Catalan’s Cannes Bounty Ranges From Dramas to Animation to Crowd-Pleasing Comedies

With six productions selected for the Cannes Festival and 11 titles at the Marché, Catalonia is once more punching above its weight on the Croisette. Companies mentioned below are the Catalan producers of the films. 

Cannes Premiere

The End of It

Director: Maria M. Bayona

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Fasten Films

Rebecca Hall plays former provocative artist Claire in a near-future world where ageing is cured. Now nearly 250 years old, she decides to end it all. Bayona’s feature debut also stars Noomi Rapace and Gael García Bernal.

Un Certain Regard

La Mas Dulce

(Strawberries)

Director: Laïla Marrakchi

Fasten Films

Two young Moroccan women are hired as strawberry pickers in southern Spain but rebel against injustice and abuse. Morocco’s Marrakchi’s previous features include “Marock” and “Rock the Casbah.”

Special Screenings

Ashes

Director: Diego Luna 

Inicia Films

Young Lucia leaves Mexico to join her mother in Madrid in “Andor” star Luna’s fifth feature as a director. The film is a tale of uprooting, disconnection and everyday hostility, starring Adriana Paz, part of the Cannes best actress ensemble winners for “Emilia Peréz,” and Anna Díaz.

Rehearsals for a Revolution

Director: Pegah Ahangarani

Fasten Films

Ahangarani’s feature debut mixes personal archives, home videos and street-protest footage to portray 40 years of Iran’s history via five figures symbolizing resistance. 

Directors’ Fortnight

Red Rocks

Director: Bruno Dumont

Cannes double Grand Jury Prize winner Dumont (“Humanity,” “Flanders”) returns with a story set on the French Riviera, where two gangs of kids compete at cliff jumping as love flowers in their midst.

Cannes Critics’ Week

Viva

Director: Aina Clotet

Ikiru Films, Funicular Films, La Terraza Films 

Clotet’s feature debut follows her TV hit “This Is Not Sweden.” Unspooling in a near-future plagued by water shortage, Nora, recovering from cancer, battles fear of loneliness and death.

La Cinef

Me, You and the Cow

Director: Aina Callejón

ESCAC Films

The latest from Barcelona film school ESCAC, in which teen cell phone addict Martina undergoes unusual rehabilitation: bonding with cows. 

Cannes Marché du Film

Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

The Daughters

La Verneda Films, La Charito Films

Director: Daniel Romero 

Romero’s first feature is a psychological thriller set in a forest cottage that explores the response to captivity.

Ventana Sur Goes to Cannes

When I Existed

Director: Alejandro Damiani, Martin Avdolov

Doce Entertainment

A man, declared dead, has to prove he’s alive to draw his pension. By doing so, he reconnects with life. A buzzy, feel-good second-chance drama-comedy.

Cannes Docs

Spain Showcase

Artifacts of War

Director: Jorge Caballero 

Artefacto Films

An investigation of “less lethal” weapons, marketed as safe tools of public order. Directed by Colombia’s Caballero (“Paciente”).

Homefire

Director: Neus Pagès

Nanouk Films, Glia Films

Pages’ first documentary feature chronicles how a drought threatens Audit and his family, who live in an remote Pyrenean village.

The Path That Walks

Director: Efthymia Zymvragaki

Gris Medio

An intimate portrait of shared lives and human connections at a culinary boarding school. Zymvragaki produced 2026 CPH: DOX title “Where the Silence Is Heard.” 

Chile-Colombia Showcase

Burning Daddy

Director: Tana Gilbert 

Isolda Films

Camila reconstructs the image of her swindler father via photos, court records and memories fractured by his violence in this film from Chile’s Gilbert (“Malqueridas”).

Circle Showcase

Amazonas

Director: Clara Lopez Rubio

Forward Films

In Waorani territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon, two grandmothers reacts differently as a road cuts into the forest.

Annecy Animation Showcase

Insectario

Director: Sofia Carrillo

Inicia Films

Stop-motion helmer Carrillo’s feature debut, from Mexico’s Pimienta (“Roma”) and Inicia (“20,000 Species of Bees”), in which a young girl reanimates the world’s extinct insect population.

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Municipal Services

Director: Júlia Coldwell

Maqueta Films, Nakamura Films, Escac Estudio

A municipal worker’s way of oiling doors is acclaimed as an extraordinary talent.