Juan Cavestany

Directing

Juan Cavestany

Born 1967-04-27 · Madrid, España

Acting credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
5.0

A man is desperate to make something out of nothing and so are the creators of this 42-minute, nearly improvised feature that deals with finding salvation in others, rather than oneself, in the midst of a world falling apart. When the Kafkaesque routine of a man who is alone to the point of imploding into nothingness begins to fall apart, unexpected love and friendship seep in through the cracks. The film was shot on a handy cam over the course of several days during which a number of scenes of comedy and drama were improvised and gradually built up to a story-arch that was really never put down on paper form.

El señor

2012

No artwork available
5.0

A man is desperate to make something out of nothing and so are the creators of this 42-minute, nearly improvised feature that deals with finding salvation in others, rather than oneself, in the midst of a world falling apart. When the Kafkaesque routine of a man who is alone to the point of imploding into nothingness begins to fall apart, unexpected love and friendship seep in through the cracks. The film was shot on a handy cam over the course of several days during which a number of scenes of comedy and drama were improvised and gradually built up to a story-arch that was really never put down on paper form.

El señor

2012

Madrid, Ext. poster
10.0

A film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid as a great visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations where commerce and fauna, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

Madrid, Ext.

2025

Madrid, Ext. poster
10.0

A film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid as a great visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations where commerce and fauna, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

Madrid, Ext.

2025

Esa sensación poster
4.6

Strange, irresistible sensations in three interwoven, often humorous stories about love, faith and human will in a surrealist portrait of Spain.

Esa sensación

2016

Esa sensación poster
4.6

Strange, irresistible sensations in three interwoven, often humorous stories about love, faith and human will in a surrealist portrait of Spain.

Esa sensación

2016

Esa sensación poster
4.6

Strange, irresistible sensations in three interwoven, often humorous stories about love, faith and human will in a surrealist portrait of Spain.

Esa sensación

2016

Gente de mala calidad poster
4.6

Tricked by a former college rival (Guillermo Toledo), two juvenile brothers (Santiago Segura, Javier Gutiérrez) travel to a concert that's not taking place.

Gente de mala calidad

2008

Gente de mala calidad poster
4.6

Tricked by a former college rival (Guillermo Toledo), two juvenile brothers (Santiago Segura, Javier Gutiérrez) travel to a concert that's not taking place.

Gente de mala calidad

2008

An Optical Illusion poster
4.9

A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?

An Optical Illusion

2021

An Optical Illusion poster
4.9

A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?

An Optical Illusion

2021

No artwork available
NR

Four personas meet in a cellar. We don't know who they are. It looks like a clandestine gathering. A bank heist is being prepared.

El último golpe

2007

No artwork available
NR

Four personas meet in a cellar. We don't know who they are. It looks like a clandestine gathering. A bank heist is being prepared.

El último golpe

2007

Warriors poster
5.1

Kosovo, winter 1999. KFOR forces perform their humanitarian task while trying to maintain a difficult neutrality between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs. A platoon of Spanish Army engineers becomes unwittingly caught up in the spiral of violence between the two sides.

Warriors

2002

Washington Wolves poster
5.0

Alberto and Miguel have a bar, but things are not going very well. They need to get out of this black hole and they need money to do it. Alberto is divorced and alcoholic, Miguel has a big secret... Their old friend Claudio is very rich. Why not steal some of his money? Troubles grow when Claudio's wife is planning to steal this money too... The Washington wolfs, in a circus near all this, are the silent witnesses of all that happens that night.

Washington Wolves

1999

Microondas poster
NR

"Microwaves" is Juan Cavestany's new radio drama.

Microondas

2015

Microondas poster
NR

"Microwaves" is Juan Cavestany's new radio drama.

Microondas

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vídeo provisional

2020

Still Life with Ghosts poster
6.8

In a small town haunted by the struggles of life and death, ghosts and humans alike embark on a desperate journey to end their torment, resorting to extreme measures to achieve their goals.

Still Life with Ghosts

2025

El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo poster
4.4

In the 80's, Pocholo and Borjamari are kings in the disco "Aguacates". Twenty years later, nothing has changed. Only now, the two brothers are nothing in "Aguacates" disco. Now they are object of derision and mockery. His cousin Pelayo, who used to laugh and abuse in adolescence, reappears in their lives and come to the old cruelties and Pocholo Borjamari announcing that Mecano will meet in a surprise concert...

El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo

2004

El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo poster
4.4

In the 80's, Pocholo and Borjamari are kings in the disco "Aguacates". Twenty years later, nothing has changed. Only now, the two brothers are nothing in "Aguacates" disco. Now they are object of derision and mockery. His cousin Pelayo, who used to laugh and abuse in adolescence, reappears in their lives and come to the old cruelties and Pocholo Borjamari announcing that Mecano will meet in a surprise concert...

El asombroso mundo de Borjamari y Pocholo

2004

Dispongo de barcos poster
4.0

Four men who may or may not know each other previously, wander aimlessly in a strange city listening to strange voices. They gradually come together as they try to remember what links them together and why they are meant to regroup. A surreal drama/comedy about isolation, the need to remember, and failed break-in.

Dispongo de barcos

2010

Dispongo de barcos poster
4.0

Four men who may or may not know each other previously, wander aimlessly in a strange city listening to strange voices. They gradually come together as they try to remember what links them together and why they are meant to regroup. A surreal drama/comedy about isolation, the need to remember, and failed break-in.

Dispongo de barcos

2010

People in Places poster
5.0

A fragmented view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships.

People in Places

2013