Movies that can be seen on April 30

On April 30, 2026, a very varied batch of premieres arrives, with arthouse films, historical drama, judicial thriller, social denunciation, musical biopic and political documentary. Featured films include Resurrection, everything we were, The righteous, To the wound, Michael y Mr. Nobody contra Putinsix very different titles from each other and with plenty of material for debate.

Resurrection (Bi Gan, 2025)

Pure cinema by the Chinese Bi Gan and a fair prize from the Cannes Jury for this multifaceted, enigmatic and poetic film, fascinating even when one does not realize it (why is the rewriting of a JB Bach score?), suggestive with references to cinema and magnetic with photography, sets or editing. One of the stories is a sequence shot of a formidable last night of the year with red light and rain, and the film moves between wounded bodies, abysmal spaces and stories whose access door is the iris of the camera's eye. I'll stick with the one about the child who is apprenticed to a swindler and reads a letter in ashes: a piece for viewers willing to be amazed, ask questions and be astonished rather than let themselves be caressed by a common intrigue.

everything we were (Cherien Dabis, 2025)

As is known, the history of Palestine since 1948 is an ordeal of dispossession, terrorism, exiles and heroic survival in the midst of bombs. Throughout three generations of a family, the seven decades of that story are told, without there being anything we don't know. The film is classic in nature, but the personal pain and specific wounds in people are reflected beyond the global data on the theft of land in the West Bank or the permanent suspicion in which Palestinians live in what was their country. It looks good and seems timely to me at the moment.

The righteous (Jorge A. Lara and Fer Pérez, 2026)

Variant of the famous piece Twelve men without mercy: in this case the nine jurors locked in a hotel debate whether to accept or reject the bribe of one million euros each if they declare a real estate criminal innocent. The single theatrical space is avoided and digressions are made with personal stories, which gives agility and interest to the forced foot; Likewise, the editing and the colorful soundtrack give rhythm to a piece that, in any case, is what it is. It is seen.

To the wound (Charlie Polinger, 2025)

As so often, it is a mistake that the director is the only signatory of the script, since there are weaknesses in the writing that do not compensate for an otherwise notable production. This Australian production is set in a camp for pre-adolescent water polo players and narrates the marginalization suffered by one of them, accused of suffering from a contagious “plague”. The denunciation of bullying is accompanied by comments on the insecurities of children of that age and even fantasies of paranormal elements, but it falls short and what has been said is well known.

Michael (Antoine Fuqua, 2026)

Cinema, what cinema is, rather little, almost nothing. But for Michael Jackson fans, this tribute is enough and more than enough, an idolatrous performance, pure hagiography that celebrates and remembers the most applauded numbers of the white-sock dancer. Almost everything is omitted from the personal history, of course the accusations of pedophilia, and only the figure of the father appears somewhat gray. For the public excited in advance.

Mr. Nobody contra Putin (David Borenstein and Pavel Ilyich Talankin, 2025) [Movistar+]

This documentary about the indoctrination of the neo-Stalinist Putin in Russian schools to justify the invasion of Ukraine and spread a dominant nationalist narrative against democratic plurality is quite creepy. In the style of Michael Moore's first-person documentaries, the Mr. Nobody of the title is a professor from Karabash, a polluted industrial city in the Urals, who films his surroundings and the progressive strategy of disseminating the national-Stalinist truth. This is how the war is told and the tender minds of children are manipulated with the talks of the mercenaries explaining their benefits.

Premieres April 30, 2026