Jaime Rosales (born 1970 in Barcelona) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film producer.

He spent three years in Cuba studying cinema at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in La Habana, and later at Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, (Australia).

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.

[1][2] His 2014 film Beautiful Youth was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.