Netflix marked its first decade in Spain with a red-carpet gala at Madrid’s Galería de Cristal on 10 June, where co-CEO Ted Sarandos pledged to invest more than €1 billion in local production between 2025 and 2028. The celebration also unveiled a new slate built around three of the country’s most recognisable faces.
Ester Expósito headlines Polo Menárguez’s psychological drama El Talento, shot last autumn in the Basque Country and set for a 5 September theatrical bow before streaming on Netflix. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s novella Fräulein Else, the film casts Expósito as a prodigy forced into a harrowing moral bargain, positioning the Élite alum for her highest-profile cinema role to date.
Álvaro Morte confirmed on RTVE’s Late Xou that he will lead Dos Tumbas, an eight-episode thriller written by the Carmen Mola collective and directed by Kike Maíllo, centred on the disappearance of two teenagers and driven by a grandmother-detective played by Kiti Mánver. Production is expected to begin in Galicia this autumn, continuing Morte’s partnership with the platform that made Money Heist a worldwide hit.
Úrsula Corberó, meanwhile, will front an as-yet-untitled millennial comedy set on Gran Canaria from filmmaker Manuela Burló Moreno, described by El Confidencial as a Spice Girls-era look at twentysomething disillusionment. The project follows her festival vehicle El Jockey, keeping the actor active on Netflix after recent heist caper Lift.
“Last year four Spanish titles landed in our global top 25,” noted Diego Ávalos, Netflix vice-president of content for Spain, Portugal and the Nordics, insisting the streamer will keep backing stories that “connect, inspire and reflect voices in every corner of the country”.
The company is simultaneously expanding its 10-stage Tres Cantos hub near Madrid and building on government incentives announced at the anniversary event. Industry analysts say demand for Spanish-language originals on the service has doubled since 2021, outpacing any other European market—a trend Netflix hopes to sustain with star power and genre variety rather than oversized budgets.
