FICGLB 2024 – Festival Internacional de Cine Gay y Lesbico de Barcelona.

The FICGLB goes to Cuba

20 January, 2024 by

The FICGLB is the only Film Festival which has been invited by the Director of the Cuban National Film Library, Mr. Luciano Castillo, in order to create a programme based on either awarded and well-known current films selected during the annual editions by its director, filmmaker and Catalan film critic Xavier-Daniel.

In this way, an initiative that took place 24 years ago in Spain is consolidated, when he founded and directed in Barcelona the first LGTIB Film Festival, then the audience was able to watch, for the first time, films that were not screened in our country commercial cinemas.

Xavier-Daniel will repeat this deed in a country where the public has not the chance to see these films, and it will be possible now because the transition has begun in Cuba. He’s facing the challenge of being a pioneer by programming quality and innovative films, in fact he has been celebrating all these film festivals as a director for twenty-four years.

The prestige of the National Film Library in Cuba has taken it into consideration and has appraised that the continuity of this schedule will make the Cuban audience enjoy this event addressed to those who are looking forward to their concerns accomplished.

We would like to underline too the great success of the LGTIB-themed film sessions programmed at the Havana Film Festival. Since just a few films are screened, the cinema entrance is very crowded, mainly because after the Festival these films will no longer be seen, and this is an exception which only takes place during the annual Festival of New Latin American Cinema.

The FICGLB in Cuba will mean an unprecedented event, either socially and cultural, as it happenned in Spain during the last years under Franco’s regime. By then, Xavier-Daniel was programming already, in France, some LGTIB-themed films which were banned in Spain by the pro-Franco censorship. On those days, the Spanish cinema-goers would cross the France border just for attending the Art and Essay Movie sessions, therefore those famous week-ends became a real sociological phenomenon. Actually it was a great success.

We deeply acknowledge the professional career of our Director for being so brave on those hard times when the rights for LGTIB and freedom were repressed.

We wish him a great and well deserved success in this new stage.

Film Festival Board

FICGLB at 10th Queer IFFPlaya Mexico

20 January, 2024 by

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10th Queer International Film Festival Playa del Carmen, Mexico

The members of the Jury of this 10th edition have decided to give the following awards:

Special Award by Performance:
Luis Tosar by Cemento y Acero.

Best Actor Award of Foreign Cast:
Daniel Guzmán by Cemento y Acero.

The short film CEMENTO Y ACERO directed by Oriol Villar (Spain) was selected by the associated film festival FICGLB and programmed at QIFFPlaya.

Closing Night of the Festival: November 22nd 2023
Playa del Carmen, Mexico

https://www.queerfilmfestivalplayadelcarmen.com/

FICGLB at XXXV Girona Film Festival

20 January, 202420 January, 2024 by

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Cinema i Diversitat

35 GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL
FICGLB – Cinema and Diversity
3rd edition of the Award

Jury

Girona, November 10th, 2023. The members of the Jury have decided, by unanimity, at 35 Girona Film Festival, to give this FICGLB Award, to the short film:

ADJUSTMENT by Mehrdad Hassani (Iran 2022)
For the message and empathy that the teacher shows with the situation of the child who is being bullied and society refuses him.

And a Special Mention, by unanimity, to:

RAJA BHAU by Sridhar Rangayan (India 2022)
For the astonishing reaction of the family who has breaking the prejudices of the Hindu culture through a transgender people.

Chairwoman:
Esther Fabrellas, doctor in Romanic Philology and writer. University of Girona.
Cornelia Gheorghiu, designer and actress.
Belén Cuadros, writer and Director of Communication.

Creator and Coordinator of this Award:
Xavier-Daniel
Filmmaker and Programmer of Cinema and Diversity at GFF
Founder and Director of FICGLB

FICGLB at 70 SSIFF

3 October, 202215 September, 2022 by

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FICGLB, Festival Internacional de Cinema Gai i Lèsbic de Barcelona participa en los Encuentros de Cine LGTIB Iberoamericanos, durante la celebración del Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián.
FICGLB ofrece una programación que da prioridad a films iberoamericanos, y también cumple su objetivo de divulgar films de temáticas LGTIBQA+ en otros países de América Latina, labor que realiza estando hermanado con los siguientes festivales:
AMOR es AMOR, que se celebra anualmente en Córdoba, Argentina. Films argentinos premiados en este Festival, son exhibidos en España, y films españoles programados por FICGLB son proyectados en el Festival argentino.
International Queer Film Festival Playa, que tiene lugar cada año en Playa del Carmen, México. Films mexicanos premiados en este Festival, son exhibidos en España y films españoles programados por FICGLB son proyectados en el Festival mexicano.
Este intercambio cultural cinematográfico se produce debido al interés de su fundador, Xavier-Daniel, director de cine, miembro de la FIPRESCI, Federación Internacional de la Prensa Cinematográfica, y director de festivales de cine. Ha fundado y dirigido el primer certamen cinematográfico especializado en temáticas LGTIBQA+ del Estado español, la Mostra Lambda (Barcelona, 1995). En el año 2001 funda y dirige el FICGLB. Desde aquí programa una sección especializada en temáticas LGTIBQA+ dentro del marco del Girona Film Festival; este certamen acoge su sección titulada FICGLB-Cine y Diversidad. Miembro del Jurado internacional en diversos festivales: OutFest-West Hollywood, La Habana, Guadalajara, CineLatino-Toulouse, Berlinale, Cracovia, Torino, San Sebastián, Sitges… gironafilmfestival.com

Lo que no se ve

11 August, 2022 by

Spain, 2017, 5′

Lorenza is about to be 80 and has just become a widow. She decides to return to her youth home, but her daughter does not agree. However her granddaughters, Sofia and Alba, decide to go with her.

FICGLB at XI Mostremp

11 August, 202211 August, 2022 by

11 Mostremp.
FEMINISMS and LGTIBQ+, section programmed by FICGLB
14th August 2022

FEMINISMS and LGTIBQ+

This is the Section that programs the FICGLB, International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Barcelona, at the Girona Film Festival and now, invited to Mostremp. The Section has short films on LGTIBQ+ themes from various countries.

And what is the objective of a section called CINEMA and DIVERSITY programmed by the FICGLB? Therefore, to collect the concerns of filmmakers about problems that generate current issues, through social demands and/or exposure of legislative factors from other countries, which affect the LGTIBQ+ community.

For this reason and in order to spread quality and to claim, we offer you a program of current titles, short films that have won awards at various festivals.

With the participation of Xavier-Daniel, Director and Programmer of “FICGLB-Cinema and Diversity” of the GFF. Founder and Director of the first LGTIB film festival in Spain.

Session 1. Sunday, 14th August. La Lira Theatre. Tremp 6:00pm
ESTIMADA SEÑORA DIRECTORA by Michèle Massé (Spain, 2019, 3′)
VICTORIA by Daniel Toledo Saura (Spain, 2019, 8′)
ACUITZERAMO by Miguel Angel Caballero (Mexico / USA, 2019, 15′)
FERNANDEZ PRATSCH by Emiliano Spampinato (Spain, 2020, 29′)
LO QUE NO SE VE de Lamberto Guerra ( Spain, 2017, 5′)

Cuerpo Trans (versado)

17 October, 2021 by

Argentina, 2019, 16′

The true exercise of sensibility in the judicial case of a murdered trans woman.

Feeling Good

17 October, 2021 by

Argentina, 2021, 18′

Where heartbreak and confusion can cause hysteria in a couple on the brink of separation.

Transition and Happiness

17 October, 2021 by

Spain, 2020, 78′

In this film the profound exaltation of female transsexual diversity offered through Rosa Maria, is admirable. A fighter in a heteronormative system of genital assignments, mother-ex-father of two daughters who still call her “daddy”.

Fernández Pratsch

17 October, 2021 by

Spain, 2020, 29′

Serafin, through his vindictive attitude and contagious humanity, throws a message of hope to new generations that have not experienced affective repression.

FICGLB at XXXIII Girona Film Festival

21 October, 202116 October, 2021 by

33rd Girona Film Festival.
CINEMA and DIVERSITY, section programmed by FICGLB
9 -13 November 2021

CINEMA and DIVERSITY

This is the section that schedules the FICGLB, The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, in the 33rd edition of the Girona Film Festival. The section includes features, short films and documentaries of LGTIB (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Intersex and Bisexual) themes, from several countries.
What is the objective of a section called CINEMA and DIVERSITY programmed by the FICGLB? The aim is to collect the filmmakers’ concerns regarding problems that generate current themes, through social demand and/or exposure of legislative factors from other countries, which affect the LGTIB community. For this reason, and to promote quality and at the same time vindicative movies, I have created the Girona LGTIBQ+ Cinema Award, which will be given for the first time to the best film in this section at the Girona Film Festival.

The complaint is about the discrimination suffered by a marriage of women who are not allowed to share a room in an old people’s home. The topic of debate is open with DEAR WOMAN DIRECTOR, because when the main characters have already lived the repression of Franco dictatorship, now, in the 21st century, they have to face a lesbophobic attitude in their old age. The functional diversity of a young man in HANDS AND WINGS becomes poetry when he derives sexual pleasure through mind from his friend. When love has a price, in this CASH LOVE the feeling expectations vanish. In VICTORIA a father assumes his responsibilities. Now as a mother and, without prejudice, with her daughter. ACUITZERAMO shows us how a father’s death can be the moment to relive -by his son, feelings never exposed throughout the years-. Surprise and humour are brought to us in YOUR LUCKY DAY by a harassment situation either comical and free from prejudices. THE LONELY PRINCE deals a loneliness despite power, with a staging of great aesthetic beauty, and UNCOLOURED GIRL exposes the change that work and feelings may provoke on a young girl student.
In TRANSITION AND HAPPINESS the profound exaltation of female transsexual diversity offered through Rosa Maria, is admirable. A fighter in a heteronormative system of genital assignments, mother-ex-father of two daughters who still call her “daddy”. In FERNANDEZ PRATSCH, Serafin, through his vindictive attitude and contagious humanity, throws a message of hope to new generations that have not experienced affective repression. And in the documentary TRANS* FAMILIES- IDENTITY CONSTRUCTIONS the vision cannot be broader, since it gives voice to minor children and relatives, with a message of sincerity and very clear and defining concepts.
Two films awarded at the AMOR es AMOR Festival in Córdoba (Argentina): FEELING GOOD, where heartbreak and confusion can cause hysteria in a couple on the brink of separation. And the true exercise of sensibility in the judicial case of a murdered trans woman, which is CUERPO TRANS (VERSADO).

Xavier-Daniel
Director and Programmer of FICGLB-Cinema and Diversity. Founder of the FICGLB

33 GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL
FICGLB – Cinema and Diversity
Girona-LGTIBQ+ Cinema Award

Jury

Chairwoman: Rosa Maria Vilaseca Marcó, GLG Grup de Lesbianes de Girona
J.Pau Galvez Lot, FAGC
Laia Cruañas Mateu, Girona Orgullosa
Anna Lara Rial, ACAS
Salva Romero García, FLG Famílies LGTBI

Girona. From 9 to 13 November, 2021

Session 1. Friday, 12 November. Cinemes Albeniz 4:00pm
HANDS AND WINGS by Sungbin Byun (South Korea, 2019, 17′)
THE LONELY PRINCE by Shivin and Sunny (India 2020, 15′)

Session 2. Friday, 12 November. Cinemes Albeniz 5:00pm.
FERNANDEZ PRATSCH by Emiliano Spampinato (Spain, 2020, 29′) Audience Award at Madrid and BerlinRevolution Film Festivals (2021)
TRANSITION AND HAPPINESS by Jonas Benarroch (Spain, 2020, 78′)

With the participation of Serafín Fernández, Michael Pratsch and Rosa Maria Maristany

Session 3. Friday, 12 November. Cinemes Albeniz 7:00pm
Awarded films at the AMOR es AMOR Film Festival (Córdoba, Argentina)
Best National Fiction: FEELING GOOD by Danisa Munguía (Argentina, 2021, 18′)
Best Argentinian Documentary: CUERPO TRANS (VERSADO) by Salomé Lozano (Argentina, 2021, 16′)
TU DÍA DE SUERTE by Fele Martínez (Spain, 2019, 10’)
ACUITZERAMO by Miguel Angel Caballero (Mexico / USA, 2019, 15′)
UNCOLOURED GIRL by Charlie García Villalba (Catalonia, 2019, 15′)
AMOR AL CONTADO by Iñigo Izquierdo (Euskadi, 2019, 8′)
VICTORIA by Daniel Toledo Saura (Spain, 2019, 8′)

Session 4. Friday, 12 November. Cinemes Albeniz 9:00pm
ESTIMADA SEÑORA DIRECTORA by Michèle Massé (Spain, 2019, 3′)
FAMÍLIES TRANS * – CONSTRUCCIONS IDENTITÀRIES by Mar C. Llop (Catalonia, 2020, 85′)

There will be a debate, after the screening, with the participation of the filmmaker Mar C. LLop, and Xavier-Daniel, filmmaker and Programming Director)

Famílies Trans*- Construccions Identitàries

14 September, 20208 September, 2020 by

Catalonia, 2020, 87′

Politician portrait of those who accompany a trans * creature. The social environment… Fears, doubts, claims and controversies.

