Swarm

Plot

Lluc, a civil engineer who is going through a rough patch, arrives in an isolate rural community run by Alba in the hamlet of Malpàs, and manages to find his place in the seemingly idyllic community, but eventually the perversion of the system devised by Alba threatens him.

Production

Known under the working title of En L'Eixam ('In the Swarm') during the production stage, the film was produced by Nakamura Films, Maqueta Films, and Corte y Confección de Películas. It had the participation of Netflix, RTVE, À Punt, and CreaSGR. Shooting locations in the Valencian Community included Bejís, El Toro, Torás, Chelva, and Calles.

Release

Distributed by A Contracorriente Films, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 4 September 2026. Feelsales secured international sales.

Reception

Raquel Hernández Luján of HobbyConsolas gave the film a 67-point score, highlighting "how the mood gradually thickens as the film progresses, eventually creating a suffocating atmosphere”" as the best thing about it.

Carmen L. Lobo of La Razón gave the film a 3½ star rating, singling out "its unsettling atmosphere" and the way "the filmmaker knows how to keep the tension going throughout", as the best things about it.

In a 3-star rating, Luis Martínez of El Mundo assessed that the film "fully achieves its goal of disorienting, unsettling, and under no circumstances allowing the viewer to settle in".

Philipp Engel of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be a tense rural thriller that, overall, works very well, mentioning the film's apparent effort to prove that community life doesn't work as the only potential drawback.