A Contracorriente Films

A Contracorriente Films is a Spanish film distribution and production company. It is based in Barcelona.

A Contracorriente Films

Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Headquarters	Barcelona , Spain
Products	Motion pictures
Services	Film distribution/production

History

The company was founded in 2009 in Barcelona by Adolfo Blanco along with other Notro Films [es] people,^[1][2][3] including Amalia Blanco Lucas, Eduardo Escudero de Zuloaga, and Sergio González Páez.^[4] The Cove was the first film distributed by the company.^[4]

Since 2014, A Contracorriente has also operated as an exhibitor by purchasing some theatres, including Cines Verdi (in Madrid and Barcelona).^[5] In 2021, investment fund Suma Capital acquired a 40% stake in A Contracorriente Films.^[6] In 2022, A Contracorriente released a subscription and rental streaming service, Acontra+.^[7] In 2024, A Contracorriente Films purchased the 100% of anime distributor SelectaVisión [es].^[8]

Releases

Filmax films released in the 2020s

Release date[n. 1]	Title	Director(s)	Ref.
26 April 2013	Yesterday Never Ends	Isabel Coixet	[9]
1 January 2014	Turning Tide	Christophe Offenstein	[10]
30 April 2014	Carmina and Amen	Paco León	[11]
4 June 2015	Requirements to Be a Normal Person	Leticia Dolera	[12]
13 November 2015	An Autumn Without Berlin	Lara Izagirre	[13]
4 December 2015	Food and Shelter	Juan Miguel del Castillo	[14]
12 April 2017	Black Snow	Martín Hodara	[15]
10 November 2017	The Bookshop	Isabel Coixet	[16]
2 March 2018	Empowered	Santiago Segura	[17]
13 July 2018	The Best Summer of My Life	Dani de la Orden	[18]
15 March 2019	Mirai	Mamoru Hosoda	[19]
29 March 2019	Get Her... If You Can	Inés de León	[20]
13 September 2019	Litus	Dani de la Orden	[21]
4 October 2019	Seventeen	Daniel Sánchez Arévalo	[22]
18 October 2019	The Goya Murders	Gerardo Herrero	[23]
22 November 2019	Out in the Open	Benito Zambrano	[24]
14 February 2020	The Wedding Unplanner	Dani de la Orden	[25]
5 May 2020	Vivarium	Lorcan Finnegan	[26]
7 August 2020	Color Out of Space	Richard Stanley	[27]
18 September 2020	One for All	David Ilundain	[28]
19 February 2021	New Order	Michel Franco	[29]
26 April 2021	Peninsula	Yeon Sang-ho	[30]
10 September 2021	Carpoolers	Martín Cuervo	[31]
3 December 2021	Love Gets a Room	Rodrigo Cortés	[32]
18 March 2022	Code Name: Emperor	Jorge Coira	[33]
13 May 2022	Unfinished Affairs	Juan Miguel del Castillo	[34]
27 May 2022	The Dinner Guest	Ángeles González-Sinde	[35]
29 July 2022	Football Heroes of the Block	Ángeles Reiné	[36]
30 September 2022	Argentina 1985	Santiago Mitre	[37]
14 October 2022	Wild Flowers	Jaime Rosales	[38]
28 October 2022	Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness	Benjamin Mousquet, Ben Stassen	[39]
11 November 2022	The Beasts	Rodrigo Sorogoyen	[40]
2 December 2022	Cork	Mikel Gurrea	[41]
13 January 2023	The Substitute	Diego Lerman	[42]
28 April 2023	Someone Who Takes Care of Me	Daniela Fejerman, Elvira Lindo	[43]
2 June 2023	The Enchanted	Elena Trapé	[44]
9 June 2023	Father & Soldier	Mathieu Vadepied	[45]
23 June 2023	Not Such an Easy Life	Félix Viscarret	[46]
11 August 2023	Godland	Hlynur Pálmason	[47]
25 August 2023	A Giant Adventure	Eduardo Schuldt	[48]
1 September 2023	Jump!	Olga Osorio	[49]
15 September 2023	Friends Till Death	Javier Veiga	[50]
6 October 2023	Chinas, a Second Generation Story	Arantxa Echevarría	[51]
11 October 2023	Sound of Freedom	Alejandro Monteverde	[52]
27 October 2023	The Movie Teller	Lone Scherfig	[53]
1 December 2023	The Night My Dad Saved Christmas	Joaquín Mazón	[54]
20 December 2023	The Taste of Things	Tran Anh Hung	[55]
12 January 2024	Perfect Days	Wim Wenders	[56]
2 February 2024	The Teachers' Lounge	İlker Çatak	[57]
8 March 2024	The Extortion	Martino Zaidelis	[58]
15 March 2024	Radical	Christopher Zalla	[59]
19 April 2024	Dragonkeeper	Salvador Simó, Li Jianping	[60]
1 May 2024	La casa	Álex Montoya	[61]
31 May 2024	A Difficult Year	Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache	[62]
28 June 2024	Invasión	David Martín Porras	[63]
3 July 2024	The Bus of Life	Ibon Cormenzana	[64]
23 August 2024	Mr. Blake At Your Service!	Gilles Legardinier	[65]
6 September 2024	The 47	Marcel Barrena	[66]
13 September 2024	Artificial Justice	Simón Casal	[67]
20 September 2024	Milagros: An Extraordinary Bear	Eduardo Schuldt	[68]
15 November 2024	The Last Romantics	David Pérez Sañudo	[69]
22 November 2024	The Girls at the Station	Juana Macías	[70]
20 December 2024	The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés	Antón Álvarez	[71]
31 January 2025	The Party's Over	Elena Manrique	[72]
7 March 2025	Afternoons of Solitude	Albert Serra	[73]
4 April 2025	Deaf	Eva Libertad	[74]
11 April 2025	The Second Act	Quentin Dupieux	[75]
9 May 2025	This Too Shall Pass	Maria Ripoll	[76]
16 May 2025	El cuento del lobo	Norberto López Amado	[77]
23 May 2025	The Exiles	Belén Funes	[78]
6 June 2025	Cuatro paredes	Ibon Cormenzana	[79]

Notes

1. The listed date refers to the film's theatrical release in Spain by A Contracorriente Films, not necessarily its first screening or when it premiered.