The 11 feature projects selected for Iberseries’ Co-Production and Financing Forum span various genres but multiple titles explore social concerns including the housing crisis, religious trauma, abuse, and institutional violence.
The average budget is €1.8m per project.
1999
Anonymous Content España and Barcelona’s Coming Soon Films are behind this horror thriller, the second feature from David Casademunt following his 2021 Netflix debut The Wasteland. When Abel receives a family photo album with one year missing – 1999 - he comes to suspect he may have undergone an exorcism as a child. 1999 was previously selected for Fantastic 7, the joint showcase for international genre projects created by Marché and the Sitges Festival.
Last Round: I Want It All
In his second feature following last year’s lockdown-set horror thriller SinÉl, Emilio Martínez-Borso directs this sports drama, produced by Fosca Films and Intemperie Producciones. The film follows a European Muay Thai champion whose ambitions to fight for the world title are rocked when she discovers she is pregnant.
Carreau
Javier Polo directs this thriller, produced by Spain’s Los Hermanos Polo Films and Lastcrit, and France’s Halley Productions. It follows two police inspectors hunting a masked killer who targets ruthless property owners with pétanque balls, emerging as an ambiguous vigilante amid a housing crisis. Polo directed the documentaries Europe In 8 Bits and The Mystery Of The Pink Flamingo, the latter selected for SXSW.
National Hotel
Producer-director Diego Corsini, whose credits include Safe Passage and Goodbye Madrid, directs this drama, produced by Spain’s Cinescalas, Cuba’s i4Films and Brazil’s TV Zero. A grieving Brazilian man and a Spanish doctor meet at Havana’s Hotel Nacional, where a veteran Cuban bartender becomes their confidant. The project has received backing from Cuban film body ICAIC and distribution is lined up in Brazil, Cuba and Spain.
The Blind
Horacio Alcalá directs this suspense drama, produced by Spain’s The Aurora Project Entertainment, Belgium’s Ginger Pictures and Mexico’s Spectrum. Adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck’s play, it features 12 blind people and a baby stranded in a wintry forest as they await the return of a priest who never comes back. Alcalá previously directed Grazing The Sky and Finlandia.
The Amateurs
From Chile’s Quijote Films, the producer behind Chilean Oscar entry The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo, and Argentinian outfit Gentil Cine, this crime comedy unfolds at a film collectors’ convention in a Patagonian hotel, where the original statuette from The Maltese Falcon disappears. The feature debut of veteran assistant producer Felipe Solari Yrigoyen, renowned forThe Delinquents and The Practice, the film was also selected for the latest San Sebastián Co-Production Forum.
Stink Eye
Writer-director Cristina Sánchez Salamanca directs this semi-autobiographical family drama with elements of body horror and comedy. Colombia’s Inercia Películas and Continente Pictures produce with Spain’s Ringo Media and France’s Dibona Films. The film follows Nina, a teenager left adrift after her family breaks apart when her father leaves her mother for a supermodel and influencer. Nina develops an increasingly uncomfortable bond with her stepmother when she sells her used underwear on the black market. Spanish teen drama hit Elite star Ester Expósito is attached to star.
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Argentina’s Mostra Cine, Cindy Teperman’s CT Producciones and Spain’s Atrece Creaciones are backing the new project from Argentinian documentary and fiction director Lorena Muñoz. Adapted from Belén López Peiró’s bestselling autobiographical book, Why Did You Come Back Every Summer follows a young woman who accuses her uncle — the police chief in the town where she spent her childhood summers — of sexual abuse. Muñoz directed I’m Gilda and co-directed the multiple award-winning documentary I Don’t Know What Your Eyes Have Done to Me.
Red Card: A Dream On Hold
Beatriz Flores Silva directs this drama, which is being produced by Belgium’s Saga Film and Uruguay’s BFS Producciones. After Rodrigo, an undocumented young Uruguayan living in the US, is sentenced to 32 years in prison over a consensual relationship that would not constitute a crime in Uruguay, his parents seek to have him transferred with the help of former Uruguayan president José Mujica. Uruguayan-Belgian filmmaker Flores Silva is known for In This Tricky Life, which won the top prize at Huelva’s Iberoamerican Film Festival in 2001, and follow-up Masangeles, which earned her both the screenwriter and director prize at the 2009 Rio de Janeiro Iberoamerican Film Festival.
Three Women
María Eugenia Lombardi and Viviana Calò co-direct this intimate comedy-drama, produced by Spain’s Las Hormigas Negras and Damita Joe, Italy’s Ginevra Films and Argentina’s Sombracine. The titular women are a mother and her two adult daughters, who travel from Argentina to El Hierro in the Canary Islands with a grandson in tow. As the journey develops, long-suppressed tensions emerge around motherhood and ageing.
Always Come Back, Sebastiana
Alessandro Pederzoli, a writer, producer and co-founder of Mexico’s Gatodrácula Cine, makes his feature directorial debut with this folk horror film, a co-production between his company, fellow Mexican producer The Maestros Cine, and Spain’s Argia Films. After she is attacked in a coal mine, 14-year-old Sebastiana becomes obsessed with La Diabla, a traditional demonic figure. To stop being prey, she decides to become a monster.
Madrid’s Iberseries & Platino Industria launched with a clear series identity, but broadened its scope with its Co-Production and Financing Forum, bringing series and feature films into the same financing and co-production framework. By its third edition in 2023, the event was accepting both formats, with a balanced 10-series/10-feature structure.
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