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Eduard Cortés (Barcelona, 1959) is a Spanish film director.

After creating various short films and made-for-TV movies, he produced the feature film La vida de nadie, which was released on 27 October 2002, and for which he was nominated for the Goya for best new director. This work, its director's debut film, is based on a true story (the life of the Frenchman Jean-Claude Romand, who for years deceived his family and finally murdered them all) although, in the director's own words, there was an attempt to avoid this excessively dramatic finale in the film. With this work, the director began his career in the production of feature films.

He is also an originator of the feature film Otros días vendrán (2005) with Cecilia Roth y Antonio Resines as its protagonists, and which earned him a nomination for the Goya award for Best Original Screenplay.

With a new made-for-TV movie, El payaso y el Führer (2007), based on the play Uuuuh! by Gerard Vázquez he earned the recognition of many international festivals, such as the Audience Awards in the and in the Festival Europeo de Telefilms Zoom Igualada, or Best Picture in the Anchorage International Film Festival in Alaska, among others.

Two years later Ingrid (2009) was released, a controversial and radical film about the relationships between a self-destructive artist and various environmental artists who use social media as a platform for creativity. In the film there appear a large sample of painters, photographers, and musicians, like Russian Red (n. 1985) or the band Love of Lesbian. The film was featured in the official selection of the Sitges Film Festival 2009.

In 2011 he shot The Pelayos ―featuring, among others, Daniel Brühl, Lluís Homar, Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Blanca Suárez―. Based on the true story of the family of Gonzalo García-Pelayo, who managed to bankrupt casinos all over the world with a legal method, based in the flaws of Roulette. It was released at the Málaga Film Festival in 2012.

¡Atraco! (2012) featured the Argentinians Guillermo Francella, Nicolás Cabré, Daniel Fanego and the Spaniards Amaia Salamanca and Óscar Jaenada. A thriller with a dark comedic tone, which told the story of the events that took place in the Madrid of 1956 around the robbery of a jewellery store. The film was selected in the Official Selection of the 60th San Sebastián International Film Festival and won the Silver Condor at the Best Ibero-american Film 2013.

In 2015 he directed "Cerca de tu casa", a musical about eviction, starring Silvia Pérez Cruz, who also composed the musical numbers and soundtrack. The film won the Goya award for best song.

He is also the director of three seasons of the series Merlí.

Film

 * 2002: La vida de nadie
 * 2003: Carta mortal
 * 2003: El 10 en la espalda
 * 2003: Mónica
 * 2005: Otros días vendrán
 * 2007: El payaso y el Führer
 * 2010: Ingrid
 * 2012: ¡Atraco!
 * 2012: The Pelayos
 * 2016: Cerca de tu casa

Television

 * 1994: ¡Oh, Europa!
 * 1996: Sitges
 * 1999: La memoria de los caracoles
 * 2001: Psico express
 * 2011: Ángel o demonio
 * 2015-2017: Merlí
 * 2020-2021: Dime quién soy

Screenwriter

 * 2002: La vida de nadie
 * 2005: Otros días vendrán
 * 2007: El payaso y el Führer
 * 2010: Ingrid
 * 2012: ¡Atraco!
 * 2012: The Pelayos
 * 2016: Cerca de tu casa