Madrid’s ECAM Forum hands awards to seven projects and notes rising production costs
The three-day event at Matadero Madrid closed June 11 with awards across feature and series categories and drew nearly 800 participants.
VarietyMadrid’s ECAM Forum concluded its third edition on Thursday, June 11, 2026, at Matadero Madrid, handing out awards to seven projects in the Films to Come and ECAM Series Market sections. María Aparicio’s “Undefined Things II” (“Las cosas indefinidas II”) received the Last Push Award. Pauline Julier and Nicolas Chapoulier’s “The Indies” (“Les Indes”) received a special jury mention.
Víctor Diago’s “The Unmoving Hands” (“Las manos quietas”) won the Filmin Award. Ángel Filguera’s “Handen” received the IFFR Rotterdam Award. Víctor Iriarte’s “Snow Country” received the Screen International Award.
Enrique Buleo’s “Palomita Errante” won both the Madrid Film Office and Equipo SOPA prizes. ” In the ECAM Series Market, “La caldera” by Laura López Fuertes, Jaime Pérez Fernández and Juan Sánchez Gómez won the Series Mania Forum Award. “El observatorio” by Laura Roqué, Eloy Zamora and Luis Sorolla received the Serializados Award.
The forum drew close to 800 accredited participants, including festival programmers, sales agents, distributors, producers, fund representatives and institutional players. Questions of identity, memory, displacement and contemporary uncertainty ran through the program, alongside discussion of how independent cinema can finance itself and travel internationally.
” Carlos Antón of the Madrid Audiovisual Cluster, EGEDA and Crea SGR said Crea SGR finances more than €400 million ($465 million) a year in Spanish audiovisual and cultural projects.
Alauda Ruiz de Azuá, Goya-winning director of “Lullaby” and creator-director of Movistar Plus+’s “Querer,” described her instinct as one of withdrawal. Sandra Romero, whose feature debut “Por donde pasa el silencio” premiered in San Sebastián’s New Directors section, joined the discussion.
