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PRODUCTION / FUNDING Spain

Spain's ICAA awards grants worth 31.6 million to 32 feature film projects

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- Among the beneficiaries of the 2024 second round of grants are the upcoming films by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, David Trueba, Manuel Huerga, Isaki Lacuesta, and Aina Clotet’s debut

Spain's ICAA awards grants worth 31.6 million to 32 feature film projects
Director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, whose new project Los domingos has been selected (© Dario Caruso/Cineuropa)

The Ministry of Culture, through the ICAA (Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute), has completed the 2024 second procedure for the general production grants of feature-film projects for an amount of 31,683,271 euros. The total budget allocation for the 2024 call for proposals is 62 million euros, to be awarded in two procedures, equalling the allocation in 2023. In the first procedure this year, 30,316,729 euros were awarded to 31 projects (read more).

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In this second procedure, out of the 45 projects that applied for grants, 32 were successful. Of these, 30 are in the fiction category, one is a documentary and one is an animated film. And of the total number of beneficiaries, 14 are international co-productions that have been awarded funding worth 13,704,355 euros, representing 43.25% of the total allocation.

All the beneficiaries have secured one million euros, except for the documentary by Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina Flores para Antonio (read more), which receives €820,000; Parenostre, a return to fiction films for the Catalan filmmaker Manuel Huerga (Salvador (Puig Antich) [+see also:
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) which received €958,916; and the animated film Little Bastards, made by Curro Velázquez and Manuel Sicilia, with €1,200,000.

The other titles include: Los domingos by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (multi-awarded for Lullaby [+see also:
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and recently for her series Querer [+see also:
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at the Forqué Awards); the romantic tragicomedy  Siempre es invierno, David Trueba’s next project (Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed [+see also:
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, Soldiers of Salamina) who adapts his own novel Blitz for the screen; Oh Nora (produced by Ikiru Films), film directing debut of the actress Aina Clotet following the success of the series This Is Not Sweden [+see also:
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; Ruega por nosotras by Daniel Monzón (his last film was The Laws of the Border [+see also:
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); Después de Kim by Ángeles González Sinde (her last film was El comensal [+see also:
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) with Adriana Ozores and Darío Grandinetti starring in the adaptation of her own novel; Mallorca Confidencial (formerly La Paca) by David Ilundain (One for All [+see also:
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), produced by Inicia Films; El profesor, finally the second feature film by Daniel Castro (Ilusión); Ídolos by the English Mat Whitecross (The Shock Doctrine [+see also:
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, the series This England [+see also:
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); Jarabo by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro (Enrique Cerezo Producciones Cinematográficas); and the comedies El fantasma de mi mujer by María Ripoll, and La Familia Benetón 2, a follow-up to the blockbuster by Joaquín Mazón.

Completing the list is the adaptation of the book of the same title by Najat El Hachmi Madre de leche y miel (produced by La Charito Films), Todos los colores (La Canica Films), Sin huella (Vaca Films Studio), Cinco minutos más (Ikiru Films), Carta blanca (Bruja del Sur Films, A.I.E), La Luz (Uno Equis Dios, A.I.E.), El Fons del Llac (La Cueva de Jan, A.I.E.), Tres de más (León Cobarde Films, A.I.E.), Corredora (Nonito, A.I.E.), 2+2 (La Pirueta2mas2, A.I.E.), Atrapado (Tuesday Films, A.I.E.), La madre que me parió (Abuela Tremenda, A.I.E), Me has robado el corazón (Me Has Robado El Corazón, A.I.E.), Buitres (Si Yo Fuera, A.I.E.), Burundanga (Simulacre, A.I.E.), Caminando con el Diablo (Caminando Con El Diablo, A.I.E.), Cuerpos locos (Cuerpos Locos, A.I.E.) and Pioneras (Pioneras La Película, A.I.E.).

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)

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