Ian de la Rosa was born in
Granada in 1988 and grew up in
Níjar, in the
province of Almería. He completed his studies at the
Cinema and Audiovisual School of Catalonia. In 2015 he directed his final degree project, the short film
Víctor XX, a drama that addressed the topic of
transidentity and for which he received one of the first
Cinéfondation awards at the
Cannes Film Festival. In 2022 his short film
Farrucas was nominated at the
36th Edition of the
Goya Awards in the Best Short Film category.
Farrucas also received the
Gaudí Award for best short film, and was also awarded at the Elche International Independent Film Festival and in the Palencia International Film Festival. In February 2023, he won the Eurimages Coproduction Award for his debut feature,
Iván & Hadoum. == Filmography ==