Catalonia arrives at this year’s Berlinale with its broadest spread of selections in years — including a Panorama feature debut, “Iván & Hadoum,” a buzzy Max series about Barcelona’s gentrification crisis, a returning shorts director and a Latin American minority co-production — all backed by full value chain support by the Catalan government’s cultural agency ICEC.
The Berlin showing marks a new chapter for a region that has spent the past decade building one of Europe’s most dynamic audiovisual ecosystems. Previous Berlin editions showcased Catalan cinema’s arthouse credentials — such as Carla Simón’s 2022 Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs” and Estibaliz Urresola’s best leading performance laureate “20,000 Species of Bees” in
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