People watch “The Sundays” at the Verdi cinema, one of the oldest in the city of Barcelona, Spain, on March 7, 2026. Spanish cinema has entered a new and more diverse era, film experts say. Oliver Laxe, the director of Oscar-nominated “Sirat,” embodies the shift. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times) By JASON HOROWITZ Late one September night in a karaoke bar in northern Spain, two giants of Spanish cinema got into a tiff. Oliver Laxe, whose work was nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars…
