Bitter Christmas

Spanish (with English subtitles) | Spain | 111 mins | 2026 | Cert: 15A | Dir: Pedro Almodóvar

Individual Screenings: €8 each

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Two alternating stories. One stars Elsa, an advertisement director contending with intense migraines and the recent passing of her mother over a long December holiday in 2004. The other stars Raúl, a filmmaker in 2026, writing a screenplay about Elsa that increasingly mirrors events in his own life.

This latest film from legendary Spanish director Almodóvar is an insightful look into how loved ones can affect the stories we create, and how the stories can affect them right back.

“Bitter Christmas is a playful, tangled meditation on film-making, memory and the ethics of turning real lives into art.” - Tara Brady, The Irish Times

“There’s much fun to be had here: in its ripe and lively performances, in its characteristically splashy paintbox visual design, and in its twin-tracked, heavily metatextual narrative of artists following their bliss, sometimes to toxic effect.” - Guy Lodge, Variety