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Normal presence of Catalan in cinemas gets closer than ever

The Catalan Government, through its Minister of Culture, Joan Manel Tresserras, has long been working on a new law to make it possible for Catalan citizens to choose whether they want to watch a film in Catalan, Spanish or in its original version. Nowadays, 89,3% of film projections in Catalan cinemas are in [...]

Major film distributors despise regional governments

The Catalan Government is working on a new law to ensure that (at least) half of the films shown in Catalonia are dubbed in Catalan. Today, finding a film in Catalan is sort of an impossible mission , because at least 90% of the films in our cinemas are dubbed in Spanish. Regretfully, after 30 years of [...]

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