
Person
Jaime Rosales
Directing · Born 1970-01-02 · Barcelona, Spain
Biography
Jaime Rosales (born 1970 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer. He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia). He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad. His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.
Known for

Beautiful Youth
Screenplay

Bullet in the Head
Director

The Hours of the Day
Director

Dream and Silence
Screenplay

Morlaix
Director

Wild Flowers
Director

Petra
Director

Djabote, Doudou N'Diaye Rose
Writer

Short Plays
Director

Solitary Fragments
Director
Filmography
- 2025MorlaixDirector
- 2022Wild FlowersDirector
- 2018PetraDirector
- 2014Short PlaysDirector
- 2014Beautiful YouthScreenplay
- 2012Dream and SilenceScreenplay
- 2009Cinematic Correspondences: Jaime Rosales - Wang BingSelf
- 2008Bullet in the HeadDirector
- 2007Solitary FragmentsDirector
- 2003Un instante en la vida ajenaAssociate Producer
- 2003The Hours of the DayDirector
- 2001My Final NoteTurist
- 1992Djabote, Doudou N'Diaye RoseWriter
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