
Directing
Eduardo Casanova
Born 1991-03-24 · Madrid, Spain
Eduardo Casanova Valdehita is a Spanish actor, screenwriter and director. He is mainly known to the public thanks to his role as Fidel Martínez in the television series Aída.
Acting credits
5.0In 'Sidosa', the director and actor Eduardo Casanova makes the most intimate and significant revelation of his life: he has HIV. There is no precedent in Spain for a public figure to disclose that he is living with HIV — a step that organizations and activists have been calling for for years to help end the social stigma still associated with the virus.
Sidosa
2026
6.9The film deals with the filming of an episode of the series with storylines that take place both within the fiction with the characters of 'Aída' and outside of it with the actors themselves and their relationships, which reflects on topics such as the limits of comedy, the work of a comedian and fame.
Aida, the Movie
2026
5.8Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
Boystown
2007
6.0Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life ...
As Luck Would Have It
2011
5.9Ana, a young Spanish woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and her brother Tono, receive a call from their father to tell him that he is getting married in Mexico to a woman he met on the Internet. When they get there, they discover that the girl is 30 years younger than her father and they begin to live with her new in-laws, with the inevitable cultural clashes that this will entail.
My Father's Mexican Wedding
2023
5.4Coslada, near Madrid, Spain, October 2015. Hundreds of extras are trapped in a huge stage where they pretend with hysterical joy that they are celebrating a party that will be broadcast on television on New Year's Eve. But more than a week later, the clash between several staff members threatens to prolong indefinitely such a maddening nightmare.
My Big Night
2015
NRLucio is an introverted boy who spends his nights dreaming of Greta. Little by little, he begins to prefer to spend his time dreaming, escaping reality and sharing his time with Greta and a mysterious knight.
Blink
2013
4.2Comedy about a family of Gran Canaria island that shown in a "situation totally on edge" and reflects the way to be the canaries, as its author.
The Summer Side
2012
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Llevo cartas
2015
NRA documentary celebrating the life of Fernando Estrella, a pioneering LGBTI activist and beloved cultural icon. Through testimonies from friends and collaborators, it traces his fearless advocacy, artistic brilliance, and deep impact on queer visibility in Spain—from the Movida Madrileña to his influential presence in Palma. A chef, performer, and actor in Almodóvar’s films, Estrella defied norms and built community, especially through his legendary restaurant, Flexa. The film culminates in the surreal and moving farewell party held just before his death in 2023, a testament to the love he inspired.
Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta
2025
NRDorien is a young photographer with an overwhelming personality who has made a name for herself taking photos of celebrities and is obsessed with not aging. Marcos is a journalist in the midst of a midlife crisis. Faust (his boss) wants Marcos to interview Dorien. Dorien introduces Marcos to a world very different from his own, where mysterious murders will shape everyone’s fate.
Dorien
2017
6.4No synopsis available yet.
Aída y vuelta: Capítulo regalo
2026
6.3An ultraconservative family father must spend a weekend with his dysfunctional children for the burial of his wife.
Lord, Give Me Patience
2017
5.6A square sound engineer employs unusual research efforts to reveal the secrets behind the quintessential icon of kitsch, the Pink Flamingo. His bizarre adventure will unexpectedly turn into a creative journey to self-discovery.
The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La sexta alumna
2016
Behind the camera
6.4In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
Skins
2017
6.4In a strange world where people share numerous deformities, the same problem we all face challenges each of them: to find someone who accepts you as you are. Sometimes, that means finding yourself first.
Skins
2017
4.4She only smokes and waits for the man she loves. Sometimes we fall for the wrong person even if we are aware of it. But blind love, insane love can fight against all and 100 hours waiting with 100 cigarettes is the least a woman can do when she is madly in love.
Fumando Espero
2013
4.4She only smokes and waits for the man she loves. Sometimes we fall for the wrong person even if we are aware of it. But blind love, insane love can fight against all and 100 hours waiting with 100 cigarettes is the least a woman can do when she is madly in love.
Fumando Espero
2013
5.6A screaming baby awakens madness and bloodlust.
Bath Time
2014
5.6A screaming baby awakens madness and bloodlust.
