Albert Serra
Albert Serra is a Spanish independent filmmaker and manager of the production company Andergraun Films, set up by Montse Triola primarily to produce Serra's films. He is best known for his films Story of My Death and The Death of Louis XIV, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud. Serra has been called "one of the most singular and radical filmmakers working today."
Awards and festival selections
- Honor of the Knights
- * 2006 Viennale Directors' Fortnight - FIPRESCI Prize
- * Best Feature Film, also Holden Award for Best Script - Special Mention, at the 2006 Torino Film Festival
- * Grand Prize at the 2006 Entrevues Belfort film festival
- * Best Emerging Director and Best Film in Catalan Language awards, 2006 Barcelona Cinema Awards
- * Selected by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the 10 best films of 2007.
- Birdsong
- * 2008 Cannes Directors' Fortnight
- * Best Film and Best Director at the 2009 Gaudí Awards
- * Grand Prize at the 2008 Split International Film Festival
- * Grand Prize at the 2008 Entrevues Belfort film festival
- Story of My Death
- * Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival
- * Silver Puma for Best Director at the 2014 UNAM International Film Festival
- * Best wardrobe at the 2014 Gaudí Awards
- The Death of Louis XIV
- * Cannes Film Festival – Official Selection
- * Toronto International Film Festival – Official Selection
- * New York Film Festival – Official Selection
- * Winner in feature film category, 2016 Prix Jean Vigo
- * Best International Film at the 2016 Jerusalem Film Festival
- etc.
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Crespià, the film not the village | ||
| 2006 | Honor de Cavalleria | Don Quixote and Sancho Panza wander the hills... | |
| 2008 | El cant dels ocells | Unconventional, minimalist approach to the story of the Magi... Title is a reference to a traditional Catalan Christmas song. | |
| 2011 | 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero | 1-minute contribution to Estonian anthology film. | |
| 2011 | El senyor ha fet en mi meravelles | ||
| 2013 | Els tres porquets | Film-performance: 101 hours of film shot during the Kassel Documenta festival and edited and projected there in sections every three days. It is an adaptation of texts from Eckermann's "Conversations with Goethe" and Hugh Trevor-Roper's "Hitler's Table Talk", together with writings by Fassbinder. | |
| 2013 | Història de la meva mort | Death as seen by Casanova and Dracula. | |
| 2016 | La Mort de Louis XIV | Inspired by the Duke of Saint Simon’s memoirs. | |
| 2019 | Liberté |