José Luis Torres Leiva

José Luis Torres Leiva received for his first feature film, El cielo, la tierra y la lluvia (The Sky, the Earth and the Rain, 2008), the FIPRESCI Prize in Rotterdam. The second, Verano (Summer, 2011), premiered in the Orizzonti section at Venice. In 2013 he premiered the documentaries Qué historia es ésta y cuál es su final and Ver y escuchar. El viento sabe que vuelvo a casa (The Wind Knows That I'm Coming Back Home) participated in Zabaltegi at San Sebastian 2016, the section to which he returned in 2017 (the year he also chaired Nest Film Students) with the short film El sueño de Ana. Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos (Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes) was selected as a project for the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum in 2016. He took his project Querida Vera to the same forum at the San Sebastian Festival.

Festival de San Sebastián