Àlex Lora Cercos

Directing

Àlex Lora Cercos

Born 1979-09-19 · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Àlex Lora Cercós (born September 19, 1979), better known as Alex Lora, is a disabled Spanish film director. His films, marked by complex narratives, tackle social issues and have entered hundreds film festivals and received multiple awards and nominations around the world, most notably the three official selections at Sundance, the nomination to the Student Academy Awards, his presence at the Berlinale Talent Campus, the 2 awards of the Gaudí Catalan Academy Awards after 4 other nominations, a nomination for the Goya Academy Awards, and the nomination and the prize at the New York Emmy Awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Unicorns poster
4.8

Isa is a feminist, bisexual, and polyamorous posh girl, she passionately defends her life. When Guillem proposes to be a monogamous couple, Isa is not sure if he wants to change her life and, given her lack of decision, Guillem decides to break the relationship. Living in a world of appearances and comforts, her contradictions come to light and her universe is crumbling at the blow of likes and moral judgments in this web that social networks have become.

Unicorns

2023

Unicorns poster
4.8

Isa is a feminist, bisexual, and polyamorous posh girl, she passionately defends her life. When Guillem proposes to be a monogamous couple, Isa is not sure if he wants to change her life and, given her lack of decision, Guillem decides to break the relationship. Living in a world of appearances and comforts, her contradictions come to light and her universe is crumbling at the blow of likes and moral judgments in this web that social networks have become.

Unicorns

2023

No artwork available
6.6

Young Alifa looks up at the somali sky. She thinks about her daily life as a shepherdess. She knows that the day that will change her life forever is about to come.

A Hole in the Sky

2013

The Fourth Kingdom poster
5.5

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)

The Fourth Kingdom

2019

The Fourth Kingdom poster
5.5

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream. (Based on the short film The Fourth Kingdom, 2017.)

The Fourth Kingdom

2019

Parivara poster
NR

Based on the true life stories of the children at the Goldungha Orphanage for the Blind in Nepal, Parivara is a positive and hopeful story following young Kopila through a fateful day in her life following the 2015 earthquake. It is a universal story demonstrating the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.

Parivara

2016

No artwork available
6.0

A Cambodian immigrant plays chess in the heart of New York .....

Odysseus' Gambit

2012

No artwork available
6.0

A Cambodian immigrant plays chess in the heart of New York .....

Odysseus' Gambit

2012

No artwork available
NR

A young man with a Catalan mother and a Moroccan father decides to confront his deepest fears and the prejudices of others by embracing his Muslim faith — all in the least suitable place and during the most tumultuous year in Catalonia’s recent history.

The Rift

No artwork available
NR

A young man with a Catalan mother and a Moroccan father decides to confront his deepest fears and the prejudices of others by embracing his Muslim faith — all in the least suitable place and during the most tumultuous year in Catalonia’s recent history.

The Rift

The Fourth Kingdom poster
3.0

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017

The Fourth Kingdom poster
3.0

The regular visitors to a recycling center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, run by René, a discreet Mexican who works and sleeps there, and by the Spaniard Ana de Luco, form a community capable of transcending their reality to turn it into a realm of their own, sometimes surreal, outside the great collective swindle of the American dream.

The Fourth Kingdom

2017

The Masterpiece poster
7.3

Leo and Diana, a wealthy couple, meet Salif and Yousef, two scrap dealers, at a recycle center. Offering them more junk, Diana invites them to their mansion, but the immigrants actually might be the ones with something she wants.

The Masterpiece

2024

Thy Father's Chair poster
5.0

Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.

Thy Father's Chair

2016

Thy Father's Chair poster
5.0

Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.

Thy Father's Chair

2016

Only Solomon Lee poster
NR

Outskirts of a big city, an alienated loner nurtures himself with the lives that he finds in stolen laptops. In his own delusional obsession he's looking for a miracle: get along with someone, run way, and love.

Only Solomon Lee

2013

Only Solomon Lee poster
NR

Outskirts of a big city, an alienated loner nurtures himself with the lives that he finds in stolen laptops. In his own delusional obsession he's looking for a miracle: get along with someone, run way, and love.

Only Solomon Lee

2013