Catalonia Pushes Beyond Arthouse

Ian de la Rosa’s “Iván & Hadoum,” world premiering in Panorama at this year’s Berlinale, is the most visible evidence of a wave of Catalan first features that has been nurtured by development labs, shorts programs and an institutional infrastructure now bearing fruit. De la Rosa’s trajectory is instructive. His short “Farrucas” won the Gaudí […]