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3746 articles available in total starting from 30/05/2002. Last article published on 28/01/2026.

Three local films in competition at San Sebastian

At this year’s 57th San Sebastian Film Festival , to be held from September 18-26, three Spanish films will vie for the Golden Conch: Isaki Lacuesta’s The Condemned (see news), Javier Rebollo’s La...  

24/07/2009 | Festivals | Spain

ICAA allocates €92.5m for amortisation and distribution of features

The Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute (ICAA), headed by Ignasi Guardans, has announced the recipients of the 2009 subsidies for the amortisation and distribution of features, which amount to...  

23/07/2009 | Funding | Spain

Gordos

Gordos is a dramatic comedy which, through a host of characters trying to lose weight, explores problems that cause us to suffer from emotional overload  

16/07/2009 | Films | Reviews

Woody Allen and Mediapro collaborate on London-set film

The first of three films to be made by US director Woody Allen for Spanish production company Mediapro started shooting in London on Monday, July 13. Its title has yet to be confirmed. The film...  

16/07/2009 | Production | Spain

Interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo • Director

“For me, cinema is a form of therapy”

The 39-year-old Madrid-born director is generating high expectations with Gordos (“Fat People”), following the success of his multiple award-winning debut work  

10/07/2009

Audience figures up 3.7m in first half of 2009

During the first half of 2009, audience figures in Spanish theatres rose by 7.9% over the same period last year, according to statistics published by the FECE (Federation of Spanish Cinemas). The...  

09/07/2009 | Box Office | Spain

Velilla’s ugly people start shooting

Ugly people can also fall in love and be happy. Eliseo is a balding man in his 40s with a limp while Nati has had a mastectomy and is separated (from Eliseo’s brother, to make matters worse) in...  

06/07/2009 | Production | Spain

The Friend Zone prolongs comedy season

It is unusual for a Spanish film to enjoy critical success (a recent example is 25 Carat). It is even rarer for the film in question to be a comedy. And if, on top of that, the film’s protagonists...  

01/07/2009 | Releases | Spain

Private TV networks to be allowed to invest in series as part of 5% Law

Since the government announced a few months ago its intention to remove advertising from state television, people have started to wonder how this will affect the current precarious balance between...  

29/06/2009 | Legislation | Spain

Over 60% of Spaniards find domestic films “good or very good”

Apparently, when EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management Body) commissioned Metroscopia to conduct an opinion poll to find out what Spaniards thought of their film industry, some were up...  

25/06/2009 | Industry | Spain

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