In the last two years, Spanish directors have had more films in Cannes Festival main competition – five – than any other country in the world.
On June 17, Prime Video announced that Spain was its No. 1 non-English export force, recently scoring as many hits in its Non-English Global Top 10 films as the rest of the world put together.
Clearly, as Thierry Frémaux put it explaining three Spanish competition titles this year, Spain is living a “movement.”
Some of that momentum looks set to be caught on June 21 in Shanghai at Stories Travel Further – Literature and Cinema in Spain-China Dialogue, a three-part session, part of the Spain – Where Talent Ignites campaign, unspool at the Shanghai Film Festival.
In one major highlight, Albert Serra, a Cannes competition contender in 2022 whose English-language debut “Out of This World,” starring Riley Keough is being talked up for a major 2026 festival, will talk with China’s Bi Gan, a Cannes 2025 Special Jury Prize winner for “Resurrection,” about storytelling, adaptation processes, creative vision and the capacity to connect cultures.
