Belén Funes

{{short description|Spanish film director}}

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| name = Belén Funes

| image = Malaga Film Festival 2025 - Belén Funes.jpg

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| caption = Funes in 2025

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| birth_date = 1984

| birth_place = Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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| education = ESCAC

| years_active = 2010s–present

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Belén Funes (born 1984) is a Catalan film director.Alfonso Rivera, [https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/463450/ "Belén Funes putting the finishing touches to her second feature, Los Tortuga"]. Cineuropa, 13 June 2024. She is most noted for her 2019 feature film debut A Thief's Daughter (La hija de un ladrón), for which she won the Gaudí Award for Best Director at the 12th Gaudí Awards,{{Cite web|url=https://www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/xii-premis-gaudi-totes-les-nominacions/|website=VilaWeb|title=‘Els dies que vindran’, film guanyador dels XII Premis Gaudí|date=20 January 2020}} and the Goya Award for Best New Director at the 34th Goya Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/premios-goya/2020/01/25/5e2ad93121efa066068b458f.html|website=El Mundo|date=26 January 2020|title=Ganadores de los Premios Goya 2020: lista completa}}

Born in Barcelona, Funes earned a degree from the ESCAC and continued her filmmaking education in Cuba.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diarideterrassa.com/terrassa/2018/10/26/drama-rodado-terrassa/|website=Diari de Terrassa|date=26 October 2018|first=Dolors|last=Font|title=Un drama rodado en Terrassa}}