"La bola negra"
Last week, filming began in Castil de Carrias (Burgos) on "La bola negra," an original Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films production, in co-production with El Deseo and Le Pacte (France), written, directed, and produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. The shoot will last 12 weeks across various locations in Castilla y León, Cantabria, Andalusia, and the Community of Madrid, and will also extend outside of Spain.
Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Lola Dueñas, and Penélope Cruz lead the cast of the film, which takes its title from an unfinished work by Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated before being able to complete it. The film unfolds across three time periods: 1932, 1937, and 2017.
"La bola negra" marks the return of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi as directors and screenwriters, following the success of the original Movistar Plus+ series "La Mesías," which premiered at the San Sebastián Festival, was screened at the Sundance Festival, and won six Feroz Awards, three Forqué Awards, two awards at the French festival Series Mania, and an Ondas Award, among other accolades.
At the latest edition of the Cannes Festival, it was announced that Le Pacte will co-produce "La bola negra" and Goodfellas will handle international sales. El Deseo has also joined Movistar Plus+ and Suma Content Films in producing the project. The company founded by Agustín and Pedro Almodóvar will co-produce the film. It is worth noting that El Deseo is behind all of Pedro Almodóvar’s films.
The film will be released in theaters in 2026. Elastica will distribute the film in Spain. After its theatrical release, the film will arrive exclusively on Movistar Plus+. Elastica is the producer and distributor of films such as "Romería," by Carla Simón, and has released in Spanish theaters films like "Drive My Car," by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, "Annette," by Leos Carax, "Past Lives," by Celine Song, "Anatomy of a Fall," by Justine Triet, "The Zone of Interest," by Jonathan Glazer, "La chimera," by Alice Rohrwacher, "The Substance," by Coralie Fargeat, and "Queer," by Luca Guadagnino.
"La bola negra" tells the interconnected lives of three men in three different eras. Three existences intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and heritage; and one of the last unfinished works of Federico García Lorca.