Génesis

8 September, 2020 by

Argentina /Spain, 2018, 13′

Karen and Alexis are a couple from Victoria, a small town in Entre Rios. Today they are raising their daughter Genesis, breaking through as a trans* family.

Tu dia de suerte

8 September, 2020 by

Spain, 2019, 10′

Ernesto leaves the house, in a hurry. His family is waiting for him. He calls the elevator and, inside, he will find an unexpected passenger that will make his life impossible during the short journey they will share.

Estimada Señora Directora

8 September, 2020 by

Spain, 2019, 3′

Maria is an activist for LGTIB rights, she writes a letter to the woman director of an old people’s home who has denied her and her wife Rosa, to stay there.

Acuitzeramo

8 September, 2020 by

Mèxico / USA, 2019, 15′

Salvador, a gay Mexican elder who has lost his partner of 15 years, calls his partner’s estranged son, Anthony, to tell him of his father’s passing.
Unaware of their relationship, Anthony travels from Chicago to a small rural town in Mexico to attend his father’s funeral. As family secrets are exposed,
identities and perceptions are challenged.

Hands and Wings

8 September, 2020 by

South Korea, 2019, 17′

An adolescent boy ‘Woo-Sung’ is unable to move his hands freely due to physical disabilities. So he can’t solve his sexual desire alone. His mother tries to help hom, but one day he refuses mother’s help.

Orgullo

8 September, 2020 by

Spain, 2019, 5′

A mother and daughter watch television at mealtime. The mother worries about her daughter, asks about her boyfriend, about her leisure.

Victoria

8 September, 2020 by

Spain, 2020, 8′

This is the story of a first meeting and, at the same time, of a reunion. It’s the story of the moment when Ana sees Clara for the first time.

Uncoloured Girl

8 September, 2020 by

Catalonia, 2019, 15′

Eli is a photography student who can only see in black and white. At a party, she will meet an old love, who will change her life.

The Lonely Prince

8 September, 2020 by

India, 2020, 15′

A lonely Prince, drowning in melancholy, invites a Sculptor to his court to create a piece of art just for him. As the Sculptor spends his days chiselling away on a block of marble, the Prince too discovers a new side of himself, for a brief moment forgetting the world of solitude that surrounds him.

Amor al contado

8 September, 2020 by

Euskadi, 2019, 8′

Two lovers meet in a hotel, like so many other times. But this time it’s different; one of them has news in his family. This news will lead them to think about whether or not to continue with the relationship. The thing is that this relationship does not mean the same thing for both of them, for obvious reasons …

Xiao Xian

9 September, 202022 June, 2020 by

Spain, 2019, 17′

Xiao Xian must finish making a dress. Her mother has decided that she must stay all night working on it and she, as usual, obeys. Her best friend, Sheng Xia, shows up and persuades her to go to a party. Xiao Xian had never imagined what was bound to happen that night.

FICGLB at XXXII Girona Film Festival

17 October, 20217 June, 2020 by

32nd Girona Film Festival.
CINEMA and DIVERSITY, section programmed by FICGLB
3rd -7th November 2020

CINEMA and DIVERSITY

This is the section that schedules the FICGLB, The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, in the 32nd edition of the Girona Film Festival. The section includes features, short films and documentaries of LGTIB (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Intersex and Bisexual) themes, from several countries.
What is the objective of a section called CINEMA and DIVERSITY programmed by the FICGLB? The aim is to collect the filmmakers’ concerns regarding problems that generate current themes, through social demand and/or exposure of legislative factors from other countries, which affect the LGTIBQ + community.

Xavier-Daniel
Director and Programmer of Cinema and Diversity
Founder of the FICGLB

Schedule

Session 1:
Thursday, November 5th. Albeniz Cinemas. 9:00 pm
Short films from several countries about LGTIB subjects:
AMOR AL CONTADO
THE LONELY PRINCE
UNCOLOURED GIRL
VICTORIA
HANDS AND WINGS
ACUITZERAMO
ESTIMADA SEÑORA DIRECTORA
TU DÍA DE SUERTE

Session 2:
Friday, November 6th. Albeniz Cinemas, 9:00 pm:
GÉNESIS
World Premiere:
FAMÍLIES TRANS * – CONSTRUCCIONS IDENTITÀRIES

There will be a debate, after the screening, with the participation of the filmmaker Mar C. LLop, Xavier-Daniel (Director and Programmer), Jordi Mota (LGTBI Municipal Council), Rosa M. Vilaseca (Group of Lesbians in Girona) and representatives of the Espai LGTBI in Girona.

LGTIB Films at 38th HORROR MOLINS

9 September, 202018 October, 2019 by

The FICGLB, Guest Festival at the 38th edition of the Molins de Rei Horror Film Festival, has scheduled for this occasion a session of 8 short films.

From the mysterious confrontation between penises (Docking), when the return to a relationship comes from the zombie world (Matt & Dan: Zombi Ex), the psychological and emotional terror to face the sexual preferences of an adult (Heiko), the penance of Millennials and their cruelty (Penance), the constant fear of being discovered the homosexuality in the life of a xenophobic politician (We’re Not Here), the terror to the sincerity of a soccer player (Nobody wants your truth), the thriller with humor or how you can live the panic created by the harassment in a situation of anguish and locked in an elevator (Your lucky day), until a disturbing lesbian fetishism (Xiao Xian).

LGTIB HORROR FILMS
22:15H - 10TH NOVEMBRER 2019
FREE ENTRANCE

1.- DOCKING .Trevor Anderson (Canada, 2019, 4’)
2.- MATT & DAN: ZOMBIE EX .Will Gordh (USA, 2019, 6’)
3.- HEIKO .David Bonneville (Portugal, 2008, 13’)
4.- PENANCE .Kayden Phoenix (USA, 2018, 3’)
5.- WE’RE NOT HERE .Bonnie Moir (Australia, USA, 2019, 11’)
6.- NADIE QUIERE TU VERDAD .Diego Roma (Spain, 2019, 7’)
7.- XIAO XIAN .Jiajie Yu Yan (Spain, 2019, 17’)
8.- TU DÍA DE SUERTE .Fele Martínez (Spain, 2019, 10’)

La Peni
Pl. Mercè Rodoreda, 1
08750 Molins de Rei
936 53 93 53

MOLINS HORROR FESTIVAL

FICGLB in Havana

9 September, 202018 October, 2019 by

Cycle

LA SEXUALIDAD SIN LÍMITES

“DIVERSIDAD” COMO VOCABLO UNIVERSAL

With A un Dios desconocido (1977), one of the most personal and recognized films of the Spanish director Jaime Chávarri, begins, from Tuesday 9th to Sunday16th April, the cycle “La sexualidad sin límites”, based on films that deal with diversity sexual in their plots, most of them premieres in Cuba (…) In order to enrich the variety of topics of the cycle, in my opinion brief and comprehensive,– coordinated with the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Barcelona— a short film will be screened after each feature: the documentary Santero Carlos (Xavier-Daniel, Spain / Cuba, 2002) and the shorts fiction Ya te vale (Martín Crespo, Spain, 2009), Princesa de Hielo (Pablo Guerrero, Spain, 2016) and Turistas (Marcos de Miguel and Isabel Coll, Spain, 2008).These films are productions focused -beyond the question of sexual diversity – in “diverse” but universal issues such as religion, double morality, cultural differences and homosexuality in adolescence, and even at a phase as delicate and decisive as childhood.
Dayron Miranda

CINE CHARLES CHAPLIN, SALA CHARLOT
FROM 9th TO 14th APRIL 2019

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FICGLB at XXXI Girona Film Festival

9 September, 202018 October, 2019 by

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, which took place in New York in the year 1969, and marked the beginning of the liberation by the LGTIB Rights.

From the annual FICGLB section, at GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL has selected films that reflect the concerns of young people, taking into account the work of the woman filmmaker, who has an outstanding role in the films already scheduled. Either as director, screenwriter, documentalist or actress in short film, documentary or fiction film. They are subject to LGTIB (Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Intersexual, and Bisexual). From respect for identity and feelings in old age (Lo que no se ve, short film awarded by the audience at FICGLB 2018) to the relationship with age difference (Román), going through the discovery of love in prison (Dyke Jails), harassment at school (Inside Out), the girl who does not identify herself with her gender identity (Erick), and the origin of transsexual liberation in Catalonia (600 meters of freedom).

Xavier-Daniel (director and programmer of the FICGLB. Founder in Catalonia, 25 years ago, of the First Film Festival in Spain specialized in LGTIB subjects).

SCREENING 28th SEPTEMBER at 04:00 pm
CASA CULTURA GIRONA, Plaça de l'Hospital, 6, 17002 Girona

REVES (INSIDE OUT)

Demanding parents A demanding school. An education designed for winners. Damien endures bullying as most, in silence.

European Premiere.

Dir.:Teresa Martino
Screenplay:Alejandro Campos
Photo.:Paolo Columbro
Edition:Teresa Martino
Music:Marcos Rodríguez
Cast.:Zarén Gorosito, Verónica Koziura, Brandon Cosma, Daniela Martino, Edgardo Sánchez Rossi, Soledad Perchante, Salvador Moreyra, Delfina Alvarez, Emerson Speratti, Gonzalo Ibarguren, Santiago Kalinosky
Production:Teresa Martino
Country:Argentina
Year:2019
13 mins.

ERICK

A wealthy teenage girl watches a movie about body image. She feels identified with the character and reflects on her own body and identity, but she has to face the harsh reality in her household.

European Premiere.

Dir.:Boris Guzmán
Screenplay:Frances López, Boris Guzmán
Photo.:Gerardo Gómez
Edition:Yaritza Alicea
Cast.:Carolyn Berrios, Ariel Orama, Keyla Mariano
Production:Juan Matos
Country:Puerto Rico
Year:2018
6 mins.

600 METRES DE LLIBERTAT

The Ramblas in Barcelona have been the reason for the transsexual liberation of the main characters of this documentary.

Dir.: Fab Llanos
Production: Mercè Meroño i Tomás Balbas. Fundació Àmbit Prevenció
Country:Catalunya
Year:2019
10 mins.

ROMÁN

The unexpected sexual awakening and hiding an unavoidable desire are the main Roman’s awareness. This is a story about self-discovery in which a quiet real estate agent is feeling attracted to another man, twenty years younger than him.

Dir:Majo Staffolani
Production:Vanessa Ragone (Guanyadora d’un Oscar amb “El secreto de sus ojos”
Screenplay:Majo Staffolani
Photo.:Mariana Bomba
Music:Flor Bobadilla Oliva
Edition:Majo Staffolani – Luca Castello
Cast.:Carlo Argento, Gastón Cocchiarale, Gabriela Izcovich
Year:2018
61 mins.
Selected by BAFICI (Buenos Aires Film Festival)

SCREENING 28th SEPTEMBER at 05:30 pm
CASA CULTURA GIRONA, Plaça de l'Hospital, 6, 17002 Girona

LO QUE NO SE VE

Audience Award Best Short Film, Premi Curt-LGTIB, FICGLB 2018
CineVersátil ,Audience Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dir.:Lamberto Guerra
Prod.:Lamberto Guerra
Writer:Lamberto Guerra
Photography:Vasni Ramos
Composer:Jonay Armas
Editor:Vasni Ramos, Lamberto Guerra
Cast:Lorenza Machín, Sofía Privitera, Alba Tonini, Tara Machín, Paloma Albaladejo
Spain, 2017, 5’

Lorenza is about to be 80 and has just become a widow. She decides to return to her youth home, but her daughter does not agree. However her granddaughters, Sofia and Alba, decide to go with her. It’s a minimal story as simple as necessary.

