Featuring Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close, this Cannes Best Director winner is a boldly romantic and politically urgent queer epic.

Spanning three timelines across 85 years of Spanish history, La Bola Negra (The Black Ball) interweaves the lives of three men bound by desire, silence, and memory. In 1932, a young aristocrat faces exile after being black-balled from an elite club over his sexuality. In 1937, amid the Civil War, a conscripted soldier falls for a leftist prisoner. In 2017, a gay historian inherits a mysterious gift from an estranged grandfather, reopening deep family wounds. Connected through Federico García Lorca’s poetry and lingering secrets, their lives bleed together across time in a powerful story of self-acceptance.

Acclaimed directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (Veneno, La Mesías) deliver a sweeping, visually stunning cinematic masterpiece that demands to be experienced on the big screen. This unapologetic, decades-spanning odyssey stands as one of the year’s most triumphant works of queer cinema.

Awards and Festivals:
2026 Cannes Film Festival – Winner of Best Director
2026 Sydney Film Festival
2026 Melbourne International Film Festival