Madrid Film Office promotes the city in the Berlinale

The Madrid City Council, through Madrid Film Office And next to the Community of Madrid, he has come from February 15 to 21 to 36th European Film Market (EFM) with the aim of promoting the city and the region as a shooting scenario and audiovisual production center.

European Film Market, developed within the framework of the Berlinale, annually summons some 10,000 industry representatives International cinema and media (mainly producers, buyers and sales agents, distributors and financial) that meet to establish contacts and exchange projects. As the first major film market of the year, the EFM serves as a compass, barometer and marker of the rhythm of the new cinematographic year.

Under the epigraph Madrid, Make it possible, the city and the region of Madrid have been present in the Pavilion of Spain located in the main hall of the Martin Gropius Bau, main headquarters of the market. Madrid Film Office has held meetings and established synergies with other agents and EFM -attending entities. In recent years Madrid has established itself as a great audiovisual production center in Europe, something demonstrated by the city's shooting balance data in 2023: Madrid was during the last year filming scene of 41 films, 55 series and more than 410 ads. In total, more than 930 projects made filming on average and large size on public roads, which represents 8% more than in 2022.

Spanish presence

Spain has increased again, as last year, the presence of the Spanish audiovisual sector in European Film Market, focusing on co -production and emerging talent. The Spanish fiction contents charged prominence in two sections of the EFM, under the brands Cinema from Spain and Audiovisual from Spain: he Berlinale Co-production Market 2024, thanks to the collaboration between ICEX Spain Export and Investments and the Ministry of Culture, through ICAA; And the Screenings program Next from Spain en el marco de Berlinale Series Market, coorganizado junto a Iberseries & Platino Industria.

This year, 42 companies and Spanish institutions of the audiovisual sector, almost 40% more than in the last edition, participated in the 36th edition of the European Film Market. Among these companies were Madrid sales and distributors Begin Again Films, Feelsales, Latido Films, Movistar Plus+ International and Sideral Cinema. Also other companies located in Madrid such as Atresmedia, Captain Spider, with a pack, the catverde productions, the impossible trip cinematographic productions and Good Friends Pictures.

Highlight, on the other hand, that Market Visitors Programme It is the program developed in the framework of Berlinale Co-Production Market, with networking activities and events for 200 emerging producers and new talents around the world. From February 16 to 19, it welcomed 10 young Spanish producers and producers selected by call. Among them were Madrid's Gem Archoring of Debut Films; Eva Bodas Gómez, among the Films stones; Charli Bujosa, from Mansalva Films; and Clara Santaolaya, Batiak Films.

New projects

The director's last project Alejandro Amenábar, The captive, based on the life of Miguel de Cervantes and that will begin to shoot in April, it has been presented at the European Film Market by the British film constellation. The captive will be produced by Fernando Bovaira for the Madrid producer Mod Producciones, Himenoptero (Spain) and Misent Producciones (Spain), in co -production with propaganda Italy (Italy), with the participation of Netflix and TVE, and with the support of Icaa, the Generalitat Valenciana and Eurimages.

For their part, Morena Films, Mediacrest, Audiovisual Strategy and Fandango presented the documentary in the Berlinale market The Sleeper, directed by Alvaro Longory, which tells the trip of a case Caravaggio since its discovery in a Madrid floor. In Spain, the project has the support of RTVE, with Caixaforum+ as associated producer, and with elastic films in national distribution. Fandango, in addition to a co -producer partner, is the international sales agent who has presented these days the project in European Film Market.