Spain makes Cannes history with record three films in Palme d’Or race
Spanish cinema will make history at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with three films competing for the Palme d’Or for the first time since the...
Film Festivals
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...
Pedro Almodóvar wins lifetime achievement award at San Sebastian Festival
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
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
#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
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...
Sigourney Weaver’s Goya speech: ‘The excellent actress who dubs me should be up here, too’
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...
Spanish girl, aged 8, wins top acting award at Berlinale film festival
The Berlinale Film Festival has awarded its best acting award to an eight-year-old Spanish girl, Sofía Otero, for her performance in 20,000 Species of Bees, the youngest...
Catalan drama ‘Alcarràs’ by Carla Simón wins Berlin Film Festival
The 72nd Berlinale Film Festival has awarded its Golden Bear top prize to Catalan director Carla Simón’s semi-autobiographical drama, Alcarràs, a film about a family of peach...
Javier Bardem, ‘El Buen Patrón’ & Cate Blanchett top Spain’s Goya Awards
Javier Bardem won best actor at the 36th Goya Awards on Saturday – the Spanish ‘Oscars’ film awards that were held in Valencia this year –...
