Spain’s Top Titles at This Year’s Cannes


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

“Viva”

“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


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