Isabel Coixet (Barcelona, 1962. Before becoming a film director, she worked as a journalist for the cinema magazine Fotogramas. Her first feature film was Demasiado viejo para morir joven (Too Old to Die Young, 1988), followed by Cosas que nunca te dije (Things I Never Told You, 1996), A los que aman (To Those Who Love, 1998), Mi vida sin mí (My Life Without Me, 2003), La vida secreta de las palabras (The Secret Life of Words, 2005), Elegy (2008) – an adaptation of Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal – and Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio (Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, 2009), which premiered in the official selection at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and won the prize for best sound, and which has already been sold in several countries. Coixet’s films have not only achieved prizes and international projection but have also won the director great prestige due to her distinctly unique personal universe.