‘Distances’, ‘Superlópez’ and ‘Petitet’, some of the films showing in July at Pantalla Barcelona
Other options include the animated film Black is Beltza and Mar Targarona’s film The Photographer of Mauthausen.
The Pantalla Barcelona programme is offering six showings this July. One already took place, on 4 July: Superlópez. If you didn’t make it, don’t worry: this film starring Dani Rovira and directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera will be screened again on 16 July at 10 pm at the Can Basté Civic Centre. Before that, on 5 July, we will have the chance to see Distances, by Elena Trapé, which tells the story of a group of friends who want to surprise a colleague who lives in Berlin on his 35th birthday. But things don’t go quite to plan. To see it, be at Pati Llimona Civic Centre by 9:30 pm.
More films coming up: on 9 June at Can Basté, Black is Beltza, an animated film directed by Fermín Muguruza; and a few days later, in Plaça de Sant Felip Neri The Photographer of Mauthausen, by Mar Targarona, based on the true story of Francesc Boix, the Catalan photographer who was in this Austrian concentration camp and risked his life plotting how to get negatives out of the camp showing the world the atrocities committed by the Nazis there. As the month draws to a close, the rhythm of rumba will take over: Petitet, which will be shown on 23 July at 10 pm at Can Basté, is a documentary by Carles Bosch that tells of the epic struggle of Joan Ximénez Valentí to bring a rumba concert to the Liceu stage, just as he promised his mother before she died. All of the screenings will have a DJ session beforehand to kick things off.
Organised by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB) through the Barcelona Film Commission, Pantalla Barcelona is a programme that aims to promote and consolidate dissemination of films made, filmed or produced in the Catalan capital and raise awareness of them among residents.
All the programme details are available here.