# The Bride (2015 Spanish film)

The Bride (Spanish: La novia) is a 2015 drama film directed by Paula Ortiz which stars Inma Cuesta, Álex García and Asier Etxeandia. The screenplay is based on Blood Wedding, the 1933 tragedy by Federico García Lorca. It was screened in the Zabaltegi section of the 2015 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It was also named as one of three films that could be chosen as the Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not selected.

## Plot

Leonardo, The Groom and The Bride have been an inseparable triangle since they were children, but Leonardo and The Bride possess an invisible, ferocious, unbreakable thread. The years go by and she, in anguish, is getting prepared for her wedding with The Groom in the middle of the white desert where she lives with her father. The day before the ceremony, a beggar knocks on her door and offers her a present and a piece of advice: "Don't get married if you don't love him", while she gives her two crystal daggers. The Bride's body shudders.

## Cast

* Inma Cuesta as la novia ('the Bride')
* Asier Etxeandia as el novio ('the Groom')
* Álex García as Leonardo
* Luisa Gavasa as madre ('mother')
* Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa as padre ('father')
* Ana Fernández as vecina ('neighbour')
* Consuelo Trujillo as criada ('maid')
* Leticia Dolera as mujer de Leonardo ('Leonardo's wife')
* María Alfonsa Rosso as mendiga ('beggar')
* Manuela Vellés as muchacha 1 ('young girl 1')
* Verónica Moral
* Mariana Cordero as suegra ('mother-in-law')
* Pedro Rebollo as cura
* Laura Gómez-Lacueva as chica

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Drama Film | Best Drama Film | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Director | Paula Ortiz | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Screenplay | Paula Ortiz, Javier García Arredondo | Nominated |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Main Actress | Inma Cuesta | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa | Nominated |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Luisa Gavasa | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Original Soundtrack | Shigeru Umebayashi | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Trailer | Best Trailer | Won |
| 2016 | 3rd Feroz Awards | Best Film Poster | Best Film Poster | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Film | Best Film | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Director | Paula Ortiz | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Adapted Screenplay | Paula Ortiz, Javier García Arredondo | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Actor | Asier Etxeandia | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Actress | Inma Cuesta | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Luisa Gavasa | Won |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best New Actor | Álex García | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Cinematography | Miguel Ángel Amoedo | Won |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Art Direction | Jesús Bosqued Maté and Pilar Quintana | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Sound | Clemens Grulich, César Molina and Ignacio Arenas | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Makeup and Hairstyles | Esther Guillem and Pilar Guillem | Nominated |
| 2016 | 30th Goya Awards | Best Original Score | Shigeru Umebayashi | Nominated |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actress in a Leading Role | Inma Cuesta | Won |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actor in a Leading Role | Asier Etxeandia | Nominated |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actress in a Secondary Role | Luisa Gavasa | Won |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role | Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa | Nominated |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actress in a Minor Role | Ana Fernández | Won |
| 2016 | 25th Actors and Actresses Union Awards | Best Film Actress in a Minor Role | María Alfonsa Rosso | Nominated |