Rafael Alberti Movies

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be...

Based on two poems by Rafael Alberti, Garabatos (“Scribbles”) is a reflection on childhood, education and the demise of innocence. Music...

Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco...

The young widow of the viceroy of Peru, facing the dismal prospect of either a convent or a marriage of convenience, sets out to conquer a handsome...

Completed a year after his death in 1983, this program presents the definitive biography of Spain’s renowned Surrealist film maker and...

The alleged uncontrolled romance between a young girl forced to marry another and the poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer.

Empar, a 60-year-old farmer, needs her cow Tona to get pregnant in order to keep her farm. After several failed attempts, she asks Bernat, the owner...

Short film about the life and work of the poet Murilo Mendes.

Motherwell/Alberti explores the artistic connection between Robert Motherwell's Open Series and Rafael Alberti's poetry cycle, A La Pintura....

A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...

Images and verses to Christmas

Documentary short made during the Spanish Civil War.