Spain submits ‘Sirat’ for best international feature film at Oscars
Oliver Laxe’s Sirat, recipient of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has officially been selected as Spain’s candidate for Best International Feature...
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Netflix to invest more than a billion euros in Spain over next four years
The US streaming giant Netflix has said that it is going to invest €1.1 billion in productions in Spain between 2025 and 2029, which has...
Dozens of artists skip Barcelona’s Sónar festival in support of Palestinians
Dozens of artists have pulled out of this year’s Sónar electronic music festival taking place from 12-14 June in Barcelona, protesting financial ties between its...
Tributes pour in for Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, who has died aged 89
Tributes have poured in for Spanish Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, who died on...
US court revives case surrounding a Nazi-looted painting in Madrid museum
The future ownership of a French impressionist painting, once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman, is once again uncertain after the US Supreme...
Two films tie to win main prize at Goyas – and Richard Gere calls Trump ‘a bully, a thug’
In a historic first, the 39th Goya Awards, Spain‘s equivalent to the Oscars, came down to a photo finish on Saturday night, with two films...
Netflix drops Spanish star of ‘Emilia Pérez’ from Oscar campaign after offensive tweets
Offensive historic tweets posted by Karla Sofía Gascón, the transgender Spanish star of the Oscar-nominated film Emilia Pérez, have led to a week of fallout...
Marisa Paredes, Spanish actor and Almodóvar favourite, dies aged 78
Marisa Paredes, an acclaimed Spanish actor who achieved international fame by starring in many films by director Pedro Almodóvar, has died at the age of...
Madrid cancels city centre sheep herding tradition to avoid bluetongue spread
The regional government in Madrid has cancelled the traditional annual herding of flocks of sheep through the centre of the Spanish capital which was scheduled...
Bullfighting documentary wins top prize at San Sebastian Film Festival
A documentary about bullfighting, ‘Tardes de Soledad’ (‘Afternoons of Solitude’), has picked up the top award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, its graphic nature...
