Director: Jordi Sánchez, Pep Antón Gómez
A dying mother, a fortune nobody deserves, and two grown children who circle her hospital bed like vultures — Alimanas turns inheritance anxiety into pitch-black comedy.
What is Alimanas about?
When an aging matriarch's health takes a sudden turn, her son and daughter abandon any pretense of grief and start scheming over what she'll leave behind. Old grudges resurface at family dinners, secret alliances form and dissolve within the same afternoon, and the mother herself proves far less helpless than her children assume. Rather than fading quietly, she watches the scramble unfold with an amused, calculating eye, occasionally tipping the scales just to see who blinks first. The 2023 Spanish comedy leans into farce, stacking misunderstandings and petty betrayals until the family's greed becomes the real punchline. Money is the excuse; pride, resentment, and decades of sibling rivalry are the actual fuel.
Cast & crew
Jordi Sánchez, who also co-directs, anchors the ensemble alongside Carmina Barrios and Silvia Abril, with Antonio Resines and Loles León rounding out a cast built for rapid-fire comic timing. Carlos Areces and Pilar Bergés add further texture to a household where everyone has an angle.
Context & significance
Alimanas arrived in 2023 as part of a wave of Spanish dark comedies mining family dysfunction for laughs rather than sentiment. At 84 minutes, it moves briskly, favoring tight scenes and overlapping dialogue over slow-burn drama, and it holds a modest 4.9 rating on IMDb, reflecting a film that clearly aims for niche, biting humor rather than universal crowd-pleasing. The Spanish-language cast leans heavily on stage and television comedy veterans, which shows in how confidently the ensemble handles overlapping insults and rapid reversals of fortune within a single scene.
Where & how to watch
Alimanas streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow every barbed exchange in their own language. The film's page is free to browse; watching it simply requires logging into a K-Time account, and the interface itself is built around a Farsi-first viewing experience for the diaspora.