Movies that can be seen on June 26

The week's billboard brings together six very different proposals, from the intimate and emotional journey of Nino to the story based on real events of Trip to the country of the whitespassing through the literary adaptation of Pale light on the hillsthe sports comedy Pioneers. They just wanted to playthe slight sentimental dissatisfaction of The pleasure is mine and the solid identity drama of My dear lady.

Nino (Pauline Loquès, 2025)

As it could not be otherwise, the title identifies the absolute protagonist character on whom the entire story is focused. The action is limited to the four days, from Friday to Monday, in which, after receiving a medical diagnosis, Nino wanders around the city waiting to start treatment. The loss of the keys to his house forces him to interact with other people and prevents the temptation of confinement/escape, logical after the shock of the diagnosis. With a new actor of extraordinary presence and a camera always in the right place, it is a very brilliant first film by a director who reveals a talent for moving the viewer without being sentimental. Life, illness, support from family and friends, uncertainties… everything comes to the fore in those four days. Advisable.

Trip to the country of the whites (Dani Sancho, 2026)

Not only is this story based on real events, it is that after watching it I attended a discussion with its protagonist: a Ghanaian teenager who traveled thousands of kilometers through the Sahara for five years until he reached Fuerteventura and then Barcelona, ​​where a mature couple ended up adopting him and achieving an admirable social integration. Listening to Ousman Umar—who plays himself in the film—leaves you touched, because he is a vitalistic man who gives thanks every morning for being alive. His story serves as an example of the cruel journeys that thousands of sub-Saharans undertake each year to reach that “white country” that behaves so unjustly. Cinematographic values ​​remain in the background compared to a reality that prevents you from putting yourself in profile and that is reflected without delving into the wounds. A film that must be seen.

Pale light on the hills (Kei Ishikawa, 2025)

The literary material (novel by Kazuo Ishiguro) weighs on a cinematic narrative that is somewhat laborious and in need of a more direct dramatization. I was interested in the introspection into the personality of the protagonist, her fears as a pregnant woman with the possibility that her fetus was affected by the radioactivity of the atomic bomb and that post-war world with the necessary social change to shake off the militarism and imperialism that had led to the disaster. Also a note: the greatest victim is not the one who suffered from the bomb, but rather the one who could not endure the pain and destruction and ended his life.

Pioneers. They just wanted to play (Marta Díaz de Lope, 2026)

A very enjoyable comedy that not only chronicles the first women's soccer team that existed in Spain in the early 70s, but also the sexist society, controlled by Franco's conservatism, which placed women in subordinate roles. Díaz de Lope had already given us “My beloved brotherhood” and now shows his good work for the dialogues and the choice and direction of actresses: a success in using unknown faces.

The pleasure is mine (Reem Kherici, 2026)

The starting point and plot skeleton of this successful comedy is the concern of a happily married woman who admits to her therapist that she has never had an orgasm. From there a plot unfolds with more or less funny variations and digressions, but without any narrative ambition. It is true that there are four or five moments to laugh and that the beaten paths and coarse salt are avoided. For a dull winter afternoon when you have to overcome indolence.

My dear lady (Fernando González Molina, 2026)

It is best to leave aside the 1972 film, since the transfer to another era and the change in the age of the protagonist (the script credits say “based on the film written by Jaime de Armiñán and José Luis Borau”) make this version of the story of an intersex person a very different story. Although at times it seems overdramatized to me and the figure of the priest played by Paco León is hardly credible, we are facing a solid drama about the sexual and gender identity of a young person who has grown up without help through his uncertainties.