Directing

León Siminiani

Place of birth

Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

The Alcàsser Murders poster
7.1

New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.

The Alcàsser Murders

2019

El Premio poster
6.0

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

El Premio

2010

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

Map poster
5.4

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

Map

2012

Giants Don't Exist poster
7.6

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.

Giants Don't Exist

2017

No artwork available
NR

Upcoming documentary film that delves into last August's fires in Spain and reveals the magnitude of a crisis that goes beyond the flames. Expected to be released in 2026.

Fuego

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Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

El Premio poster
6.0

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

El Premio

2010

El Premio poster
6.0

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

El Premio

2010

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

The Stillness Syndrome poster
4.7

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

The Stillness Syndrome

2021

Map poster
5.4

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

Map

2012

Map poster
5.4

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

Map

2012

Giants Don't Exist poster
7.6

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.

Giants Don't Exist

2017

No artwork available
NR

Upcoming documentary film that delves into last August's fires in Spain and reveals the magnitude of a crisis that goes beyond the flames. Expected to be released in 2026.

Fuego

—

No artwork available
NR

Upcoming documentary film that delves into last August's fires in Spain and reveals the magnitude of a crisis that goes beyond the flames. Expected to be released in 2026.

Fuego

—

Zoom poster
5.0

Fifty seconds of silence, calm and emptiness... but only in appearance...

Zoom

2007

Game Therapy poster
5.0

Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.

Game Therapy

2006

Game Therapy poster
5.0

Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.

Game Therapy

2006

Archipiélago poster
9.0

Honeymooning with her husband Ben, Nina returns to the Caribbean island she left years ago for a new life. The two enjoy perfect love on a deserted beach until the past catches up with them.

Archipiélago

2003

Archipiélago poster
9.0

Honeymooning with her husband Ben, Nina returns to the Caribbean island she left years ago for a new life. The two enjoy perfect love on a deserted beach until the past catches up with them.

Archipiélago

2003

Archipiélago poster
9.0

Honeymooning with her husband Ben, Nina returns to the Caribbean island she left years ago for a new life. The two enjoy perfect love on a deserted beach until the past catches up with them.

Archipiélago

2003

Pene poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pene

2007

Pene poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pene

2007

Intro (a El tránsito) poster
NR

After three chapters and eleven years, Siminiani sets out the seven rules of efficiency that underpin his series "Key Concepts of the Modern World". Against a black screen, with a few words in white and fleeting images of people and his previous works, it is the voice that shapes the ideas.

Intro (a El tránsito)

2009

suburbIA poster
NR

Audiovisual essay on the term "suburbia" in Spain, far removed from the aspirational ideal of the Anglo-Saxon world. This project was created for the CCCB's Suburbia exhibition.

suburbIA

2022

KC#4: El tránsito poster
10.0

A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.

KC#4: El tránsito

2009

KC#4: El tránsito poster
10.0

A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.

KC#4: El tránsito

2009

KC#4: El tránsito poster
10.0

A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.

KC#4: El tránsito

2009

The Change of the Wheel poster
5.5

A flat tire shocks a passenger. Stopped at the roadside, she thinks about her life while the driver changes the tire, unsure if this is the right path.

The Change of the Wheel

2024

Propuesta de puzzle: Paseo por una guerra antigua (48 piezas) poster
NR

In 1948, the Spanish directors Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga made their first film together: "Paseo por una guerra antigua" ("Walk through an Ancient War"), now considered to be almost lost. In 2021, Léon Siminiani takes what's left of that film and builds a puzzle about war, Francoism and the creative process of two artists.

Propuesta de puzzle: Paseo por una guerra antigua (48 piezas)

2024

Límites: 1ª persona poster
6.0

About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.

Límites: 1ª persona

2009

No artwork available
NR

A female voice narrates, as if it were an educational film or a report, the social changes that have taken place as a result of the digital imposition on all aspects of life: a new achievement of the “American Dream”.

KC#3: Digital

2003

No artwork available
NR

A female voice narrates, as if it were an educational film or a report, the social changes that have taken place as a result of the digital imposition on all aspects of life: a new achievement of the “American Dream”.

KC#3: Digital

2003

No artwork available
NR

A female voice narrates, as if it were an educational film or a report, the social changes that have taken place as a result of the digital imposition on all aspects of life: a new achievement of the “American Dream”.

KC#3: Digital

2003

KC#1: La oficina poster
NR

Through captions, a virtually static image and a monotonous voice-over, an explanation of the office setting in which other veiled concepts –such as hierarchy and workplace relationships– are revealed. Based on the all-encompassing premise of ‘the American dream’.

KC#1: La oficina

1998

KC#1: La oficina poster
NR

Through captions, a virtually static image and a monotonous voice-over, an explanation of the office setting in which other veiled concepts –such as hierarchy and workplace relationships– are revealed. Based on the all-encompassing premise of ‘the American dream’.

KC#1: La oficina

1998

KC#2: El permiso poster
NR

Taking as his starting point an official definition of the word ‘permission’ as set out in the dictionary, Siminiani explores the origins and practice of this concept as it emerged during the transition from the ancient to the modern world.

KC#2: El permiso

2001

KC#2: El permiso poster
NR

Taking as his starting point an official definition of the word ‘permission’ as set out in the dictionary, Siminiani explores the origins and practice of this concept as it emerged during the transition from the ancient to the modern world.

KC#2: El permiso

2001

Notes for a Heist Film poster
6.4

Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.

Notes for a Heist Film

2018

Notes for a Heist Film poster
6.4

Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.

Notes for a Heist Film

2018

Emotional Architecture 1959 poster
5.9

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.

Emotional Architecture 1959

2022

Emotional Architecture 1959 poster
5.9

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.

Emotional Architecture 1959

2022

Emotional Architecture 1959 poster
5.9

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.

Emotional Architecture 1959

2022