Catalonia’s biggest titles of 2025, “Romería” and “Sirat,” both Cannes competition hits, will screen at Tallinn. So will “Deaf,” a Berlin 2025 Panorama Audience Award winner. It is a mark of the volume of quality films now produced in Catalonia that this take on 12 Titles to Track takes in only titles which have hit festivals since Venice. Even so, it’s a baker’s dozen, and still omits titles s¡well worthy of selection such as “Strange River.”

Titles play out through the whole of Tallinn, from main competition (“The Good Daughter”), Tallinn’s TV Beats Co-Financing Market (“Dark Waters”) and Children’s Competition (“The Treasure of Barracuda”), to mention just a few sections.

Notably, 12 of the 13 titles, even if projects, are already international co-productions, with Belgium the co-production country of choice, partnering on five titles. A significant majority, eight, have female directors or creators.

A closer look at the titles:

“Climacteric,” (Liliana Torres, Edna Cinema, Distinto Films, Spain, Poland)

First pitched at Locarno’s Match Me! and now at Tallin’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market, the project reunites the team behind the 2024 SXSW winner “Mamífera:” Torres, actress Anna Alarcón and producers from Edna and Distinto Films. Alarcón plays a woman who transforms herself, aligning with nature and changing her reality when menopause converges with a world in destruction. “It’s an innovative and socially-relevant film that boldly addresses a universal yet silenced topic: menopause,” says producer Carla Sospedra Salvadó. “Blending intimate realism with elements of body horror, it offers a unique voice with strong international potential.”

“The Convulsions,” (“Les éclats,” David Gutiérrez, Imy Productions, Bapla Films, Auca Films, Cinètica Produccions, Timber Films, France, Spain)

A psychological drama starring Inès Fehner, Tom Weyn, Lizalou Weyn and Eïwa Roussel. In the Pyrenees, a couple try to live self-sufficiently in terms of food and energy. But when one of their daughters suddenly begins suffering from unexplained fainting spells, their choice is shaken and strange twists begin to happen. To be pitched at International Works in Progress.

“Dark Waters,” (“Aigües de Foscor,” Victor García, Amèlia Mora, Héctor Manteca, Lastor Media, Cataluña Federation Studios, Federation Spain, New Media ARC, Iceland)

Penned by Amèlia Mora, who wrote “Undercover,” Spain’s biggest box office breakout of 2024, and Hector Manteca (“The Meeting”) one of the big TV titles set to come out of Catalonia.

A psychological thriller tinged by the supernatural, it begins with Arnau, an Ebro Delta park warden, who discovers the corpse of a woman bearing the same birthmark he and his daughter have. In advanced development.

**“Emergency Exit,” **(Lluís Miñarro, Eddie Saeta, El Viaje Films, Spain)

14 disparate characters – an actress, her manager, a priest, two divas, an archeologist, a housewife and an evangelist – board a coach which they seem unable to leave. They can, however, talk, quarrel, fantasise, sleep and dream. The latest from Miñarro, a celebrated producer, behind Palme d’Or winner “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” and now notable director (“Fakking Star,” “Love Me Not”), a sometimes autobiographical “elegant kitsch” homage, he says, to ‘7os cinema, Buñuel, surrealism, buddhism, Hitchcockian back production and the undying fire of desire.

“Forastera,” (Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Vilaüt Films, Presenta, Lastor Media, La Perifèrica Produccions, Spain; Fox In The Snow, Sweden; Kino Produzioni, Italy)

Turning heads when it won a Toronto Fipresci International Critics’ Prize for Emerging Filmmakers this September and sold by Alpha Violet to the U.S. When her grandmother dies, teen Cata steps into her role and spirit, during a sun-drenched summer holiday in Mallorca. “Cleverly playing with taboo, an insightful, captivating look into the darker corners of grief through the familiar lens of a coming-of-age narrative,” says Variety. Produced by Miriam Porte’s Distinto Films, also behind “Deaf” and SXSW 2024 best performance laureate “Mamífera.”

“The Good Daughter,” (Júlia de Paz Solvas, Astra, Avalon, Krater Films, Belgium)

Written-directed by Júlia de Paz Solvas, a co-writer on Series Mania 2025’s top winner “Querer,” a drama which comes in at gender violence from the untutored viewpoint of Carmela, 15, who wants to be loyal to both of her separating parents, whatever her own cost. The eye opening, nuanced second feature from De Paz, a Variety 2021 Spanish Talent to Track, and her follow-up to her Málaga-winning debut “Ama.”

