Movies that can be seen on July 17

On July 17, 2026, the billboard offers a selection of films ranging from the intimate drama of Omaha y The currentsto the prison cinema men of steelpassing through the family cinema of The sheep detectivesthe documentary Tomorrow I will be happy. A film-conversation with Manuel Vicent and investigative comedy The bullet.

Omaha (Cole Webley, 2025)

The exploits of Odysseus on his long journey should not overshadow this week the opposite journey of Martin who leaves home with his two children and sets out on the road to an uncertain destination, although he points to Omaha (Nebraska, USA). Like the Homeric hero, he is also marked by tragedy, which disarms him to reveal a radical fragility; This is witnessed by his 9-year-old daughter, who grows by force throughout the trip. First feature film from a director with style; Perhaps the script lacks development: it has opted for a minimal narrative that, rather than telling things, seeks to convey states of mind.

The currents (Milagros Mumenthaler, 2025)

The third feature film by this Argentine director reinforces her commitment to festival cinema, personal works that explore new narratives. In this case, more than a story, the portrait of Lina is offered, a woman who at the peak of her career receives an award but experiences strong restlessness, as if life had no meaning or everything around her was unrewarding. Later we will know that his mother lives in seclusion in her manias. A “minimal story” without other characters (neither the husband, nor the daughter, nor the mother-in-law are singular types) and, therefore, practically without history, outside of that portrait that, in the end, remains blurred. The director wants to raise the tone and adds music with too much stage, but the film remains an attempt.

men of steel (Cal McMau, 2025)

Prison cinema has excellent titles (for example, “Perpetual Chain” or, among the classics, “The Man from Alcatraz”) and notable blockbusters (“Cell 211”), making it difficult to film a new story. The debut British director plays the emotional card with the character of Taylor, a prisoner who is going to be released soon and hopes to meet his teenage son when he is assigned an ambitious thug as a cellmate. Although it has plenty of violence and commonplaces, it can be seen because we empathize with the protagonist and his strong dilemmas.

The sheep detectives (Kyle Balda, 2026) (Prime Video and theaters)

A comedy with talking, intelligent sheep with more common sense than humans is only viable if we eliminate the layers of cultural varnishes and return to the innocence of 8 or 10 years old. It also helps that new technologies allow us to create very credible “realistic” images with computer tools. Without being a big deal, you have a good time with this British production that explores that innocence and makes us enjoy diverse and curious sheep characters.

Tomorrow I will be happy. A film-conversation with Manuel Vicent (Luis Alegre and David Trueba, 2026) (Movistar+)

Effectively, it is a conversation-film with the writer on screen the entire time and the only exception being some very brief inserts of photos, interviews and film clips. I have a passion for Vicent and therefore I have greatly enjoyed this audiovisual document in which the opinions expressed and the personal stories told serve to draw a portrait of the writer. Indeed, Vicent is a human type with a view on the world and a way of placing himself before society, history or nature that I find admirable, which is why he is above his literature, which is why his press articles repeatedly insist and provide nuances about that way of being in the world.

The bullet (Carlos Iglesias, 2026) (Filmin)

The former comedian and debut filmmaker with the estimable “Un franco, 14 pesetas” (2006) shoots his sixth feature film released in theaters almost clandestinely. The story of a priest who searches for the body of his aunt, a Falangist volunteer in the Blue Division, gives rise to a certain revision of the history of the two Spains where the limits between good and evil, legitimacy and illegality, etc. are blurred. But the film is dramatically weak and, in reality, the story it tells is of limited interest.