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IVÁN & HADOUM

IVÁN & HADOUM

IAN DE LA ROSA | SPAIN, GERMANY + BELGIUM | 2026 | 102 MIN | SPANISH + ARABIC EST + FST

IAN DE LA ROSA | SPAIN, GERMANY + BELGIUM | 2026 | 102 MIN | SPANISH + ARABIC EST + FST

IN-CINEMAFeatureBECOMING

Subtitles: French, English

NOV 20 / 20:30Cinéma Public505 Rue Jean-Talon E. Montréal, QC H2R 1T6 (métro Jean-Talon)

Synopsis

Iván is a “very handsome” trans man. Hadoum the Spanish-Moroccan woman who captures his attention. Neither wants to fall in love. In this Teddy Award-winning romance filmed in the southern Spanish province of Almería, capitalist constrictions and familial imperatives are pressed up against the contractions of intense connection. Iván (Silver Chicón) helps run a flourishing business with strict quality standards. Hadoum (Herminia Loh Moreno) is a seasonal worker well-versed in exploitation. With a looming make-or-break audit and a possible life-altering promotion to Warehouse Manager, Iván cannot afford to slip up. Fall in love with an agitator with “quite a reputation” and his golden opportunity might implode. Yet, the two are magnetised. Caught up in intense mutual pleasure: making love beside the ceaseless sea; their greenhouse tryst captured by a plant xray. Lost in post-coital daydreaming about a life in which they could be together. The union action brewing putting Iván’s passion and intrinsic empathy in conflict with his professional aspirations. With Iván & Hadoum, trailblazing trans filmmaker Ian de la Rosa has crafted a film that is both capacious and taut. A captivating cry for humanity in an immoral time.

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Filmmaker Bio

Ian de la Rosa is a Spanish screenwriter and director working across film and television. Trained in film directing at ESCAC, he first gained international recognition with Víctor XX (2015), which won Third Prize at Cannes' Cinéfondation. His short Farrucas (2021) was nominated for a Goya Award and won the Gaudí Award for Best Short Film. He has also written for television series including Veneno and La chica invisible, and directed an episode of Vestidas de azul. Iván & Hadoum (2026), his feature directorial debut, won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film at the Berlinale.

Director's Statement

Ian de la Rosa wanted to tell a love story he could identify with and that might invite audiences to fall in love again. For him, love means two people meeting, forming a bond and growing together, and he conceived it as a positive transformative force within the film. Although Iván & Hadoum is entirely fictional, De la Rosa describes it as deeply personal, shaped by his reflections on love, trans experience and the place where he grew up. He also wanted to explore the idea of "trans" beyond gender, through connections between seemingly different realities.

Producer

Stefan Schmitz, Emilia Fort, Jose Alba, Odile Antonio-Baez, Carlotta Schiavon

Writer

Ian de la Rosa

Cast

  • Silver Chicon
  • Herminia Loh
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