Michele Puddu Roca
2025 | Spain | 13 min. | Catalan
Gerard, an accordion luthier, reflects on the bond between musician and instrument through a special commission: the century-old accordion that once belonged to a Spanish Civil War exile. Out of competition.
Javier Corcuera
2025 | Spain | 15 min. | Spanish
Mariem Hassan, Sahrawi refugee, composer, and the most representative singer of Western Sahara, passed away in 2015 from cancer. Shortly before her death, she returned to the Liberated Territories, where she had spent her childhood. From there, she told her story and sang for the last time.
Miguel Trias de Bes
2025 | Spain | 20 min. | Spanish
Vecinos is a band from Barcelona that plays a lot but doesn’t make a living from music. After five years of performing in small venues and saving money, they go to record their first album in a massive studio in Granada. Amid doubts, insecurities, fears, and plates of gnocchi Bolognese, they’ll discover that the best part of being in a band isn’t making music.
Verónica Rodríguez
2025 | Spain, Cuba | 11 min. | Spanish
In 1990s Cuba, during the so-called “Special Period,” friquis (punks) were persecuted by the regime and rejected by society. With the arrival of HIV, the government opened sanatoriums for those living with the disease. This is the harrowing testimony of how some friquis chose to self-inoculate with the virus in order to gain access to these shelters. Out of competition.
Pere Sala Bastardes
2025 | Spain | 14 min. | Catalan, English
The Catalan improvisation quartet Blood Quartet and the Korean band Dongyang Gozupa face the challenge of producing a show together in just five days as residents at Fabra i Coats. In this short period, they must prove their improvisational skills and overcome the cultural gap.
Keka De Luca, Victoria Maureira, Mariu Benzo, Alexis Donoso, Pablo Cuturrufo
2025 | Spain | 20 min. | Spanish, Catalan
In 1970s Barcelona, Cristine saw Dolly on stage and knew who she wanted to be in life. Fifty years later, their friendship endures, forged in that fantasy refuge called cabaret. Today, Sara, a young drag king, reinvents the tradition on a stage that refuses to disappear.
Session:
October 27, 6 a.m.
With warm up session by Duendes del parke.