Ventura Pons

Director, Productor, Escritor

25 de julio de 1945 — 8 de enero de 2024 (78 años)
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Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director. After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, 'Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait', which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Some of his movies have been produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985 and he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years. He began his movie career making comedies about local customs. Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Sergi Belbel, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Jordi Puntí, Ferran Torrent and Lluïsa Cunillé. In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the Government of Catalonia, which also awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2007.

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Conocido por

  • Manjar de amor
    Manjar de amor2002
  • Amor idiota
    Amor idiota2004
  • Caricias
    Caricias1998
  • Amigo/amado
    Amigo/amado1999
  • Anita no pierde el tren
    Anita no pierde el tren2001
  • Morir (o no)
    Morir (o no)2000
  • El porqué de las cosas
    El porqué de las cosas1995
  • Barcelona (un mapa)
    Barcelona (un mapa)2007
  • Ocaña: retrat intermitent
    Ocaña: retrat intermitent1978
  • Año de gracia
    Año de gracia2011
  • Animales heridos
    Animales heridos2006
  • Actrices
    Actrices1997
  • A la deriva
    A la deriva2009
  • El virus del miedo
    El virus del miedo2015
  • Miss Dalí
    Miss Dalí2018
  • La vida abismal
    La vida abismal2007
  • Be Happy!
    Be Happy!2019
  • ¿Qué te juegas, Mari Pili?
    ¿Qué te juegas, Mari Pili?1991
  • Ignasi M.
    Ignasi M.2014
  • Aquesta nit o mai
    Aquesta nit o mai1992

Filmography

2019
2018
2018
2017
The Bigger, the Better · as Screenplay
2016
2015
2015
2013
Ignasi M. · as Screenplay
2013
2011
2011
2009
Adrift · as Screenplay
2008
Forasters · as Screenplay
2007
Barcelona (A Map) · as Screenplay
2007
La vida abismal · as Screenplay
2006
Wounded Animals · as Screenplay
2003
2002
Food of Love · as Screenplay
2001
2000
To Die (or Not) · as Screenplay
1998
Caresses · as Screenplay
1997
Actresses · as Screenplay
1995
What's It All About · as Screenplay
1989
Puta misèria! · as Screenplay
1986
The Blonde at the Bar · as Screenplay
1981
1979
1978

2019
Cinema Mon Amour · as Self
2019
La gran il·lusió · as Self (archive Footage)
2018
Cinema amb Ç · as Self
2015
Historia de Nuestro Cine · as Self - Panelist
2012
2009
Sense Ficció · as Self - Guest
2004
Els matins a TV3 · as Self - Guest
1996
1991
Movie Days · as Self - Interviewee
1978
Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait · as Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

2004
Amor idiota · as Adaptation