five continents are now orphans and they'll have to work hard for the survival of the company.
El esfuerzo y el ánimo
The Lausanne ballet, inspired and created by Maurice Béjart, is going on tour in China and propose to Arantxa Aguirre documentary filmmaker who is she who let their witness images of that European encounter with East Asia. The film has a naive, intelligent, fresh and powerful look Arantxa. In each plane is perceived passion and love this woman has for dance, the difficulty of the passage, the movement, the lightness of being in space. It's really a work of art, a gift that cinema has this ability to convey so much.
Gira por China
Kathleen Thielhelm, a ballerina from Wisconsin, gets the chance to dance an important role at the Paris Opera House. When the premiere finally arrives, what happens is what no dancer would ever hope to experience.