León Siminiani

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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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”.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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