**“Frontera,” **(Judith Colell, Coming Soon, Diagonal, Crespeth Films, Spain; Bulletproof Cupid, Belgium)

Harnessing the period drama expertise of Banijay’s Diagonal and its key crew, a crossover of historical thriller and arthouse social point which characterizes Collel (“Elisa K.,” “15 Hours”). Set in a high Pyrenees village in 1943, a Catalan customs officer defies orders, helping Jews escape from Nazi-occupied France. Sold to Menemsha, studied in its craft, genuinely tense and gorgeously shot, highlighting the heavenly mountains and a historical hell.

**“The King of the Air” **(Laura Ferrés, Materia Cinema, La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma, Spain, France)

The sophomore pic from Ferrés after her Valladolid winner “The Permanent Picture” and multi-awarded Cannes-selected short “The Disinherited.” In the melodrama, co-written by Ferres and Chema García Ibarra (“The Sacred Spirit”), Pere is saved from suicide by Rosario and regains the will to live. However, Rosario is in love with Celeste, her financial dominatrix. Pere will try to take Celeste’s place in Rosario’s life. ”With her singular cinematic voice, Ferrés is preparing an unflinching film that will look into all angles of pain in our society, using humor and a heartfelt story to tell it,” says Materia Cinema’s Nadine Rothschild.

**“Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes,” **(“Anoche conquisté a Tebas,” Gabriel Azorín, Dvein Films, Filmika Galaika and Bando à Parte, Spain, Portugal)

In modern times, friends trudge through mud to ancient thermal Roman baths in Galicia’s countryside. There, the men confess their most heartfelt fears, past and ancient Roman present melding. Sold by MoreThan Films, a buzz title at September Venice Days, now breaking out abroad. “Shimmering with beauty and freighted with mystery, Gabriel Azorín’s feature debut is a cosmic hangout film that announces its director as a major new voice,” the Lincoln Center has recently proclaimed.

**“Puberty – Secrets, Lies, and Human Castles,” **(Leticia Dolera, Distinto Films, Corte y Confección de Películas, Uri Films, 3Cat, AT-Productions, Spain, Belgium)

An Ondas winner in Spain and a standout at The Wit’s Mipcom Fresh TV Fiction, displaying stunning visuals which no other series matched. A nuanced teen sexual abuse drama, set around a community of human castle builders and Dolera’s creator follow-up to top Canneseries prize winner “Perfect Life.” Sold by Beta Films, released by HBO Max in Spain and produced by two high-flying Catalan companies, Miriam Porte’s Distinto Films and Corte y Confección and Uri Films, both headed by “Sirât” producer Oriol Maymó.

“Three Goodbyes,” (Isabel Coixet, Cattleya, Ruvido Produzioni, Bartlebyfilm, Buena Pinta Media, Vision Distribution, Bteam Prods, Perdición Films, Tres Cuencos, Apaches Entertainment, Italy, Spain)

The latest from Coixet, the highest-profile Catalan director at Tallinn, adapting a short story collection by Italy’s Michela Murgia, who died of cancer at 51. Marta and Antonio, partners of many years, quarrel and suddenly break up. Flashing back to their time together, the film anticipates the final goodbye where Marta receives a devastating medical diagnosis. “In other hands, this would cue a standard disease-of-the-week weepie, but Coixet keeps the tone lightly wistful and wise,” Variety says.

“The Treasure of Barracuda,” (Adrià Garcia, Inicia Films, Hampa Studio, Belvision, Spain, Belgium)

Garcia’s first animated feature after Goya winner “Nocturna,” a whimsical 2D animated adventure preserving the charm of illustration in Llanos Campos’ popular novel, Sparks, a young orphan girl, joins a pirate crew in search of hidden treasure. “About pirates, yes, but also a moving fable about the power of reading to promote connection and the importance and value of chosen families,” *Variety *has written. “A film with style, quality, and a whole lot of personality,” says Ivan Díaz, at Filmax, which has rolled out sales on the title.

“Wolf Grrrls,” (“Salen las lobas,” Claudia Estrada Tarascó, Alba Sotorra, Paloma Productions, Novak Films, Spain, Belgium)

In International Works in Progress, the directorial debut of Claudia Estrada Tarascó. Luna, a misunderstood teenager, is accused of abuse by her father and sent to a juvenile detention center. The place is decaying and strict, but Luna refuses to give in to its rules. Through a shared interest in urban music, she grows close to Yanira, Rocío, and Melissa. Against all odds, they begin to dream of a future together outside the center.