Over the last year or so, Spain has burst onto the world stage, scoring five Cannes main competition berths — more than any other country in the world outside France — with joint best director winner “La Bola Negra” now prominent in awards season conversations.
\n\nSpain’s San Sebastián Film Festival looks set to capture this momentum and also play a key role in Spain’s global breakout.
\n\n“I’m 64. I’ve been programming cinema since I was 28. Spanish cinema has never been so powerful, with so many important international films,” says San Sebastían festival director José Luis Rebordinos.
\n\nOne reason, Rebordinos says, is the work of Spain’s broadcasters and streamers. This year’s San Sebastián is a case in point. Of pay TV/SVOD services, Movistar Plus, the biggest Spanish operator, has three titles in major sections at San Sebastián: “La Bola Negra,” a Neflix U.S. pickup, “El Castillo” and “5 Minutes More,” and Netflix Spain has one: “After Society.”
\n\nA Movistar Plus Original like previous Cannes competition contenders “Sirāt” and “The Beloved,” “La Bola Negra” weaves the travails and legacy of Spain’s gay experience in 1932, Spanish Civil War-torn 1937 and 2017, picking up on four pages in an unfinished novel by…
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