Manuel Martín Cuenca

Manuel Martín Cuenca (b. 1964, Almería, Spain) finished college and began in film as an assistant director on Spanish productions. He began making his own features and documentaries eleven years later. His directing debut The Weakness of the Bolshevik (La flaqueza del bolchevique, 2003), about a romance between an adult man and an underage girl, was screened at the San Sebastian IFF. There he also screened his second film Hard Times (Malas temporadas, 2005), which focuses on the problems associated with contemporary Madrid society. Half of Oscar (La mitad de Óscar, 2010) tells the story of two siblings who are reunited after many years apart. Cannibal is his fourth feature. Cuenca has won a series of film awards; he teaches at university and has written several books on film.

MFF Karlovy Vary