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Chilean production shingle Clara Films has set up operations in Spain and boarded its first feature film as local producers, “An Imaginary Kingdom” (“Un Reino Imaginado”), the directorial…
“Sundays,” a teen-centered drama by Spanish director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, has taken the coveted Golden Shell at the closing night of the San Sebastián Film Festival. Belgian auteur Joachim…
Minutes into “Two Pianos,” two former lovers unexpectedly run into each other in the narrow lobby of an venerable Lyon apartment building, after several years of estrangement. In the real…
Madrid-based Amore Cine, founded by Paz Lázaro, Juan Pablo Félix and Edson Sidonie, has boarded “Dæmon,” the debut feature of Chile’s Valeria Hofmann, who snagged best director for short…
In 2022, Pedro Almodóvar hailed “Lullaby,” the feature debut of Basque director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa as “undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years.” Her first series, “Querer,”…
SAN SEBASTIÁN — Brazilian-Chilean production “Mariana x BHP,” Basque drag story “Altxaliliak” and Peruvian-U.S. co-production “La increíble historia de una película que no hemos visto”…
SAN SEBASTIÁN — Spain’s Quickets and U.K. startup AnthroTek claimed the top prizes Friday at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the San Sebastián Festival’s flagship technology competition.…
In the opening moments of Yukari Sakamoto’s “White Flower and Fruits,” which premieres in San Sebastián’s New Directors competition, a girl climbs a school tower clutching a strip of white…
The third edition of San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference, co-organized with CAA Media Finance, wrapped Wednesday on a spirited note with a mano a mano between CAA Media…
With “Bai, Bai,” Murcia-born filmmaker Alba Esquinas turns a formative childhood memory into her debut feature, exploring the subtle but devastating rupture of a first friendship. It’s one…
Just two editions in, Noka Ekoizpena, a women-focused mentorship and production-acceleration program based in San Sebastián, is beginning to deliver on its promise: to help Basque and…
Madrid reaffirmed its status as Spain’s leading audiovisual powerhouse at the 73rd San Sebastián Film Festival on Sept. 21, presenting key data, strategic initiatives and upcoming plans to…
Of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the screen’s most celebrated dance partners, Katharine Hepburn is famously said to have declared that he gave her class, while she gave him sex appeal.…
Almost 18 years after his debut feature “Nocturna” won the Goya Award for Best Animated Film, Adrià Garcia is back to animation with “The Treasure of Barracuda.” Sold by Filmax, the film,…
“A lot of people come to the office and ask: What about these new posters? I wanted to create a bit of human contact,” Daniel Domenjó, the new CEO of Movistar Plus+, Spain’s biggest…
Japan’s Bitter End has boarded international sales on “Sai: Disaster,” a suspense feature selected for the San Sebastian Film Festival‘s main competition, followed by its Asian premiere at…
The works-in-progress showcases at the San Sebastián Film Festival — the most important festival in the Spanish-speaking world — return this year with eight anticipated projects split…
Asian film collective Maboroshi has secured its first title for international distribution, acquiring Taiwanese filmmaker Tsao Shih-Han’s “Before the Bright Day,” which is set to make its…
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has begun principal photography on the €4.5 million ($5.3 million) dystopian drama “Aqui,” directed by Tiago Guedes ad shooting in Spain and…
Despite not yet having wrapped a stellar 2025 — crowned by a whopping 27 projects featured at Spain’s prestigious San Sebastián Film Festival — the Catalan film industry is already looking…
Almost a decade on from Carla Simón’s striking “Summer 1993”, which amassed three Goya Awards, five Gaudí Awards, won best first feature at Berlin, and the Golden Biznaga in Málaga,…
Angelina Jolie will fire up San Sebastián’s star quotient, hitting the Spanish festival to co-present French director Alice Winocour’s main competition player “Couture” on Sept. 21. Jolie…
Ferran Adrià, the haute cuisine genius who turned El Bulli into the most famous restaurant in the world, is set to get a a six-part scripted bio. The series business model has been…
“Midaq Alley” (“El Callejón de los Milagros”), the Jorge Fons 1995 gem that launched Salma Hayek’s career, is being re-released by Sony Pictures across Mexico and Latin America, thanks to…
