Movies that can be seen on October 9, 2026

October 9, 2026 brings a varied billboard, with the immigration drama of Ash in the mouth by Diego Luna, the look at the forced return of nomadic shadow of Eimi Imanishi and the family portrait of Lionel by Carlos Saiz. They add the dark fantasy of Your own hell by Nicolas Winding Refn, the war action of Lucky Strike by Rod Lurie and the recovery in Filmin of The open door by Marina Seresesky.

Ash in the mouth (Diego Luna, 2026)

The Mexican actor also directs, in addition to other works, his fourth feature length fiction with ease and effectiveness, serving the torn story and the characters/actors. I was not enthusiastic about Brenda Navarro's novel, perhaps due to a hasty reading, nor have I been enthusiastic about a film to which few objections can be raised. It is a torn story, in the key of social drama, of a young woman who leaves Mexico in the company of her little brother and in search of her mother who abandoned them and resides in Spain. The strength of family ties and the hardships of immigrants in any country, subjected to exploitation and other abuses, are evident. To give it a chance.

nomadic shadow (Eimi Imanishi, 2025)

Very timely first film by a filmmaker who puts herself in the shoes of a young Saharawi woman expelled after having lived ten years in Spain. It is not only about considering the injustice of the expulsions of integrated people over the years but also the difficulty of returning to a country and a culture (and even a family) that are based on customs, lifestyles and values ​​that they no longer recognize as their own. Therefore, this film goes a step beyond the usual emigration stories, which is to be appreciated. Furthermore, in the case of Sahara, as a former Spanish colony there are moral obligations… A modest work that immediately leads us to empathize with the situation.

Lionel (Carlos Saiz, 2025)

Too discreet is this premiere of a first (intelligent, careful and innovative) feature film that, seeming to be pure fiction, the viewer must inevitably think that it contains its dose of pure and simple reality: the characters are named like the actors, that is, they are people filmed representing kinship relationships (the trip of a father and his son from Murcia to the Costa Azul to meet their daughter and sister) so, strictly speaking, there are no characters. Besides, we all act if they put a camera in front of us. A broken family, young Lionel in a precarious situation, a father who was absent for a long time and a sister far away who earns (and spends) a living. Lionel feels that his family roots are fragile and tries to strengthen them, although he has many reproaches towards a less than exemplary parent. The debutant but very solvent director makes clear the need we have for those roots, bonds that build us as people, no matter how much a parent or other family member embarrasses us.

I barely lasted the obligatory half hour of this ghostly story about the search for a daughter who lives in the underworld by a father called “The Leather Man.” All very designer, with doll-girls instead of characters and spaces with a lot of neon brightness. As pretentious as it is far from my tastes.

Lucky Strike (Rod Lurie, 2026)

The title is the cigarette brand that functions as an arbitrary thread of a minimal story. In World War II, Eastwood junior is the hero who has to survive and reach a place in Belgium, fighting hand-in-hand against the omnipresent Germans. After half an hour the viewer realizes that the theme is not going to give much of itself and that the war action is known, as are the image and sound resources. Expendable.

The open door (Marina Seresesky, 2016) (Filmin)

Carmen Machi and Terele Pávez lead a short and solid cast that supports this piece, almost a play, which takes place in a corrala of neighbors, several of them dedicated to prostitution. Without greater ambition than necessary – which we have to be grateful for in these times of filmmakers who take to the stage to discover the Mediterranean – we are told of a few days of lonely women punished by life to whom chance brings a problem; but problems can be the solution to your miserable existence. It's worth it.

Premieres October 9, 2026