Films

I direct documentaries, though not always ones that behave like documentaries. A landowner searches an Andalusian estate for a lynx. Two friends, separated by a sudden lockdown, send each other filmed letters instead of a proper goodbye. A walk through a Montreal neighbourhood turns into a way of reading how people actually live. I write, shoot, and edit myself. A few of the shorts I made starting out, playful, sometimes strange, have travelled further than I expected: an award here, a festival selection there.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE · 74 MIN · 2022

The Firm Trail

An aristocratic landowner in search of a lynx. Across the Andalusian landscape, a story of control, memory, and nature.

Production · Screenplay · Direction

Award, WorldFest Houston · Premiere, Festival Alcances · Funded by the Regional Government of Andalusia

Featured in an academic dialogue: Añón Lara, Martínez Sánchez & Ojeda Muñoz (2024), "Del realismo social a la fábula fílmica. Nuevos planteamientos del documental agrario español. Diálogo con Fernando Gómez Luna," L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, 38, 91–104.

Read the academic essay

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE · 79 MIN · 2020 · CO-DIRECTED WITH CÉSAR SOUTO VILANOVA

Interregnum

Fernando and César said goodbye at an airport in the United States in 2019. In 2020, a day before the declaration of the state of alarm in Spain Fernando feels the urgency to send a filmed letter to César. Thus they begin a correspondence they call ‘Interregnum’.

Production · Editing · Screenplay · Co-Direction

Premiere, Jihlava International Film Festival

ESSAY FILM · 69 MIN · 2015

Platopolis

Halfway between tourist transgression and a Dadaist essay on how to film, Platopolis proposes the creation of a territory based on a walking tour of the Plateau-Mont-Royal district, located on a plateau at the foot of the symbolic mountain of Montreal (Canada). From the micro to the macro, movements and stops offer a fresh view of the way of life in this hipster neighborhood where skaters, vagabonds, artists, designers, middle-class families... People, fauna and flora that hatch in summer after a long and hard winter.

Production · Editing · Direction

SHORT FILM · 2 MIN · 2011

My face is made of pitch

SHORT FILM · 2 MIN · 2009

The Unrealized Film