It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."

It's almost predictable that a film about a child piano prodigy begins with the protagonist playing like a virtuoso, but it's not that the piano he's playing is the one in a funeral home where the child is trying to process the fact that his mother has just died. Wolfgang, which premieres this Friday, is the big commercial bet of Catalan cinema in 2025, a friendly family comedy with an openly popular vocation that, however, addresses issues often taboo in this type of cinema, such as grief, mental health, and suicide. All these themes were already in the eponymous book by Laia Aguilar, which adapts the film and which "excited" the director Javier Ruiz Caldera when he read to her: "I have two daughters and I go to the movies a lot with them, and I miss movies that both they and I can enjoy, movies about characters that deal with emotions and somewhat complex themes and that then, when we leave the theater, give rise to a conversation."