IFFR 2010

Eva Vila

For a whole year, the makers dived into the local music scene. The result is a collective biography, detective film and musical all in one in which the varied stories let us see and hear the whole show: the B-side of Barcelona's music.

Signals - Pompeu Fabra

B-Side

Abel Garcia Roure

For two years, Garcia Roure followed six patients at a hospital in Barcelona as they struggled with serious psychoses - like Javier who has had sound hallucinations and deliria for 20 years about all kinds of cosmic issues. This beautifully shot study shows how society copes with this kind of mental patients.

Una cierta verdad

Ricardo Íscar

Documentary that poses fascinating questions about sickness and health. Made in the jungles of Cameroon, where Íscar records the life, choices and rituals of the inhabitants with discreet precision and beauty.

Dansa als esperits

José Luis Guerín

En construcción

Víctor García

Contemplative documentary about a former top boxer who spends his days in a shop in the Barcelona Underground. Without any attention for his exciting past, El ex-boxeador concentrates on his present surroundings - and finally on his dreams.

El ex-boxeador

Santiago Fillol

Lucas Vermal

Enric Marco was chairman of Spain's most important organisation for camp victims and for years spoke convincingly about the Flossenbürg concentration camp, even in parliament. Until it became apparent he had never been there. Now he makes the journey he never had to make back then.

Ich bin Enric Marco

Germán Berger-Hertz

A journey back through the memories of his father, murdered by Pinochet's junta, becomes an emotional story of a country in denial about its past. Restrained and moving project instigated by the Pompeu Fabra Master teacher Joaquim Jordà, who died in 2006, the godfather of the 'new Catalan documentary'.

Mi vida con Carlos

Carla Subirana

This personal documentary - or a documentary disguised as fiction? - is a sublime attempt by the maker to give her own family memories. The starting point is the mysterious execution of her grandfather in 1940. About the fragility of life and the cruel secondary effects of age.

Nadar

Anna Sanmartí

About the essence of travelling. From Ulan Bator to Kathgal, and once the destination has been reached (in this case the reindeer riding mountain tribe Tsataa) the road leads on again. Beautiful and atmospheric documentary investigation of a remote area in Mongolia and several of its inhabitants.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025