Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A vibrant portrait of Pauline Black, the iconic voice of 2-Tone — the groundbreaking label and movement born in Coventry that fused Jamaican ska, punk rock, and new wave, reshaping the sound of late ’70s and early ’80s Britain. Born to an Irish mother and Nigerian father and adopted by a conservative white […]
Tete, tocar lo invisible
SOUNDS OF BARCELONA by Moritz The life and legacy of Tete Montoliu, the greatest jazz pianist Spain produced in the 20th century—an exceptional talent defined by tenacity and a fiercely free spirit. Neither his blindness nor the cultural desert of Franco’s Spain kept him from standing shoulder to shoulder with the world’s great jazzmen. Through […]
Mixtape
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The thrilling story of a cultural phenomenon that changed music: the birth and evolution of hip-hop through mixtapes. Before radio, the internet, and social media, it was DJs who set the trends. Mixtapes were much more than bootleg party tapes with jams and DJ sets: they were currency, a passport into a community, […]
Hombre bala (Mikel Erentxun)
NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION With 40 years of career, 60 years of age, and 25 years with his partner, the story of Mikel Erentxun becomes a journey between the public and the intimate. The film portrays a musician confronting the passage of time, his fears, and life-defining decisions, while preparing an international tour celebrating Duncan Dhu […]
Boy George & Culture Club
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA With humor, heart and a lot of glitz and glam, the new film of Alison Ellwood (Laurel Canyon, The Go-Go’s) plunges us into the chaos, glitter, and unbreakable bond of one of the most iconic pop quartets of the 1980s, Culture Club. The documentary blends intimate confessions with memories of smash pop-soul-funk hits […]
Mètode Víctor Nubla d’interpretació de Víctor Nubla
SOUNDS OF BARCELONA by Moritz A video-collage of the legacy of Víctor Nubla — musician, writer, and countercultural agitator, pioneer of Barcelona’s underground. The documentary traces his singular career, with the experimental band Macromassa — founded in 1976 — at its core: a group of “long-haired punks” from the Gràcia neighborhood, closer to surrealism and […]
National Short Films Session
Tremolo Michele Puddu Roca2025 | Spain | 13 min. | CatalanGerard, 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. Mariem Javier Corcuera2025 | Spain | 15 min. | SpanishMariem Hassan, Sahrawi refugee, composer, […]
God Said Give ‘Em Drum Machines
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A vibrant and well-researched masterclass on the origins of techno in mid-80s Detroit. Years before white DJs took over the spotlight and the EDM big business, it was a group of visionary young Black men who created the futuristic sound that would transform dance music. LGTBIQ+ clubs, Chicago house, Funkadelic, Kraftwerk, the soulful […]
The Butthole Surfers Movie
INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION The wild wild adventures of the legendary psychotropic punk band Butthole Surfers—or how two accounting students from Texas recruited a small army of misfits to set the alternative scene of the ’80s and ’90s on fire. Amid psychedelics, pranks, chaos, and deranged live shows, they achieved the unthinkable: shaping the course of […]
La gran bogeria (Joan Dausà)
NATIONAL PANORAMA Last year, Joan Dausà made history by becoming the first Catalan singer-songwriter to fill the Sant Jordi arena, following in the footsteps of Nova Cançó greats like Lluís Llach or Joan Manuel Serrat. That same night he announced a concert in Madrid and went on to gather 11,000 people singing in Catalan at […]
La partitura del cosmos
NATIONAL PANORAMA – NATIONAL PREMIERE At the Teide Observatory of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, an experiment unfolds: to translate the rhythms and vibrations of the cosmos into music. Guided by the voice and vision of electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani, the film journeys from Pythagoras’s “music of the spheres” and Kepler’s […]
Música urgent
SOUNDS OF BARCELONA by Moritz An intimate look at the power of music as refuge and second chance. The documentary follows seven people who, at the Taller Obert of Taller de Músics in Barcelona, find much more than a stage: a safe and transformative space to grow and reconnect with life. Between rehearsals, conversations, and […]
Copeland
NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION Like a drum solo. It is Stewart Copeland — and only him — who narrates the adventure of a five-decade career. Through carefully crafted interviews conducted in his L.A. studio and during a concert in Italy — enriched with treasures from his personal photo album — it becomes clear that he has […]
Brasiliana: The Black Musical That Introduced Brazil To The World
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA – WINNER OF BEST DOCUMENTARY AT IN-EDIT BRAZIL A thrilling reconstruction of the journey of Brasiliana — an Afro-Brazilian music, theater, and dance company founded in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1950s. For a quarter of a century, the company brought countless expressions of Brazilian Black culture — including samba, maracatu, capoeira, […]
Desire: The Carl Craig Story
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A key figure in Detroit’s second wave of techno, Carl Craig is one of the artists who most expanded the genre. From the secrecy of the early scene to the grandeur of New York’s Carnegie Hall—via clubs in Chicago, L.A., and London—the film traces the personal and artistic journey of the “Miles Davis […]
