Overview

• Queen Letizia delivered a pre-recorded message aired June 20 to commemorate a decade of TVE La2’s 'Historia de nuestro cine'.
• She praised the series for treating Spanish cinema with respect and teaching viewers that the nation’s filmmakers are neither distant figures nor confined to a single genre.
• The Queen underscored that both acclaimed and less successful Spanish films serve as cultural mirrors reflecting their era’s ways of speaking, dressing and living.
• In her remarks she invoked directors Luis Buñuel and Luis García Berlanga to illustrate cinema’s power to blend imagination, contradiction and enduring emotional resonance.
• Filmed in the palace studio against a backdrop of iconic Spanish film posters, the video concluded with Letizia wishing “larga vida al cine” and celebrating the show’s ongoing contribution to national culture.