La 42 (42nd Street)

In the Capotillo neighborhood of Santo Domingo, a single 600-meter street becomes a stage for celebration, art, and sheer survival. Dancers and performers inhabit the night to the relentless beat of dembow, driven by an insatiable hunger for expression and fame, while confronting police harassment and the weight of stereotypes of violence and drug trafficking. […]

La danza de Los Mirlos

A journey into the psychedelic heart of Latin America led by Jorge Rodríguez, the frontman of one of the most renowned bands in Amazonian cumbia: Los Mirlos. Alongside other Peruvian groups such as Los Destellos, Juaneco y su Combo, and Manzanita y su Conjunto, they helped shape tropical “chichadelia,” an irresistible blend of cumbia, Afro-Latin […]

La salsa vive

A vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo, guaracha, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New York jazz, and one that found its second homeland in Cali, Colombia. With historical rigor, the film traces the musical voyage back and forth between Havana, New York, and Cali, showing how salsa became a shared language across […]

En la caliente — Tales of A Reggaeton Warrior

Documental En la caliente — Tales of A Reggaeton Warrior, de la sección de panorama internacional del festival

Despite being hugely popular in Cuba, reggaeton is barely heard on official media and is banned from public spaces. This intense and passionate film immerses us in the youth cultural phenomenon that reggaeton represented since its emergence in the mid-90s in Santiago de Cuba, under the undeniable leadership of Kandyman. In the midst of the […]

Esto es Raptor House

Resilience at 140 BPM. From the outskirts of Caracas to Europe’s biggest clubs. From marginal electronic music to a global phenomenon. This is the story of Raptor House, told through the words of Pedro Elías Corro, a.k.a. DJ Babatr — the driving force behind this heavy, hard-hitting, Caribbean-flavored techno-house. Emerging in the late 1990s, it […]

Gabbers!

A visceral journey into the heart of the gabber subculture that shook Rotterdam in the 1990s. Far from focusing solely on the roar of hardcore techno, this portrait shifts the spotlight to those who brought the movement to life: its followers. Through a collage of archival material —from a 1995 TV report to home videos […]

Free Party: A Folk History

Free Party: A Folk History

A comprehensive chronicle of the Free Party movement, which organised free open-air raves across England from the late 80s to the mid-90s. The “tribal union” of travellers, punks, hippies, and anarchists challenged both the police and land ownership laws to the extent that the government introduced specific legislation against this nomadic lifestyle. The former ravers […]

Italo Disco: The Sparkling Sound of the 80s

Deep and festive immersion in the Italian disco universe: cybernetic rhythms, seductive melodies, Mediterranean futurism, kitsch videos and macaronic English. Its trail from the Italian coast to Munich via Moroder, Chicago house, Daft Punk and beyond. Pierluigi Giombini, Righeira, Linda Jo Rizzo, Sabrina Salermo and the La Bionda “are on the list”. ZonzoDJ, promoter and […]

MaQKina: Historia de una subcultura

MaQKina

A passionate, emotional, musical and sociological ode to Mákina music. Tracing its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 1990s in Catalonia, where, in iconic clubs like Psicódromo, Chasis, Scorpia, Pont Aeri and X-Què?, the genre cranked up the BPMs, changed the ‘Q’ for a ‘K’, and became a […]

Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA After a 15-year hiatus, we dive back into the delightfully deranged lives of David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls. The legendary Spinal Tap reunite for one last concert—and filmmaker Marty DiBergi is there to capture every glorious misstep. This sequel to the 1984 rock-satire classic chronicles the chaotic lead-up to the […]

Show ‘Tot Paisatge És Una Mentida’

This music show will be at Fabra i Coats. To Paisatge És Una Mentida (Every Landscape Is a Lie) is an immersive theatrical experience where music, film, and poetry merge into a unique show that invites us to take a fresh look at Catalonia, from the heart of the Terres de l’Ebre to its most […]

Professional meetings between producers and agents

In-Edit Lab organizes individual meetings between audiovisual producers and musicians and/or artist representatives to generate new partnerships and promote the production of Catalan music documentaries. This initiative is organized in collaboration with Pro-Docs, the Association of Documentary Producers, and the Vic Live Music Market. The participating production companies in 2025 will be BAS Broadcaster, Digital […]

Meeting between ESMUC students and audiovisual production companies

In-Edit Lab is planning a session between production companies and students of the Master’s in Soundtrack and Music Composition for Audiovisual Media from the School of Music of Catalonia (ESMUC) to promote collaborations for upcoming productions and foster young talent. This will be an industry-only session by invitation, it will be hosted in the NH […]

