Isabel Coixet
Biography
Isabel Coixet Castillo (Catalan: [izəˈβɛl kuˈʃɛt]; born 9 April 1960; Sant Adrià del Besòs) is a Spanish filmmaker. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted (she directs, writes, produces, shoots, and acts)” filmmaker's status as a “Catalan auteur.”
Acting (15 movies)
It's Not That Cold Siberia
2016
Journey to the Heart of Torture
2003
El culo del mundo
2014
¿Qué (diablos) es España?
2022
Words, Maps, Secrets and Other Things
2015
Sex, Maracas & Chihuahuas
2016
Dennis Hopper: Uneasy Rider
2016
Querido Fotogramas
2018
Toni Segarra: The Ads Writer
2016
Kill Me Tender
2004
El cerro de los dioses
2019
Luis García Berlanga: pasado, presente y futuro del cine español
2021
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
L’Énigme Velázquez
2025
God Sees It
2025
Directing (37 movies)
My Life Without Me
2003
The Secret Life of Words
2005
Paris Je T'aime
2006
Elegy
2008
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009
Invisibles
2007
Listening to Judge Garzón
2011
Those Who Love
1998
Things I Never Told You
1996
Mira y verás
1984
Journey to the Heart of Torture
2003
Talking about Rose. Prisoner of Hissène Habré
2015
'Normal'
2016
Yesterday Never Ends
2013
Aral, the Lost Sea
2010
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Another Me
2013
Learning to Drive
2014
It's Not That Cold Siberia
2016
The Yellow Ceiling
2022
Endless Night
2015
Broken Heart is not Like a Broken Vase or a Vase
2016
With Good Reason
2004
Spain in a Day
2016
Un amor
2023
The Bookshop
2017
Elisa & Marcela
2019
White Tide
2012
Women, a Thing for Men
2009
Too Old to Die Young
1989
The Spirit of the Painting
2017
Letters to Nora
2007
It Snows in Benidorm
2020
Dear John
2010
Project Time
2017
Three Goodbyes
2025
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Isabel Coixet
2013