
Directing
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Born 1970-06-24 · Madrid, Spain
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo is a Spanish film and television writer, director and producer.
Acting credits
5.8Manel, a physicist working on his PhD thesis, accidentally fall in love with Elena, a young model and aspiring actress.
The Laws of Thermodynamics
2018
6.6Valladolid, 1989. David and Layla are 13 years old, they love "Hombres G" and they fall madly in love with each other. Together, they get into trouble, sing and dance to the songs of their favorite group. Valladolid, 2022. After 30 years without a verse, David and Layla finally have the chance to reunite. In both eras, our protagonists fight to keep their first love alive.
Voy a pasármelo bien
2022
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Manolito Espinberg: une vie de cinéma
2005
NRThey are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they emerge from the shadows of a poorly lit room and tell their secrets, their tricks, their influences; they tell their own story, that of those who face the blank page, the absolute nothingness; that of those who are the true authors, those who create and destroy entire universes. They are the screenwriters.
Writing Heads
2013
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Casting
2013
Behind the camera
7.4Two years after the tragic sinking of a fishing boat that shook a small seaside town, members of the rondalla, a traditional Galician music band, decide to get back together in the endeavour to recover their enthusiasm and leave the grieving behind.
Band Together
2025
7.4Two years after the tragic sinking of a fishing boat that shook a small seaside town, members of the rondalla, a traditional Galician music band, decide to get back together in the endeavour to recover their enthusiasm and leave the grieving behind.
Band Together
2025
NRSet during the economic crisis, a group of robbers breaks into a Madrid bank, sparking a tense game of deception, fear, and survival where every choice matters and everyone is running from more than just the law.
Cruzados
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NRSet during the economic crisis, a group of robbers breaks into a Madrid bank, sparking a tense game of deception, fear, and survival where every choice matters and everyone is running from more than just the law.
Cruzados
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6.0Pilar and Isabel. Mario and Jaime. Two mothers. Two children. A new family unit. A new normal. Well, at least that is what Pilar and Isabel hope will happen during their week-long vacation in a rural house: that their respective 13-year-old children will be able to understand their relationship, their love, and that they will be able to connect and accept each other as what they should be: siblings. But, of course, there are many ways to connect and accept each other.
Pollywogs
2025
6.0Pilar and Isabel. Mario and Jaime. Two mothers. Two children. A new family unit. A new normal. Well, at least that is what Pilar and Isabel hope will happen during their week-long vacation in a rural house: that their respective 13-year-old children will be able to understand their relationship, their love, and that they will be able to connect and accept each other as what they should be: siblings. But, of course, there are many ways to connect and accept each other.
Pollywogs
2025
6.0Pilar and Isabel. Mario and Jaime. Two mothers. Two children. A new family unit. A new normal. Well, at least that is what Pilar and Isabel hope will happen during their week-long vacation in a rural house: that their respective 13-year-old children will be able to understand their relationship, their love, and that they will be able to connect and accept each other as what they should be: siblings. But, of course, there are many ways to connect and accept each other.
Pollywogs
2025
5.3Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is threatened with a gun. Hours later, he can only remember the sound of a bang and the strange feeling of having being hit with something more than a bullet. Diego has to take an irreversible decision which will affect his own life and that of his loved ones.
For the Good of Others
2010
6.7Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his life up.
Dark Blue Almost Black
2006
6.7Jorge feels suffocated by his menial job but can't break free of the obligations that keep him stuck — until he meets a woman who shakes his life up.
Dark Blue Almost Black
2006
6.1Due to many reasons, ranging from insecurity to trauma, a group of people have gained a lot of weight in recent times.
Fat People
2009
6.1Due to many reasons, ranging from insecurity to trauma, a group of people have gained a lot of weight in recent times.
Fat People
2009
7.3To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
Seventeen
2019
7.3To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
Seventeen
2019
5.8A woman, sick of self-destructive character from her junkie daughter, decides to change their situation when she stays at the kitchen.
Exprés
2003
5.8A woman, sick of self-destructive character from her junkie daughter, decides to change their situation when she stays at the kitchen.
Exprés
2003
5.2Andrea lives in the year 2052 and her job consists of travelling back in time, inserting herself into our heads to make us aware of the importance of energy efficiency in safeguarding the environment. The goal of these journeys is to change the fate of the world, but Andrea is also planning to change her own fate, preventing her past self from committing the mistakes she now regrets so much.
En tu cabeza
2016
5.2Andrea lives in the year 2052 and her job consists of travelling back in time, inserting herself into our heads to make us aware of the importance of energy efficiency in safeguarding the environment. The goal of these journeys is to change the fate of the world, but Andrea is also planning to change her own fate, preventing her past self from committing the mistakes she now regrets so much.
En tu cabeza
2016
5.9Five siblings gather to celebrate a wedding at their family estate on the day Spain plays the final of the 2010 World Cup.
Family United
2013
5.9Five siblings gather to celebrate a wedding at their family estate on the day Spain plays the final of the 2010 World Cup.
Family United
2013
6.6Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
Cousinhood
2011
6.6Three cousins travel to the village where they spent summer vacations as kids.
Cousinhood
2011
A female voice narrates, as if it were an educational film or a report, the social changes that have taken place as a result of the digital imposition on all aspects of life: a new achievement of the “American Dream”.
KC#3: Digital
2003
10.0A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.
KC#4: El tránsito
2009