ESCAPE TO THE SUN
Can you watch it all?
Our Programmes
Lots of films, short films and bonus tracks to keep you entertained until Christmas.
CATALAN FEATURES
Some of the most anticipated Catalan and Spanish films of the year.
Transoceánicas
Armugán
Sedimentos
Sediments
El Ventre del Mar
The belly of the sea
Libertad
Freedom
CATALAN SHORTS
Short films continue to be at the heart of the festival. Discover our three special editions.
Programmes
CATALAN CLASSICS & SPECIALS
We recover a classic of Catalan cinema and a special TV documentary.
Los Tarantos
Las Sinsombrero
The Exiled
FOCUS ON
Meritxell Colell’s award-winning debut film CON EL VIENTO premiered in Berlinale, and her second feature TRANSOCEÁNICAS was selected in Chicago, Nara and Gijón Festivals and is now coming to Scotland. Meritxell will join us in person for some of the in-person screenings in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
In this retrospective, we follow Meritxell across the years as she approaches the work of great artists, from painters like Miró, poets like Verlaine, architecture masters like Le Corbusier, and contemporary dance pioneers like Mónica García.
Since 2007, she combines her work with the pedagogy of cinema within Cinema en Curs an international film education project where she works with other filmmakers such as Carla Simón, Jonás Trueba, Lluís Galter.
Features
Con el Viento
Facing the Wind
Short Films
Interiors
Architectures in Silence
Manuscript to the City
More Than a Book
Ocean Feeling
Cinema en Curs
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
FOCUS ON
We are immensely proud to offer a retrospective on the cinema of Clara Roquet celebrating the release of her first feature LIBERTAD, which premiered at Semaine de la Critique Cannes 2021 and is likely to be one of the Spanish films of the year.
The backbone of Clara Roquet’s cinema (when she directs and when she writes for others) is empathy for those left off the screen: often maids, castaways, those disinherited. Like Lucrecia Martel with Argentina’s bourgeoisie, Roquet’s interest in depicting a Catalan bourgeois class is constant. Her films are often set in big mansions and summer houses in the wealthy Costa Brava region.
In our first edition of the Catalan Film Festival, we opened with El Adiós, Clara Roquet’s first short film. We immediately found an immense talent to be excited about, to keep track of, and to support. Now, six years later, we are incredibly happy to offer a retrospective on Clara Roquet’s films to date.
Features
As scriptwriter
Els Dies Que Vindran
10.000km
L’Ofrena
The offering
Short Films
El Adios
The good bye
Les Bones Nenes
Good girls
TALKS & GUESTS
WORKSHOPS
The workshop proposes a link between viewing and creation. Watching fragments of films by great filmmakers, we will envision a collective portrait of our town, our family, our neighbours. A portrait of people and spaces that form part of our everyday lives and that we will capture with our cameras to create a visual symphony. We will delve into a cinema rooted in reality, whose special quality stems from its gaze and its close link to observation.
We will address two tasks:
Filming the world by paying attention to light, the cinematographic potential of spaces, framing, and composition.
Portraits. What is a portrait, how to portray people: distance, gaze, light, framing, the relation between figure and background.
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In this talk Clara Roquet will guide us through her creative process and her journey from scriptwriting to film direction.
Coinciding with the UK premiere of LIBERTAD and the retrospective we dedicate to her previous work, we are proud to have Clara Roquet in person in Edinburgh for a special Director’s Talk, part of Scotland’s Catalan Film Festival.
A unique chance to get to know Clara Roquet, one of Spain’s key contemporary filmmakers.
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A group of trans women from Barcelona go on a rural trip, exchanging stories about their experiences. Is it a story of victimization or a story of collective resilience and overcoming?
This panel discussion will bring together a group of trans, queer, and feminist perspectives to reflect on this question and others in connection with Adrián Silvestre’s documentary Sedimentos. Audience members are invited to join the discussion, which will touch on various aspects relating to trans representation, inclusivity, commonality and wellbeing in film.
Speakers: Indigo Korres, Isaias Fanlo, Aitana Yanez Zambrano, Inma de Reyes, Ren Clarke
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SPECIAL GUESTS
Invisible Women (Camilla Baier & Rachel Pronger) is an archive activist film collective that champions the work of female filmmakers from the history of cinema.
For this edition of the Catalan Film Festival, we invited Rachel and Camilla to respond to the rich, vast and beautiful theme of “filmed letters between women cineastes“. A result is a special event on Sunday 28 November at GFT where we will be showing TRANSOCEANICAS and A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES, followed by a conversation between Catalan director Meritxell Colell and Invisible Women.
For the screening of our short film programmes, we are delighted to partner up with Sanne Jehoul and Matt Lloyd, the founders and directors of Glasgow Short Film Festival.
Not only will Sanne and Matt introduce the short film screenings at our venues in Glasgow and Dundee, but Sanne, who also works as a distributor for Square Eyes, will be offering mentoring workshops for the filmmakers featured in our short film programmes, advising them on how to break into the international festival circuit and find distributors for their films.
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Online Passes
You can watch individual films or get a full pass to watch the lot. There 2 retrospectives that can e enjoyed individually or as part of the festival pass.Pick your choice.
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