When director Marta Matute (Madrid, 1988) was 18 years old, her mother was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. For nine years, the whole family dedicated themselves to caring for their mother, and that degenerative disease became the center of their lives. For all practical purposes, Matute stopped being a normal girl her age. “I wanted to be with my friends, live my life, but the illness destroyed everything – she recalls –. In a way, you continue with your life, but dissociated.” Matute didn't talk to her friends about the situation and even hid it, but she already suspected that sooner or later she would end up “doing something” with that experience. And so it has been: I Will Not Die of Love, her opera prima, which arrives in cinemas this Friday after triumphing at the Malaga Festival with three awards (Golden Biznaga for best film, best actress, and best supporting actor) that position it as the first major surprise of Spanish cinema in 2026.

Prince Frederik of Nassau, son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg, passed away on March 1 in Paris after a long battle with POLG, a rare disease. The news was announced by his family this weekend through the POLG Foundation website, an organization that Frederik himself created to raise awareness and funds for research into this genetic disease.