Sony Pictures Classics has unveiled the official US trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s BITTER CHRISTMAS, which will launch in US theaters in select cities on November 13th, 2026, before expanding nationwide on November 25th, 2026. The film world premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Bitter Christmas is written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, and stars Bárbara Lennie and Leonardo Sbaraglia alongside Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Victoria Luengo, Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, and Quim Gutiérrez.
Bitter Christmas tells two alternating stories, one starring Elsa, an advertising director, in 2004, during a long weekend in December. The second takes place in 2026 and stars Raúl, a screenwriter and director who is writing a script that we soon discover is the story of Elsa, her boyfriend Bonifacio, and her friends Patricia and Natalia. Mixed with fiction, Elsa is, in a way, Raúl’s alter ego, who, like him, resorts to autofiction as a solution to a long period of creative drought. He looks inside himself, and he can’t help but also look at the people who make up his most intimate universe: his partner and his assistant.
You can find the release date on our In Theaters Calendar. Check out the new official US trailer below.