A Contracorriente Films is a Spanish film distribution and production company. It is based in Barcelona.
History The company was founded in 2009 in Barcelona by Adolfo Blanco along with other people, including Amalia Blanco Lucas, Eduardo Escudero de Zuloaga, and Sergio González Páez. The Cove was the first film distributed by the company.
Since 2014, A Contracorriente has also operated as an exhibitor by purchasing some theatres, including Cines Verdi (in Madrid and Barcelona). In 2021, investment fund Suma Capital acquired a 40% stake in A Contracorriente Films. In 2022, A Contracorriente released a subscription and rental streaming service, Acontra+. In 2024, A Contracorriente Films purchased the 100% of anime distributor .
Releases
+ Release date Title Director(s) 26 April 2013 Yesterday Never Ends Isabel Coixet 1 January 2014 Turning Tide Christophe Offenstein 30 April 2014 Carmina and Amen Paco León 4 June 2015 Requirements to Be a Normal Person Leticia Dolera 13 November 2015 An Autumn Without Berlin Lara Izagirre 4 December 2015 Food and Shelter Juan Miguel del Castillo 12 April 2017 Black Snow Martín Hodara 10 November 2017 The Bookshop Isabel Coixet 2 March 2018 Empowered Santiago Segura 4 May 2018 Hopelessly Devout Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz 13 July 2018 The Best Summer of My Life Dani de la Orden 15 March 2019 Mirai Mamoru Hosoda 29 March 2019 Get Her... If You Can Inés de León 13 September 2019 Litus Dani de la Orden 4 October 2019 Seventeen Daniel Sánchez Arévalo 18 October 2019 The Goya Murders Gerardo Herrero 22 November 2019 Out in the Open Benito Zambrano 14 February 2020 The Wedding Unplanner Dani de la Orden 5 May 2020 Vivarium Lorcan Finnegan 7 August 2020 Color Out of Space Richard Stanley 18 September 2020 One for All David Ilundain 19 February 2021 New Order Michel Franco 26 April 2021 Peninsula Yeon Sang-ho 10 September 2021 Carpoolers Martín Cuervo 3 December 2021 Love Gets a Room Rodrigo Cortés 18 March 2022 Code Name: Emperor Jorge Coira 13 May 2022 Unfinished Affairs Juan Miguel del Castillo 27 May 2022 The Dinner Guest Ángeles González-Sinde 29 July 2022 Football Heroes of the Block Ángeles Reiné 30 September 2022 Argentina 1985 Santiago Mitre 14 October 2022 Wild Flowers Jaime Rosales 28 October 2022 Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness Benjamin Mousquet, Ben Stassen 11 November 2022 The Beasts Rodrigo Sorogoyen 2 December 2022 Cork Mikel Gurrea 13 January 2023 The Substitute Diego Lerman 28 April 2023 Someone Who Takes Care of Me Daniela Fejerman, Elvira Lindo 2 June 2023 The Enchanted Elena Trapé 9 June 2023 Father & Soldier Mathieu Vadepied 23 June 2023 Not Such an Easy Life Félix Viscarret 11 August 2023 Godland Hlynur Pálmason 25 August 2023A Giant AdventureEduardo Schuldt 1 September 2023 Jump! Olga Osorio 15 September 2023 Friends Till Death Javier Veiga 6 October 2023 Chinas, a Second Generation Story Arantxa Echevarría 11 October 2023 Sound of Freedom Alejandro Monteverde 27 October 2023 The Movie Teller Lone Scherfig 1 December 2023 The Night My Dad Saved Christmas Joaquín Mazón 20 December 2023 The Taste of Things Tran Anh Hung 12 January 2024 Perfect Days Wim Wenders 2 February 2024 The Teachers' Lounge İlker Çatak 8 March 2024 The Extortion Martino Zaidelis 15 March 2024 Radical Christopher Zalla 19 April 2024 Dragonkeeper Salvador Simó, Li Jianping 1 May 2024 La casa Álex Montoya 31 May 2024 A Difficult Year Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache 28 June 2024 Invasión David Martín Porras 3 July 2024 The Bus of Life Ibon Cormenzana 23 August 2024 Mr. Blake at Your Service! Gilles Legardinier 6 September 2024 The 47 Marcel Barrena 13 September 2024 Artificial Justice Simón Casal 20 September 2024Milagros: An Extraordinary BearEduardo Schuldt 15 November 2024 The Last Romantics David Pérez Sañudo 22 November 2024 The Girls at the Station Juana Macías 20 December 2024 The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés Antón Álvarez 31 January 2025 The Party's Over Elena Manrique 7 March 2025 Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra 4 April 2025 Deaf Eva Libertad 11 April 2025 The Second Act Quentin Dupieux 9 May 2025 This Too Shall Pass Maria Ripoll 16 May 2025 El cuento del lobo Norberto López Amado 23 May 2025 The Exiles Belén Funes 6 June 2025 Cuatro paredes Ibon Cormenzana 18 July 2025 Bob Trevino Likes It Tracie Laymon 22 August 2025 The Return Uberto Pasolini 3 October 2025 Loveable Lilja Ingolfsdottir 17 October 2025 The Dinner Manuel Gómez Pereira 28 November 2025 Flores para Antonio Elena Molina, Isaki Lacuesta 5 December 2025 Golpes Rafael Cobos 20 February 2026 My Wife Is a Ghost Maria Ripoll 1 April 2026 Welcome to Lapland David Serrano 15 May 2026 Pizza Movies Carlo Padial 26 June 2026 North to Paradise Dani Sancho 24 July 2026 The Birthday Party Miguel Ángel Jiménez 7 August 2026 The Open Window Ana Graciani 21 August 2026 On Fire Estel Díaz 21 August 2026 Broken Voices Ondřej Provazník 26 August 2026 The Beloved Rodrigo Sorogoyen 4 September 2026 Swarm Óscar Bernàcer
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