The Berlinale is simply the beginning of an enormous 2025 for Catalan movies, filmmakers and corporations. A number of high-profile Catalan buzz titles are at the moment taking pictures or in post-production and are slated to debut later within the 12 months, whereas others are presently kicking off promising pageant runs.
Former Berlin Golden Bear winner Carla Simon (“Alcarràs”) will debut “Romería,” at the moment in submit, a couple of lady’s journey to satisfy her organic father’s household after he dies of AIDS. It’s a vastly private undertaking because the illness took each of Simon’s dad and mom’ lives when she was simply six years previous.
In industrial phrases, particularly domestically, few movies have extra field workplace potential than Borja Cobeaga’s “Los Aitas,” an all-ages comedy a couple of group of middle-aged dads accompanying their daughters on a global gymnastics journey.
Miguel Ángel Jiménez’s brutally trendy Seventies-set darkish comedy “The Birthday Occasion” stars Willem Dafoe alongside an ensemble of prime Spanish expertise. Bankside Movies is promoting internationally.
Backed by Movistar+, Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo, Filmes Da Ermida, Uri Movies and 4A4 Productions, Oliver Laxe’s upcoming thriller Morrocco desert-set thriller “Sirat” is a sure-fire pageant hit.
Catalonia will get its first-ever stop-motion function this 12 months, “Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake.” Directed by Irene Iborra Rizo, it turned heads throughout an Annecy Work in Progress presentation final summer time.
“Uncle Boonmee” producer Lluis Miñarro, a celebrated director in his personal proper, will debut the buzzy style function “Emergency Exit” later this 12 months. The movie sees a solid of characters caught on a bus journey from which they can’t escape that takes them throughout a collection of unbelievable landscapes.
“Jokes and Cigarettes” director David Trueba returns in 2025 to supply and helm “Siempre es invierno,” the function adaptation of his novel “Blitz.” Produced by Atresmedia Cine, Ikiru Movies, La Terraza Movies and Mistaken Males, the movie is distributed by BTeam Photos.
Up-and-comer Jaume Claret Muxart’s function debut “Unusual River,” backed by main Catalan producer Alba Sotorra, gives a coming-of-age story about a youngster’s maybe closing bike trip along with his dad and mom.
A 2023 Berlin Skills honoree, Júlia de Paz will bow her extremely anticipated “Fed Up,” at the moment in post-production. Produced by Astra Photos, Avalon and Krater Movies, Beta Cinema is dealing with gross sales.
BTeam co-produces and can domestically distribute Goya-winning director Guillermo García Lopez’s “Sleepless Metropolis,” a social challenge drama a couple of Romani boy dwelling in an unlawful settlement.
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias’ upcoming debut “Forestera” is a Spain-Italy-Sweden co-production a couple of woman who witnesses her grandmother’s violent loss of life and develops a coping mechanism that doesn’t sit effectively with everybody within the household.
“Be part of Me for Breakfast,” the debut function of achieved Catalan actor Iván Morales, options associated tales of characters in search of a second likelihood in a crowded metropolis. Filmax is promoting.
“Lady Unknown” director Pablo Maqueda returns with the documentary “Caro nanni,” produced by Girona-based Colose Producciones, and former San Sebastian New Administrators winner Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mom’s Room”) will launch her subsequent, “La buena letra,” produced by Arcadia, Misent Producciones and Mod Producciones.
A number of 2025 Catalan movies are internet hosting EFM market screenings this 12 months, courting international distribution companions for the approaching months. Amongst them are Javier Ruiz Caldera’s feelgood comedy “Wolfgang,” about fatherhood and autism, and Robin Petré’s “Solely on Earth,” which paperwork the stability of man and nature in fire-prone Galicia.
Amongst Catalan movies which have already premiered however are simply hitting the pageant circuit are Avelina Prat’s “The Portuguese Home,” produced by Distinto Movies, O Som e a Fúria, Jaibo Movies and Almendros Blancos; Gemma Blasco’s “Fury,” not too long ago chosen for this 12 months’s SXSW International program; Gerard Oms’ Spain-Netherlands co-production “Away”; and Eva Libertad’s “Deaf,” which is world premiering on this 12 months’s Berlinale Panorama part.
