Offering prizes to Almodóvar lead and rapidly-risen star Milena Smit (“Parallel Mothers”) and evergreen Spanish comedy icon Fernando Tejero (“Aquí no hay quien viva”), notable as the ethically spineless priest in...

Catalonia’s biggest titles of 2025, “Romería” and “Sirat,” both Cannes competition hits, will screen at Tallinn. So will “Deaf,” a Berlin 2025 Panorama Audience Award winner. It is a mark of...

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...

Tribeca Festival Lisboa wrapped its second edition on Saturday after hosting a bevy of U.S. talent, led by Meg Ryan, Kim Cattrall, Edie Falco, Giancarlo Esposito, Ed Westwick and Daniela Ruah...

LaZona Pictures, the distribution label of Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson’s Madrid-based LaZona group, has acquired Spanish rights to lavish Polish biopic “Chopin, Chopin!” (“Chopin, a Sonata in Paris”), handled for international sales by...

Rafael Cobos, whose “The Left-Handed Son” won Canneseries short form top prize in 2022, has just world premiered “Golpes,” his feature film debut which looks likely to consecrate him as one...

After just four editions, Merci Valladolid has emerged as Spain’s go-to market for indie film, driving the circulation of arthouse titles from distributors to exhibitors, programmers and platforms. Running Oct. 29–31...

As it turns 70, Spain’s Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid — the Seminci — refuses to look back. Instead, the country’s second-oldest film festival, running Oct. 24–Nov. 1, is very...