Talent Session
This session features the final short films of the Talent program, an activity carried out by Acció>Cinema project, which highlights audiovisual media as an effective tool for social transformation, contributing to the construction of critical and responsible citizenship. Since June, the young team have been recording their first music documentary, promoted by Catalunya Film Festivals […]
Contraplà Session
This session will screen the films made as part of the Contraplà project, carried out this year with children and teenagers from the Sant Cosme neighbourhood. This project is promoted by Catalunya Film Festivals, with the support of Barcelona County Council through its Department of Social Sustainability, Life Cycle and Community and its Department of […]
IA in documentary making
This activity takes place in the Auditorium of the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations. In a world concerned by the arrival of a revolutionary AI that seems to be changing the game, In-Edit Lab offers a training course led by Joan Rosés, editor of l’Observatori Switch, which explores documentary archiving and audiovisual creation […]
Simfonia dels Àngels
SOUNDS OF BARCELONA by Moritz A profound and choral look at the birth of a unique musical work: the Symphony of the Angels, composed by Albert Guinovart and premiered in 2024 at the Palau de la Música Catalana. The piece, jointly commissioned by the Palau and the Franz Schubert Filharmonia, commemorates the centenary of the […]
Solo pienso en ti
NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION The beautiful and moving love story of Mariluz Roldán and Antonio Castro, two people with intellectual disabilities who met at a pioneering center in Cabra, Córdoba. Their relationship defied the stigmas and marginalization they faced in late-1970s Spain and inspired singer-songwriter Víctor Manuel’s famous song “Solo pienso en ti”, which became an […]
Esto es Raptor House
NATIONAL PANORAMA 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 […]
Flores para Antonio
NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION A daughter sets out to uncover the truth about who her father really was: a legendary musician who died when she was only 8 years old. He is Antonio Flores; she is Alba Flores, now a celebrated actress in her own right. Alba stopped singing when she lost Antonio, and now she […]
Round Table ‘Tot Paisatge És Una Mentida
On October 30 at 12 a.m. in the Sala Club de Paral·lel 62, as part of TPEUM and the In-Edit Lab at Casa de la Música, a round table on audiovisuals and performing arts will take place in relation to the show “Tot Paisatge És Una Mentida”. Toni L. Querol (In-Edit), Víctor Jiménez (BitLab) and […]
Masterclass with Jean-Cosme Delaloye: Challenges and Revelations
In-Edit presents a unique opportunity for those who dream to capture stories through documentary filmmaking. This masterclass will explore the challenges of filmmaking through the experience of Jean-Cosme Delaloye, director of Desire: The Carl Craig Story (Tribeca 2024), a documentary selected for this year’s Official Section, Stray Bullet (Netflix, 2018), and The Pledge (Hot Docs, […]
Cristina Trenas (Little Spain): Cinema, Music and Ambition
In this event, Cristina Trenas, co-founder of the production company Little Spain and the creative soul behind “Una Ambición Desmedida” (2024) and “La Guitarra Flamenca de Yerai Cortés” (2024), two documentaries presented at previous editions of In-Edit, will share the narrative, aesthetic, and methodological universe that has made this production company a benchmark for the […]
International Short Film Session
Oh Yeah! Nick Canfield2025 | USA | 17 min. | English | Subtitles in CatalanThe story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their huge 1980s hit, “Oh Yeah.” The film explores the cultural impact and enduring place in the American psyche of one of the most recognizable songs of all […]
Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The comedy duo of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong—countercultural icons of the 1970s and pioneers of stoner comedy—hit the road again in this vibrant film. Interviews, archival footage from their wild stand-up beginnings, animations, and road trip sequences retrace outrageous memories and candid reflections. From their early club shows in Vancouver and L.A., […]
Di’Anno: Iron Maiden’s Lost Singer
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA From longtime In-Edit favorite Wes Orshoski (Lemmy, The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead) comes a raw and intimate portrait of Paul Di’Anno, Iron Maiden’s first official frontman between 1978 and 1981. A charismatic and essential figure in the band’s early years, Di’Anno experienced both the heights of rock stardom and […]
ADMIRE: Road to Apolo
NATIONAL SHORT FILMS OFFICIAL SECTION Catalan young artist ADMIRE sets out on an intense and emotional journey to create her first major live performance. Between late-night rehearsals, bursts of inspiration, and moments of doubt, she works to shape a universe of her own—pushing against personal limits and an industry often hesitant to take risks on […]
Marala – No hi ha foc etern
NATIONAL SHORT FILMS SECTION After eight years of a successful international career, the trio Marala—formed by Selma Bruna (Barcelona, Catalonia), Clara Fiol (Palma, Mallorca), and Sandra Monfort (Pedreguer, Valencia)—make the deliberate decision to bring their project to a close. This documentary offers an intimate portrait of their final three concerts, each held in their respective […]