CARCELES BOLLERAS

English Title: Dyke Jails
Dir.:Cecilia Montagut
Prod.:Cecilia Montagut & Raquel Osborne
Writer:Cecilia Montagut
Photography:Cecilia Montagut
Editor:Cecilia Montagut
Cast: Andrea Noemí Vera, Dolores Juliano, Concha Yagüe, Mar Sánchez, Katia Reimberg, Marta Dillon, Estibaliz de Miguel, Ana María Bruña, Inés Herrero, María Ruíz Torrado, Raquel Osborne, Pedro Montagut, Roser Rius Camps, David Urra, Silvia Reyes, María Jesús Lastra, Lucas Platero.
Spain-Argentina, 2018 66′

Andrea travelled as a drug mule from Argentina, but she was taken directly from Barcelona airport to prison. Katia was imprisioned for two years at Martutene correctional facility in the Basque Country. Marta Dillon, journalist and feminist, visited over several years the female prisoners at the Ezeiza prison in Buenos Aires and she wrote their experiences in the book “Captive Hearts“.
These stories, along with those of some other former prisoners and researchers, are part of the documentary “Cárceles Bolleras” (Dyke Jails) where those women’s reality behind the bars and how gender inequality affects their lives are depicted. Under these circumstances , lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution.

28-J PRIDE DAY at Filmoteca

9 September, 202016 June, 2019 by

The LGTIB International Pride Day is commemorated on June 28th, the day that, in 1969, took place the revolt of Stonewall in New York City, which encouraged the beginning of homosexual liberation.

SCREENING 28th June at 07:30 pm

FILMOTECA DE CATALUNYA, Plaça Salvador Seguí, 1-9

REVES (INSIDE OUT)

Demanding parents A demanding school. An education designed for winners. Damien endures bullying as most, in silence.

European Premiere.

ERICK

A wealthy teenage girl watches a movie about body image. She feels identified with the character and reflects on her own body and identity, but she has to face the harsh reality in her household.

European Premiere.

600 METRES DE LLIBERTAT

The Ramblas in Barcelona have been the reason for the transsexual liberation of the main characters of this documentary.

Dir.: Fab Llanos
Production: Mercè Meroño i Tomás Balbas. Fundació Àmbit Prevenció
Country:Catalunya
Year:2019
10 mins.

ROMÁN

After the screenings, a debate will take place with Rosa M. Maristany (chairwoman of Trans* Baix Power Association), Fab Llanos (filmmaker), Xavier-Daniel (founder and director of The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival) Carla and Penélope (activist transsexual women).

Organized by: FICGLB, LGTIB cultural association with the participation of Trans* Baix Power and Fundació Àmbit Prevenció at Raval District in Barcelona.

FICGLB at 25th Mostra

9 September, 20205 June, 2019 by

From The Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, as a guest festival in this 25th anniversary of the Mostra de Cine Latinoamericano de Catalunya, taking place at Lleida city, we have selected some films that reflect the concerns of young filmmakers, emphasizing women filmmakers. They all have an outstanding role in the four scheduled films, whether as a director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker or actress, in short film, documentary or fiction film. They deal with LGB themes (Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual) in Argentine and Spanish productions, going from respect for identity and older people’s feelings (Lo que no se ve, short film awarded by the audience in the FICGLB 2018) to the emotional relationship in spite of the age difference (Román), through the discovery of love in prison (Cárceles bolleras) and the release of family tensioness at a dinner with lots of humour (Boutade). Xavier-Daniel (director and programmer of the FICGLB, in his 25th anniversary as founder in Barcelona of the first film festival of the Spanish State specialized in LGTIB themes).

SCREENINGS ESPAI FUNATIC, LLEIDA. c/ Pi i Margall, 26. Telf: 973 300 027

BOUTADE. Saturday 8th June at 10:30h / Tuesday 11 June at 21:00h

Christmas Eve might become an ideal set to solve all the problems that have come up along the year with your loved ones. For this reason, Juan and Luis will invite Tere and Ana in order to release the tenseness created in the past.

Dirección: Dany Ruz
Producción: Dany Ruz, Mayte Martínez
Guión: Juan Carlos Rubio
Fotografía: Juan Manuel de la Cruz
Música: Jesús Calderón
Edición: Dany Ruz
Intérpretes.: Juan Carlos Villanueva, Montse Torrent, María José Martínez, Alberto de los Ríos
España, 2018 Duración: 13′

ROMÁN. Saturday 8th June at 10:30h / Tuesday 11 June at 21:00h

Dirección y guión: Majo Staffolani
Producción: Vanessa Ragone (Guanyadora d’un Oscar amb “El secreto de sus ojos”
Fotografía: Mariana Bomba
Música: Flor Bobadilla Oliva
Edición: Majo Staffolani – Luca Castello
Intérpretes: Carlo Argento, Gastón Cocchiarale, Gabriela Izcovich
Argentina, 2018 Duración: 61’
Seleccionado por el BAFICI (Festival de Cine, Buenos Aires)

LO QUE NO SE VE. Saturday 8th June at 12:45h / Monday 10th June at 21:45h

Premio del Público al mejor cortometraje, FICGLB 2018
Premio del Público CineVersátil, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dirección: Lamberto Guerra
Producción: Lamberto Guerra
Guión: Lamberto Guerra
Fotografía: Vasni Ramos
Música: Jonay Armas
Edición: Vasni Ramos, Lamberto Guerra
Intérpretes: Lorenza Machín, Sofía Privitera, Alba Tonini, Tara Machín, Paloma Albaladejo
España, 2017
Duración: 5’

CÁRCELES BOLLERAS. Saturday 8th June at 12:45h / Monday 10th June at 21:45h

Andrea travelled as a drug mule from Argentina, but she was taken directly from Barcelona airport to prison. Katia was imprisioned for two years at Martutene correctional facility in the Basque Country. Marta Dillon, journalist and feminist, visited over several years the female prisoners at the Ezeiza prison in Buenos Aires and she wrote their experiences in the book “Captive Hearts“.
These stories, along with those of some other former prisoners and researchers, are part of the documentary “Cárceles Bolleras” (Dyke Jails) where those women’s reality behind the bars and how gender inequality affects their lives are depicted. Under these circumstances, lesbian desire becomes a form of resistance to the penitentiary institution.

English Title: Dyke Jails
Dirección: Cecilia Montagut
Producción: Cecilia Montagut & Raquel Osborne
Guión: Cecilia Montagut
Fotografía: Cecilia Montagut
Edición: Cecilia Montagut
Intérpretes: Andrea Noemí Vera, Dolores Juliano, Concha Yagüe, Mar Sánchez, Katia Reimberg, Marta Dillon, Estibaliz de Miguel, Ana María Bruña, Inés Herrero, María Ruíz Torrado, Raquel Osborne, Pedro Montagut, Roser Rius Camps, David Urra, Silvia Reyes, María Jesús Lastra, Lucas Platero.
España/Argentina, 2018
Duración: 66′

AWARDS 2018

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DIVERSITY AWARD

Aabar Jadi Iccha Karo… de Debalina Majumder

SHORT FILM - LGTIB AWARD

Flamenca de Álvaro Moriano, Alejandro de Vega

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM

Montana de Limor Shmila

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

Iago Pericot. La conquesta de la innocència de Albert Folk

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM

Lo que no se ve de Lamberto Guerra

FICGLB

23 September, 2018 by

The FICGLB goes to Cuba

We deeply acknowledge the professional career of our Director for being so brave on those hard times when the rights for LGTIB and freedom were repressed.

We wish him a great and well deserved success in this new stage.

Film Festival Board

MARTA ARMENGOU (President)

23 September, 201822 September, 2018 by

MARTA ARMENGOU

Degree in Audiovisual Communication (Universitat Ramon Llull). Director of the film program ‘La Cartelera’ of betevé. Tertuliana in the programme ‘La Ventana Indiscreta’ directed by Àlex Gorina (Catalunya Ràdio), where she has also been part of the team that has broadcast the Oscars Awards gala in the last two editions. She is president of ACCEC (Catalan Association of Film Critics and Writers)

IGNASI VALENTÍ I TERNERO

23 September, 201822 September, 2018 by

IGNASI VALENTÍ I TERNERO

2016/18 · Production Manager, coordination and audiovisual image of the Girona Film Festival.
2016/08 · Stage Hand, Runner and sound and lighting assistant, for Link Produccions and Penny Wise.
2015 · Set Assistant Location and Video / DIT Support in Game Of Thrones. Season VI, Girona / Almería.
2015 · Production Manager, coordination and audiovisual image of the Girona Film Festival.
2014 · Production Manager of the Girona Film Festival.
2013 · Founder of the independent audiovisual production company Tallahassee Studio. Madrid
2013 · Camera operator for the documentary ‘Lesson in Life’. BCN

VIRIDIANA MORANDINI CLAPÉS

23 September, 201822 September, 2018 by

VIRIDIANA MORANDINI CLAPÉS

2012 Degree in Audiovisual Communication. School of Audiovisual Communication – Sevilla
2015 Fashion photography course – Fotodesign Fotodesign Barcelona- Barcelona

I was introduced to the world of the image since I was very very young, I was always interested in filming and photographing everything I passed by without knowing that it could become a profession.

Since I entered the world of photography in a more professional way, I have always tried to go beyond
and manage my own projects to start and create my own team.

JUDITH VIVES BELLALTA

23 September, 201822 September, 2018 by

JUDITH VIVES BELLALTA

Degree in Audiovisual Communication (UAB), works as a freelance journalist and film disseminator
dynamizing cinephorums and teaching film history classes at Casa Elizalde. She has written film reviews for several media, such as Elcinèfil.cat, Mataró Radio, Nube and the magazine Renacuajo. She is a promoter of the Colectivo Hotel Eléctrico that organizes the Film Market of Mataró.

JORGE OTER

22 September, 201822 September, 2018 by

JORGE OTER

He works at the ESUPT in Mataró, where he is part of the Narrativas de la Resistencia research group. He has published in magazines such as Zer, Fotocinema or Quaderni of CSCI. In digital format, he has participated in blogsandocs and was the co-editor of Pause.

THURSDAY 18

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FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H        OPENING NIGHT

davy & GOLIATH

Say Yes

FRIDAY 19

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 18:30H

COLLABORATES:

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30   Screening of Short Films (1)

El macho así entendido

Adela

Alicia

Ranchera

SATURDAY 20

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H

Heather Has Four Moms

Bao Bao

SUNDAY 21

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 16:30H

Un instante

Memorias Del Agua

D’hom

Iago Pericot. La conquesta de la innocència

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 19:30H

Sweet and Sour

Evening Shadows

TUESDAY 23

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H   Screening of Short Films 2

Scheideweg (Teenage Threesome)

The Fix

The Last Party

Don’t Judge Me, It’s Rude

Hotel Boy

Mors lilla Olle (Little Boy Blue)

Aabar Jadi Iccha Karo… (If You Dare Desire…)

WEDNESDAY 24

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H   Screening of Short Films 3

Se murió Juan Gabriel

Boutade

El Alquiler

Primavera rosa en España

Flamenca

…Aunque nos pese

Visibles

FRIDAY 26

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H   Cloenda

Cola de mono

COLLABORATES:

SATURDAY 27

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 19:00H

Ablution

Pney Zaken – Eze (Senior Moments – Eze)

Yes and No

Montana

COLABORATES:

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:30H   Screening of Short Films 4

Rusalka

#P0ZME

Recuerdo de mis 15

Yeniden Dogus (Rebirth)

A.M.O.R Ante Mucho Odio Revolución.