Omega Wants to Dance

SPECIAL SCREENING A documentary that explores the relationship between human beings and movement while delving into the study of consciousness. Multiple distinguished voices reflect on human nature in all its manifestations, as well as on the origins and the end of our existence. Through dance, art, and thought, we travel across the cosmos in the […]

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA In 1969, a young promoter in Toronto was struggling to pull off a rock festival that seemed doomed from the start: tickets weren’t selling, veterans like Chuck Berry and Little Richard were allegedly past their prime, and organizational chaos reigned. Against all odds, the madness drew in The Doors, a blazing Alice Cooper, […]

The Water Eyed Boy

INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION A sensorial and poetic journey into the universe of Hermeto Pascoal, the great Brazilian wizard of contemporary music, who passed away last September. Structured around three threads—the recording of a concert at age 88, a dive into his childhood and emotional memory, and an interview culminating in what he did best: creating […]

Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos 

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The life story of Cro-Mags founder and New York Hardcore icon is almost inconceivable. With a harsh childhood marked by parental neglect, abuse, and the Andy Warhol scene —culminating in his entry into the punk scene at age 11 as drummer for the Stimulators— and a teenagehood in the Lower East Side that […]

It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley 

INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION A deeply moving portrait of one of the most prodigious and enigmatic voices of the ’90s. Through unseen footage and the memories of those who loved him—his mother, his partners, and his fellow travelers—the film traces the dazzling trajectory of an artist who embodied both sensitivity and rebellion. Grace, his only album, […]

The World According to Allee Willis 

INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION A dazzling mosaic of the life of a one-of-a-kind creator whose work you’ve probably heard thousands of times without even realizing it. Lyricist and melodist behind hits for Earth, Wind & Fire, Cyndi Lauper, and Sister Sledge, the theme song for Friends, and the Broadway musical The Color Purple, she turned everything […]

La salsa vive

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A vibrant journey through a genre born of Afro-Cuban rhythms—mambo, guaracha, guaguancó—fused with the drive of New York jazz, and one that found its second homeland in Cali, Colombia. With historical rigor, the film traces the musical voyage back and forth between Havana, New York, and Cali, showing how salsa became a shared […]

We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C.

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A tribute—built entirely from fan-shot footage—to the raw live energy of the legendary post-hardcore band Fugazi between 1987 and 2002, charting the evolution of their sound and stage presence. Far from a conventional biography, the film lets the intensity of their concerts (in the U.S., the Netherlands, Australia) speak for itself, adding only […]

Hasta que me quede sin voz (Leiva)

NATIONAL PANORAMA With all the pitfalls that this entails, Leiva narrates in first person a raw and unvarnished portrait of the frenetic spiral of life he is going through, granting unusual access to his life at the height of his career. An irreversible problem with his vocal cords constantly challenges Leiva’s present and future, and […]

Rave

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA In the early 1990s, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, techno swept through Polish youth hungry for modernity. Through the stories of a young DJ, a hakken dancer, and a veteran artist from the scene, the film intertwines the drive of new generations with memories […]

Half Moon

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The outbreak of war in Syria in 2011 prevented clarinetist Kinan Azmeh from returning home, setting him on an introspective journey into the transformative power of art. His music —spanning classical, jazz, and world music— explores the many layers of identity in exile and intertwines with personal milestones, such as becoming a father. […]

Kreator – Hate & Hope

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA An honest journey through the 40-year history of Kreator, one of the most emblematic bands of the 1980s German thrash metal scene. Authors of genre-defining masterpieces like Pleasure To Kill and Extreme Aggression, Mille Petrozza (singer and guitarist) and Ventor (drummer) recount —in a decidedly un-mythologizing tone— how that high school band, born […]

Ellis Park

INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The charismatic musician and composer Warren Ellis—renowned for his work with Nick Cave and The Dirty Three—opens the doors to his inner world. With his inseparable violin, shirt unbuttoned, and grey beard flowing in the wind, he carries us back to an Australian childhood shaped by his father’s guitar, retraces more than three […]

El canto de las manos

NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION In her directorial debut, María Valverde follows Jennifer, Gabriel, and José, three deaf musicians from Venezuela who take on the challenge of staging, for the first time in sign language, Beethoven’s Fidelio together with the El Coro de las Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir) and under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel. Between […]

Serás Farruquito

NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION Beyond the journey of rise, fall, and redemption of one of the greatest bailaores of all time, this is the intimate and visceral story of one of flamenco’s most influential Roma dynasties: the Farruco family. The film traces the artistic legacy inherited by Farruquito from his grandfather, his meteoric leap from child […]