‘La Bola Negra’ fills Albox’s Federico García Lorca cinema and adds screenings, one with English subtitles
The Los Javis film is selling out at the Sala Federico García Lorca in Albox, which is adding screenings on 17, 21 and 24 October, the latter with English subtitles.
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Queues on Calle Rosario and the “sold out” sign up for several days in a row. That is the scene ‘La Bola Negra’ is leaving at the Sala de Cine Federico García Lorca in Albox, as La Voz de Almería has reported. More than half an hour before the screening, dozens of local residents were already waiting at the door to pick where to sit, because the seats are not numbered.
And the full house comes with a knowing wink. The film by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, which won them the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival, takes its title from a work that Federico García Lorca left unfinished. So these days Lorca is filling, twice over, the cinema that bears his name.
Given the demand, the cinema has scheduled new screenings, according to the poster being shared by Turismo Almanzora. After Friday’s, these are still to come:
- Saturday 17 October, at 21:00.
- Wednesday 21, at 20:30. It is Día del Espectador (Cinemagoers’ Day), with tickets at €5.50.
- Saturday 24, at 18:00, in the original Spanish version with English subtitles.
General admission costs €6.50 and tickets can be bought at the box office, which opens half an hour before each screening, or online. The film lasts 2 hours and 39 minutes and is not recommended for under-16s.
A screening with English subtitles
The screening on the 24th is no minor detail. According to La Voz de Almería, it is aimed at the area’s British community, and in Albox the figures make sense of it: 30% of residents are foreign nationals, 3,909 people according to the 2025 municipal data sheets from IECA (Andalusia’s statistics institute), and the United Kingdom is their main country of origin.
The full house also comes just a few weeks after Albox Town Council renewed the venue’s cinema service until 2030. At the time, the mayor, María del Mar Alfonso, pointed out that people who come to the cinema also enjoy the town’s shops, bars and restaurants. And the queues of recent days show that small-town cinema still has an audience.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you know what to do: best to arrive early.