The Jump Off

Mir selbst so fremd (A Stranger to Myself)

Mar de celos

SUNDAY 28

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

FILMOTECA. Sala LAYA. 21:00H

Matt & Dan: Sex Notes

A Glória e a Graça (Gloria and Grace)

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Brazil, 2017, 94′

Graça is a single mother who works as a massage therapist and lives with her two children. When she decides to go after her brother, Luiz Carlos, whom she hasn’t seen in over 15 years due to a quarrel, they meet. He has become Gloria, a beautiful and successful trans. She accepts Graça’s invitation to meet her nephews and eventually realizes that maybe, to be complete, she needs to become a mother.

Aabar Jadi Iccha Karo… (If You Dare Desire …)

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
India, 2017, 52′

Within this hetero-patriarchal world, the women resist with their bodies, with their hearts, their love and desires.
2011.In a small village of West Bengal,India – Swapna and Sucheta-two young women in love with each other – took their own lives. No one from their families came to claim their dead bodies.They remain unclaimed… They had died for love but still live among us, for us.Based on a true story.

Bao Bao

9 September, 202017 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
Taiwan, 2018, 96′

As same-sex couples, Cindy, Joanne, Charles, and Tim collaborate together to help each other to own a baby. Even though it’s not generally acceptable in many places in Taiwan to be same-sex parents.

Over 25 years after The Wedding Banquet (1993), on the crucial period of Taiwan becoming the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, Bao Bao (2018) can be regarded as the most significant LGBTQ film in this generation.

Cola de mono

17 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Chile, 2018, 102′

It’s Christmas Eve, 1986, and Borja is a precocious teenager with a passion for his brother. This hypnotic story from Chile is both an enticing family melodrama and an explicit erotic thriller about the ways that passion and desire control our lives — from our pop-culture tastes to our sexual fantasies.

Evening Shadows

17 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
India, 2018, 102′

In South India and in a conservative family the love between two boys is debated by the repressive code 377 that exists in the country.

Montana

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Israel, 2018, 79′

Returning home to attend her grandfather’s funeral, Efi (Noa Biron) finds that nothing has changed, when she discovers that her uncle is still up to his devious ways. Set on revenge, Efi takes matters into her own hands.

Say Yes

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
USA, 2017, 95′

A young woman diagnosed with cancer tries to play matchmaker between her soon-to-be-widowed husband and her bisexual twin brother.

Miss Rosewood

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Denmark/USA, 2017, 67′

“This film is made as a gender liberation manifestation, through the artist Miss Rosewood is the intention to give an experience of self-empowerment to live out who you believe you are or what you want to be. There is no specification to this process and the message is of that to free the mind from classification. The images are rough to unsettle the morality of a perfect view to the gender liberation, its intentional to provoke inner conflict with what is freedom.”Helle Jensen.

Iago Pericot. La conquesta de la innocència

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Catalonia, 2018, 52′

Iago Pericot ‘The Conquest of Innocence’ is a journey through the events that marked his life (Franco’s repression, awareness of his homosexuality, his stay in London during the troubled 60s) and his works (“Rebel Delirium”, ‘Bent’, ‘MozartNu’), which were essential for modernizing the Catalan theater. It is the story of the creative process of an artist who, at 85, wants to continue talking about the world through his art. It is the portrait of his relationship with Josep, his companion for 15 years.

#P0ZME

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Mexico, 2018, 20′

Miguel arrives to the city after the death of his younger brother Julio to find out the possible causes that led him to commit suicide. There he meets Angel, his brother’s boyfriend who reveals that Julio practiced bugchasing.

… Aunque nos pese

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2018, 10′

Marcos wants to be a writer. He usually goes to the park in his urbanization and sits on the swings. One afternoon he meets Pedro. Between both of them will arise an unexpected complicity.

A.M.O.R Ante Mucho Odio Revolución

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Argentina, 2018, 10′

The Shirley and the Luciana get married. A wedding of transvestites that left in suspense the entire popular neighborhood of La Cumbre in the city of La Plata. Thanks to the law of gender identity and equal marriage, it was the first marriage that It took place in Latin America.

Ablution

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2017, 15′

The bond between a disabled Muslim father and his son is tested when love is pitted against religion. Everyday Waleed washes his disabled dad, Khaled, for prayer as a part of their Islamic religious obligation. But, when Khaled suspects his son is gay he’s torn between accepting him or living on his own unable to pray.

Adela (Adele)

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Argentina, 2017, 14′

Adela is a lonely woman aged 60 who works as a treasurer in a neighbourhood club. She lives there most of the time with her only friend Naomi. When Christmas comes, all her adolescent memories about games are awaken and also a new approach between both of them.

Algo serio

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Spain, 2018, 2′

Canarian struggle means a lot to Mayron.

Alicia

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Venezuela, 2017, 11′

A young woman dressed as Alice in Wonderland has never had an orgasm and hopes for tonight during a party to be the night.

Allergies

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
Australia, 2017, 5′

Catt breaks out in a rash and thinks she might have become allergic to her long-term partner.

Boutade

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Spain, 2018, 13′

davy & GOLIATH

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2018, 7′

An afternoon visit to a small city Sex Shoppe inspires excitement, surprise, and comic relief.

D’hom

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Catalonia, 2018, 17′

Andreu, a teen under the preasure of society’s rules, tries to find his own way of living.

Don’t Judge Me, It’s Rude

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2018, 5′

An emotionally nuanced reconnection at a tree stump.

El alquiler (The Contract)

16 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2017, 17′

History of a couple who, after years trying to adopt in Spain, decides to be parents through motherhood
surrogate. During the process, however, they discover that they are not such close as they thought.

El macho así entendido (Male as such)

16 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2018, 5′

When Raquel gets home she’s met with bad news: her dog has thrown himself out of the window.

Entre paredes (Between walls)

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Colombia, 2017, 19′

Isabella, Mario and Cristina look in an application to some stranger with whom to make a trio. The three of them are in a sleazy motel room between sex and drugs. Will strangers be the ones who finally know us better?

Female Connection

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2018, 4′

Liz, an out lesbian, and Kylie, a questioning heterosexual, are neighbors. When they first meet, there is an undeniable attraction between them. Their chemistry is immediately apparent even to Kylie’s boyfriend Matt. The two girls fall in love and Matt is soon out of the picture. But despite all their passion, Kylie continually pulls away, fighting the reality that she is in love with a woman.

Femme

16 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2017, 18′

Film about Carson, a gay twenty-something looking for love on all the wrong apps. After being rejected by an online hookup for being too “femme”, Carson embarks on a hilarious journey towards self-discovery and acceptance by way of a manic existential crisis and a drag queen fairy godmother. Set in Hell’s Kitchen, the epicenter of New York City gay life, Carson must confront his own notions of masculinity, gender performance, and discrimination within the LGBTQ community.

Flamenca (Flamingo)

16 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2018, 11′

Laura wakes up with a hangover at Lucia’s house. Laura wants to get out of there however, but Lucia convinces her to
stay for breakfast.

Heather Has Four Moms

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2018, 14′

A 15-year-old teenager wants to lose her virginity. She has four mothers who advise her.

Hotel Boy

16 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Denmark, 2018, 12′

The young Samir accompanies the politician Stefan to a hotel room. Samir is in love and has set everything aside to be able to go with Stefan, as they had planned. But under the surface lies a big misunderstanding, and outside in the rain a journalist is waiting for the next big headline.

House of Air

16 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom/ Australia, 2017, 4′

A sexually explicit study of hanky codes, visual signifiers, and gay fetishes set against the backdrop of 1970s San Francisco.

Isla ignorada #2 (Ignored island #2)

16 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2018, 17′

How hard is it to be a lesbian in a rural environment? Five women talk about their personal experience and expectations while the 4th edition of “Agrocuir” festival is taking place.

Lo que no se ve

16 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2017, 5′

ONLY FILMMAKERS

15 September, 2018 by

SCHEDULE ONLY FILMMAKERS

Thursday 18
Sessió inaugural
FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

davy & GOLIATH

Say Yes

Friday 19

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 18:30H

Xavier

Femme

Mrs McCutcheon

Miss Rosewood

Friday 19

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Sessió de curtmetratges (1)

Allergies

Entre paredes

Female Connection

Mentira

House of Air

Algo serio

Isla ignorada #2

Lo que no se ve

El macho así entendido

Adela

Alicia

Ranchera

Saturday 20

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Heather Has Four Moms

Bao Bao

Sunday 21

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 16:30H

Un instante

Memorias Del Agua

D’hom

Iago Pericot. La conquesta de la innocència

Sunday 21

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 19:30H

Sweet and Sour

Evening Shadows

Tuesday 23

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Sessió de curtmetratges 2

Scheideweg (Teenage Threesome)

The Fix

The Last Party

Don’t Judge Me, It’s Rude

Hotel Boy

Mors lilla Olle (Little Boy Blue)

Aabar Jadi Iccha Karo… (If You Dare Desire…)

Wednesday 24

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Sessió de curtmetratges (3)

Se murió Juan Gabriel

Boutade

El Alquiler

Primavera rosa en España

Flamenca

…Aunque nos pese

Visibles

Friday 26

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Sessió de cloenda

Cola de mono

Saturday 27

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 19:00H

Ablution

Pney Zaken – Eze (Senior Moments – Eze)

Yes and No

Montana

Saturday 27

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:30H

Sessió de curtmetratges 4

Rusalka

#P0ZME

Recuerdo de mis 15

Yeniden Dogus (Rebirth)

A.M.O.R Ante Mucho Odio Revolución.

The Jump Off

Mir selbst so fremd (A Stranger to Myself)

Mar de celos

Sunday 28

FILMOTECA. SALA LAYA. 21:00H

Matt & Dan: Sex Notes

A Glória e a Graça (Gloria and Grace)

Mar de celos

15 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2018, 13′

A photographer and his boyfriend have problems with jealousy.

Matt & Dan: Sex Notes

15 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2018, 4′

Matt and Dan play lovers , just after some seemingly satisfying-sex. But when Matt tells Dan he “just has a few notes”, Dan doesn’t expect just how intensive this note session is, and soon realizes he has more work in store than he thought…

Memorias Del Agua (Water Memories)

15 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Catalonia, 2017, 9′

The racial and sexual diversity of Carla and Helena, two young women who dream of being Olympic swimmers and who maintain their friendship in secret due to the racism of their families.

Mentira ( Lie)

15 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
Mexico, 2018, 5′

A portrait of the human relationships, their complexity and coldness, reflected in a couple who freely enjoy their physical relationship in a small room.

Mir selbst so fremd (A Stranger to Myself)

15 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2017, 12′

A young guy hopes to fill his inner emptiness by having sex with strangers.

Mors lilla Olle (Little Boy Blue)

26 September, 201815 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Sweden, 2017, 11′

”Little Boy Blue” is the story about Olle, five years old. He lives with his two dads in a home where he has everything any child could ever dream of. One night, just after Olle has gone to sleep, they receive a visit from an uninvited guest who has anything but good intentions.

Mrs McCutcheon

15 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Australia, 2017, 17′

Having always felt she was born in the wrong body and now at her third school, 10-year-old Mrs McCutcheon is having trouble settling in and finding acceptance from her newfound peers – but a school dance is about to revolutionize it all.

Pney Zaken – Eze (Senior Moments – Eze)

15 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Israel, 2018, 6′

Eze Raymond never knew how to date other men. Today, at the age of 82, he spends his days in his small apartment in Tel Aviv, and longs for dreams that may never come true.

Primavera rosa en España

15 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2018, 20′

Being young and LGTIB is not easy in Spain. Despite being one of the best countries to be LGTIB, they continue to suffer harassment in educational centers by their peers. The ignorance of the real problems of the children only increases their suffering.

Ranchera (A ranchera song)

15 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
Spain, 2018, 6′

Rocio doesn’t feel like weddings because her partner has just left her. However her sister Lola is going to sing a ranchera sounding as a break-up.

Recuerdo de mis 15

15 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Argentina, 2018, 8′

Three teenage friends take a walk through the red zone of their city to learn about the world of prostitution and transsexuality in the 90s.

