The Beloved [El ser querido]

Celebrated film director Esteban Martínez (Javier Bardem) is a legend, both for his impressive body of work and for his notorious past of drinking, violence and excess. When he returns to Spain after thirteen years away to shoot his new film, he unexpectedly offers the lead role to his estranged daughter Emilia, an actress whose career has struggled to take off. What initially seems like a chance at reconciliation soon becomes an emotional minefield. As father and daughter work together on set, the boundaries between fiction and reality begin to blur and old wounds inevitably rise to the surface.

The Beloved is an intense father-daughter drama from Oscar-nominated director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (The Beasts, Mother) that had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Skyfall) delivers one of the most layered performances of his career, with Victoria Luengo (The Room Next Door, Amarga Navidad) as his compelling co-star. With The Beloved, Sorogoyen tells a layered and piercing story about the dynamics between parents and children, artistry, and the thin line between love and manipulation.