Mar Coll
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.
Mar Coll
Pedro J Pacheco · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Born
- 1981
- Birthplace
- Barcelona, Spain
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Nationality
- Spain
- Education
- Lycée Français de Barcelone · Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia
- Honours
- Gaudí Award for Best Director · Goya Award for Best New Director · Sitges Film Festival
- Languages
- Spanish · Catalan
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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.
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Biography
Mar Coll studied at Lycée Français de Barcelone and Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia. The recorded working language is Spanish and Catalan. Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and Michael Haneke are recorded as an influence. Distinctions recorded are Gaudí Award for Best Director, Goya Award for Best New Director and Sitges Film Festival.
Mar Coll y Valentina Viso en la alfombra roja de los Premios Goya celebrados en Granada en 2025
Pedro J Pacheco
Mar Coll y Valentina Viso en la alfombra roja de los Premios Goya celebrados en Granada en 2025
Pedro J Pacheco
Key facts
Key facts
• Born — 1981 • Birthplace — Barcelona, Spain • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter
Early life and education
Early life and education
Coll was born in Barcelona. She studied filmmaking at the Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia.
Career
Career
Coll's first feature, the 2009 ensemble drama Three Days With the Family, premiered at the Málaga Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor. The following year, Coll won the Goya Award for Best New Director 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 as an unsatisfied housewife, debuted at the Valladolid International Film Festival. Coll directed the 2018 limited series Matar al padre, followed by the series This Is Not Sweden in 2023. Salve Maria, Coll's 2024 adaptation of the Katixa Agirre novel Mothers Don't, premiered at the 77th Locarno Film Festival.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Ref. • 2018 — Killing the Father • 2023 — Això no és Suècia
Film
• Year — Title — Notes — Ref. • 2004 — La última polaroid — Short film • 2009 — Three Days With the Family • 2013 — We All Want What's Best for Her • 2015 — La inquilina — Short film • 2024 — Salve Maria
Awards and nominations
• Year — Award — Category — Nominated work — Result — Ref. • 2009 — Málaga Film Festival — Best Director — Three Days With the Family • 2010 — Goya Awards — Best New Director • Gaudí Awards — Best Director • Best Film in a Catalan Language • 2014 — Gaudí Awards — Best Director — We All Want What's Best for Her • Best Screenplay • 2024 — Locarno Film Festival — Golden Leopard — Salve Maria • Best Performance — Special Mention
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Literature
El cine de Mar Coll: herencias catalanas de Eric Rohmer, Fotocinema
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- 1.Mar Coll, la pionera de la nueva hornada de cineastas españolas, encara la angustia de la maternidad en ‘Salve María’.
- 2.Copia archivada.
- 3.Mar Coll - Mujeres de Cine.
- 4.Mar Coll triunfa en los Gaudí. 1134-6582.
- 5.Mar Coll regresa al tema de las relaciones familiares con "Matar al padre".
- 6.‘Matar al padre’, una mirada femenina a la figura paterna. 1134-6582.
- 7.Mar Coll y Aina Clotet ruedan 'Esto no es Suecia', primera ficción de RTVE Play.
- 8.La aguda maternidad de 'Això no és Suècia', premio Ondas a la mejor serie de comedia.
- 9.Informadores de Cine. - XII Premios Feroz.
- 10.Funicular Films echa a andar con el desarrollo del largo ‘Bienvenido Mr. Hollywood’, escrito por Aina Calleja, Mar Coll y Diego Vega.
- 11.Festival de Málaga - Palmarés de la 12ª edición.
- 12.Tres dies amb la família » Premios Goya 2020.
- 13.Los premios Gaudí 2025 reconocen la calidad y la dignidad de 'El 47' con ocho galardones.
- 14.Comienza el rodaje de 'Las madres no', la nueva película de Mar Coll.
- 15.Mar Coll Tabakalera - Donostia / San Sebastián.
- 16.Mar Coll ('Matar al padre'): "Movistar+ me ofreció un proyecto irrechazable".
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Mar Coll studied at Lycée Français de Barcelone and Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia. Her recorded influences include Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski and Michael Haneke.
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