Rusalka

5 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2017, 8′

Burlesque icons Luminous Pariah and Chris Harder star in this Tom of Finland inspired queer retelling of ‘The Little Mermaid’. Antonin Dvorak’s opera score accompanies this sexy homage to Hans Christian Andersen, vintage homoerotica and the golden era of silent film.

Scheideweg (Teenage Threesome)

5 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2017, 4′

One Boy, One Girl and her Stepbrother. A date goes wrong.

Se murió Juan Gabriel (Juan Gabriel is dead)

5 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Mexico / Germany, 2018, 15′

The very day the Mexican singer Juan Gabriel died, Beto and Daniel, two Mexican teenagers, will strengthen their friendship. Daniel imagines how his day-to-day would be like if he was a girl, perhaps then his feelings could be seen as a daily life.

Sweet and Sour

5 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
EUA, 2017, 6′

A gay Chinese American believes that his traditional mom would have a hard time accepting his boyfriend. However, it turns out that she is more complex than he has supposed.

The Fix

5 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2018, 10′

A surreal farce about a man with a big secret: he can’t stop thinking about sucking dick. It uses boundary-pushing humor to ask: after all the strides we’ve made, why do queer people still feel ashamed of our desires?

The Jump Off

5 September, 2018 by

European Premiere
USA, 2017, 5′

Idealistic young man Nigel has been in a secret romantic relationship with his friend, Malik, for several weeks, seemingly content with their unofficial status, but he longs for more.

The Last Party

3 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, 2017, 19′

In the belief of being gay as a shameful sin, Jesus will prove how nothing could be more wrong during his last chance to admit who he truly is, in a journey into self-discovery, friendship and love.

Un instante (An Instant)

3 September, 2018 by

Barcelona Premiere
Catalonia, 2017, 20′

A year. A boy. An instant.

Visibles

3 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2018, 20′

The society has created a stereotype of the LGTBI collective in which its members are fashionable people, with money, who have a lot of fun and never go beyond 40 years. But where are the elders?

Xavier

7 June, 20203 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Italy, USA, 2017, 8′

During an attack, police officer Xavier, among his injured fellow-officers, was shot dead.
There are broken dreams and unanswered expectations of peace. But there is no place for hate, dialogue and tolerance being the only possible solutions.

Yeniden Dogus (Rebirth)

3 September, 2018 by

Spanish Premiere
Turkey, 2017, 4′

Exhibited in Contemporary Art Museums.

Yes and No

3 September, 2018 by

World Premiere
Israel, 2018, 5′

Yes and No are in the middle of the desert. Yes lies on a mat and eats strawberries from a straw basket and No turn around with her hands tied behind her back with a red rope…

AWARDS 2017

22 September, 201830 October, 2017 by

DIVERSITY AWARD

After Louie de Vincent Gagliostro

SHORT FILM - LGTIB AWARD

Piscina de Carlos Ruano

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM

Santa y Andrés de Carlos Lechuga

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY

Villa Rosa de Lázaro J. González González

AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM

Lily de Graham Cantwell

JORDI CADENA I CASANOVAS (Chairman)

22 September, 20183 October, 2017 by

Jordi Cadena i Casanovas (Barcelona, March 11, 1947)

Director, screenwriter and producer of Catalan cinema. He was one of the fifteen founders of the Association of Filmmakers in Catalonia. He has collaborated in Fotogramas, Dirigido por…, Flash Foto, Ajoblanco, among other publications.

He is one of the most important contemporary Catalan filmmakers; since 1967 has an experience with essential titles such as És quan dormo que hi veig clar or La señora, portraits of extraordinary painters like Guinovart, Tharrats or Vilacasas, documentaries like Noches de Jazz or the historical one that he shot with Albert Abril on the Diada de Catalunya – 1977. He has been professor of script and direction in the University Pompeu Fabra and the Sant Ignasi Polytechnical Institute.

VENTURA OLLER

22 September, 20183 October, 2017 by

Ventura Oller

He began to play roles on stage at age 14. He obtained the professional card at the age of 20 with the company of Luis Prendes. Attended to courses of performance and sang with several teachers. Since then he has been involved in many feature films, plays, musicals and programs of television, among them: Fiesta, with Rosa Mª Sardá, La Granja, We will come to dinner, programs with Lloll Bertran, El Super, Petra Delicado, Open 24 hours, Journalists.The last musical performance in which he acted was Guys & Dolls, directed by Mario Gas, with the National Company of Catalonia … He has worked with Sara Montiel in La Violetera and Carmen, la de Ronda. “They were two scenes but they made me meet her and learn a lot” says the actor. Author of the book “My adventure and misfortune”

MERCÈ ESPELLETA

22 September, 20183 October, 2017 by

Mercè Espelleta

Actress, director of casting and actor coach for camera, and playwright.
Member of the AADPC, Academy of the Catalan Cinema, CIMA, SGAE and Projecte Vaca

ACTRESS

She is a graduate of the Theatre Institute of Barcelona, graduated in Technique Meisner with Javier Galito-Cava in 2010. She studied with Bob McAndrew “the actor before the camera”. He studied singing with Hellen Gallaguer, Susanna Domènec, Viv Maning, Helena Cabo. Ballroom dancing with Ferran Castells, tap dancing with Luís Mendez.

JESÚS GONZÁLEZ NOTARIO

22 September, 20183 October, 2017 by

Jesús González Notario

He is a member of the ACCEC, Catalan Association of Critics and Cinema Writers. Teacher and historian of Art. Radio program editor Band Sonora and usual collaborator in the program of recent movies “Son al cine” by Mataró Ràdio and the magazine “Sortim” by Mataró Ràdio. Escriu film critic to the monthly “Tribuna Maresme” and the cultural magazine “Crazy Friday. He has collaborated in The factory, of M1TV, and has been programmer of the Cinema Show of New Directors in Mataró since 1995.

JGN has been a member of the jury FIPRESCI, International Federation of Film Critics, at the festivals of Motovun (Croatia) and Odessa (Ukraine).

He is the administrator of the page of Albert Serra in Facebook and invigorating of the pages of # CinemaCatalà to Facebook and Twitter.
Writer in the blog Mesmestimoledison (mesmestimoledison.wordpress.com). It forms part of the collective Hotel Eléctrico in charge of spread and diffusion of the cinema.

GUEST COUNTRY

23 September, 201822 September, 2017 by

From Cuba: Young and Pink in Barcelona

The presence of Cuban films at the 17th edition of The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival contributes to show up youth and self-confidence, characteristic elements of the audiovisuals in our Island at the present time. To start with the fiction feature, the film Santa y Andrés (Carlos Lechuga, 2016) brings us closer to a story about intolerance and prejudice, not only of sexual nature, but social and political too built on an original love story. Two very well composed characters are integrated into the most illustrious human beings in our cinema.

Another documentary film is Villa Rosa (Lázaro G.González, 2016) takes place at Caibarién, a humble fishing village in the North of the country, where an aquatic carnival is organized by the active Gay community there. The young director, based on the screenplay by Nelson Breijo, took the opportunity to investigate and reveal some criteria and experiences about many local people’s lives on the site. According to the trans Roxana Rojo (a Diva there) dyed herself in pink for the event. It’s a well-known colour and an international symbol for homoerotism.

The approach goes beyond an specific fact to address the issue far beyond the context, starting from different viewpoints that, according to the people called to contest, their professions and cultural levels are weaving a map of sexual diversity by revealing their own macro and micro stories starting the specific-local to the national ones.

The short films also deal with the research of alternative and dissident identities: Luxemburgo (Fabián Suárez, 2016) depicts the failed relationship between an obese gay and dreamy man, and a security guard working at the first McDonalds factory in Cuba. Machismo, double morality and homophobia along with pragmatism and insensitivity characterizes this approach to an specific area of Cuban society, while showing at the same time some universal aspects.

Finally, the documentary short film Batería (Damián Sainz, 2016) reveals the interior of an old military fortress in ruins, outside Havana, where homosexuals go, not just looking for sex, but also for shelter inside the walls, even with rubbish around. This is a worthy sociocultural essay and a great testimony of image and sound in order to draw a mapping from the most representative spaces taken from the outskirts, where the “diversexual “ community is relegated in Cuba, and focused on marginality and danger. In spite of this, many of them have succeeded in building up a dignified and even a nice refuge of their own.

As a way of example, many of these films are grouped within the so-called ICAIC Young Filmmakers Exhibition, but in this 17^th edition of The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival, what it might be highly appreciated, as far as contemporary Cuban audiovisuals is concerned, is the filmmakers’ interest in reflecting the sexual diversity with its peculiar edges, and the development in this Antilles island.

Frank Padrón, Havana 2017.

Poet, narrator, essayist, Art critic and Cuban audiovisual massmedia communicator. He is specialized in Ibero-American cinema, and has taught at the International School of Cinema and TV in San Antonio de los Baños. Author of the book Different. Cinema and sexual diversity. He has also worked as a cultural promoter and in favour of the LGBTI community rights in Cuba. He is a member of the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists, and the Union of Journalists in Cuba. He is a Founding Member of the Cuban Cinematographic Press Association, affiliated to the International Federation of Cinematographic Press (FIPRESCI).

After Louie

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2017, 100′

Sam (Alan Cumming)is a troubled New York-based artist. A survivor of the AIDS epidemic, his loft is full of souvenirs and memories of former lovers, along with evidence of his time as an activist in ACT UP. He meets a young man, Braeden (Zachary Booth) in a bar and assumes that because of his youth the only reason for him to pursue a sexual encounter is a commercial one. However, it turns out to be the catalyst for a new phase in his life as an artist. Through Sam, a generation deals with the unresolved trauma of loss for those who lived through the 1980s and 1990s. Sam’s grief and anger turn into a sharing of knowledge and experience, expanding the possibilities of intergenerational understanding.

Against the law

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, 2017, 82′

2017 sees the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales between adult males, in private. While it would take several decades before homosexuals would reach anything like full equality in this country, this legislation marks the beginning of this journey, through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their ‘condition’. There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All these accounts amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past.

Chinatown (Barrio Chino)

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Italy, 1990, 58′

Recovering memory: Barcelona is preparing the Olympic Games of ’92. There are people who transform their lives and at the same time they show us another reality.

The documentary CHINATOWN is a witness of the pre-Olympic Barcelona transformation: as a cosmopolitan city and that of some citizens such as Carmen de Mairena, who lives in the red-light district and exhibits the human squalid conditions and wealth values. Together with Nino Spaghetti, both are the main characters of this city transformation and at the same time its personality.

Kiss Me (Embrasse-Moi!)

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
France, 2017, 86′

A young, modern and very happy woman falls in love with beautiful Cecile. The only cloud in this perfect picture: her 76 ex-girlfriends and crazy family! This film has the ambition to be the first mainstream romantic comedy where the central couple consists of two very funny women.

Extra Terrestrials (Extra Terrestres)

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Puerto Rico, Venezuela, 2016, 113′

Teresa is a vegetarian lesbian and a successful astrophysicist living with her fiancé, Daniela in the Canary Islands. After years of auto-exile, she goes back to her rural home in Puerto Rico to invite her family to her wedding. The Díaz family is a conservative clan that owns a Poultry Processing Plant. Unwilling to reveal their secrets, no one in the family is who they say they are, which is why Teresa opts for lying.

The Blue Years (Los Años Azules)

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

FIPRESCI’s Award, 32 Festival de Cinema de Guadalajara (Mexico)
Spanish Premiere
Mexico, 2017, 103′

An old house in a traditional neighborhood of Guadalajara is inhabited by five people who share the expenses, dreams and a part of their lives, while observed by Schrödinger, a cat that seems to be part of the place. Through its eyes, we know the conflicts of these boys from different regions of the country and opposite cultures, who left their home in search of a life of their own, finding a dysfunctional family on the way.

Santa & Andrés

31 August, 20186 September, 2017 by

Awards: Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Lola Amores) Guadalajara International, Special Honorary Award (Maguey LGBT Competition) 2017
Spanish Premiere
Cuba, France, Colombia, 2016, 105′

The story of an improbable friendship between a revolutionary country girl and a noncompliant gay writer she has to watch over for three consecutive days. The story goes on in the East of Cuba, in the early 80’s. It deals with the friendship that arises between two people who, apparently, are very different, but who gradually become aware that the things that unite them are more important than the ones that separate them.

