
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
4.8Isa 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
4.8Isa 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
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
5.5The 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
5.5The 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
NRBased 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
A Cambodian immigrant plays chess in the heart of New York .....
Odysseus' Gambit
2012
A Cambodian immigrant plays chess in the heart of New York .....
Odysseus' Gambit
2012
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
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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
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3.0The 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
3.0The 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
7.3Leo 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
5.0Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.
Thy Father's Chair
2016
5.0Twins Abraham and Shraga are prisoners of all the dreck piled high around their Brooklyn apartment - until concerned neighbors intercede.
Thy Father's Chair
2016
NROutskirts 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
NROutskirts 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
