León Siminiani

In 2018, a group of filmmakers calling themselves "Los Quietos" set out to make a film essay on a hypothetical syndrome of stillness in the Republic of Colombia. To this end, they invite Colombian documentary master Luis Ospina, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez to give them clues to delve into the history, geography and idiosyncrasy of Colombia, a country that, paradoxically, has very little of stillness. For unknown reasons, the project remained unfinished.

Pilar and Manuel are getting ready for what should be a night of celebration and glamour. It should. But they take too long sweeping their relationship under the red carpet...

Honeymooning with her husband Ben, Nina returns to the Caribbean island she left years ago for a new life. The two enjoy perfect love on a deserted beach until the past catches up with them.

Audiovisual essay on the term "suburbia" in Spain, far removed from the aspirational ideal of the Anglo-Saxon world. This project was created for the CCCB's Suburbia exhibition.

Fifty seconds of silence, calm and emptiness... but only in appearance...

Their relationship is idling. The playfulness is gone. Then one day they see another couple in an apartment across the street.

A young Spanish director is fired from his job in television. Taking up his dream of making films, traveling to India to "find" his first feature to discover his real quest is not in India but in Madrid. However, on his return home, things do not go exactly as he had hoped ... Recorded over several years with very limited budget, the film asks, as a "film-diary", daily situations of the filmmaker's life, recorded during that time and narrated in the first person.

After three chapters and eleven years, Siminiani sets out the seven rules of efficiency that underpin his series "Key Concepts of the Modern World". Against a black screen, with a few words in white and fleeting images of people and his previous works, it is the voice that shapes the ideas.

Guatemala, in the 80s. The worst days of the Civil war. Andrés is 9 years old. He lives with Pedro González, one of the men who massacred all the women and children in his village. Andrés has survived, but he's scared. Pedro's wife, María, is also scared, scared to go out, scared to lose Andrés, whom she considers as "her new son" - even Pedro is scared, scared of himself and what the Army bounds him to do. Andrés would like to run away but he also wants to stay in his new family - until his sister appears.

In 1948, the Spanish directors Juan Antonio Bardem and Luis García Berlanga made their first film together: "Paseo por una guerra antigua" ("Walk through an Ancient War"), now considered to be almost lost. In 2021, Léon Siminiani takes what's left of that film and builds a puzzle about war, Francoism and the creative process of two artists.

About someone who once loved a woman in a desert with a camera.

A subjective audiovisual essay on the ideas of work and rest in the modern era, for which traffic between distant places where the individual performs both practices is necessary, always under the prism of the "American Dream". An unofficial and classified version of rush hour and its consequences on the life of modern man.

Taking as his starting point an official definition of the word ‘permission’ as set out in the dictionary, Siminiani explores the origins and practice of this concept as it emerged during the transition from the ancient to the modern world.

Through captions, a virtually static image and a monotonous voice-over, an explanation of the office setting in which other veiled concepts –such as hierarchy and workplace relationships– are revealed. Based on the all-encompassing premise of ‘the American dream’.

This is the story of a man who created a jungle next to the highway, building with his bare hands beautiful and unbelievable works of engineering in the forest. This is also the story of how he ended up burning them to ashes to reconstruct them, time after time, over decades. He is known as “Garrell”, also as “Tarzan from Argelaguer”, and he is not driven by any apparent purpose, except one: going “on the go”.

Not every day you have the chance of fulfilling a dream: making a heist film.

Here is the love story of Sebas and Andrea, first-time university students, in the 1958-1959 academic year. Here is how social class and ideology become insurmountable obstacles?... Here is architecture marking, inadvertently, the dotted line that ends up dictating its emotion.

A flat tire shocks a passenger. Stopped at the roadside, she thinks about her life while the driver changes the tire, unsure if this is the right path.

This true crime series investigates newfound evidence and unanswered questions in famous criminal cases, such as the murder of Asunta Basterra Porto.

New interviews and an up-to-date analysis of evidence shed light on the 1992 murders of three girls in Spain and their profound impact on the nation.

In 2017, Spain suffered two terrorist attacks perpetrated by young members of its community. How could this happen? This incisive series investigates.

In the 1970s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a Spanish circus astonished the world: the Circo de los Muchachos, which was the visible face of Benposta, a children's republic run by Father Silva: the story of the rise and fall of one of the most unique utopias of the 20th century.