An anonymous guy grows a couple of angel wings in his back. It is the beginning of a series of ideas, comedy, social criticism, existential reflection, surrealism and madness brought to us by one of today’s adult animation masters. A lot of people think this is his best film.

He became popular with his work for MTV and such great shorts as 25 ways to quit smoking (1989) or Push comes to shove (1990). Some of his films are The tune (1992), J. Lyle (1994, not animation!), I Married a Strange Person! (1997, shown at FANT 2003), Mutant Aliens (2001) and Hair High (2004, shown at FANT 2005).

A bomb has exploded out there and we, dad, mom, me and grandma are locked up in the basement. Grandma is dead and is begining to smell...

Begins his career as a filmmaker with the cult short Mama. Thanks to the many awards that he receives, including Best Film at the Alcalá de Henares Festival, gets a scholarship from the Provincial Administration of Biscay to study a Master’s Degree in Filmmaking at the New York University. At this prestigious school he directs Truth and Beauty, nominated for an Emmy Award. His first work, Torremolinos 73, was the Spanish revelation film of 2003.
Apart from its box office success in Spain, with more than 500 000 viewers, it was nominated for four Goya Awards (Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor) and it premiered in countries such as the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Taiwan, and they even did a remake of the film in China in 2008.