Spanish titles to track at Cannes:
5 More Minutes
Director: Javier Ruiz Caldera
A Movistar Plus+ Original comedy written by top Spanish comic Berto Romero that follows a couple in crisis experiencing a time loop during a rural getaway.
Sales: Filmax
Aida the Movie
Director: Paco León
This spinoff from the 2000s TV sitcom directed by “House of Flowers” star León and produced by the Mediapro Studio is Spain’s first 2026 smash hit.
Sales: The Mediapro Studio Distribution
Andy
Director: Román Parrado
Produced by Ibón Cormenzana, who’s behind “Robot Dreams” and “The Beasts,” pic is a thriller following a 12-year-old girl’s odyssey from Guatemala towards the U.S. border.
Sales: Sideral Cinema
Another League
Director: Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz
”League” is a feel-good facts-based ‘70s-set comedy about Spain’s first women’s soccer team.
Sales: Filmax
Balearic
Director: Ion de Sosa
Vicious dogs trap teens in a swimming pool they’ve sneaked into as adults party nearby and wildfire sweeps the hillside — a social allegory, says de Sosa of the drama.
Sales: MoreThan Films
The Beloved
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Starring Javier Bardem, this fraught father-daughter reconciliation drama is shot in multiple film formats by Sorogoyen. A Cannes competition entry.
Sales: Goodfellas
Betrayed (Tradita)
Director: Gabrielle Altobelli
A single mother becomes mired in corruption at her new law firm in this steamy film.
Sales: Neo Art Intl.
Big Game Hunt
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
A pig herder returns home covered in blood claiming he saw a tiger in this Movistar Plus+ original billed as a class conflict-fuelled rural thriller.
Sales: Film Factory Entertainment
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Bitter Christmas
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
A gorgeous film-within-a-film about a world-famous director’s fears, doubts and contradictions as he pens a new film.
Sales: Film Factory
La Bola Negra
Director: Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
A third Spanish Palme d’Or contender featuring Penélope Cruz and Glenn Close weaves the connected lives of three gay men in 1932, 1937 and 2017.
Sales: Goodfellas
Carte Blanche
Director: Gerardo Herrero
From Tornasol Films, behind Oscar-winner “The Secret in Their Eyes,” this action movie charts a horrifying revenge mission in Spain’s 1921 Moroccan desert war.
Sales: Latido Films
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Dance of the Living
Director: Jose Ayalón
A father and daughter attempt to move forward after the mother’s death in a drama set in the extraordinary world of Canarian wrestling.
Sales: Bendita Film Sales
Don’t Hang Up
Director: Belén Macías
Macías (“My Prison Yard”) helms a real-time psychological thriller set inside a radio studio, where a legendary late-night host receives a call from a stranger who threatens to kill a young woman.
Sales: Film Factory
The End of It
Director: Maria M. Bayona
Fasten Films
Rebecca Hall plays Claire in a near-future world where ageing is cured. At nearly 250 years old, she decides to end it all. Noomi Rapace and Gael García Bernal also star.
Sales: Bankside
The Girl With the Crystal Eyes
Director: Dario Argento
The second in an Argento giallo movie trilogy. Here, a businessman tracks the women he loves to Sicily, plunging into a disturbing maze of fractured identities and ritualistic murders.
Sales: Neo Art Intl.
The Harvester
Director: David Pérez Sañudo
Starring Antonio de la Torre and Patricia López Arnaiz and inspired by Spain’s first documented serial killer, pic carries a big budget for Spain, and employs meticulous 1870s period construction and a rising director.
Sales: Latido
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
Director: Gabriel Azorín
Three friends in modern times and Roman soldiers confess heartfelt fears at the same thermal baths thousands of years apart.
Sales: MoreThan Films
La Luz
Director: Fernando Franco
A Catholic priest’s past comes back to haunt him as he seeks redemption. San Sebastián winner Franco (“Wounded”) directs, while top Spanish indie Morena Films (“Everybody Knows”) produces.
Sales: Latido
Mallorca Confidential
Director: David Ilundain
A gangster thriller with Lolita Flores (“Las Invisibles”) playing La Chusa, Mallorca’s self-made drug queenpin, now riding for a fall. Written by Amelia Mora (“Undercover”).
Sales: Filmax
Lolita Flores in ‘Mallorca Confidential’
Lolita Flores in ‘Mallorca Confidential’ Credit, Lucia Faraig.
The Righteous
Director: Fernando Pérez, Jorge A. Lara
Members of a citizens’ jury are each made a secret offer of $1 million to throw out a corruption case, despite irrefutable evidence in this thriller.
Sales: Feel Sales
The Sentence
Director: Miguel del Arco
Sentenced to 20 years for his wife’s murder, Juan emerges from prison seeking forgiveness. Del Arco (“Las Noches de Tefía) directs; Sideral and Aquí y Allí Films (“Life and Nothing More”) produce.
Sales: Sideral Cinema
There Is Someone in the Garden
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Fronted by “Money Heist” star Ursula Corberó with Balagueró (“[REC]”) helming what begins as a haunted house chiller that gradually morphs into a hard-hitting crime thriller.
Sales: Film Factory
Trinidad
Director: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño
Led by “Your Fault’s” Gabriela Andrada, Paz Vega and Karla Sofía Gascón, this ambitious Wild West-set Spanish family saga is from new player Deep Com Roots.
Sales: Deep Com Roots
Viva
Director: Aina Clotet
Clotet’s feature debut — which follows up her major TV hit “This Is Not Sweden” is set in a near-future plagued by water shortage, where Nora, recovering from cancer, battles fear of loneliness and death.
Sales: Loco Films
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“Viva” courtesy of Andrea Resmini
Welcome to Lapland
Director: David Serrano
Adapting the hit stage play, the film is a Spanish comedy set over Christmas in Lapland, with two families clashing over how to educate their kids.
Sales: The Mediapro Studio Distribution
