Mar Coll (born 1981) is a Spanish film director best known for the films '' Three Days With the Family'' and '' We All Want What's Best for Her''.

Early life and education

Coll was born in

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. She studied filmmaking at the

Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia The ESCAC - Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya is a Spanish film and audiovisual school. Currently located in Terrassa, the ESCAC was founded in Barcelona in 1994 as an offshoot of the vocational study programme of the'' Centre C ...

Career

Coll's first feature, the 2009 ensemble drama '' Three Days With the Family'', premiered at the

Málaga Film Festival The Málaga Festival, formerly Málaga Spanish Film Festival (FMCE), is an annual film festival held in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain. The festival was established to promote Spanish cinema and help disseminate information about Spanish films. Since ...

, where it was nominated for Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor. The following year, Coll won the

Goya Award for Best New Director The Goya Award for Best New Director () is the Goya Awards, Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the 4th Goya Awards, fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being the first winner for her fi ...

and the Gaudí Award for Best Director for the film. In 2013, Coll's film '' We All Want What's Best for Her'', starring

Nora Navas Nora Navas García (born 24 April 1975) is a Spanish actress. Biography Navas was born on 24 April 1975 in Barcelona. She has a distinguished and prolific career, ranging from theater to film, through TV movies and series. Her performance in ...

as an unsatisfied housewife, debuted at the

Valladolid International Film Festival The Valladolid International Film Festival, popularly known as Seminci (short for ; ), is a film festival held annually in Valladolid, Spain. First held in 1956 as ('Valladolid Religious Film Week'), the Seminci is one of the longest-standing fi ...

. Coll directed the 2018 limited series '' Matar al padre'', followed by the series '' This Is Not Sweden'' in 2023. ''

Salve Maria ''Salve Maria'' is a 2024 Spanish drama film directed, co-written by Mar Coll starring Laura Weissmahr. Based on the novel ''Amek ez dute'' by Basque writer Katixa Agirre, it follows Maria (Weissmahr), a promising young writer and new mother, ...

'', Coll's 2024 adaptation of the Katixa Agirre novel ''Mothers Don't'', premiered at the

77th Locarno Film Festival The 77th Locarno Film Festival was held from 7 August to 17 August 2024. '' The Crowd'' by King Vidor, accompanied by live music from the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, screened the night before the festival began, and '' The Flood'' by Gian ...

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

References

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