Reported abuse cases at the Film Academy have tripled.

BarcelonaForty-six people, thirty-nine as victims and seven as witnesses, have spent the last eighteen months in the Acadèmia del Cinema Català's service for victims of gender-based violence. The figure almost triples that of the previous nineteen months of the service's existence: between May 2022 and December 2023, the Academy assisted seventeen people in total, 37% of whom it has assisted during 2024 and the first six months of 2025. In this last year and a half, 82% of sexual assaults occurred in the workplace, 11% in academic contexts, and 7% in couples or community settings.

The Academy attributes the increase in numbers to "the consolidation of the service" and "greater trust on the part of victims," as well as "earlier detection of cases." The growth in victim care is especially significant during 2024, when thirty-three people were assisted. However, the Academy notes that individualized care this year is limited to seventeen cases and that the rest "have been handled in collective sessions and no information has been collected [...] individually."

The Academy does not specify in its report the number of alleged aggressors reported by victims and witnesses during this period, which coincides with the scandal involving filmmaker and former member of the organization Eduard Cortés, a case that uncovered An investigation by ARA journalists Núria Juanico and Albert Llimós that brought together 25 witnesses of the director's victims, some of whom went to the Academy's victim assistance service. Shortly after, the Cortés victims' group, which according to its spokesperson is made up of fifty-two people, He lamented through a statement that "the protocols of industries and academies" had not been sufficient and that they should go "beyond the creation of commissions, white papers, and special days." In January, finally, An Academy commission concluded that Cortés committed sexual cyberbullying and sexual blackmail. Several actresses and cultural professionals were present, but no action was taken against the director because he had already resigned as a member.

Direct complaints, temporality, and the desire for reparation

While in 2023, all inquiries to the service were made by victims—except for one by a confessed abuser—in 2024, 91% of inquiries were made by victims themselves; the rest were made by witnesses of the abuse. And during the first six months of 2025, the number of complaints made by victims fell to 70%. During 2024, 60% of cases referred to recent situations and 40% to situations from the past, while during the first months of 2025, 100% of the reported situations were recent or ongoing.

The Academy also highlights in its report that thirteen people served in 2024 and five in the first half of 2025 expressed a firm desire to file a legal or public complaint or activate internal protocols, a figure that reflects a significant increase compared to the proportion of complaints filed in 2022. Furthermore, in 2024, fourteen people received psychological counseling and twenty people received legal advice, while in 2025, so far, only six people have accessed psychological care and none have required legal advice.