La Bola Negra – Watch the trailer for the Spanish time-bending queer epic

LA BOLA NEGRA. Guitarricadelafuente as Sebastián in La Bola Negra. Cr. Carla Oset/Netflix © 2026.

Fresh from winning the Best Director Award at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, and already hailed as one of the defining European films of the year, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s extraordinary new feature LA BOLA NEGRA will be released in UK and Irish cinemas by Altitude on 6 November 2026.

A sweeping, emotionally charged story of love, memory and inheritance spanning three generations, LA BOLA NEGRA is inspired by the unfinished final work of Federico García Lorca and the acclaimed play by Alberto Conejero, one of Spain’s foremost contemporary playwrights. Blending history, poetry and passionate romance, it is a visually ravishing, fearless exploration of queer identity and the lives erased by history – and those determined to reclaim them.

LA BOLA NEGRA tells the story of three men whose lives are intimately connected through desire, pain and inheritance, across three different eras – 1932, 1937 and 2017. Rich with Lorca’s poetry and suffused with desire, grief and hope, it is an intimate love story and a sweeping exploration of memory, inheritance and queer history, honouring those whose lives and loves were too often forced into silence.

The film stars an exceptional international ensemble led by Academy Award® winner Penélope Cruz (Volver, Parallel Mothers, Ferrari), eight-time Academy Award® nominee Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, The Wife), Miguel Bernardeau (Élite, 1899, Querer), Lola Dueñas (Volver, The Sea Inside, Me Too), Carlos González (Veneno, Mariliendre, Maricón Perdido), and acclaimed musician Guitarricadelafuente in his feature film debut.

LA BOLA NEGRA WILL BE RELEASED IN UK & IRISH CINEMAS ON 6 NOVEMBER 2026.