Choose the world you would like to live in at DocsBarcelona Festival
With in-person and online activities, the event starts on May 18th with 'Balandrau, infern glaçat,' by Guille Cascante.
33 feature films from 33 different countries, so viewers can choose the world they would like to live in – that’s how this year's festival is advertised. We are talking about DocsBarcelona, which will feature a series of documentaries at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and the Aribau Multicines from May 18th to 30th. The films will also be available to watch at home thanks to Filmin.
The festival, which also includes 11 short films, be divided between the Official Panorama Section (a competitive section with a selection of the most relevant documentaries of the international scene), the Official Latitud Section (with films from the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America), the special sessions (with works from outside the competition), and the Doc-U space (dedicated to the documentary talent from Catalonia’s higher education centers).
The event will open with Balandrau, infern glaçat, Guille Cascante’s film about the blizzard that nine people lost their lives to in the Pyrenees. The closing piece, a documentary by Barak Heymann on the Israeli artist and sculptor Dani Karavan. All in all, the DcosBarcelona will feature a highly diverse range of topics: Notturno, by Gianfranco Rosi, which focuses on the armed conflicts in Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon; To the Moon, by Tadhg O'Sullivan, a visual poem made from 130 sequences from cinema's history; or Cuban Dancer, by Roberto Salinas, which tells the story of a ballet student who emigrates to Florida with his parents.
Check the program’s full details here.