The Filmin headquarters dawns with graffiti after the boycott over a documentary in regards to the altercations of the ‘procés’ | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

The audiovisual platform Filmin wakened this Tuesday morning to graffiti on its headquarters in Barcelona, ​​after the boycott it suffered for distributing a documentary in regards to the altercations of the course ofwherein brokers of the National Police are given a voice. “Filmin: collaborationists with Spanish repression”, might be learn on the corporate’s facade. What occurred has been unfold on social networks by the editorial director and co-founder of the corporate, Jaume Ripoll, by means of X. “How sad to arrive at the office and find this. “Pretty tousled, actually,” he wrote on his profile, accompanied by the image. The company has no intention of reporting the graffiti to the Mossos.

The graffiti has arrived after a boycott campaign through social networks due to the inclusion of the documentary in the Filmin catalog Icarus: the burning citywhich gives voice to national police officers stationed in Barcelona during the altercations of 2019, after the sentence of the process. The audiovisual report – from 2022 – premiered on January 9, and since then it has been gaining criticism on social networks, with a call to unsubscribe from the platform.

Filmin has not detailed how many people have actually canceled their subscription, and they say they are still studying the number. The company defended in a statement yesterday Monday that “scheduling a movie will not be equal to subscribing to its method.” And he insisted that they do not censor films for their “ideological orientation.” Despite this, Filmin, based in Barcelona, ​​assured that they understand the “discomfort and criticism” that the documentary has aroused, in the face of a society for which the altercations of 2019 “continue to be an open wound.”

The graffiti on the facade of Filmin is signed with the letters NS, which corresponds to the Nosaltres Sols! collective, accompanied by the black independence flag. This is a group of the pro-independence Catalan right, which emerged precisely after the protests against the sentence against the leaders of the processin 2019, with a lot of presence on social networks and made up of young people. “Enough of victimhood. Justifying your self as you probably did has penalties. We is not going to go away anybody who insults the victims alone. We will level you out so to painting yourselves,” the Nosaltres Sols account responded! through X to Jaume Ripoll. The president of Nosaltres Sols is David Silvestre, a influencer ultranationalist, with a very active account on TikTok.

15 years of history

Filmin was created in 2008, founded by three partners, Jaume Ripoll, the most media-friendly of them, José Antonio de Luna and Juan Carlos Tous. And two years later it launched its streaming independent film. Since then, it has not stopped growing. It achieved profitability in 2017, when it had also become responsible for the Atlàntida Film Festival, an event that was first exclusively virtual and then also held a physical edition in Mallorca each summer and which this year celebrates its 16th edition.

In 2021, the Spanish online cinema platform gave entry to the Nazca and Seaya funds to establish itself and internationalize. It was at that moment when he began to create original content for his catalog, productions with a marked Catalan accent in many of their cases: Doctor Portuondo, Self defense, Oswald. The forger y Selftapein addition to Second seasonwhich will premiere in the coming months. Since that year, it has also been the theatrical distributor of premieres by prominent independent directors such as Gaspar Noé, Leos Carax and Agustí Villaronga.

In 2023, the company had a turnover of 22.6 million euros, according to the Commercial Registry. Last year the door to its sale was opened, with a valuation that its owners estimate above 50 million euros and since then it has not found a buyer.

Despite its ambition, being a niche platform, with a user profile that seeks independent cinema, quality series and is a regular attendee of film festivals, has prevented it from reaching a large number of subscribers. According to the analysis of the market shares of subscription platforms (SVOD) in Spain, prepared by the guide of streaming JustWatch, in the fourth quarter of 2025 Filmin (including its Filmin Plus plan) drops one point compared to the previous year and maintains a share of 5%, behind Netflix (23%), Prime Video (18%), Disney + (17%), HBO Max (12%) and Apple TV (10%). In this way, the Spanish platform is ahead of Movistar Plus (4%), SkyShowtime (4%) and Atresplayer (2%).

On the opposite hand, within the OTT Barometer ready by GECA, Filmin is positioned behind all of them by way of penetration charge in Spain, even DANZ, specialised in sports activities broadcasting, between July and October 2025. On the opposite hand, it rises a number of locations by way of consumer analysis of the standard of its catalog.