Five Spanish productions, nominated for the Prix Europa 2025

Los Prix Europa 2025 Awards, an initiative of the European Parliament that since 1987 has recognized the best television, radio and digital media productions from the old continent, has nominated five projects with a Spanish signature, which have been chosen among the 583 projects that 261 European production companies have submitted to this 2025 edition.

Tamayazo. The podcast, of RNE Audio, will compete in the Best Audio Research category. Prepared by Juanjo Cubero and Aitor Sánchez, this 10-episode series details one of the biggest scandals in Spanish politics. It happened on June 10, 2003, when two socialist deputies - Eduardo Tamayo and María Teresa Sáez - left the Madrid Assembly just before it began to be established. His escape blew up the left-wing majority that had left the polls 16 days earlier and prevented Rafael Simancas from becoming president of the Community of Madrid. On July 9, the format already received the Ondas Globales Podcast Award in the Best Script category. The jury highlighted “the deep look at a historical episode with a script that maintains its relevance 20 years later.”

RTVE, this time through his Lab, has a second nomination in the Digital Media category: '100 years of radio'. This initiative promoted on the occasion of the centenary of radio in Spain is a escape room digital in which the user can access 11 independent rooms, each set in a different decade and in which the history of radio is the protagonist. In each room, several audios play that guide the player to interact with the objects and solve the puzzles they hide.

‘And faran a home’ from 3Cat will seek to be recognized in the category of Best Video Documentary. initiative no fiction, The format is the result of a year of research to uncover the structural violence against young people who did mandatory military service during the first years of democracy. Forty years after the events, 10 witnesses recount on camera all types of violence that has marked their lives: beatings, screams, beatings, insults, torture and even rape by veteran soldiers, often under the influence of alcohol and with the consent of military commanders.

It also sneaks into the category of Best Video Fiction Puberty, family drama created, directed and performed by Leticia Dolera produced by Distinto Films, Film Cutting and Making, Uri Films and 3Cat in co-production with the Belgian company AT-Productions and which premiered on Max. Set in the middle of summer and in the cultural context of the Catalan castle tradition, this family drama explores the weight of taboo and psychological inheritance transmitted from generation to generation.

The Spanish representation in the Prix Europa 2025 concludes with His name was like me, which will try to prevail in the Audio Documentary category. This format of It is spoken along with EITB It is the story "of a woman who inherited the name of her sister, who died two years before she was born, a victim of a bomb, in a train station. It is the story of a silence: that of a family that secretly experienced the grief of that girl. A thick, everyday silence, in which it seemed impossible to investigate."