Bitter Christmas
“You’re confusing fiction with reality.”
In 2025 Spain, a celebrated film director struggles to write the screenplay for an autofictional film set in 2004 Spain about an unsuccessful movie director turned director of commercials who suffers a panic attack that forces her to take a break by visiting the Canary Islands, where she begins work on a new film.
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Studio
El Deseo
Language
es
Status
Released
How Bitter Christmas performed
Budget
$11.7M
Worldwide Gross
$4.8M
Gross Profit
−$6.9M
Return
0.4× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$685K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Cast
Elsa
Bárbara Lennie
Elsa
Raúl Durán
Leonardo Sbaraglia
Raúl Durán
Mónica
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Mónica
Patricia
Victoria Luengo
Patricia
Bonifacio (Beau)
Patrick Criado
Bonifacio (Beau)
Natalia
Milena Smit
Natalia
Santi
Quim Gutiérrez
Santi
Gabriela
Rossy de Palma
Gabriela
Médica
Carmen Machi
Médica
Cliente de la terraza
Diogo Belizario
Cliente de la terraza
Angelita
Tusti de las Heras
Angelita
Madre de Elsa
Gloria Muñoz
Madre de Elsa
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