Despite not being as strongly represented in Berlin as in previous years, when Alcarrás won the Golden Bear in 2022 or, the following year, Sofia Otero won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for 20,000 Species of Bees, and Lois Patiño won ex aequo the Special Jury Award for Samsara, in 2024 the co-production between Spain, Switzerland and Peru directed by Klaudia Reynicke, Reinas (Queens) won the Grand Jury Prize in the Generation Kplus section, a section that also awarded the prize for Best Short Film to Cura sana by Lucía G. Romero, and which has the stimulating added value of highlighting the youngest talent at the German festival. In addition, the Spanish production The Human Hibernation, by Anna Cornudella, won the Fipresci Prize in the Forum section.

Back in the spring, Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón became the first trans woman to win the Cannes prize for best actress shared with the entire cast of the French-Mexican production directed by Jacques Audiard, Emilia Pérez. Jonás Trueba received the Europa Cinemas Label Award for Best European Film for The Other Way Around in the Directors' Fortnight section.

In Toronto, Carlos Marques-Marcet's They Will Be Dust, a Spanish co-production with Italy and Switzerland, received not only the Platform Award, but also the unanimous and fiery praise of the entire jury for a film so provocative in its emotional approach, a musical drama dealing with euthanasia.

And at the San Sebastian festival, Albert Serra's hypnotic bullfighting adventure, Afternoons of Solitude, won the Golden Shell, the Catalan filmmaker's first foray into documentary territory. Another unusual and brave bet, Mar Coll's Salve Maria, won a special mention and the Junior Jury Award at Locarno. These two important titles have a distinctive and common value: they are titles that involve singular artistic and content risks, which is a sign of a stimulating future.