# A Contracorriente Films

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 Notro Films [es] 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 SelectaVisión [es].

## Releases

Filmax films released in the 2020s :
| Release date | Title | Director(s) |
| 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 |
| 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 2023 | A Giant Adventure | Eduardo 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 2024 | Milagros: An Extraordinary Bear | Eduardo 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 |
| 9 May 2025 | This Too Shall Pass | Maria Ripoll |
| 23 May 2025 | The Exiles | Belén Funes |