Born in Madrid in 1981, he is the son of Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba. After co-writing the screenplay to his father’s film The Dancer and the Thief (2009), he directed his first feature film Every Song is About Me (2010). He also made the features The Wishful Thinkers (2013, 38th Mostra), The Romantic Exiles (2015), The Reconquest (2016), and The August Virgin (2019), winner of a Special Jury Mention and the FIPRESCI Prize at Karlovy Vary Festival.
