Changelog

Special dossiers: Palestinian and Sahrawi cinema

• — A new section on the front page, between “Find your cinema” and the dossiers: the special dossiers, in-depth pieces on a particular cinema and the conditions it exists in.
• — The first two: Palestinian cinema —from the 1968 Palestine Film Unit to the archive looted in Beirut— and Sahrawi cinema, with FiSahara and the film school in the Tindouf camps.
• — Each dossier brings a chronology, a festival, cited sources and an annotated selection of films linking to their pages. All of it written in full in the five languages.

Where to watch, filming maps and the site without /es

• — The site drops the “/es”: the home page is now plain cinearchive.es and Spanish addresses carry no prefix. The other languages keep theirs (/en, /gl, /eu, /ca) and old links still work.
• — “Where to watch” goes from 9 countries to 131 and no longer runs out halfway through the month: the data now arrives inside the request the film page was making anyway.
• — Discover gains a platform filter (region, that country’s services, and how you watch: subscription, free, with ads, rental or purchase), an exact year instead of only decades, a results counter and seven ways to sort.
• — The filters you have applied are listed one by one and can be removed separately, without losing the rest.
• — Film pages can now show a map of the shooting locations, telling an exact spot apart from an approximate city. The data comes from Wikidata and is not always there.
• — Find your cinema: “use my location” works now, the map follows the site’s own look, every venue has directions, and venues that used to be missing show up, such as Multicines Los Arcos in Seville.
• — Cine Archive can be installed on your phone as an app, and there is now an RSS feed of what’s new.
• — Public pages are cached: they load noticeably faster and the archive copes better with visitors.

Discover takes much better aim

• — Genres combine the way you want: you can ask for all of them at once or any of them, and also rule out the ones you would rather not see.
• — New filters for minimum rating, number of votes, running time and original language.
• — Advanced filters fold away so they do not overwhelm, and everything still works without JavaScript: they are checkboxes and links.
• — Fixed the genre and country labels, which came out empty in Galician, Basque and Catalan.

Find your cinema, proper lists and a shareable profile

• — New “Find your cinema” section: search venues by city or postcode and see them on a map, using open data from OpenStreetMap.
• — Lists now use their own dialogs instead of browser alerts, can be shared when public, and deleting them no longer fails.
• — The profile picture comes with a cropper: you choose the framing and the image is compressed on its own before uploading.
• — Your profile and your reviews can be shared as a story image, with the poster in the background and a QR code.
• — Film pages change address: they are now /film/donnie-darko-141 instead of a bare number.
• — Open Cinema adds five films from the 2000s and 2010s, each with its licence in plain sight.
• — A new frequently asked questions page, and the accessibility one redesigned from top to bottom.

Editable reviews and shareable profiles

• — You can now edit or delete your review from its own page, when it is yours.
• — Your profile has a “Share” button that copies the link (or opens the share sheet on mobile), with no need to copy the URL by hand.
• — In the menu, “For you” is highlighted when you are in that section, and the sign-out button is now a more compact icon.
• — The archive adds more current open-access film journals (from 2000 onwards).
• — The “film of the day” is no longer limited to recent releases: it rotates across decades of film history.

Reviews come into their own

• — Every review now has its own page, showing the date you wrote it, reachable from your profile or anyone else’s.
• — From a review you can jump straight to the film’s page.
• — Your favourite films and your watchlist now appear on your public profile.
• — The interface is available in five languages —Spanish, English, Galician, Basque and Catalan— with a new language switcher.
• — Opening a list from a profile now takes you back to that profile.

Profiles and community, refined

• — Link your Instagram account from your public profile settings.
• — Enlarge any user’s profile photo with a click.
• — Manage your connections: remove followers or unfollow, with confirmation.
• — The followers and following window now appears centred.
• — More varied recommendations: all your favourite genres and directors are considered, not just a few.
• — New changelog page (this one), reachable from the footer.

Social layer

• — Public or private profiles with a username (@).
• — Follow other people; on private profiles, through a follow request.
• — Profile photo, bio and a user search box in the navigation bar.
• — Your reviews and lists marked as public are shown on your profile.
• — Notifications for requests and new followers.

The archive grows

• — Open cinema: a public-domain film viewer within the Film Library.
• — Reading library, themed dossiers and film figures.
• — Atlas of filming locations, glossary and timeline of movements.
• — Awards: Academy Award for Best Picture, Palme d’Or and Goya.
• — “On this day” ephemeris on the home page.

Launch

• — An editorial, brutalist film archive, bilingual (Spanish and English).
• — Film catalogue with detail pages, ratings and personal reviews.
• — Custom lists and a watchlist.
• — Recommendations based on your taste and stats on your activity.
• — A periodicals library of public-domain film magazines.