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A smartly dressed woman and a man in a summer shirt walk towards the camera

Bitter Christmas

Duration: 1h51m
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Dates: Fri 4 - Thu 10 Sep 2026

Pedro Almodóvar is back with his unique brand of storytelling, setting the stage for the tale of a filmmaker who begins to be a little too heavily inspired by the real lives of those around him. 

Raúl is a cult filmmaker in the midst of a creative crisis. When tragedy strikes one of his closest collaborators, he draws inspiration from it to write his next film. Little by little, he imagines Elsa, a filmmaker in the midst of writing a script, whose journey begins to mirror his own.

The two filmmakers become two sides of the same character, in a game of mirrors where the raw honesty of autofiction reveals as much as it destroys. But how far can one go to tell a story?

Two women sit on a sofa looking at each other
Bitter Christmas
Two sad women hug on a sofa
Bitter Christmas
A woman stands in front of a window facing a smiling man who sits on a bed
Bitter Christmas
An older man sits at his desk on a computer while watched by a younger man sitting on a sofa across the room
Bitter Christmas
A smartly dressed woman and a man in a summer shirt walk towards the camera
Bitter Christmas
Two women sit on a sofa looking at each other
Bitter Christmas
Two sad women hug on a sofa
Bitter Christmas
A woman stands in front of a window facing a smiling man who sits on a bed
Bitter Christmas
An older man sits at his desk on a computer while watched by a younger man sitting on a sofa across the room
Bitter Christmas
A smartly dressed woman and a man in a summer shirt walk towards the camera
Bitter Christmas
Two women sit on a sofa looking at each other
Bitter Christmas
Two sad women hug on a sofa
Bitter Christmas
A woman stands in front of a window facing a smiling man who sits on a bed
Bitter Christmas
An older man sits at his desk on a computer while watched by a younger man sitting on a sofa across the room
Bitter Christmas
A smartly dressed woman and a man in a summer shirt walk towards the camera
Bitter Christmas