When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas (Penelope Cruz) is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Felix Rivero (Antonio Banderas) and radical theatre actor Ivan Torres (Oscar Martinez). Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Felix and Ivan must confront not only each other but also their own legacies.
Actors are vain humans who are all about themselves and directors are strange individuals who will do anything, no matter how crazy, in order to bring their artistic dream alive. It seems strange that
"Official Competition" is quasi meta-comedy of sorts from the directorial team of Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, that follows the trials and peculiar tribulations of the creation of a high-prestige, festival-centric drama called "Rivalry." The film within the film is financed by a restless octogenarian millionaire, Humberto Suarez (Jose Luis Gomez), wanting to leave his name on something of lasting value he first considers paying for a bridge somewhere in Spain before he lands on the film concept the production is cobbled together on the basis of his saying he only wants "the best."