Film director Alejandro Amenabar has expressed this Thursday at the Madrid Film Academy that his next feature film will be “gay-themed” and he has defended a cinema that generates awareness without the need to impose an ideology because that would be “insulting the viewer.”

“Maybe my producer will kill me, what I have written is a film and it will be a film with a gay theme”, revealed the director during the presentation of the book ‘Amenábar. ‘The value of telling stories’, written by the journalist Pau Gómez, when asked about his next feature film. It is a film without a release date since, according to him, the project has not yet secured financing.

‘Amenábar. The value of telling stories’ is a book that, with a prologue by Belen Ruedaleading actress in his film ‘Mar Adentro’reviews the filmmaker’s film career from his first film, ‘Thesis’, to his latest project, ‘Fortuna’, a series released in 2021.

The author, for his part, has emphasized that Amenábar is a director who “moves for challenges” and that the perception of his creations changes as the viewer turns years old. In addition, he has indicated that one of his intentions, which he believes he has achieved with the book, was to call the reader to see the filmmaker’s films again.

During the discussion, Amenábar also recalled some of his worst moments as a director, which have caused him insomnia and panic attacks due to lack of financial support or the intensity of the shooting. Something for which she has resorted to his mother figure and his psychological help.

Likewise, Amenábar has expressed his civic vocation of making films that raise awareness without the need to impose an ideology. Something that, according to him, would be “insulting the viewer.”

“I am aware that I live in a block where there are a lot of people who do not vote the same as me, as it should be, and it is a matter of going out on the streets and not spitting or insulting each other. Sometimes it seems that what We see it in Congress or we hear it on the radio, we have to reproduce it on the street, and it is not like that,” he added.

Alejandro Amenábar has directed films such as ‘Agora’, ‘Into the Sea’, ‘The Others’ or ‘While the War Lasts’ and has received several important Goya awards, including Best Film and Best New Director, and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.