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SPAIN TOP 10
SPANISH FILMS
AT THE BOX OFFICE © LE PACTE / MORENA FILMS / MOVISTAR + © LE PACTE / MORENA FILMS / MOVISTAR +
IN 2018
Champions (directed by
1
Javier Fesser): € 19m
Superlopez (Javier Ruiz
2
Caldera): € 10,615,541
Perfect Strangers (Álex de la
3
Iglesia): € 8m
The Best Summer of My Life
4 (Dani de la Orden):
€ 7,935,774
Facts & 5 The Tribe (Fernando
Colomo): € 6,146,641
figures 6 Sara’s Notebook (Norberto
López Amado): € 5,197,167
7 Yucatán (Daniel Monzón):
€ 5,141,044
● Population of Spain:
46,733,038 million 8 Empowered (Santiago
● Number of cinemas: 734 Segura): € 4,495,600
● Number of screens: 3,589 The Footballest (Miguel
● Production companies: 9 Ángel Lamata): € 3,437,934
389 – of which 340 Everybody Knows (Asghar
produced just one film 10 Farhadi): € 3,137,938
in 2018, 45 produced
between two and four
films and four produced
five films or more
● Total number of cinema-goers
in 2018: 98.9 million Champions, directed
● Total revenue in 2018: by Javier Fesser
€ 585.7m
● Total releases: 616 – of
which 168 were Spanish
films, generating € 103.1m SPAIN: TALENT,
and drawing in
17.7 million viewers
● Number of feature films
produced in Spain in 2018: AUDACITY AND
266 – of which 54 were co-
productions; the average
production cost was CINEMATIC PRESTIGE
€ 2.8m
● Distribution companies: 336
– of which 44 distributed
more than 10 titles
● International reach of Spanish SPANISH CINEMA IS BACK AND ON IRREPRESSIBLE
cinema: represented at FORM AT THIS YEAR’S CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.
65 festivals; 16 Spanish
film weeks held in other
countries; 294 By Alfonso Rivera, cineuropa.org
international film awards Fire Will Come,
by Oliver Laxe
WELVE months ago, the official section opened Zama, by Lucrecia Martel, Wild Tales, by Damián Szifron
with a screening of European co-production and the documentary The Silence of Others, directed by
Everybody Knows, directed by Asghar Farhadi Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar and winner of this
and starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. year’s Goya Award for Best Documentary Film.
T This year, Spain’s most famous star will return Another producer who has been steadfastly loyal to an
to the red carpet as part of the cast of Pain and Glory, film internationally acclaimed artist who defies categorisation is
number 21 from the brilliant and world-renowned Pedro Montse Triola. As a partner at Andergraun Films, Triola has
Almodóvar, who is once again in the running for the Palme long supported the work of Albert Serra, another bold and
D’Or. Inspired by Almodóvar’s own life, the film is produced unorthodox filmmaker, competing in this year’s Un Certain
by his company El Deseo, headed up by his brother Agustín Regard section with the “sizzling” Liberté. It’s three years
and Esther García — winner of the 2018 National since The Death of Louis XIV was honoured with a special
Cinematography Award presented by the Spanish Ministry screening here at Cannes, and together Serra and Triola have
of Culture and Sport. “Production is something that women always gone in for “projects with budgets large and small,
tend to do very well,” argues this indefatigable firebrand but we really go for each and every one of them: he’s an artist,
who, as well as bringing the two-time Oscar winner’s projects and the finished film is never quite as originally envisaged.
© DR to life, also oversees other films backed by El Deseo, such as It develops out of the script, the shoot and, finally, the
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