Directing
León Siminiani
Place of birth
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
7.1New 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
6.0Pilar 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
4.7In 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
5.4A 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
7.6Guatemala, 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
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
2000s · 2 titles
NRAfter 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
6.0About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.
Límites: 1ª persona
2009
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.0Pilar 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
6.0Pilar 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
4.7In 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
4.7In 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
5.4A 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
5.4A 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
7.6Guatemala, 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
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
—
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
—
5.0Fifty seconds of silence, calm and emptiness... but only in appearance...
Zoom
2007
5.0Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.
Game Therapy
2006
5.0Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.
Game Therapy
2006
9.0Honeymooning 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
9.0Honeymooning 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
9.0Honeymooning 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
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Pene
2007
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Pene
2007
NRAfter 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
NRAudiovisual 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
10.0A 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
10.0A 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
10.0A 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
5.5A 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
NRIn 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
6.0About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.
Límites: 1ª persona
2009
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
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
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
NRThrough 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
NRThrough 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
NRTaking 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
NRTaking 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
6.4Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.
Notes for a Heist Film
2018
6.4Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.
Notes for a Heist Film
2018
5.9Here 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
5.9Here 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
5.9Here 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
