Gracia Querejeta (born 1962) is one of the most well-known Spanish film directors and writers. Daughter of producer Elías Querejeta and the designer of costumes Maria del Carmen Marín «Maikila», studied Old History at the Complutense University of Madrid before developing an extensive film and television trajectory.
He became director of solo feature films with a passing station (1992), Special Jury Award at the Seminci de Valladolid. This film was followed by titles like Robert Rylands's last trip (1996), When you come back to my side (1999), Hector (2004) and Seven French billiard tables (2007). The latter won the Best Script Jury Award at the San Sebastián Festival, while Héctor won the Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Festival.
His later film includes 15 years and one day (2013), also Biznaga de Oro in Malaga, Felices 140 (2015), Wave of Crimes (2018) and Invisible (2020). In parallel, he has developed a wide-ranging television career, participating in series such as Central Hospital, Tell me how it happened, Victor Ros, No Identity, Mothers. Love and life and Ana Tramel. The game.
In 2025, he premiered "La good luck," adaptation of Rosa Montero's own novel, whose script he wrote with María Ruiz. In 2026 he signed with Miguel Oid the direction and script of Landa, a documentary dedicated to Alfredo Landa that recovers the professional and personal trajectory of one of the great icons of the history of Spanish cinema.
Overview:
Alfredo Landa is probably one of the most popular and recognizable actors in the history of Spanish cinema. This documentary approaches its figure in all its complexity, going through the different facets of an interpreter who marked several decades of our cinema.
Few actors have been able to combine the love of the public with the recognition of the criticism and the main awards of the profession. Through testimonies of those who knew him best and of unpublished material, Gracia Querejeta (Seven French billiard tables, 15 years and one day) and Miguel Oid reconstruct his life and career: from the phenomenon of «landism»who became a gender in himself, even the great interpretations of his maturity, also discovering the man behind the actor.
The documentary runs through an extraordinary film track that exceeded the hundred titles, but also stops in less well-known aspects of his career: his beginnings in the amateur theatre in San Sebastián, his jump to the professional theatre in Madrid or his work as a dubbing actor. A full picture of a figure essential to understand the history of Spanish cinema.
Technical information sheet
Year: 2026
Duration: 70 min.
Country: Spain
Address: Gracia Querejeta
Script: Gracia Querejeta, Miguel Oid
Biography on: Alfredo Landa
Music: Nerea Alberdi
Photography: Aitor Mendilibar
Production: Subjective Plane, Baleuko, Ipar eta Hego
With the participation of: Diputación Foral de Bizkaia, RTVE
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