The Ministry of Culture and Sport, through the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), will promote the presence of the Spanish film industry in the virtual marketplace of the Berlin Film Festival 2022, the European Film Market (EFM), which this year will once again hold its industrial part online.

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The programme of activities organised by the ICAA will be reinforced this year, for the first time, with the Spanish Screenings, a project that is part of the ‘Spain, Audiovisual Hub of Europe’ Plan, a milestone of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, in which ICEX Spain Export and Investment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation are participating.

The main Spanish sales agents and institutions will have a presence in the virtual pavilion ‘Cinema from Spain’, a space that will once again have its own virtual cinema at the market, with a programme of 36 virtual screenings of 21 Spanish films. Among the scheduled screenings are films with Goya nominations such as ‘Josefina’ by Javier Marco, ‘Lucas’ by Álex Montoya and ‘Sinjar’ by Ana M. Bofarull.

In addition, sales agents such as Begin Again Films, Bendita Films Sales, Feel Content, Filmax and Latido Film, among others, will take advantage of the space offered by the EFM to present another 39 Spanish films .

In this edition, the Berlinale Talents programme, dedicated to new talents, will include up to eleven names from different branches of the audiovisual sector, such as the producers María del Puy Alvarado and Marta Cruañas Compás, the director Javier Bermejo, the film critic Mariona Borrul and the composer Alberto Torres, among others.

In addition to the Spanish presence at the EFM, the Spanish co-productions ‘Alcarràs’ by Carla Simón and ‘Un año, una noche’ by Isaki Lacuesta are competing in the Festival’s official section. In turn, the debut film ‘Cinco lobitos’ by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa will premiere in the Panorama section, and in the Forum section, dedicated to unconventional and innovative cinema, the Spanish co-productions ‘Afterwater’ by Dane Komljem and ‘O trio em mi bemol’ by Rita Azevedo Gomes will be programmed.

The short films ‘Agrilogistics’, ‘The Sower of Stars’ will participate in Berlinale Shorts while ‘Black Beauty: For a Shamanic Cinema’ will have a special screening in Forum Expanded.

At the same time, the Spanish projects ‘20.000 Species of Bees’ / ‘20.000 especies de abejas’ by director Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren (Official project selection), ‘Picadero’, directed by Isabel Coixet (Co-pro series selection) and ‘Spanish Beauty’ by Esther García Llovet (Books at Berlinale) will be presented during the Co-production Market, within the framework of the EFM.

Audiovisual Hub.

This year, in addition to receiving support and visibility at the ICAA’s ‘Cinema from Spain’ virtual stand, Spanish cinema will also receive significant exposure at the virtual stand of Spanish Screenings 2022, the official marketplace for the sale and promotion of Spanish cinema, now in its 16th year. It has the collaboration of the ICAA and ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, as well as the support of sales agents and producers’ associations in Spain.

Culture and Sport promotes the internationalisation of Spanish cinema at the European Film Market of the Berlinale 2022

The Ministry of Culture and Sport, through the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), will promote the presence of the Spanish film industry in the virtual marketplace of the Berlin Film Festival 2022, the European Film Market (EFM), which this year will once again hold its industrial part online.

The programme of activities organised by the ICAA will be reinforced this year, for the first time, with the Spanish Screenings, a project that is part of the ‘Spain, Audiovisual Hub of Europe’ Plan, a milestone of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, in which ICEX Spain Export and Investment and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation are participating.

The main Spanish sales agents and institutions will have a presence in the virtual pavilion ‘Cinema from Spain’, a space that will once again have its own virtual cinema at the market, with a programme of 36 virtual screenings of 21 Spanish films. Among the scheduled screenings are films with Goya nominations such as ‘Josefina’ by Javier Marco, ‘Lucas’ by Álex Montoya and ‘Sinjar’ by Ana M. Bofarull.

In addition, sales agents such as Begin Again Films, Bendita Films Sales, Feel Content, Filmax and Latido Film, among others, will take advantage of the space offered by the EFM to present another 39 Spanish films .

In this edition, the Berlinale Talents programme, dedicated to new talents, will include up to eleven names from different branches of the audiovisual sector, such as the producers María del Puy Alvarado and Marta Cruañas Compás, the director Javier Bermejo, the film critic Mariona Borrul and the composer Alberto Torres, among others.

In addition to the Spanish presence at the EFM, the Spanish co-production ‘Alcarràs’ by Carla Simón and ‘Un año, una niche by Isaki Lacuesta are competing in the Festival’s official section. In turn, the debut film ‘Cinco lobitos’ by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa will premiere in the Panorama section, and in the Forum section, dedicated to unconventional and innovative cinema, the Spanish co-production ‘After water’ by Dane Komljem and ‘O trio em mi bemol’ by Rita Azevedo Gomes will be programmed.

The short films ‘Agrilogistics’, ‘The Sower of Stars’ will participate in Berlinale Shorts while ‘Black Beauty: For a Shamanic Cinema’ will have a special screening in Forum Expanded.

At the same time, the Spanish projects ‘20.000 Species of Bees’ / ‘20.000 species de abejas’ by director Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren (Official project selection), ‘Picadero’, directed by Isabel Coixet (Co-pro series selection) and ‘Spanish Beauty’ by Esther García Llovet (Books at Berlinale) will be presented during the Co-production Market, within the framework of the EFM.

Audiovisual Hub.

This year, in addition to receiving support and visibility at the ICAA’s ‘Cinema from Spain’ virtual stand, Spanish cinema will also receive significant exposure at the virtual stand of Spanish Screenings 2022, the official marketplace for the sale and promotion of Spanish cinema, now in its 16th year. It has the collaboration of the ICAA and ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, as well as the support of sales agents and producers’ associations in Spain.