
Javi Espárrago
Directing
Biography
Diploma in Documentary Film from the ECAM. Author of the short films, "Now that we are all here", "Bresalia Girls" and "El Cielo del Bosque", the latter selected in Aguilar de Campoo (2020) and Mecal Pro (2021).
Known For

A sex doll called Lucy wakes up in the bedroom of a doll brothel. She lives with Mina, another doll. Together they watch TV: their window to the real world. They imagine themselves living far away. After a while, Lucy wants to escape. But Mina doesn’t want to leave. Lucy has to choose between freedom and the doll she is in love with.
Plastic Touch

The Outlines explores the emotional landscape surrounding an intimate encounter — what comes before, what follows, what is spoken, and what remains unsaid. Laia, Pol, Bruno, and Sofía — four young adults — navigate small personal failures as they seek to fill their inner voids through others, immersed in a deep and enigmatic Teruel. Voice notes, phone calls, moving bodies, and subtle gestures shape this intimate emotional choreography.
The Outlines

On an ordinary night in Madrid, Manuel — a young, upper-class conservative — unexpectedly runs into his ex-girlfriend Lucía outside a nightclub. What begins as a fleeting encounter unravels into a cascade of memories. The Language of the Unfaithful is an intimate, character-driven drama that explores the tension between societal expectations and the contradictions that lie beneath the surface of personal identity. Told through subtle, everyday moments, the film offers a raw and emotionally resonant look at love, loss, and self-discovery.
The Language of the Unfaithful

"WE ALL PLAY" addresses the reality of the LGBTQIA+ community in sport. In a trip around the world, we will meet outstanding world elite athletes, who will talk, many of them for the first time, about their personal and professional experiences in first person.
We All Play

Lorenzo runs away from Seville rejecting emotionally detached and traditional dynamics. After a year studying in Salamanca he returns looking for the love he left behind.
Fragile As Roses

The mystery of the Camino de los Garbanceros
Nocturnal Carousel

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Una Mirada

A group of elders travel back in time to reflect on their love life in a dialogue with today's generation.
Ahora que estamos todos

A fleeting gaze exchanged. What happened—or what could have been.
When Our Eyes Met

A poetic meditation in seventeen syllables. Between the stillness of nature and the murmur of the city, sound becomes ambiguous, and water reflects more than just light. A brief but layered encounter with landscapes—both external and internal—where perception flickers like a haiku.
seventeen syllables

Nacho, a twenty-something lost in life, finds himself at a crossroads with his new girlfriend. As they face a crucial decision together, Nacho discovers that the experience will unexpectedly bring him closer to his father.
Steam

"In the universe, there are things that are known and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."- William Blake
Bresalia Girls

A party, a moment of closeness, the morning after. Images of memories that keep resurfacing. In the night lights, I look for you.
6 A. M.

When time seems suspended, young people meet in the forest.
No Conozco la Historia del Fuego

... there's a phrase from a song that I really like that says: "Life is so beautiful that it looks real"
The Forest Sky

Portrait of the olive harvest and its workers in a rural village in Córdoba (Spain). The director immerses himself for a day in his father's world, focusing on the division of labor roles between men and women.
Olive Harvest

A journey through memory, gazing at the landscape of my adolescence.
Maria and Ivan

Years after leaving, my uncle returns to Granada. As we walk through the city of his youth, he shares the story of his first love — a story marked by late summer light, old plazas, and a George Michael song that once gave him the courage to speak his heart. Heal the Pain blends documentary and fiction to trace a quiet, intergenerational conversation about love, memory, and the emotional imprint of place. A tender portrait of how the past lingers — in music, in streets, and in the stories we pass on.