PEACE FORCE

At 50, Eva’s brief encounter in Rome rekindles her passion. Leaving her family, she seeks love anew in Barcelona, hoping to rediscover romance despite the odds.

Los Tigres is the story of Antonio and Estrella, two brothers who are dedicated to industrial diving on the coast of Huelva and who decide to steal part of the cocaine caches that arrive on the boats to get out of the bankruptcy in which they find themselves.

After the death of her mother, Aitana, who is thirteen, spends the summer at the country house of her aunt and uncle with her cousin Lope, a boy obsessed with ghosts and spiritism. But after the appearance in the forest of a spirit guide who takes the form of a deer, Aitana will understand that the spiritistic games of her cousin Lope, may allow her to say goodbye to her mother.

Lluís, a young dancer, creates a performance inspired by an Internet site called chatroulette.com. While rehearsing, he becomes obsessed with the platform and meets a stranger who reveals disturbing details about a nearby crime. As fear and fascination blur, Lluís spirals into a dark space between reality and the screen.

Empar, a 60-year-old farmer, needs her last cow to get pregnant to save her farm. When she succeeds, she discovers that the pregnancy is risky. To protect her, she will take on half the town, but she will not be alone in the struggle. Cowgirl is a romantic comedy about rural conflict, memory and the rediscovery of love in the twilight of life.

During the Lunar New Year celebrations, Junyi, a young Catalan of Chinese descent, gets a call from his mom: his grandmother has suddenly fallen ill and wants to see him. Though he barely remembers her, Junyi sets off on a journey that will make him question his roots and his increasingly blurred sense of identity.

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. Aimless, he assumes another man’s identity as a gardener on a Portuguese estate, where he forms an unexpected friendship with the owner, stepping into a new life that isn’t his own.

God Sees It explores the creative world of Oscar Tusquets Blanca, where architecture, design, painting, and writing blend without hierarchy. Provocative and rebellious, he left his mark on MoMA, the Pompidou, and the Dalí Museum. Artists such as Miquel Barceló, António López, and Mario Vargas Llosa reveal his story in a portrait celebrating life and beauty.

As summer begins in Murcia, Lionel faces uncertainty, estranged from the family he barely knows. His relationship with his father, marked by misunderstanding and resentment, seems beyond repair—until his father proposes a road trip to France for a family reunion. As they navigate unfamiliar roads, Lionel realizes the man he's blamed for years carries wounds of his own. Now father and son must decide: remain strangers, or risk finding each other for the first time.

Sergio travels to the Netherlands with his family and friends to watch a football match of his team, Espanyol de Barcelona. When it's time to return, he decides to stay, without giving any explanations to anyone or having any apparent reasons. Alone, without money, without a home, without a job, and without speaking the language, Sergio becomes an outcast and must fight day by day to survive in a hostile environment. At the same time, he embarks on an intense inner journey that will lead him to discover himself and accept who he truly is.

Eva and Nicole are friends in Paris in 1972, when Nicole hired Eva as a waitress and taught her the world of nightlife. They became friends until the appearance of Manuel, an attractive man who changes everything. 13 years later, Eva returns as her enemy, to settle in Marbella and carry out her revenge. She is ready to do anything, including seducing Nicole’s son Oliver.

A group of left-wing labour lawyers go into hiding in a house when the coup d’état takes place in Spain on 23 February 1981. Unsure of what to do, they debate between fleeing the country, staying in hiding to await events or trying to do something to defend Spain’s fledgling democracy. 

The summer months, as well as November and December, saved a year whose first half did not record good figures. However, Spanish cinema and local distributors ended up being the year's big winners, increasing their revenues compared to 2023.

  For over two decades at the helm of Latido Films, Antonio Saura has sold key titles of Spanish cinema worldwide. Moreover, his unique experience in the sector is also backed by his credits as a producer for Zampa Audiovisual and Zebra Producciones, as well as his role as deputy chairman of the European Film Academy from 2008 to 2019, and his two-year tenure as director of the Media Business School, one of the most prominent international business training institutions. Saura’s historical perspective is undoubtedly exceptional in terms of the history of Spanish cinema and its global reach. Some recent, brilliant Spanish titles in Latido line-up include Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return”, Carlos Marques-Marcet’s “They Will Be Dust”, Antón Álvarez’s “The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés” or David Pérez Sañudo’s “The Last Romantics”.

The fourth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria solidified its role as a global reference for market networking, co-production, financing, analysis, and development in audiovisual content driven by Latin American talent and industry. The Co-production and Financing Forum stands at the core of this mission, serving as a key setting to identify artistic, collaborative, and industrial trends within the audiovisual sectors that connect Ibero-American regions across the Atlantic..

Founded the year after the end of World War II, this festival, held in the beautiful Swiss canton of Ticino, has become both an exquisite showcase for auteur cinema and an industrial platform for projects with the most diverse geographical origins and artistic profiles.

Spanish fiction continues to be a benchmark in the main international markets and festivals, while the industry maintains a dynamic pace of production in terms of new projects.  

A pioneering producer in fiction series co-production, Portocabo has been determined to seek out international partnerships to promote more ambitious projects. Alfonso Blanco, the company's founder, explains the advantages of his approach.

Spanish Screenings XXL, the ambitious international market platform, is heading into an intense fall with two of its events—Spanish Screenings Financing & Tech and Spanish Screenings on Tour—taking place close to each other in the calendar, as part of the San Sebastian Film Festival and the MIA market in Rome, respectively, in its aim to globally promote our industry.

The international prominence of Spanish animation cinema is reaching unprecedented heights, not only due to recent spectacular international sales results or global box office performance, but also because of growing interest among programmers at major festivals.

In the current effervescence of the filming industry in Spain, it is worth mentioning the influence of cinema advertising, which has contributed significantly to its development.

The Spanish animation and VFX sector is thriving. On its way to becoming a consolidated global leader, Spain is increasingly attracting top international companies that come to invest in local talent and resources.

As platforms have reached new heights and record-breaking tax incentives for both local and international shoots have grown, there has been a huge demand for production facilities in Spain.

After succeeding on the international market with fiction, Spanish production continues to expand its presence abroad through non-fiction content. Some entertainment formats such as El Conquistador have already been broadcast on free-to-air TV channels in Latin America. Formats such as the docu-reality El Puente, born on pay TV, are also traveling.