In-Edit Empordà celebrates its second edition in 2025. This initiative was created with the support of the Fundació Vila Casas within the framework of the Torroella Festival, an event founded in 1981. In-Edit Empordà’s programme of music documentaries is in line with the humanist spirit of the Torroella Festival, always in search of quality, solidity, the desire to bring music to a wide audience, the rediscovery of classics and the presentation of young artists.
This year the event will take place every Tuesday from 1 July to 19 August, and will be held in two venues: the Palau Solterra (Fundació Vila Casas) and the very popular Cinema Montgrí. The public will be able to enjoy activities (concerts, talks, visits) that complete the context and the vision of the musical documentaries programmed for 2025.
The universal genius of Bach will open the season, with a concert of sonatas and partitas by the French violinist Amandine Beyer. Filmmaker Anna Schmidt will present her film Living Bach, a journey across six continents in which amateur musicians and singers recount their motivation for placing Bach at the centre of their creative world.
The calendar of activities will continue with La Marsellesa de los borrachos, directed by Pablo Gil Rituerto. The documentary dates back to 1961, when a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine trip to Spain in order to record popular songs that supported the anti-Franco resistance. Sixty years later we will see the exciting result.
Oscar nominee Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (by Johan Grimonprez) will be screened on Tuesday 15 July. The following week will be devoted to Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal‘s latest animated film, They Shot the Pianist, which tells the story of the mysterious disappearance of Brazilian pianist Tenorio Jr, a regular musician of Vinicius de Moraes.
The programme will be completed with the documentary on the opera Alexina B, composed by Raquel García-Tomás; the film is directed by Alexis Borràs Izquierdo. August opens with In Search of the Perfect Violin (by Hans Lukas Hansen) and, later on, with a talk on power and gender roles accompanied by the documentary Momentum, starring Joana Mallwitz. 19 August will be the last day of In-Edit Empordà with the screening of Niños somos todos, the documentary about Niño de Elche directed by Sergi Cameron, with a talk afterwards between the artist and the film director about the creative process and anecdotes from the filming.
