He did several successful short films before his long film debut with Las horas del día that received the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes film festival. In 2007 filmed his second film, La soledad.
His cinema is influenced by Robert Bresson or Yasujirō Ozu, he shows fragments of lives with ascetic forms and still shots.
He won the Goya Award for Best Director for La soledad, film that received the Goya for Best Film too.