Director: Icíar Bollaín
A young executive assistant in Madrid finds her career, her reputation, and her sense of safety unravel after she names the man who has been harassing her at work. Icíar Bollaín's 2024 drama "I Am Nevenka" turns a real 1990s Spanish court case into a tense, intimate character study.
What is I Am Nevenka about?
Nevenka Fernández is twenty-five and rising fast inside a provincial town hall when her boss's attention curdles from flattering to controlling to threatening. The film tracks how quickly a workplace can turn hostile once someone in power decides a colleague belongs to him, and how isolating it becomes when friends, family, and local gossip all start questioning her instead of him. Rather than building toward a single courtroom twist, the film stays close to Nevenka's daily calculations: which meetings to avoid, which calls to answer, when silence is safer than speaking up. Her eventual decision to file a formal complaint sets off a public reckoning that the film treats as costly rather than triumphant, showing the toll of being the first to speak in a case with no precedent.
Cast & crew
Mireia Oriol carries the film as Nevenka with a controlled, watchful performance, while Urko Olazábal plays her boss with an unsettling mix of charm and menace rather than cartoonish villainy. Ricardo Gómez, Lucía Veiga, and the rest of the supporting cast fill out the town-hall world of colleagues, allies, and skeptics that closes in around her.
Context & significance
Bollaín has spent much of her career examining Spanish institutions and gender dynamics on screen, and this project revisits a case that became a landmark in Spain's workplace harassment law. The film leans on procedural detail — memos, meetings, depositions — to keep the story grounded in fact rather than melodrama.
Where & how to watch
"I Am Nevenka" is available to stream on K-Time with a Farsi dubbed track and Farsi subtitles, alongside the original Spanish audio. As with everything on the platform, watching requires logging into a K-Time account, and the interface itself is built around a Farsi-first experience for Persian-speaking viewers.