La Bola Negra (2026): A Film for All the Lives Never Lived

Collectively known as Los Javis, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s La Bola Negra is a queer epic inspired by Federico García Lorca’s unfinished play of the same name. Co-written with playwright Alberto Conejero, it also partly adapts Conejero’s play La piedra oscura. Yet rather than attempting to reconstruct Lorca’s life or play, Los Javin turns their …