The San Sebastián International Film Festival, the most prestigious of its kind in Spain, kicks off on Friday September 18th. Here are 10 fascinating anecdotes and pieces of information that will help you understand its importance to Spanish culture.
Ever watched Pigs and Diamonds? How about Glass Jungle? If you've got no idea what we're talking about, don't worry, bizarre translations of film titles from their original English-language version into Spanish are fairly common and often pretty funny.
Spaniards rarely watch anything foreign in its original language, and the country's cultural obsession with dubbing almost every single non-Spanish language film and TV series has roots in history and business.
A documentary about bullfighting, "Tardes de Soledad", has picked up the top award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, its graphic nature and untold storytelling causing both admiration and disgust among viewers.
Australian actress Cate Blanchett will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain's San Sebastián film festival in September, organisers said Thursday.
Looking for something to give you goosebumps this Halloween? We've broken down some of the best Spanish films that are sure to have you cowering beneath the covers.
Three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep has won Spain's top arts prize, the Princess of Asturias award, for her "unforgettable performances" in a career spanning over five decades.
The Berlin film festival on Saturday awarded its best acting award to nine-year-old Spanish girl Sofía Otero for her performance in "20,000 Species of Bees", the youngest person ever to win the prize.
With a vast wardrobe catering to everything from "House of the Dragon" to "The Crown", Spain's Peris Costumes has carved out a well-tailored niche for itself, renting costumes to producers across the globe.
Canadian director David Cronenberg, the master of stomach-churning body-horror classics, has been honoured at the San Sebastián film festival for a lifetime of work examining the dark side of the soul.
The 72nd Berlin film festival awarded its Golden Bear top prize on Wednesday to Spanish director Carla Simón's semi-autobiographical drama "Alcarràs", about a family of peach farmers fighting for their future.
Soon after the death of dictator Franco, Spain began an experiment with censorship that brought graphic sex and nudity to mainstream cinemas. Here's why it played an important role in shaping the Spanish culture we see today.
Spain is preparing legislation that would impose a 5.0 percent tax on streaming giants like Netflix with the funds used to boost Spanish cinematic production, the government said on Friday.
For many, it was a long-awaited chance to feel normal again, sitting in their cars belting out "Summer Nights" at Madrid's
drive-in cinema on a rare night out after a 10-week lockdown.
Dramatic, warlike and familiarly comic – the 231 Spanish films released in 2019 offer a remarkable variety of genres but very few truly memorable moments.
The directors of Netflix documentary "Two Catalonias" said Tuesday they had returned a German award because the involvement of Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont in the ceremony had "politicized" the "neutral" spirit of their work.
Antonio Banderas is starring as Picasso in a TV adaptation of the artist's life by US director Ron Howard and is also set to feature as the Spanish painter in a film about Guernica.
Hollywood women wore all black to the Golden Globes last month in the #TimesUp campaign against sexual misconduct in the film industry and Spanish stars are poised to stage their own version at the Goyas on Saturday.
Two Spanish students with an unhealthy obsession for The Simpsons are responsible for creating a viral video that has wowed film buffs as well as fans of Matt Groening's animated family.
Spanish films snagged a domestic market share of nearly 20 percent this year, one of its best home-turf results, with five movies drawing over a million viewers, the country's main film producers lobby said Tuesday.
The Local counts down ten essential facts about the most important film festival in the Spanish speaking world, as it gets underway in the Basque seaside city.
