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Catalonia’s New Generation Raises Its Game as Ambition, Scale and Genre Become the Names of the Arthouse Game

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Catalonia’s New Generation Raises Its Game as Ambition, Scale and Genre Become the Names of the Arthouse Game
Sep 18, 2026 4:17am PT Catalonia’s New Generation Raises Its Game as Ambition, Scale and Genre Become the Names of the Arthouse Game

Key emerging Catalan filmmakers at San Sebastián are raising their game, in larger scale, genre blending, visual ambition and more involved storytelling. They have very good reason

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Over 2019-25, annual Catalan government general cinema funding soared from €12.5 million ($14.4 million) in 2019 to €30.2 million ($34.8 million) in just specific support lines.

Now, however, the films that are being made are also getting bigger, as a new generation of filmmakers and TV creatives emerged over the last decade raise their game in their artistic ambitions and production values.

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