02/10/2024 - A total of 74 projects of special artistic value will benefit from the grants, including the next projects by Albert Serra, Juanjo Giménez and Diana Toucedo and Velasco Broca’s feature film debut

Director Albert Serra, whose new project Out of this World has been funded (© Dario Caruso/Cineuropa)

The ICAA (Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute), part of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport, last week published the selective grants for feature film projects for 2024. A total of 30 million euros will be awarded, distributed among 70 films of special artistic value, with an emphasis on experimental, animated and non-fiction films, as well as those directed by women filmmakers.

For example, the adult animated film A World of Their Own directed by Carmen Córdoba (who was nominated for a Goya award for her short film Amarradas) and produced by La Fiesta PC (which is behind the successful Tad, the Lost Explorer [+see also:
trailer
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Another recipient of these grants is Albert Serra, recent winner of the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival for Afternoons of Solitude [+see also:
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film profile], who has received €760,000 for his new project, Out of this World (Andergraun Films). It explores the eternal hostility between the United States and Russia by following an American delegation travelling to the Eurasian giant during the height of its war with Ukraine to try to find a solution to the dispute related to international sanctions, and for which Kristen Stewart has already been announced as a cast member.

Alongside him are David Martín de los Santos (That Was Life [+see also:
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film profile], several episodes of the upcoming series The New Years [+see also:
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Other titles to benefit include: Iván & Hadoum (Avalon PC) by Ian de la Rosa (winner of the Eurimages Co-production Development Award at last year's Berlinale EFM - read more), which receives €777,000; María Martínez Ruiz no puede volver by screenwriter Gracia Solera with €760,000; Votamos (2:59 Films), a feature film conversion of Santiago Requejo's short film of the same name, receiving €758,828; Tres edades (Solita Films) by Jiajie Yu Yan with €735,680; Catorce de marzo by Alberto Gross Molo, which receives €720,000; Petróleo (Miramemira) by Álvaro Pulpeiro, with €706,500; Piedra, papel o tijera (Altamira Entertainment) by Luis Reneo, which has received €699,256; Una cabeza en la pared by Manuel Manrique, receiving €655,500; Esmorza amb mi (Distinto Films), a screen adaptation of the play of the same name directed by its author Iván Morales, with Anna Alarcón, Álvaro Cervantes and Oriol Pla, which receives €650,000; La Unión (Dos Soles Media) by Cordelia Alegre, receiving €631,750; and La mala madre (Mordisco Films) by Alicia Albares with €570,000.

The complete list of grants (with their production companies and EIGs, in Spanish) is available here.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)