Sensitivity Training

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 86′

A misanthropic woman is forced in sensitivity training and forms an unlikely friendship with the bubbly woman who is assigned to be her coach.

Villa Rosa (Pink Village)

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
Cuba, 2016, 50′

Caibarien was one of the most prosperous Cuba fishing villages. Now their progress seems due, rather, to the LGBTI activism of many of its inhabitants. For that reason, the Russian Roxana Rojo says that the former Villa Blanca is stained pink in the middle of the national gray.

After His Death

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
Israel, 2017, 11′

After her father passed away, Ayelet – a lesbian woman – finds out that her father had an affair with a man. Although her mother disapproval, Ayelet decideds to meet her Father’s lover.

Aridai

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2017, 8′

I wouldn’t have expected that you that you were tailor-made to my bathtub.

Bateria

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Cuba, 2016, 16′

The ruins of an ancient military fortress outside Havana have become a clandestine gay cruising spot. The old walls and the rubbles give shelter not only to Cuban male homosexuals, but also to a culture of resistance and socialization.

Ben Mamshich (Heritage)

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Israel, 2017, 25′

Noam, a young gay guy, discovers his father, who just died, had a secret affair with another married man. He Follows and meets that man without telling him who he is. He now holds his father’s secret.

Blow Job Split-Screen

31 August, 20185 September, 2017 by

World Premiere
USA, 2017, 6′

This film shows what Andy (Warhol) kept off screen (and the world wondering about for over 50 years)

BobbyAnna

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2017, 20′

BobbyAnna is a lyrical love story exploring connection, gender expression, and privilege.

Ce que je pense

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

World Premiere
France, 2017, 4′

My great torment in this existence comes from the fact that I am eternally alone, and all my efforts, all my actions are directed toward escaping the solitude. From « Solitude » by Guy de Maupassant.

Cocoon

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
China, 2017, 25′

1997 China is a place of transitions. Control of Hong Kong has just returned to the mainland. Western values are beginning to impact traditional Chinese values. At this time, 11-year-old Qingqing is also in a place of transition. On the cusp of adolescence, she lives with her mom in the peaceful city of Wuhan. When Qingqing discover her mom’s oddly close relationship with a female friend, she starts stalking them, only to discover her secret.

Curmudgeons

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

USA, 2016, 17′

A pair of senior citizens have a relationship that shocks both their families. In this endearing comedy, a potty-mouthed octogenarian in an assisted living facility gets a big-time surprise engineered by his daughter, in this funny and endearing sketch directed (and with a delightful cameo) by Danny DeVito.

The Ballerina (Diamante, o Bailarina)

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Brazil, 2016, 22′

Diamante is a gay boxer who stands out for his body control and fast leg movements. At night, he performs as a drag queen in a nightclub. Judgemental, his coach leaves him out of a boxing competition, but Diamante wants to be a champion.

The Character Inside Me (Die Figur in mir)

31 August, 20184 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2016, 16′

Markus is the city’s most popular public pisser. That’s what we learn on his blog where he posts his videos. In these he seems unrestrained and shameless. Yet behind the digital facade we meet a self-conscious and shy man…

The Wedding Patrol (Die Hochzeitspolizei)

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2016, 15′

The Russian expat Mikail lives happily in a civil partnership with his husband in Berlin, when chief inspector Böhnenkamp accuses him of not being gay and leading a green-card marriage. A witness saw him kissing a woman! But as it turns out, things are not always what they seem.

The Swan

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Mexico. USA, 2016, 22′

Sthefany Galante is a Mexican trans woman who migrated to the United States after experiencing gender discrimination in her hometown. After being away from home for six years, Sthefany is preparing for an imminent trip to Hidalgo, Mexico, to confront her parents about her gender identity.

Etage X

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
Germany, 2016, 14′

An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise by the time the elevator gets stuck.

Fina’s translife rally

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

Catalonia, 2016, 10′

When the road is not yours, the more difficult it is to follow your own path. Fina was born in Vic, made her change at age 50, was married and had two children. This is his story.

For Life

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
Israel, 2017, 9′

Looking for an engagement ring alongside her fiancé, Yasmin encounters her mythological ex-boyfriend.

Heavy Weight

31 August, 20182 September, 2017 by

European Premiere
United Kingdom, 2016, 13′

Quan arriba un de nou amb talent i comença a utilitzar el club de boxa local, París, un lluitador expert, es veu obligat a una lluita inesperada amb ell mateix. Una pel·lícula sobre vulnerabilitat en un món hiper-masculí que no la permet.

Lily

31 August, 201829 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Ireland, 2016, 22′

The film tells the story of Lily, a girl with a secret, on the cusp of becoming a young woman. With her best friend, the fiercely loyal and flamboyant Simon, she navigates the treacherous waters of school life.

Linie 9

31 August, 201829 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Mexico, Germany, 2016, 16′

In a city with constant movement like the subway rides, the paths of Andre´s and Miguel are crossing. It seems like the beginning of a new Romance but Andre´s doesn’t know which direction to take, because every road leads him to something sexual.

Luxembourg

31 August, 201829 August, 2017 by

Barcelona Premiere
Cuba, 2016, 29′

Aristotle is an obese man following a therapy to lose weight. When he meets Tim, a security guard from the first McDonalds factory in Cuba, his expectations increase.

Mai

31 August, 201825 August, 2017 by

Barcelona Premiere
Catalonia, 2017, 7′

Carmeta, Mari and Pilar are three old ladies from Sucs, a little village in Plana de Lleida, who spend every afternoon sitting on a bench to catch up. The arrival of a strange couple of young girls turns into the main topic of discussion among the three friends… until gossip awakes deep feelings from their past.

Máscaras

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Belgium, 2016, 13′

Lucas, an unlucky romantic is approached by a serial seducer named Victor who promises him the moon. Disappointed and having been cheated on once again, Lucas decides to take revenge…

MMF

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2017, 10′

A pair of thirtysomethings picks up a young, attractive black man for a threesome. As they review the experience, they probe each other, masking their own insecurities with hipster irony and provocation, including homophobic and racist jokes. Soon the situation turns very embarrassing for them.

Nidal

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

European Premiere
Lebanon, 2016, 15′

Fourteen-year-old Nidal is one of the 4.8 million Syrians who has been displaced by war. Born female, Nidal has identified as a boy since he was nine years old which coincided with their escape from Syria. As his body starts to mature, he is forced to navigate the complexity of his circumstances in the confines of a refugee camp and a culture that cannot comprehend gender fluidity.

Platypus (Ornitorrinco)

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2017, 4′

Two women have just finished their relationship. They gather for a family meal in which they will continue to pretend they are a couple. If one can not keep up the farce, there is one keyword: Platypus.

Penis Poetry

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, Portugal, 2016, 14′

This is a poetic film about The Penis becoming a diary with a unique story to tell. All penises have a story to tell. If yours could speak what would it say?

Piscina

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2017, 10′

Santi and Jota are two neighbourhood friends forever. Like many others, they don’t study nor work, and they live their lives by getting drunk in the park, going to Nightclubs, and talking about which of their girl friends is hotter. But Jota is worried about something else. Oppressed by the heat of August, Santi is decided to make him talk, and in order to persuade him, has worked out an infallible plan.

Primero-Verdadero-Último

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

European Premiere
Guatemala, 2017, 33′

Film about three relationships between men happening simultaneously in a country without any rights for LGBTI individuals. “First” tells the story of two teenage boys who don’t fit in their school and randomly meet at a birthday party. “True” is a comedy of errors, when Alejandro decides to attend the wedding of his ex-boyfriend and discovers that his future husband has a secret. “Last” is the tragic story of a seven-year long closeted relationship when individuals are not honest with each other and their families.

Frozen Princess (Princesa de Hielo)

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Spain, 2017, 15′

Antonio and Carmen read the letter that their son Lucas has written to the Three Wise Men. A very special gift from the kid’s list will test the social convictions and his parents’ love.

Pyotr495

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Barcelona Premiere
Canada, 2016, 15′

This is a short horror film set in present-day Moscow. The short film follows 16 year-old Pyotr as he is baited over a dating app by an ultra-nationalist group known for their violent abductions, bolstered by Russia’s recent passing of an anti-LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret…

Refugee’s Welcome

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

European Premiere
Spain, 2017, 22′

Moonif, a young Syrian man, leaves the refugee camp to wander the streets of Berlin. He starts to discover the city that feels alien to him. He embarks on a journey where he will confront outer dangers and inner desires.

Romeu or Julieta

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Catalonia, 2017, 8′

A young woman who feels man and how this feeling affects in her daily life. For the recognition of gender identity.

Scar Tissue

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Netherlands, 2017, 15′

As the Syrian civil war rages, Sami (Noah Valentyn) has fled Damascus and now lives in Amsterdam. He hopes to be able to build a home here and be able to live openly as a gay man. Most of all, he hopes to escape the ghosts of the past that still haunt him. A chance encounter brings him face to face with Johan (Daan Colijn): A self-assured, direct and sensual man. Over the course of a night, some unsettling secrets are revealed that will make both men confront some harsh truths about the very different worlds they come from.

Según Mateo

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

European Premiere
Spain, 2017, 19′

Mateo and his boyfriend, Marc, arrive home after a night out with Luke, a guy they’ve just met. After an argument, Mateo leaves the flat and bumps into Jon, a drug dealer they have called. Mateo convinces Jon to take him to his house where he discovers he can’t feel anything if it’s not through pain.

If a tree falls in a forest…

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

World Premiere
Spain, 2017, 11′

What is the reality of gays and lesbians when they reach a certain age? This is the testimony of those who had to remain silent, in front of a hostile environment, beginning in their own families and, in many cases, ended in jail. Carlos, Rosa, Eduardo and Ricardo explain the route that has marked their lives and how they face their present and future.

Thanks for Dancing

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
2016 Aspen Shortsfest: Audiene Award, Best Drama
2016 MiFo LGBT Film Festival, Miami: Best Short Film
Noruega, 2016, 19′

A lifelong relationship is coming to an end, as we follow two elderly men and former athletes the last winter they are living together.

The Night Cleaner

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Canada, 2016, 5′

As the night cleaner in Canada’s busiest gay bathhouse, Travis, with good humour he shyly takes us on an amusing and sometimes harrowing tour through his nightly duties.

The Women’s Bathroom Project

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 6′

A short conversation with a transwoman has a profound impact on young Mel. This is our response to the Trump Administration’s rescission of the rights of transgender students across America.

Tunnel of colors

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Barcelona Premiere
Euskadi, 2016, 11′

Miren is preparing her wedding. One day she meets an old friend from university. An encounter that will lead to know herself.

Venus – Filly the lesbian little Fairy

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Brazil, 2017, 6′

From the foam of the sea, fertilized by the blood of the sky, was born Venus, enchanting goddess. In the animated fairy tale Filly,a lesbian fairy tale with nimble fingers, seduces women by day, dressed as boy. But at night something strange happens and soon half the population of Whitsitt Village are eagerly queuing up.

Versatile

31 August, 201820 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Catalonia, 2017, 14′

Alex and Hugo are a young couple who are together for 6 months. One Friday night, when Hugo is at Alex’s apartment some issues about the sexual roles will be discussed. What it seemed a simple argument, it ends up by bringing to light some very important issues about the necessary basis for a working relationship.

Victoria Rosana Maite

31 August, 201819 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Chile, 2016, 25′

When a Catholic school humiliates the daughter of two mothers, Victoria (45) and Rosana (42), they both enter into a couple crisis because of their opposing visions of justice and privacy.

Virgin Territory

31 August, 201819 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2016, 15′

Virgin Territory is sex-positive, queer, and questioning coming-of-age story about a teenage girl who decides to have sex for the first time in commencement of her journey of sexual exploration.

Y

31 August, 201819 August, 2017 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2017, 23′

Laura is a self-confident young woman, a member of the new “Me Me Me Generation“, also known as “Generation Y”. Spoilt for choice by life’s abundance of options, Laura has lost track of her own aims and ideals. She’s always looking for something, she just doesn’t know what. One night she meets Safi, who has fled her homeland. The encounter gives Laura food for thought.

