Antonia San Juan
1961 (63 года)Born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, she moved to Madrid at 19 to pursue a career as a professional theater actress and perform cabaret acts in pubs and bars. She gained recognition for her role as Agrado in Pedro Almodóvar's Todo sobre mi madre. In addition to her film work, she is well-known in Spain for her humorous monologues on television and stage. Since 2009, she has starred in the popular Spanish TV series La que se avecina, portraying Estela Reynolds, the quirky mother of Lola.
San Juan identifies as an atheist and is outspokenly critical of religion, describing it as a "cancer to society."
All About My Mother
Pedro Almodóvar
Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes
Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attempt to contact the long-estranged father the boy never knew. She reunites with an old friend, an outspoken transgender sex worker, and befriends a troubled actress and a pregnant, HIV-positive nun.
All About My Mother
El hoyo
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan
A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity.
The Platform
¿Infidelidad?
Miguel Óscar Menassa
Antonia San Juan, Miguel Óscar Menassa
Walter (Miguel Óscar Menassa) is married to Silvia (Cruz Gonzalez), but realizes that the desire his wife feels for other men leads her to sleep with his friend Gustavo (Luis Miguel Seguí). She decides to confess to her husband the whole truth in front of her lover, but infidelity is not always committed in the same way. A writer who cheats her husband and is cheated at the same time and a mature woman with much to live, are other infidels. Through their comic and emotional stories, a whole treatise on infidelity is elaborated.
¿Infidelidad?
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Sergio G. Mondelo
Lucía Sánchez, Adriana Ugarte
When looking at Pedro Almodóvar’s filmography, it becomes evident that women are everywhere; in fact, his work revolves around them. His divas are the best to create a real portrait of Almodóvar and evoke the emotional power of his films. These women are the ideal observers of a cinematic career that, from La Mancha to Hollywood, has changed the image of Spain in the world.
Almodóvar, todo sobre ellas
Il était une fois... Tout sur ma mère
Antoine de Gaudemar
Pedro Almodóvar, Agustín Almodóvar
Shot in 1999, "All About My Mother" is Pedro Almodóvar's thirteenth feature film. The director was a key figure in the turbulent Movida (the movement for cultural renewal and liberation in post-Franco Spain), explores Barcelona society at the turn of the millennium through the lives of five women.
Once Upon a Time… All About My Mother
Dorothy, Ninette y un Billete de 50
Sara Escudero
Antonia San Juan, Belinda Washington
Dorothy and Ninette are two has-beens trying to survive and let go of their demons. Two former showgirls in their sixties, they are unaware that they are no longer in their prime. They reconnect after several years, and old feuds resurface in the most instinctive and funny ways when neither one of them is willing to let go of a 50 Euro bill they found on the ground.
Dorothy, Ninette, and a 50 Euro Bill
Amnesia
Gabriele Salvatores
Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini
In the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is investigating the death of a drug dealer (which was accidentally brought on by Angelino). Jorge's plans to move to America have so far been thwarted by his father, but when he finds out about the affair his dad had been having with a male nightclub dancer, he uses it as blackmail fodder.
Amnèsia
La caja
Juan Carlos Falcón
Ángela Molina, Mónica Molina
After the death of don Lucio, his widow Eloísa asks one of her neighbours to use the latter's house in order to hold the dead man's wake, since Eloísa's own house is too small for that. From then on, a series of strange happenings take place during a single day.
The Wooden Box
