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Director Fernando León de Aranoa Presented his Documentary SINTIÉNDOLO MUCHO at the 20th FICM

Por Pablo Rendón y Estefania García

As full as a Sunday at the Plaza de Toros, the Mariano Matamoros Theater received the winner of the Goya, Fernando Léon de Aranoa, with applause. Without a crutch or cape, but donning a bowler hat, the Spanish director took the stage to present his most recent work: Sintiéndolo Mucho (2022), an intimate documentary about the singer from Úbeda, Joaquín Sabina.

“I think I started making this movie unconsciously more than 30 years ago, when I bought my first Joaquín Sabina album, and when I heard it, I understood that I should make movies and that one day I would make one about him,” Léon de Aranoa said. 

The film made by León de Aranoa, after accompanying Sabina for thirteen years, portrays the life and work of the Spanish singer-songwriter, revealing unprecedented moments of his life on and off the stage. Leiva, musician and producer, and a close friend of Sabina who has been a constant in the artist's musical composition and production in recent years, completes the creative triangle of the film by composing the original score.

 

“It has been approximately 14 years accompanying Joaquín in his tense and complicated moments, and he has had the confidence to always let himself be hindered by me, my camera and my team,” León de Aranoa declared.

Sintiéndolo mucho is a production by Reposado, BTF MEDIA and Sony Music Spain, distributed by Star Distribution, which reveals the authentic personality of one of the most important Spanish singers, composers and poets of recent decades and is the first work of these characteristics about Joaquin Sabina. A challenge that has been possible thanks to a close relationship based on admiration and trust between the musician and the filmmaker.

"The film had to look a lot like him and to achieve this it had to have what he does: a great sense of humor, wisdom, the ability to laugh and, above all, beauty, which is what I have perceived in him, in his music, and in everything that surrounds him,” the director concluded.