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Pedro Almodóvar wins lifetime achievement award at San Sebastian Festival

News Desk27th September 20245th October 2024

27th September 20245th October 20244461

Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar received a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Thursday, getting emotional as he was given...

Spain submits ‘Saturn Return’ for best international film category at Oscars

News Desk19th September 202426th September 2024

19th September 202426th September 20245412

Spain has chosen the film ‘Saturn Return’ by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez as its submission for Best International Feature Film category at the 97th...

Almodóvar’s first English-language feature wins top prize in Venice

News Desk8th September 202415th September 2024

8th September 202415th September 20244470

#UPDATED at 13h on 8 September. Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’, the Spanish director’s first film in English, has won the Golden Lion, the...

Pedro Almodóvar to receive 2024 San Sebastian Donostia Career Achievement Award

News Desk14th August 202428th August 2024

14th August 202428th August 20243872

Spain’s most internationally famous film director, screenwriter and producer, Pedro Almodóvar, is to receive a Donostia Career Achievement Award at the prestigious 72nd San Sebastian Film...

The ‘lost Caravaggio’ goes on display at the Prado museum in Madrid

News Desk27th May 20244th June 2024

27th May 20244th June 20244628

A painting by the Italian master Caravaggio, once mistakenly thought to be by an unknown artist and almost auctioned off, has gone on display at...

Spanish police recover 4th of five Francis Bacon paintings stolen in Madrid in 2015

News Desk23rd May 20244th June 2024

23rd May 20244th June 20243889

Spain’s National Police have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015. A...

Prado Museum confirms rediscovery of lost Caravaggio, to be unveiled 27 May

News Desk6th May 202427th May 2024

6th May 202427th May 20243892

A painting whose auction in Spain was halted in 2021 on suspicion that it might be a long lost Caravaggio has been confirmed as a work...

Catalan police dismantle syndicate that allegedly sold fake Banksy art

News Desk8th March 202413th March 2024

8th March 202413th March 20243276

Police in Catalonia, the Mossos d’Esquadra, said on Thursday that they had dismantled a ring which allegedly falsified works by British street artist Banksy, and...

Sigourney Weaver’s Goya speech: ‘The excellent actress who dubs me should be up here, too’

News Desk12th February 202419th February 2024

12th February 202419th February 20244921

American actress Sigourney Weaver won Spain’s International Goya Award at the weekend in recognition of what the Spanish Film Academy classed as an impressive career, during which...

Spain’s Eurovision song ‘Zorra’ – an insult to women or defending them?

News Desk8th February 202419th February 2024

8th February 202419th February 20246489

Spain’s Eurovision song entitled ‘Zorra’, which can be literally translated as an anti-female slur, such as ‘whore’ or ‘bitch’ – but it can also be...

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