Nominated for the Golden Bear at Berlin 2024, LA COCINA adapts Arnold Wesker’s play into a bustling portrait of life inside a New York restaurant kitchen. As the lunchtime rush builds, workers from across the world collide through pressure, longing, conflict and survival, in Alonso Ruizpalacios’ vivid drama starring Raúl Briones and Rooney Mara.

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Rialto Recommends: LA COCINA is all heat, movement and human tension — a restaurant drama where the kitchen becomes a pressure cooker of culture, class and desire. Alonso Ruizpalacios turns the lunchtime rush into something urgent and alive, with Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones anchoring a story about labour, dreams and the people who keep the city fed.