Arantxa Aguirre

El primer siglo del Prado

Arantxa Aguirre, José Luis López-Linares

Fernando Fernán Gómez, Miguel Zugaza

Documentary on the first hundred years of the history of the Prado Museum. Based on the exhibition "The 19th century in the Prado" (October 2007-April 2008). Study the first year of the Prado Museum, its evolution, the concept of the mentioned exhibition, the Museum Collection, the masterpieces and the restoration work.

Hécuba: un sueño de pasión

Arantxa Aguirre, José Luis López-Linares

Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas

What we tend to identify with the acting profession has little to do with what is really this profession. Thirty-six Spanish actors reflect on their work and contrasted their experiences. As thread, the contrast between the voices of veterans and images of young theater students , for whom everything is still possible. Among the many actors are interviewed Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Fernando Fernán Gómez, José Luis López Vázquez, José Coronado, Emma Suarez, Alberto San Juan, Ariadna Gil, Ana Belén, Pilar Lopez de Ayala and many other.

Dancing Beethoven

Arantxa Aguirre

Malya Roman, Gil Roman

A journey through the preparation and hardworking process of ballet dancers and musicians for a unique spectacle in Tokio that Béjart choreographed with the Ninth symphony of Beethoven. Béjart ballet dances with Tokio ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Israel. A marvellous combination of dancers movements and expression of different feelings along the four movements of the symphony with absolute elegance and strength.

An American Swan in Paris

Arantxa Aguirre

Kathleen Thielhelm

Kathleen Thielhelm, a ballerina from Wisconsin, gets the chance to dance an important role at the Paris Opera House. When the premiere finally arrives, what happens is what no dancer would ever hope to experience.

El amor y la muerte

Arantxa Aguirre

Rosa Torres-Pardo, Elisabet Ros

Documentary that recreates the biography of the Catalan composer and pianist Enrique Granados (1867-1916), his trips to Madrid, Paris and New York, his sensitive nature, the struggle to make his way in life despite the family economic straits and his first successes The story, built from vintage images, is interspersed with versions of the Granados repertoire by interpreters such as Rosa Torres-Pardo, Evgeny Kissin, Cañizares, Arcángel, Rocío Márquez, Carlos Álvarez and Nancy Fabiola Herrera, among others.

El esfuerzo y el ánimo

Arantxa Aguirre

Gil Roman

The death of the brilliant Maurice Béjart in 2007 is an irreparable loss for the world of Dance, but above all, it means a cataclysm for his own company. Forty dancers from all five continents are now orphans and they'll have to work hard for the survival of the company.

Béjart Ballet Lausanne au Palais Garnier

Arantxa Aguirre

Follows the dancers during their arrival at the Opéra Garnier, the shows and the backstage life. The film includes extracts form four of Béjart's choreographies on contemporary music (Boulez, Bartók and Webern): Le Marteau sans maître, Dialogue de l'ombre double, Webern Opus V, and Sonate à trois.

Una rosa para Soler

Arantxa Aguirre

Pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo presents the figure of Antonio Soler. Father Soler composed one of the largest and most amazing musical corpuses in the history of Spanish music. The documentary is a journey of the pianist who set out to find lost musical scores.

Gira por China

Arantxa Aguirre

The Lausanne ballet, inspired and created by Maurice Béjart, is going on tour in China and propose to Arantxa Aguirre documentary filmmaker who is she who let their witness images of that European encounter with East Asia. The film has a naive, intelligent, fresh and powerful look Arantxa. In each plane is perceived passion and love this woman has for dance, the difficulty of the passage, the movement, the lightness of being in space. It's really a work of art, a gift that cinema has this ability to convey so much.