La Bola Negra

Federico García Lorca had written only a few pages of La bola negra when he was murdered in 1936. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, the Spanish filmmakers known as Los Javis, wrote La bola negra with Alberto Conejero, drawing on that fragment and his play La piedra oscura. The queer drama follows three men across nearly a century: Carlos in 1932, Sebastián in the Civil War year of 1937 and Alberto, who uncovers a buried family secret, in 2017. Singer Guitarricadelafuente makes his acting debut as Sebastián, Miguel Bernardeau plays Lorca's companion Rafael Rodríguez Rapún, and Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close make special appearances. Los Javis shared Cannes' Best Director prize; the film is Spain's Oscar submission.