02/07/2025 - The festival will showcase upcoming titles that will be available to view over the coming months and will present in-development project from Spanish production companies

The Lo Que Viene film and series festival, organised by the Association of Film Journalists of Spain (AICE), will be held from 8 to 11 July in Tenerife. The event will offer a selection of titles set to be released soon.

One of the highlights is the Premieres section, featuring previews of some of the summer's new releases. Among them is El molino, directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, which tells the story of Mayte (played by Pilar López de Ayala), an engineer who returns to a small town to carry out an important project. Also featured is Ariel [+see also:
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The Presentations section will see Spanish platforms, production companies and distributors announcing their projects. Inicia Films will present Ceniza en la boca by Diego Luna (read more); Tornasol will introduce Morir no siempre sale bien by Claudia Pinto (read more); Sunrise Pictures will present Parecido a un asesinato by Antonio Hernández (read more); and the Canary Islands company El Viaje Films will showcase Emergency Exit by Lluís Miñarro, which was Marisa Paredes’s last film (read more). Nakamura Films will reveal details of the adaptation of Paco Roca’s comic El abismo del olvido, directed by Álex Montoya (La casa [+see also:
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Natacha Mora (head of Canary Islands Film) and Jaime Romero (member of the executive committee of the Canary Islands Audiovisual Cluster and CEO of Macaronesia Films) will outline the benefits of filming in the Canary Islands. Round tables will discuss women at the helm of festivals and Artificial Intelligence in the audiovisual sector. And finally, the Encounters section will feature the winner of the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián Film Festival and the Goya Award for Best Director, Imanol Uribe, who will talk about his upcoming film La sospecha de Sofía, and actress Malena Alterio, winner of the Goya Award for Something Is About to Happen [+see also:
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(Translated from Spanish)