Ventura Pons
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Ventura Pons Sala is a Catalan movie director. After a decade as a theatre director, Ventura Pons directed his first film in 1977, 'Ocaña, an Intermittent Portrait', which was officially selected by the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Some of his movies have been produced by his own company Els Films de la Rambla, S.A., founded in 1985 and he has become one of the best-known Catalan film directors. His work has been shown at the best international film festivals, most notably at the Berlin International Film Festival for many consecutive years. He began his movie career making comedies about local customs. Since 1995 he has chosen to adapt dramatic and comic texts of Catalan writers like Quim Monzó, Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, Sergi Belbel, Lluís-Anton Baulenas, Jordi Puntí, Ferran Torrent and Lluïsa Cunillé. In 1995 he was awarded the National Cinema Prize by the Government of Catalonia, which also awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi in 2007.
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Films (35)
Univers(o) Pecanins
2019 · Director
Cinema mon amour
2019 · Self
Be Happy!
2019 · Writer, Producer, Director
Miss Dalí
2018 · Writer, Producer, Director
Universal i faraona
2018 · Director, Producer
The Bigger, the Better
2017 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Oh, quina joia!
2016 · Director
Cola, Colita, Colassa (Oda a Barcelona)
2016 · Director, Writer
Virus of Fear
2015 · Director, Writer
Ignasi M.
2014 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
An Afternoon in Geneva
2013 · Director
Year of Grace
2011 · Director, Writer, Producer
La Rambla: secrets d'un escenari
2011 · Self
A Thousand Fools
2011 · Director, Writer, Producer
Adrift
2009 · Director, Screenplay
Strangers
2008 · Director, Screenplay
Barcelona (A Map)
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Life in the Abyss
2007 · Director, Screenplay
Wounded Animals
2006 · Director, Screenplay
Amour idiot
2004 · Director, Executive Producer
El gran Gato
2003 · Director, Writer
Food of Love
2002 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Anita Takes a Chance
2001 · Director, Writer, Producer
To Die (Or Not)
2000 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Beloved/Friend
1999 · Director, Producer
Caresses
1998 · Director, Screenplay
Actresses
1997 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
What's It All About
1995 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Rosita, please!
1994 · Director, Producer
Aquesta nit o mai
1992 · Director, Producer
What Do You Bet, Mari Pili?
1991 · Director, Producer
Puta misèria!
1989 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
The Blonde at the Bar
1987 · Director, Screenplay
The Victor of Olot
1981 · Director, Writer
Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait
1978 · Self - Interviewer (uncredited), Director
