Albert Serra – In Conversation With China’s Bi Gan – and Carla Simón, Nicolás Méndez, Turbo Shorts Capture Spain’s Creative Take-Off at Shanghai 

Jun 17, 2026 11:22pm PT Albert Serra – In Conversation With China’s Bi Gan – and Carla Simón, Nicolás Méndez, Turbo Shorts Capture Spain’s Creative Take-Off at Shanghai 

A three-part Shanghai program, Stories Travel Further – Literature and Cinema in Spain-China Dialogue, forms part of the Spain – Where Talent Ignites campaign, unleashed at Cannes with three shorts

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(L-R) Albert Serra, Bi Gan Courtesy Getty, Les Films du Losange

In the last two years, Spanish directors have had more films in Cannes Festival main competition – five – than any other country in the world. 

On June 17, Prime Video announced that Spain was its No. 1 non-English export force, recently scoring as many hits in its Non-English Global Top 10 films as the rest of the world put together.

Clearly, as Thierry Frémaux put it explaining three Spanish competition titles this year, Spain is living a “movement.” 

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