Over the last 18 months, Catalan filmmakers and productions have taken the festival circuit by storm. For the first time since 1988, at Cannes this year, two Spanish movies secured a main competition berth without one being directed by Pedro Almodóvar: Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât and Carla Simon’s “Romería.” Both are Catalan productions.
“Sirât” won a Cannes Jury Prize, Lucía Aleñar’s “Forastera,” another Catalan title, a Fipresci Prize for Emerging Filmmakers at Toronto this year.
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