Eloy Domínguez Serén

Directing

Eloy Domínguez Serén

Born

1985-05-01 (41)

Place of birth

Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Eloy Domínguez Serén was born in 1985 in Simes, Galicia. He studied in Barcelona and Milan before moving to Sweden, where he began his filmmaking work. His practice moves between documentary and fiction, with a particular focus on displacement, geographical and emotional margins, forms of belonging, and the relationship between body, territory and identity. His films have been selected and awarded at some of the leading international festivals for documentary and auteur cinema, including IDFA, Visions du Réel, Clermont-Ferrand, Cinéma du Réel, FID Marseille, True/False, Mar del Plata, BAFICI, Edinburgh and Jeonju, and have been screened at institutions such as Anthology Film Archives, the …

Known for

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After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

Wild is the Wind

2026

The Bodies poster
NR

Each year in Galicia, one of the oldest forms of carnival is celebrated. Characters wear spectacular costumes, which include showy masks and a belt from which hang large and sonorous cowbells, and they run through the village, beating the visitors with their whips.

The Bodies

2020

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Eloy Serén

Não Falarei

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Jet Lag poster
5.0

Diego works the night shift in an isolated gas station close to the Galician-Portuguese border. His work is solitary, silent, monotonous, somniferous. One night, two unexpected visitors show up and unsettle the routine of the place.

Jet Lag

2014

Hamada poster
6.0

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.

Hamada

2019

Al otro lado del mar poster
NR

Two close friends and fellow filmmakers maintain an intimate, transoceanic filmic correspondence between Galicia and Colombia over the course of three years. In these filmed letters both authors are open and familiar, meditative and confessional, making us participants in a sincere friendship.

Al otro lado del mar

2022

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

Wild is the Wind

2026

No artwork available
NR

After years gone, Ana returns to her village due to the death of her father. Her intention is to leave after his funeral but she feels the need to stay, fueled by the intention of a power company to install a wind farm that divides the neighbors and affects her family’s land. Her participation in this conflict draws her back into the life of the community. A process in which Ana questions her sense of belonging, evokes a painful past and discovers a fighting spirit that she did not know she had.

Wild is the Wind

2026

The Bodies poster
NR

Each year in Galicia, one of the oldest forms of carnival is celebrated. Characters wear spectacular costumes, which include showy masks and a belt from which hang large and sonorous cowbells, and they run through the village, beating the visitors with their whips.

The Bodies

2020

The Bodies poster
NR

Each year in Galicia, one of the oldest forms of carnival is celebrated. Characters wear spectacular costumes, which include showy masks and a belt from which hang large and sonorous cowbells, and they run through the village, beating the visitors with their whips.

The Bodies

2020

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Eloy Serén

Não Falarei

—

No artwork available
NR

Short film by Eloy Serén

Não Falarei

—

Jet Lag poster
5.0

Diego works the night shift in an isolated gas station close to the Galician-Portuguese border. His work is solitary, silent, monotonous, somniferous. One night, two unexpected visitors show up and unsettle the routine of the place.

Jet Lag

2014

Hamada poster
6.0

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.

Hamada

2019

Hamada poster
6.0

Filled with vitality, humor and unexpected situations, Hamada paints an unusual portrait of a group of young friends living in a refugee camp in the middle of nowhere. Western Sahara is known as “the last colony in Africa” and this conflict is the longest and one of the least known ongoing disputes in the continent, but the Sahrawi people refuse to become invisible.

Hamada

2019

Al otro lado del mar poster
NR

Two close friends and fellow filmmakers maintain an intimate, transoceanic filmic correspondence between Galicia and Colombia over the course of three years. In these filmed letters both authors are open and familiar, meditative and confessional, making us participants in a sincere friendship.

Al otro lado del mar

2022

Seabreaker poster
NR

Santi is a teenage father who lives in a small coastal town. During the day he has a job as a fisherman, while at night he smuggles seafood. While his girlfriend Lucia takes care of their baby all by herself, Santi, absent and overwhelmed by responsibility, seeks refuge and redemption in the sea.

Seabreaker

2022

Rust / Óxido (C) poster
NR

A deserted, snow-covered landscape. An unknown place and time. An anonymous, timeless man slides into a devastated industrial building. He is enclosed by ruins and rust, witnesses of time. He advances among shadows and debris, following a ritual as precise as it is cryptic. Polyphony of materials. The past resonates at every step. Echoes of a presence. A solitary figure fluctuates on an abyss.

Rust / Óxido (C)

2016

Pettring poster
NR

A young Galician filmmaker keeps a film diary about his first months as an immigrant in Sweden, where he works as a construction laborer.

Pettring

2013

No Cow on the Ice poster
7.0

Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the difficult life conditions. As he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle, he develops a new identity.

No Cow on the Ice

2015

No Cow on the Ice poster
7.0

Language and landscape as a gate into a new life. A young Galician filmmaker emigrates to Sweden, where he performs different part-time jobs. His learning of a new language and fascination for the Swedish landscape become a driving force against the difficult life conditions. As he learns about the culture, society and lifestyle, he develops a new identity.

No Cow on the Ice

2015

Anacos do Sáhara poster
NR

A child showing a stranger the pleasure of throwing pebbles into the wilderness. Behind them, the sun sets behind the wilaya.

Anacos do Sáhara

2014

Hijos de Sansón poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hijos de Sansón

2011

Hijos de Sansón poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hijos de Sansón

2011

Anacos da Galiza poster
NR

“No pain, no gain”. Sailor scenes of a castaway country.

Anacos da Galiza

2014

Anacos da Suecia poster
NR

Intimate portrait of the first summer, fall and winter in a strange country.

Anacos da Suecia

2014

Yellow brick road poster
NR

The camera wanders around old spellbinding cars in the Sahara desert. Two playful and witty little boys show up and alter the course of events. From then on, Hamdi and Ali will take the reins of this film.

Yellow brick road

2015

Anacos da Noruega poster
NR

The penultimate week of each year, the sun exceeds the horizon of Fauske, in the Arctic Circle, for just an hour a day. This film celebrates those brief moments of light.

Anacos da Noruega

2014