Antonio Chavarrías

Antonio Chavarrías is the scriptwriter and director of Childish Games (2012), a movie which was exhibited in the Official Section of the Berlin International Film Festival in 2012. The film stars Juan Diego Botto, Bárbara Lennie, Mágica Pérez and Nora Navas. In 2006, he wrote and directed Celia's Lives, a drama which was shown in the Official Section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival (2006) and in the Marrakech International Film Festival (2006). The leading actors are: Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and Aida Folch. Chavarrías is also the screenwriter and director of You'll be back (2002), based on Francisco Casavellas novel A Spanish Dwarf Commits Suicide in Las Vegas. The movie won the Award for Best Director in the Mar Del Plata Film Festival and won the 2004 Ariel Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was also nominated for the Goya Award for the Best Adapted Screenplay in 2003. Some of his other films include: Susanna (1996), Manila (1991), and A Shadow in the Garden (Una sombra en el jardin)(1989) for which Chavarrías won several awards and was screened at many festivals. In 2015, Chavarrías was preparing a new project: The Chosen, an historical thriller about the assassination of Leon Trotsky. It was scheduled to be filmed in Barcelona and Mexico an deals with the last year of Trotsky's life in Mexico. This new project is a co-production between Oberon Cinematográfica and Alebrije Cine y Video, film producer Mónica Lozano's company known for movies such as Instructions not included (2013) or Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000). In 2023, he shot historical drama film The Abbess.

In 2012, the book Filmmakers of the Film Library of Catalonia was published dedicated to Chavarria's film career. The book was written by Elisabet Cabeza, a journalist and university professor specializing in cinema. Antonio Chavarrías was vice president of the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences from 2000 to 2003. You'll be Back was the winner of the Best Edition Award at the Barcelona Film Awards. Susanna was an Official Section in the Brussels International Film Festival and winner of the Best Director Award at the Verona Film Festival. Manila was winner of the Best Director of the Cinematography Award from the Government of Catalonia. A Shadow in the Garden was the winner of the Best Director of the Cinematography Award from the Government of Catalonia and winner of the First Work Award at the Sant Jordi Awards.