JOSEP M. CIVIT (Chairman)

3 October, 20176 October, 2016 by

JOSEP M. CIVIT, AEC. Cinematographer. www.josepcivit.com

Born in Barcelona, studied Graphic Design and Photography at the Escola de Disseny Eina and graduated in Theory of Contemporary Arts at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. From 1972 till 1979 worked as a press photographer (Diari de Barcelona, Mundo, Triunfo, Cambio 16, Interviú). From 1979 aims his professional activity towards cinema. He’s been working as Director of Photography since 1986 working for productions of all types in cinema, TV, advertising, documentaries and theatre.

Josep worked internationally throughout his career working with well known directors like Monte Hellmann, Bigas Luna, Agusti Villaronga, Paul Leduc among others, taking him to countries such as USA, Mexico, Colombia, UK, France, United Arab Emirates…He combines his work in feature films with his work in commercials.

Josep has won a Gaudí Award 2016 for Best Cinematography for his work in the feature film The King of Havana directed by Agusti Villaronga. He also received a Goya Nomination for the same film.
In line with each director’s vision, Josep always sets out to weave a sense of emotion in his images.

ARANTXA ACOSTA

3 October, 20176 October, 2016 by

She’s got a Master’s degree in film criticism, in recent years she has published some articles and film critical analysis and conducted covering national and international film festivals. She has also participated in radio programmes and specialized collaborations on the book Steampunk Film (Edited by Tyrannosaurus Books, 2013).

In 2012 she co-founded the digital magazine of film analysis called Cine divergent, being co-director and editor until mid 2016, the year in which the need of creating a more open space to other arts, encouraged her to co-found the Cultural Association Probeta (probeta.info).

She is currently a co-director and editor to the website of The True doesn’t exist (www.larealidadnoexiste.com a Probeta projects) and member of the Board of ACCEC (Catalan Association of Film Critics and Cinema Writers), in addition she’s the editor of Miradas de Cine (www.miradasdecine.es).

JOSÉ MÉNDEZ I GARCÍA

3 October, 20176 October, 2016 by

-Senior – Graduate “Audiovisual Media” (Cinema Speciality)

-Teacher of Cinema at EMAV (Audiovisual Media’ School) for 30 years in Film language, script and production, and Television Production and Direction.

-Filmmaker and producer of feature films and short films director : “Tot l`enyor de demà” docudrama about the modernist poet Joan Salvat Papasseit.

-Share Teaching in collaboration with different magazines. Door Cinema section of the magazine “Ajoblanco.”

-Founder of the production company “Paradis Films P.C.S.L” through alternative for direction of short-films and industrial productions.

-Co-founder of “Atisso” association (later: ISO): Technicians Association of Image and Sound of Catalonia.

-Collaborator as a film critic for two years in the program “NEXES” COM Radio.

-Editor and film critic of the magazine “Visual Area” Today “Areavisual.com” and “Areavisual.org”

-Co-filmmaker and film critic for the programme Movies and Screens, and “visual City” at Radio Old City, Barcelona’s District.

FICGLB 2017

23 September, 20185 October, 2016 by

Free gender identities

In the present 16th edition, we have expanded our partnership with some important entities, such as Òmnium Cultural, Fundació Àmbit Prevenció, and the opening night will be with Casa America Catalonia. The sessions will take place at the Cinematheque.
Several debates and collaborations with these entities will complete the programme. For instance, the subject about AIDS thirty years later with be carried out with Òmnium Cultural, and the transphobia subject with the Fundació Àmbit Prevenció of Raval District, Barcelona City Council.
The guest country is Israel, due to the young emerging talented film directors from different film schools in that country. We have scheduled a session of short films dedicated to their jobs, with the presence of several filmmakers.
With a schedule of more than 50 titles from twenty countries, the prospect becomes wider one more year, and including the risk of filmmakers to deal with LGTIB issues in countries where there still exists death penalty for homosexuality. This year, twenty five professionals will introduce their films.
Some of the issues are: a Muslim girl who performs an act of love for another one who has been kidnapped and abused by Daesh, it is a film from Saudi Arabia; an allegation against homophobia reaching the most extreme point, by a filmmaker from Israel who will present the session dedicated to this country; a headmistress explains how the risk of an erotic dream becomes true, in a co-production between Israel and Palestine; children and adolescent transgender who have to endure transphobia which affects their lives, and AIDS survivors in San Francisco. These are some of the subjects conveyed in this yearly event, revealing the concerns of the most rebellious and nonconformist young filmmakers.
In our short films programming we also show several examples of identities whether or not transgender, since children transgender goes beyond attitudes, that’s to say, a kid with a boy’s role and a girl with a girl’s role are concepts already established by a repressive society. These young filmmakers want to break the rules socially imposed by male characters and their eagerness for classifing. They claim stop being labeled, and they are in favour of each one’s dentity by expressing their own feelings freely.
One of the targets we have set out along all 16 editions is that from The Barcelona International LGTIB Film Festival we have always wanted to give support the Catalan movies because we are aware how difficult it is to produce a feature film in our country. For this reason, we have included the world premiere of Wild Awakening, directed by Joanfer Martin where he explains a rather unusual issue in cinema today, as how homophobia is sometimes a result of a repressed homosexuality.

Xavier-Daniel
Founder and Film Festival Director
Board of Catalan College of Filmmakers
Member of the Catalan Film Critics Association and FIPRESCI

ALIMUOM NG KAHAPON (SHADOWS OF YESTERDAY)

29 August, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Philippines, 2015, 100′

The film is about a life style photographer and a student activist caught up in a relationship amidst contrasting ideals and principles.

AMOR A PASO DE GIGANTE (A GIANT STEP LOVE)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
France, Argentina, 2016, 53′

Mariela Muñoz was born named Leonardo. Transexual, he was imprisoned and fighted for his personal condition, and devoted himself to bringing up 17 children who were left to his charge with dignity. Mariela was the first transgender person who got the official documents in Argentine.

BRUISING FOR BESOS

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 89′

A charismatic Xicana lesbian seduces and alluring Puerto Rican woman, only to find herself recreating her tumultuous past.

KISS ME, KILL ME

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2015, 100′

A contemporary film noir, set in West Hollywood…

In Los Angeles, it’s sometimes hard to tell your friends from your enemies, and all of Dusty’s friends, it seems, are capable of murder.

LA LUCIÉRNAGA (THE FIREFLY)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Colombia, 2015, 88′

Lucia, a married woman, after the sudden death of her estranged brother Andrés, goes through an emotional crisis. At the funeral, Lucia cannot bear to see him being buried and escapes to Andrés’ apartment. There she meets Mariana, Andrés fiancée, who has been using the apartment as a hideout since the wedding day. Slowly the two women begin to help each other mourn their loss and grow to love one another. After going on a road trip together, Lucia realizes she no longer wants to be married and decides, once and for all, to follow her dreams next to Mariana, the love of her life.

LAST MEN STANDING

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 66′

“We felt like every day was wonderful and anything could happen.” Rich and distinguished stories unfold among the lives of long-term survivors who have learned how to celebrate, heal, love, and thrive after the devastation of the early AIDS crisis (…)

Survivors are still affected by the trauma of not only their diagnosis but also the loss of community and way of life. Nobody knew they would grow old with AIDS.

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OTHER PEOPLE

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2016, 97′

A struggling comedy writer, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worst year of his life, returns to Sacramento to care for his dying mother.

SALVAJE DESPERTAR

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
Catalonia, 2016, 105′

Emma and Toni are two brothers who when they became orphans should take over the family business: a riding school. Emma is still young and Toni takes an uncontrolled and promiscuous gay life, so Ramon, the foreman, and his son Aaron, are the ones who keep the business going on. Problems arise when both brothers fall in love with Aaron and he feels pressured by his father’s homophobia.

WO WILLST DU HIN, HABIBI? (WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI?)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2015, 79′

This film is asking the question of affilation on different levels, it is a Buddy-Movie about an unlikely friendship. Ibrahim, young, gay, & Turkish, falls in love with “Ali”, a wrestler and criminal, German & straight. A kind of lovestory develops between the two men that surpasses both of them.

1992

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
France, 2016, 25′

Martin is seventeen and films his daily life with his Hi8 camera. He films everything and anything, his room, the world around him. Never his father. He does not think about it. One day he meets Dominique. He is twenty-three and is a pawn in his high school.

ALFA

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Cuba, 2016, 18′

Alfa Méndez Cuban gay porn actor who has to face the challenge of returning to a film set without Yerry, his sentimental and artistic partner for years. On his first day of shooting without him, Alfa tries to act as in the past but things cannot be like before.

AMORE PROSSIMO (NEXT LOVE)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Awards: Audience Award for Best International Short at Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Italy, 2015, 14′

Salvatore and Giuliano train and play basketball in a park in the suburbs. After the sport they relax on the lawn while speaking of women and their own intimate desires. An intense conversation that will take the two friends on a unexpected direction.

BADERECH HAZARA (ON THE WAY BACK)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
Israel, 2015, 9′

While on a trip to an isolated waterfall, Aviv decides to express his secret to his best friend, Barak, a secret that he has been hiding for a long time. The way back home will never be the same again.

CABALLEROS (GENTLEMEN)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Ecuador, 2015, 8′

Five gentlemen gather in a house of one of them for telling stories about their former loves. During their conversation each one will explain his life and love experiences. Among laughs, sorrows and crazy acts, a surprise will be revealed at the end.

CELUI QUI A DEUX ÂMES (HE WHO HAS TWO SOULS)

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

France, 2015, 17′

They called him “He who has two souls”. He was beautiful like a woman, and he was handsome like a man. He hesitated…

COMING OF AGE

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Germany, 2016, 14′

The planned Daddy-Son-Afternoon turns into a conversation about male role models – until the roles getting fixed again.

DAESH GIRL

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Saudi Arabia, USA, 2016, 11′

A compelling story of love, death, and sacrifice, set against a backdrop of war, hatred, and intolerance, in one of the world’s most troubled regions.Daesh Girl tells the story of Sarah, a young woman drawn into a world of violence and treachery when her friend, Noorah, is abducted by Daesh and forced into servitude. The necessity of freeing Noorah forces Sarah to concoct a desperate scheme which will put her in the greatest possible danger, as she goes undercover to infiltrate one of the world’s most ruthless and deadly extremist groups, with the aim of freeing her friend and killing her captors.

DANCE CARD

2 September, 201718 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Australia, 2016, 7′

Cara has something important to tell her grandfather, and she’s worried he might find it a bit shocking. But ol’Gramps has some surprises for Cara, too.

DE VUELTA (BACK AGAIN)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spain, 2015, 13′

Alex returns to his village with Jordi, after a while, in order to celebrate San Juan night. However, due to a summer storm, they have to shelter in an old abandoned house where both played when they were children. In there, some conflicts of the past will turn up.

EICH LIHIYOT LEVAD (HOW TO BE ALONE)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Awards: Best Israeli Short Film Tel Aviv FilmFest 2016
Israel, 2015, 22′

Listen to me: there is life without love. Loneliness is the soul’s forgotten desire. You don’t need anyone. Don’t search, don’t hope, don’t dream; and only then, perhaps, you too will learn how to be alone.

EL TÚNEL (THE TUNNEL)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2015, 8′

Laura. Sofia. A car wash tunnel. Is there a way out?

G. O’CLOCK

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, 2015, 10′

G O’Clock is the groundbreaking new film about the unseen world of house music, muscles, drugs and sex. This is London’s booming gay chemsex scene. After being called out to an emergency, a gay paramedic named Alex saves the life of a young boy who has overdosed on GHB.

Even though this is a daily scenario for Alex, he leads a double life as a frequent sex party reveller. He believes his medical knowledge and responsible party habits are enough to keep him safe from the dangers of the chemsex world. That is until he arrives at a chillout and meets Nik, a sexy, young Spanish boy whom he takes under his wing.

Alex is about to learn that when it comes to chemsex, arrogance can be just as dangerous as naiveté…

GABBER LOVER

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Awards: Cannes Palm Queer 2016
France, 2016, 13′

Nerac, France, early 2000s. Laurie and Mila, 13 years old, are dancing gabber next to a remote lake. Mila is in love with Laurie and tries to tell her. Troubled by her declaration, Laurie reacts violently. Mila runs away. Laurie sets out to find her.