Bath Time
2014
6.0Eduardo Casanova reveals the reality of sexile and applauds 'the collective struggle every day of the year'. In this documentary piece, the actor and director gives voice to Leo, Patricia, La Estrella, Ariel and Cris, 5 people from the group who have lived through this situation and who have left their home behind to be themselves. Their stories function as testimony and the starting signal for the initiative "Hay Ganas de Orgullo de Pueblo". In addition, the Madrid singer Soleá Morente reverses the theme 'Volver' for the piece, adopting a more optimistic tone to create a key anthem, the soul of the initiative.
El sexilio
2022
6.0Eduardo Casanova reveals the reality of sexile and applauds 'the collective struggle every day of the year'. In this documentary piece, the actor and director gives voice to Leo, Patricia, La Estrella, Ariel and Cris, 5 people from the group who have lived through this situation and who have left their home behind to be themselves. Their stories function as testimony and the starting signal for the initiative "Hay Ganas de Orgullo de Pueblo". In addition, the Madrid singer Soleá Morente reverses the theme 'Volver' for the piece, adopting a more optimistic tone to create a key anthem, the soul of the initiative.
El sexilio
2022
4.8Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.
Fidel
2016
4.8Cuba, as we knew it, is dying. The US Embassy has just opened in Cuba, and the Cuban in the USA after 54 years. Cubans are craving to be connected to the Internet, buy at Zara, eat at Burger King and have Apple gadgets Nevertheless, Fidel, the leader of the Revolution, is alone and hiding. He is, like Cuba, in decline.
Fidel
2016
3.6A solid middle American couple meet a stranger who will have a big role in history as we know it.
I'm Sorry, My Love
2018
3.6A solid middle American couple meet a stranger who will have a big role in history as we know it.
I'm Sorry, My Love
2018
5.1Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.
Eat My Shit
2015
5.1Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.
Eat My Shit
2015
5.1Eat My Shit tells the tale of a woman with the unfortunate defect of having a butthole for a mouth.
Eat My Shit
2015
6.5Violetta Lagartija is a great prima donna with social phobia. Violetta can neither speak nor relate to anybody that knows her. With her lovesick character, she survives feeding of tranquilizers. Berto is crazy in love with Violetta, but he knows her problem and has a plan to know her. Anxiety is a story about tranquilizers, an eccentric story, egocentric, excessive, melodramatic, dark, but, especially anxious.
Ansiedad
2011
6.5Violetta Lagartija is a great prima donna with social phobia. Violetta can neither speak nor relate to anybody that knows her. With her lovesick character, she survives feeding of tranquilizers. Berto is crazy in love with Violetta, but he knows her problem and has a plan to know her. Anxiety is a story about tranquilizers, an eccentric story, egocentric, excessive, melodramatic, dark, but, especially anxious.
Ansiedad
2011
4.9Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.
Piety
2023
4.9Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.
Piety
2023
7.0The love that a mother feels justifies everything, a mother is capable of murder because of her child, she kills, she steals, she works the corner or any other thing that keeps her child alive; the love that a mother feels, brings up the better and the worst in every woman. Ursula (Ana Polvorosa) is a mother and she is living two tragedies at the same time, a zombie invasion and the fact that her husband left home with their son, Nicolas. To Ursula, the zombie invasion is just “an anecdote” because she, as a mother and as a woman, only cares about her missing child, helpless and alone in a world surrounded by green and crazy beings.
Amor de madre
2012
7.0The love that a mother feels justifies everything, a mother is capable of murder because of her child, she kills, she steals, she works the corner or any other thing that keeps her child alive; the love that a mother feels, brings up the better and the worst in every woman. Ursula (Ana Polvorosa) is a mother and she is living two tragedies at the same time, a zombie invasion and the fact that her husband left home with their son, Nicolas. To Ursula, the zombie invasion is just “an anecdote” because she, as a mother and as a woman, only cares about her missing child, helpless and alone in a world surrounded by green and crazy beings.
Amor de madre
2012
6.0Moisés is an enigma, a man who burned himself to death in Madrid. Here we will discover what led him to do it and what is behind the sect that torments him so much.
Al Margen
2024
5.2Short for Vogue Spain by Eduardo Casanova
La misma piel
2015
5.2Short for Vogue Spain by Eduardo Casanova
La misma piel
2015