Maspalomas
After a stroke while vacationing in the gay haven of Maspalomas, Vicente—played by José Ramón Soroiz, winner of the 2026 Goya Award for Best Lead Actor—is placed in a nursing home where he’s forced back into the closet, confronting a fight for freedom he thought he’d already won.
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Sunday, May 10, 2026
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
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After his most recent breakup and on the verge of retirement, Vicente (José Ramón Soroiz—winner of the 2026 Goya Award for Best Lead Actor and the Silver Shell for Best Leading Performance at the San Sebastián International Film Festival) rediscovers a sense of youth in the tourist haven of Maspalomas—a pilgrimage site for gay men of all ages seeking fleeting connections and moments of intimacy. But his newfound freedom is abruptly interrupted when a stroke turns his life upside down. At the insistence of his daughter, he is placed in a nursing home, a decision that effectively forces him back into the closet. Within this unfamiliar environment, Vicente must navigate a space where his identity is neither acknowledged nor welcomed. Maspalomas tells this story with intimacy and sensitivity, using recent history as a mirror to explore the most difficult confinement of all: the one we impose on ourselves. José Ramón Soroiz carries the film with a deeply natural and affecting performance, conveying through a single gaze the inner struggle of a man searching for a way forward. What follows is a moving journey of rediscovery, as Vicente finds himself reliving a process of liberation he believed was long behind him.
—Hebe Tabachnik
- Director: Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga
- Principal Cast: Jose Ramon Soroiz, Nagore Aranburu, Kandido Uranga, Zorion Egileor, Kepa Errasti
- Country: Spain
- Year: 2025
- Running Time: 115 min.
- Producer: Irusoin, Moriarti Produkzioak
- Screenplay: Jose Mari Goenaga
- Cinematographers: Javier Agirre
- Editors: Maialen Sarasua Oliden
- Music: Aranzazu Calleja
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: Goya Awards 2026 (Best Actor), Des Images aux Mots Toulouse 2026 (Audience Award, Jury Special Mention), Feroz Awards 2026 (Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actor), Zinemastea - Basque Film Festival 2026 (Best Film, Best Direction, Best Actor), San Sebastian International Film Festival 2025 (Silver Shell for Best Lead Performance, Sebastiane Award, FIPRESCI Award), Forque Awards 2025 (Best Actor), ACCION Awards 2025 (Best Fiction Direction), Valenciennes Film Festival 2025 (Jury Grand Prix, Critics' Award), CineHorizontes Marseille 2025 (Best Screenplay), Face a Face Saint-Etienne 2025 (Jury Prize for Best Film), Les Arcs Film Festival 2025 (Cineuropa Award), Cordoba Film Week 2025 (Audience Award), LGBT Awards of Andalusia 2025 (Best Film)
- Filmography: Arregi: Marco, the Invented Truth (co-director, 2024), The Endless Trench (co-director, 2019), Giant (co-director, 2017), Lucio (co-director, doc, 2007); Goenaga: The Endless Trench (co-director, 2019), Flowers (co-director, 2014), Lucio (co-director, doc, 2007), Supertramps (co-director, 2004)
- Language: Basque
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- International Sales: Film Factory Entertainment