Ricardo Íscar
Directing
Known For

An author spends a year and a half filming what happens as a new apartment building is built in a neighborhood of Barcelona.
Work in Progress

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now thar she is entering into adulthood.
The Thinnest Line
Short film about trees.
Bäume

El Foso is a film about the musicians playing in the Opera Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, about their lives and their passions.
Al fossat

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La última feria

Tierra negra is a global view, understanding different aspects (social, geographic, geological, human, etc.), the Laciana Mining Valley. However, accurate localization is only a reference element, to analyze and discover, in a scientific and poetic way, global mechanisms present in the life of every community. Or something so trivial and complex at once as what makes it possible that every time I push a switch the light turns on?
Tierra negra

For the protagonist, breathing therapy and anti-stress techniques become a starting point for a life change. He enters the world of freediving, i.e. diving while breadth-holding. Risking his life, he starts practicing holding his breath for increasingly longer periods of time. Where is the boundary of his capabilities?
Air
Documentary on Roma iving in Spain.
A la orilla del rio

A woman converses with another over the phone, witnesses a theft, and samples a record in a store.
Far Away
Documentary about nomads living in the Negev desert.
Badu Geschichten aus der Negevwüste
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Dansa als esperits

The discovery of four bodies buried on the director’s family estate in Salamanca opens a fissure between private memory and the silenced history of the Spanish Civil War. This discovery prompts a journey to reconstruct the lives of family members and neighbors affected by repression, reflecting on the origins of armed conflicts, intolerance, and their consequences.
Inheritance
March 2020. The filmmaker Ricardo Íscar films, from inside his house in Barcelona, his day-to-day life during the lockdown, mixing dreams and memories. Between everyday moments, there is time for reflection, observation and humour. A strange and ordinary life in a time when everything falters.
Dreamed and Lived
"Every year thousands of tunas fish migrate to the Mediterranean sea. Man chase them in a ritual of death and blood. Images of nature. Abused and overwhelmed"
The Fence
Documentary about the journey of a barge through East Germany.
Die Reise der Ida Irma nach Lunow

The sea has always been a space where many fishermen have found beauty, calm and freedom. It is different nowadays, as they seem to easily find garbage and all kinds of pollution. This piece is an homage to the marine beauty they remember, a brief journey alongside these fishermen who work and fight to bring back what they once knew.