Overview
- The film won the prize for best direction at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in 2026 and received a long standing ovation from the festival audience.
- The first official trailer was released on Thursday, July 16, showing wartime and present-day imagery set to a choral version of Camarón’s 'La leyenda del tiempo.'
- La Bola Negra tells three interlinked stories set in 1932, the Spanish Civil War era and 2017 to explore homosexuality, social stigma and the legacy of an unfinished work by Federico García Lorca.
- Producers include Movistar Plus, Suma Content Films, El Deseo and Le Pacte, the cast features Guitarricadelafuente, Milo Quifes, Miguel Bernardeau, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close, and Netflix will handle U.S. distribution.
- The film is slated for Spanish theatrical release in late September (reports list the 25th or 26th), a U.S. theatrical opening on November 6 and a U.S. Netflix streaming debut on December 4, giving it a brief box-office window to support an awards campaign.