Victor Alonso-Berbel

Victor Alonso-Berbel is a screenwriter and film director based in Madrid.

He holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from the University of Southern California. He is a Professor of Dramaturgy and Screenwriting at Pompeu Fabra University, and a member of the European Film Academy and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

He began his career in documentary filmmaking with the short film Fist & Steel (2014), winner of the New Authorship Award for Best Direction at the Sitges Film Festival, followed by the feature film The Brave Class (2016), nominated for Best Documentary at the Gaudí Awards, presented by the Catalan Film Academy. During his studies in the United States, he directed Perfectly Natural (2018), a narrative short film awarded at the Directors Guild of America’s Student Film Awards.

In 2025 he premiered Sleepless City, a feature film co-written with its director Guillermo Galoe, in the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received the SACD Award for Best Screenplay. The film received five Goya Award nominations from the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

His upcoming releases include the feature film Haiku Driver, co-written with its director Pedro Collantes; the limited series Cuando solo quedemos nosotros, co-written with Jan Matheu for Prime Video; and the short film Vestuari, shot with teenagers over a three-year period.

He is currently writing the fiction series Moderación, co-created with Jan Matheu and produced by Belén Atienza, Sandra Hermida, and YouPlanet Studios for Prime Video.