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Jaime Rosales is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney,.
He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del dÃa that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad.
His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujiro Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots. He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.
His upcoming film Dream and Silence has been selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, and also appeared at the 56th London Film Festival.
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