The documentary “Mugaritz. No bread, no dessert”, directed by Paco Plaza, will be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

22/05/2025

• The documentary, which won the Culinary Zinema Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival, has been selected by this prestigious film festival in the ‘Spotlight Documentary’ section.
• Following its screening at several film festivals in Japan and Latin America, the Tribeca screening will mark the film’s North American premiere.
• Under the watchful eye of Paco Plaza, the documentary shows what goes on behind closed doors during the creative period at Mugaritz.

“Mugaritz. No bread, no dessert” the documentary directed by filmmaker Paco Plaza, which delves deep into the creative process of the Mugaritz restaurant, has been selected to form part of the official programme of the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The feature film is part of the ‘Spotlight Documentary’ section, the section that highlights non-fiction stories that, according to the festival, will cause a sensation among audiences. The screenings of the documentary will take place on 8 (premiere), 9 and 12 June.

The original documentary film by Movistar Plus+ in collaboration with Fonte Films, shows how each year the Mugaritz team works behind closed doors to design a vocationally different gastronomic proposal each season, stripping away everything to start again almost from scratch. Each season is an unpredictable leap into the void. A path full of questions, a creative challenge that he shares with curious diners, inviting them to open their minds and not just their mouths.

The aim from the unique gaze of Paco Plaza – director of successful films such as “Hermana muerte”, “La abuela” or the “[REC]” saga – is to “record and witness the process of creation and conceptualisation of the dishes, not the elaboration of the dishes themselves. Because the creation of Mugaritz has more to do with the expression of ideas through food than with the actual cooking”, explains the director.

The viewer of the documentary witnesses this creative freedom, challenged by a contagious curiosity. In the words of Andoni Luis Aduriz “Mugaritz is more than a restaurant, it is a creative ecosystem, a living fabric in which many factors will result in these dishes. Mugaritz is a space for searching, we sow uncertainty. Our driving force is curiosity, an insatiable need to explore, to sow doubts, to ask ourselves questions that go far beyond “I like it” or “I don’t like it””.

The screening of “Mugaritz. Sin pan ni postre” at Tribeca is a unique opportunity to bring a different vision of contemporary gastronomy to an international audience, not simply as the art of cooking, but as a space for exploration, creation, and reflection.

The screenings:

Sunday 8 June – 14:00 in Village East by Angelika

Monday 9 June – 17:45 at AMC East 19th Street 6

Thursday 12 June – 18:00 at AMC East 19th Street 6