A ‘Christmas of cinema’ at the Sala Berlanga with some of the best Spanish films of the year 2025

Films with generational overtones such as ‘Los Domingos’, ‘Pilgrimage’ or ‘Maspalomas’

Also romantic stories like ‘My friend Eva’ from comedy and ‘Nosotros’ from drama

From December 23 to January 10. Tickets at €3.50 on sale at the box office and entradas.com (+gg)

Once again, the Christmas tradition of the SGAE Foundation lands in the Berlanga Room (C/Andrés Mellado, 53. Madrid. Tickets: 3.50 euros. On sale at the box office and tickets.com (+gg)), a sleigh with five of the fundamental films of this year in terms of national production. Under the title cinema christmaswill be displayed between December 23, 2025 and January 10, 2026 tapes that, through personal stories, remind us that not all celebrations are perfect: Sundays of Alauda Ruiz of Azúa, Maspalomas of Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi, My friend Eva of Cesc Gay, Pilgrimage of Carla Simon y Us of Helena Bar. The latter will chat with the public in an open discussion on January 3 after the screening of her feature film.

A perfect invitation to enjoy these dates at Berlanga and discover (or rediscover) some of the most inspiring filmmakers on our scene.

About movies
Cinema Christmas Its 2025 edition begins with one of the most outstanding films of the year, recently winner of the Forqué Awards and favorite in the Goya race: Sundays. In it, Alauda Ruiz of Azúa confirms its commitment to family intimacy, but this time considering, with a special sensitivity to dwell on the distances that separate us, a moral, social, emotional debate.

And the nursing home where the protagonist of Maspalomas when he has to abandon his idyllic life in the south of Gran Canaria to return to a gray Donosti where he once again represses his homosexuality. Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi They delve with rawness and emotion into usually forgotten topics: sexual desire and love in old age, as well as the persistent ghost of marginalization and rejection. A luminous proposal focused on fidelity to oneself, even in our last days.

Maturity is central, again, in My friend Eva: a woman, powerfully played by Nora Navas, decides to break up her marriage after 50 and, paraphrasing one of our best authors of the year, “give herself over to voluptuousness.” Cesc Gay talks about trusting second chances in his new film, but especially about surrendering at any age to the impulses, normally associated with irrational youth, of passion and feeling. A masterful exercise to capture the fragility and humor of everyday relationships.

These are the turbulences that drag the parents of Carla Simon to the tragedy during the AIDS epidemic in Galicia in the 80s. Following in her footsteps, and seeking to reconstruct her story (unlocking along the way new, less naturalistic and more urban and dreamlike ways of cinematically confronting her own biography), the filmmaker takes in fiction a journey that she never took in real life, and with which she not only seeks to exorcise ghosts: Pilgrimage It is, above all, a great love story, the dream of a (feverish) summer night. A sensitive portrait of traditions and bonds that endure beyond stigma.

Ends cycle programming Usa vulnerable, minimalist and authorial face to face with which Helena Bar is approaching Scenes from a marriage of Bergman from the epicenter of a couple crossed, yes, by contemporary problems such as precariousness, turbo-capitalist rhythms or interdependence. A story that reminds us that love can change in the blink of an eye.

PROGRAMMING
Cinema Christmas
Place: Sala Berlanga in Madrid (c/Andrés Mellado, 53)
Dates: from December 23, 2025 to January 10, 2026
Time: double session (6:30 p.m. / 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. / 9 p.m.)
Precio: 3,50€*
*on sale at the box office and tickets.com (+gg)

Tuesday, December 23
18.30 h. Sundays / Alauda Ruiz of Azúa / 2025 /
21.00 h. Maspalomas / Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi / 2025 / 115′

Friday, December 26
18.30 h. My friend Eva / Cesc Gay / 2025 / 100′
20.30 h. Pilgrimage / Carla Simón / 2025 / 115′

Saturday, December 27
18.30 h. Maspalomas / Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi / 2025 / 115′
21.00 h. My friend Eva / Cesc Gay / 2025 / 100′

Tuesday, December 30
18.30 h. Pilgrimage / Carla Simón / 2025 / 115′
21.00 h. Sundays / Alauda Ruiz of Azúa / 2025 /

Friday, January 2
19.00 h. Us / Helena Bar / 2025 / 94′
21.00 h. Maspalomas / Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi / 2025 / 115′

Saturday, January 3
6:30 p.m. My friend Eva / Cesc Gay / 2025 / 100′
8:30 p.m. Us / Helena Bar / 2025 / 94′
After the screening, discussion with the director.

Wednesday, January 7
19.00 h. Us / Helena Bar / 2025 / 94′
21.00 h. Pilgrimage / Carla Simón / 2025 / 115′

Thursday, January 8
18.30 h. Sundays / Alauda Ruiz of Azúa / 2025 /
21.00 h. My friend Eva / Cesc Gay / 2025 / 100′

Friday, January 9
19.00 h. Us / Helena Bar / 2025 / 94′
21.00 h. Maspalomas / Jose Mari Goenaga and Aitor Arregi / 2025 / 115′

Saturday, January 10
18.30 h. Sundays / Alauda Ruiz of Azúa / 2025 /
21.00 h. Pilgrimage / Carla Simón / 2025 / 115′