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3747 articles available in total starting from 30/05/2002. Last article published on 29/01/2026.

Spanish cinema increases its market share, but is still below potential

The quantity and quality of Spanish releases in 2011 boded for a quiet year for cinema. Faced with the political wave battering the sector (see news), at least on the box-office front things were...  

19/01/2012 | Box Office | Spain

Film world in show of support for former director of Gijón fest

Pedro Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Todd Solondz, Atom Egoyan, Bertrand Bonnello, Abel Ferrara and Carlos Reygadas are some of the more than 400 signatories of a manifesto “for the reinstatement...  

18/01/2012 | Festivals | Spain

Rodar y Rodar shoots Oriol Paulo’s The Body in Barcelona

The day before yesterday, January 16, Oriol Paulo started filming his debut feature, The Body. Shooting will last nine weeks in different locations around Barcelona and at the Audiovisual Park in...  

18/01/2012 | Production | Spain

Susana de la Sierra Morón appointed new managing director of ICAA

Today, January 13, the Council of Ministers appointed Susana de la Sierra Morón as managing director of Spain’s highest public body for film management, the Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts...  

13/01/2012 | Institutions | Spain

Interview: Ignacio Ferreras • Director

"The storyboard is where you write the film in cinematic language"

The Spanish director talks about the challenge of directing Wrinkles, an animated film adapted from a comic book about the themes of old age, Alzheimer's disease and friendship.  

11/01/2012

Interview: Gerardo Herrero • Director

"If I hadn’t also produced it, this film would probably not have been made"

One of the leading producers of Spanish cinema has for years combined producing with directing, and now presents his fifteenth film, Frozen Silence: a war thriller shot in Lithuania.  

11/01/2012

Changing times in Spanish culture

The end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 has been a turbulent time for almost all sectors of Spanish society, including of course cinema. After the landslide victory of conservative Mariano Rajoy in...  

11/01/2012 | Industry | Spain

Cienfuegos dismissed as director of Gijón fest

This morning, the Asturian regional government announced the dismissal of José Luis Cienfuegos as director of the Gijón International Film Festival, a position he had occupied since 1995. Under...  

11/01/2012 | Festivals | Spain

Wrinkles

A sensitive film about friendship and loneliness in a retirement home, based on a comic book by Paco Roca. Winner of two Goya and shortlisted for an Oscar.  

11/01/2012 | Films | Reviews

Frozen Silence

Gerardo Herrero has adapted a thriller novel centred on the División Azul, that army of volunteers sent by Franco to fight on the Russian front during World War II.  

11/01/2012 | Films | Reviews

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