Ramona: dir Andrea Bagney (2022)

Andrea Bagney’s debut feature, largely shot in black and white in a stylistic nod to the French New Wave of the 1960s, is a romantic comedy with a difference. After living abroad for several years, Ramona and her boyfriend Nico return to Madrid where she hopes to restart her acting career. On the evening before her first audition, she encounters a charismatic older man named Bruno. They walk together and head to a bar: there’s certainly friendship, but could they also be falling in love? Then Ramona discovers that Bruno is directing the very same film for which she’ll be auditioning: awkwardness abounds …

Screens as part of the Cultural Foundation’s week-long European Film Festival Abu Dhabi 2025. The films are given individual entries in the Agenda, but they’re also all listed here.