Subverting the narrative codes of cinema queer, which has historically struggled to illustrate difficult processes of liberation, Maspalomas It traces the painful path back to self-repression of an old man who, after two decades of enjoying his homosexuality (in the Canary Island town that gives the film its title), suffers a stroke and decides to come back into the closet when he is admitted to a nursing home in his native Basque Country. The exploration of the experience queer in old age – understood as a process of searching for identity – is not new to the screenwriter and director José Mari Goenaga, who in 2010 already addressed this theme in the film In 80 days, more focused on the female universe.

After the bankruptcy miniseries FortuneAlejandro Amenábar (Santiago de Chile, 1972) returns to the cinema with a fiction that recreates Miguel de Cervantes' five years of captivity in Algiers. But The captive, just released in theaters, draws on both historical sources and Amenábar's imagination, who inscribes the story within the prison adventure genre without missing the opportunity to offer his personal vision of the origins of Cervantes' literary and creative impulse.

During her childhood and adolescence, Fer Rivas (Barcelona, ​​1994) identified as male and was attracted to men. When she was in high school, her father died suddenly of a heart attack. For almost ten years, she kept her grief bottled up and buried in a corner of her heart, unable to cope. Literature was the tool to unblock it: Rivas poured everything she felt and had experienced into a letter to her father, written with honesty and courage, preceding her gender transition. Now that text has been converted into an autobiographical novel. I was a boy (Ángulo Editorial / Sexto Piso), and now Rivas is working to transform it into a play as well.

"They want to be him and they want to be with him" was the slogan that guaranteed absolute professional success to actor Richard Chamberlain, died last Saturday at the age of 90. However, few people thought that this phrase, which everyone in Hollywood found brilliant for introducing the seductive, gallant soap opera star, was also a transparent prison that the actor carried with him, no matter what he did. His handsome face, his well-groomed physique, and his natural elegance seduced thousands of women around the world. The climax came with the role of the priest Ralph de Bricassart, the protagonist ofThe Thorn Bird, which aired in 1983 in the United States and was syndicated worldwide. However, this commercial positioning as an actor was incompatible with his most intimate truth: he was gay.

When, at the age of 21, Xavier Bosch (Barcelona, ​​​​1967) visited New York City for the first time, the impression was so strong that three decades later he needed to return to write it, but from the point of view of a young aspiring publicist, Edda Leveroni. The girl stars Diagonal Manhattan, I return to the Writer and Journalist's Column after a brief hiatus in Universe. If March 32 (2023) focused on "the dangers of political propaganda" and had previously delved into the lights and shadows of journalism, here "closes the tableau on communication" focusing on its "most luminous branch, advertising." And he does so based on the story of a young woman who makes her way to the United States – and who learns to love – while her father tries to resolve several crises he has at the advertising agency he founded in Barcelona.

Toni Cruanyes is one of the most famous faces of TV3 and for more than a decade he has presented the Evening news on public television. The journalist is one of the guests of the new season of The eclipse by Roger Escapa, which was released a few days agoDuring his speech, Cruanyes opens up and talks about some aspects of his private life, such as why he decided to make his homosexuality public.