'I Always Sometimes' Premieres at Canneseries
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- "I Always Sometimes" debuted on Movistar Plus+ in Spain on April 23 and made its international premiere at Canneseries in main international competition two days later
- Marta Bassols and Marta Loza wrote the six-episode series (22–35 minutes each), marking their writing debut, with episodes directed by Loza, Claudia Costafreda, and Ginesta Guindal
- Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (the "Javis") produce the series through Suma Content; the duo behind "Veneno" and "La Mesías" are also Cannes main competition contenders this year for "La Bola Negra"
- Laura (played by Ana Boga), a festival organizer who gets pregnant one week after meeting bar owner Rubén, becomes a single mother struggling to find affordable housing in a gentrified Barcelona while raising infant Mario
- Each episode is titled by the place Laura squats with her child, a structure inspired by Raymond Carver short stories, with each installment functioning as a self-contained piece in a different visual register
- Creators frame the series as a rebuke to Barcelona's "touristification" and impossible rents — "rent here is bloody insane" — centering economic precarity in a female-led story rather than treating it as backdrop
Why it matters: The series uses the lens of single motherhood to indict Barcelona's gentrification and what its creators call exacerbated neoliberalism — a rare female-led TV title that puts housing precarity and work-life imbalance at the narrative center rather than as scenery.
