Álvaro Gago

Directing

Álvaro Gago

Place of birth

Vigo, Spain

Known for

Directing

Credits

11 titles

Alvaro Gago was born in 1986 in Vigo (Galicia, Spain). He graduated with honours in Audiovisual Communication and then moved to Chicago where he studied filmmaking and theatre at North Park University. In 2009 he moved to London. Alvaro co-wrote, co-directed and edited the short film DOREMI, screened at many film festivals around Europe. In January 2011 he enrolls at the MA Filmmaking offered by the prestigious London Film School. Alvaro edits the documentary SKIN and the fiction short LIPSTICK, both films screening and winning prices in Europe and South América.

Known for

Behind the camera

Matria poster
6.2

Ramona’s life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. Always sacrificing everything for her daughter’s future, she will be pushed to look inwards and to think that, maybe, there is something new to live for.

Matria

2023

Matria poster
6.2

Ramona’s life in a Galician fishing village is a constant hustle. Always sacrificing everything for her daughter’s future, she will be pushed to look inwards and to think that, maybe, there is something new to live for.

Matria

2023

No seu lugar, outro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

No seu lugar, outro

2025

16 December poster
4.3

Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows.

16 December

2019

16 December poster
4.3

Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows.

16 December

2019

16 December poster
4.3

Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows.

16 December

2019

Curricán poster
NR

Xan Currican guides us through the streets of Vilanova de Arousa, a village full of picturesque portraits and endless epiphanies.

Curricán

2015

Curricán poster
NR

Xan Currican guides us through the streets of Vilanova de Arousa, a village full of picturesque portraits and endless epiphanies.

Curricán

2015

Matria poster
6.0

Ramona lives with a husband with whom she barely communicates and works in a canning factory with an abusive supervisor.

Matria

2017

Matria poster
6.0

Ramona lives with a husband with whom she barely communicates and works in a canning factory with an abusive supervisor.

Matria

2017

Matria poster
6.0

Ramona lives with a husband with whom she barely communicates and works in a canning factory with an abusive supervisor.

Matria

2017