Queer As Punk
INTERNATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION In a Malaysia scarred by the repression of queer identities, Shh…Diam! (“Shut Up!”)—a punk band led by Faris, a trans man—raises its voice against enforced silence. Together with Yon and Yoyo, he turns music into both weapon and refuge, defying Muslim conservatism and laws that criminalize their very existence. Songs like Lonely […]
Alma Bakala
NATIONAL PANORAMA The return of Andrés Campo to his roots. Now an acclaimed international producer and DJ, Andrés began in the 1990s in Huesca under the alias “Kuki,” forging his identity and originality during legendary sessions as resident at Sala Coliseum. In 2025 he set out to relive that era with a special tour: five […]
Ol’ Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA The first official doc on Russell Tyrone Jones, founding member of Wu-Tang Clan and hip-hop icon, explores how Ol’ Dirty Bastard—his alter ego, a rap superhero—was born, and how that character ultimately consumed the man behind it. The film doesn’t shy away from hot topics: legal troubles, addictions, and the FBI’s near-constant surveillance […]
Sun Ra: Do The Impossible
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A kaleidoscopic portrait of one of jazz’s great visionaries—poet, Egyptologist, activist, and philosopher—whose complex life and work defied all classification. Through mind-bending archival footage and the voices of musicians and historians, we witness how he transformed jazz into an interplanetary experience. With his Arkestra as his vessel, he expanded the boundaries of free […]
Daytime Revolution
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA In 1972, John Lennon and Yoko Ono took over America’s most-watched daytime TV program, The Mike Douglas Show, reaching 40 million viewers a week. For one unforgettable week, they turned daytime television into a platform for revolution: five daring episodes featuring Yippies founder Jerry Rubin, Black Panthers leader Bobby Seale, activist Ralph Nader, […]
Antihéroe (Lichis)
OFFICIAL NATIONAL SECTION In 2022, after years of playing solo in small venues, Lichis surprised everyone by announcing a short reunion tour with the project that had taken him to the top: La Cabra Mecánica, a band of the late 90s and early 2000s that blended rumba, pop, and singer-songwriter traditions with streetwise lyrics. Songs […]
Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA A beautiful and heartbreaking portrait of a singular 1970s California singer-songwriter whose life swung between personal devastation and dazzling artistic creation. After an adolescence marked by addiction, prostitution, armed robbery, and prison, Judee Sill went from living in her car to appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone in just two years. Through […]
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol
INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA Based on the memoirs of Glen Matlock, bassist of the Sex Pistols and co-writer of 10 of the 12 tracks on Never Mind the Bollocks, this is a candid, irony-laced account of the rise and global infamy of a band destined to shake everything up. Amid a flood of anecdotes unfolds the social […]
Fandango
NATIONAL OFFICIAL SECTION This stunning journey through the memory and present of one of the oldest popular musical expressions on the Iberian Peninsula travels across the lands of Huelva, a province that has safeguarded the traditional fandango. Through intense musical performances and rich conversations between different generations of experts, artists, and local residents, it explores […]
Legacy
Cast: Mikael Gordon Solfors, Eagle Eye Cherry, Jamil Shihab, Quincy Jones III, Malou Harris Meilink, Rennie Mirro, Eric Bibb, Albert “Tootie” Heath, Francine Lee-Mirro Finer, Maxine Gordon, Ronnie Gardiner, Ulla Jones, Lena Solfors, Jan Allan. Between the 1950s and 1970s, Scandinavia became a creative haven for prominent African American jazz musicians seeking to escape racism […]
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 […]