HOUSE NOT HOME

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2015, 15′

A firsthand account of Terran, an African American gender fluid teenager navigating bullying, violence and rejection from their father and peers before finding their courage and voice to come out.

To Leelah Alcorn (1997-2014) who said:”The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was (…) Gender needs to be talked about in schools, the earlier the better. My death needs to mean something.”

LA CANDIDATA

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spain, Catalonia, 2014, 7′

The Iron Woman, The Black Woman with a Golden Heart, Jesusa, the Rose Woman, The Calm Woman, and Esperanza Constitución. All of them are The Candidate: Six stories, six worlds, six voices, six women willing to say what they think and offer the best of them and to be themselves if you vote for them.

LA ORQUÍDEA

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, Catalonia, 2016, 3′

A man has something important to tell his son, but can only get through to his voicemail.

LA TANA

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
Italy, 2015, 15′

Christian is on vacation with his family: wife and son. One day he meets Luca, an old friend, at the bar on the beach. This face emerged from the past bothers Christian: Luca asks Christian to restart a game interrupted many years ago…

LETARGO (LETHARGY)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2015, 19′

Alex is a boy who has just broken up with Marc, his partner for several years. In a cold winter nights, their dog sickens and Alex brings him to the hospital. This situation forces Marc and Alex to meet again in a long night in which everything that seemed asleep awakens.

NASSER

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Awards: ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Actress’(2015) De Ronde Venen Open Film Festival Vinkeveen,
Honorable Mention Noordelijk Film Festival Leeuwarden
Holland, 2015, 20′

Nasser is a 13-year-old Dutch girl from Moroccan descent named Nassira. Her friends call her Nasser because she feels different than other girls. When Nassira has her first period, her mother thinks it is time for her to behave like a young woman. But Nassira struggles with the expectations and her identity crisis.

OH-BE-JOYFUL

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
United Kingdom, 2015, 14′

Rita is about to kick the bucket, but before she does she’s got one final job to do: drag her granddaughter out of the closet.

PARADIGMA

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Spain, 2016, 19′

Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through others.

PARTING

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
United Kingdom, 2016, 10′

After a lifetime together, an elderly couple prepare to say goodbye.

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Israel, 2016, 8′

The insecure Amitai finally gets invited to the appartment of the desirable Aitan. But when Aitan reveals his special secret to Amitai, the tabels turn and the dominant becomes the submissive.

PICK UP

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2015, 20′

Jesse Ritter has been living with a secret. What begins as a quiet evening of driving for Pick Up (the latest car service to share the road with Uber and Lyft), turns into a life changing journey filled with conversations about life, sex, stigma, and guilt, as Jesse falls for one of his passengers and is forced to confess the truth.

PINK BOY

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Awards: Grand Jury Award for Best Short DOC NYC Winner, Jury Award for Best Documentary Palm Springs
USA, 2015, 15′

BJ, a butch lesbian, successfully avoided dresses her entire life until she and her partner Sherrie adopted Jeffrey, who starts to dance in gowns and perform for his parents. Now that six-year-old Jeffrey wishes to dress up in public, BJ must navigate where it is safe for him in conservative rural Florida.

PONY TALE

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
Israel/Palestina (The West Bank, Palestinian National Authority), 2016, 9′

17 years old Adva is trapped in a never ending life circle between fantasy and reality. Surviving the religion life style through a fantasy life she created. Adva goes on a night journey from her life in the West Bank settlement in order to fulfill her fantasy- to kiss a girl and fuck her with her back to the wall of a club’s bathroom.

She is unfamiliar with Tel-Aviv’s night life and has no idea what to expect, but she is eager to fulfill the fantasy. She is hitchhiking her way to Tel-Aviv, changes her religious appearance and puts on her alter identity…

PORQUE NO (BECAUSE)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Colombia, 2016, 14′

Victoria and Paula are going to a wedding party near Bogotá, but an unsolved conversation is waiting for them.

POSHIDA (HIDDEN LGBT PAKISTAN)

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Pakistan, 2016, 29′

This first-of-it’s-kind independent documentary follows hidden LGBT individuals and communities in Pakistan. Travelling across the country, Poshida delves into the history and modern culture of LGBT Pakistan providing a deep insight into this hidden world.

The film examines sexuality and gender identities in south Asia and discusses colonialism, religion, class and the influence of US foreign policy.

It also spotlights the role of the Pakistani media in the case of the Lahori serial killer of 2014 and human rights abuses of transgender men and women for entertainment.

¿QUIÉN MATÓ A LA SRA. AIBOFSNART?

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spain/Catalonia, 2015, 10′

Three women are suspect of murder, but all of them have the perfect alibi. Who is Ms. Aibofsnart?

RYANS

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

22 October. International Day of Action for Trans Depathologization 2016

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 14′

A trans woman goes on a blind date with a man with the same name as her ex…

Rain Valdez kept her gender identity secret for years in Hollywood. Now, she’s out, and ready to finally represent her community in her favorite film genre: the comedy.

S.T.A.R.

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

22 October. International Day of Action for Trans Depathologization 2016

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 5′

“The transgender movement may be making headlines, but our rich history is often overlooked,” Ernst said in a press release. “Transgender people have always existed, and have lived many different lives. These stories show us just how important it is to share our histories.

SHE AND I

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Israel, 2016, 5′

She and I, sitting on a top of a car in a middle of a big green field. She smokes a cigarette, I stare at the view. She cuts photos out of a magazine, I stare at the view…

SIGN

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
USA, 2016, 15′

SIGN is a short film that tells, through vignettes, music, and sign language, the story of a relationship between Ben, a hearing man, and Aaron, who is deaf.

SIXTH GRADE SLOW DANCE

2 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

Spanish Premiere
Israel, 2015, 17′

Amit (12) finds out that Noam (12) is going to a different junior high than they’d agree on. Amit wonders if he could win back his secret crush and for once dace with someone he loves.

SORCIÈRE QUEER (QUEER WITCH)

4 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
France, 2016, 12′

Portrait of a two headed monster.

SPUNKLE

4 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
USA, 2016, 11′

A man contemplates fatherhood when his older sister and her free-spirited wife ask him to be their sperm donor.

TAYELET (BOARDWALK)

4 September, 201717 September, 2016 by

European Premiere
Israel, 2016, 6′

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A steamy date on the beach take a rough turn after an homophobic threat.

TRADE QUEEN

4 September, 201715 September, 2016 by

Barcelona Premiere
Germany, 2015, 8′

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Mr. Jonas and Mr. Schmidt look like boring salesmen but they have their secrets. Beneath their perfect gray suits shines love, courage and many other things. They are united against homophobia.

YOM EHAD BAKAEITZ (ONE SUMMER’S DAY)

4 September, 201714 September, 2016 by

World Premiere
Israel, 2016, 9′

17-year-old Zohar, meets her good friend Noam at an isolated waterfall, their usual spot, for the last time before Noam is about to run away from home. The closer they are to saying goodbye, Zohar refuses to come to terms with the situation and tries to stay close to her.

ENTRY FORM

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THE ACADEMY OF CATALAN CINEMA

17 October, 2015 by

Our cinema is different either in languages, genres and styles because it is the result of the complexity that forms us as a culture.

And our festivals are not only different by nature, but they clearly bet on diversity. This is the case of the GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL of Catalonia which continues for 15 years already and it is showing us that diversity, in every sense, should not be understood as a hindrance, but as richness. I wish that the excellence of your work make the still existing prejudices on people sexual freedom fall down.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

23 September, 201814 October, 2015 by

Esteve Riambau (Filmoteca de Catalunya), Octavi Martí (Filmoteca de Catalunya), Hagit Mualem, Jesús Arcos (Ambaixada d’Israel a Madrid), Luciano Castillo (Cinemateca de Cuba, ICAIC), Angelo Gioè (Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Barcellona), Junta Directiva ACCEC (Associació Catalana de la Crítica i l’Escriptura Cinematogràfica), Lluís Valentí (Festival de Cinema de Girona), Xavier Parache (ESCAC), Vicens A. Escribà, Vicente Barella (EMAV), Klaus Mabel Aschenneller (Teddy Awards, Berlinale), Santi Lapeira (Col.legi de Directors/es de Cinema de Catalunya), Juan Juliá (Axel Hotels), Marc Sancho (Hotel Axel), Cristina Cañas (Axel Hotels), Alexandra Gelabert (Hotel Two Barcelona), Àngel Bigorra (Revista GB), David Bigorra (Queer Travel), Marta Nin, Cristina Rius (Casa Amèrica Catalunya), Judith Colell, Stephen Barris (ILGA, Brussel.les), Robert Torres (La Teranyina Anònima), Marta Guzmán, Ferran Castells, Isabel Gracia Vila i Antxon Urrestarazu, Giovanni Minerba, Antoni Kirchner, Manel Ortiz “Nolo”, Andreu Morte, Emilia Perucho, Elisabet Hernández, staff of The National Film Theatre (Filmoteca de Catalunya). And many other people to be listed… With your support we hope to make the Festival one of the most talked about cultural events of the year.

STAFF

14 October, 2015 by

Festival Director
XAVIER-DANIEL

General Coordinator
ÀLEX VIERA

Press Officer
CRIS VALENTÍ

Interpreters
SANDRA GARCIA NOLAN
MARY JO ALBERDI

Supervisor translations UK
VICKY GÓMEZ VILA

Volunteers
ARIANNA GONZALEZ
NOLO ORTIZ

Foreign Consultants
MORITZ DE HALDELN (Süissa), president
WIELAND SPECK (Germany)
DESI DEL VALLE (USA)
KIRSTEN SCHAFFER (USA)
GIOVANNI MINERBA (Italy)
CHERYL DUNYE (USA)
JENNI OLSON (USA)

Design and development catalog and website
ALAIN VALDES

Opening and Closing events
MARTA GUZMÁN, actriu
FERRAN CASTELLS, actor
ROBERT TORRES, director
ARTMAGNETIC, producció

JOAN MARIMÓN PADROSA

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He was born in El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona,1960). Screenwriter, editor, director and producer and script analyst. Projectionist at the Capri Cinema (El Prat).

Degree in Art history. He wrote the screenplay for the film’s cartoon Peraustrínia 2004 (1990) directed by Angel Garcia. It is part of the team of writers of television series in the 90’s and 2000 (Poble Nou, Rias Baixas, Plaza Alta, El cor de la ciutat, Ventdelplà). With Jesus Ramos writes the dictionary the script Audiovisual (Ocean publishing, 2003), focused arguments, characters and analysis of structures.

MÓNICA JORDAN

4 October, 201613 October, 2015 by

Mónica Jordan was born in Cerdanyola in 1982. After her degree in English and Hispanic Philology, she took a turn to the audiovisual field. Graduated in Theory and Cinema Criticism at the Cinema Observatory, she begins her path as co-editor of the online magazine called “Cinema Transit”, and she participates as an Editor in several media, such as “Looks”, “Detour” and “Divergent Films”.

She is a film critic for Levante newspaper and for the Sensa cinema website. She collaborated as well in two collective books of the Macnulti publishing house. She belongs to the Board of Filmmakers from the Catalan Association of Film Critics and Writers since 2013, the very year in which the First Film Critic Conference was organized.

VICENS A. ESCRIBÀ

4 October, 201612 October, 2015 by

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Vicens A. Escribà is a Professor of Audiovisual media for four decades teaching Film Production about 8mm, 16 mmm and 35mm films; Video: betamax, video8, U-matic, Betacam, DVcam, HDV and 3D System, and also teaching and coordinating television productions at EMAV (Audiovisual Media School).

His work consists mainly of cinema movies and an extensive list of videos, and we would like to bring out the short film “Absent viewers” which was started being shot for the opening day of the Fantastic Film Festival in Sitges, and it was presented in the closing night. With “The Piece” happened that for the first time a short film had both cinematographic and videographic texture. The research of visual language has been a constant in his 35mm shorts as a filmdirector or a producer.

PROVOCATIVE PROGRAMME

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In order to celebrate the present 15th anniversary, we have invited filmmakers, actors and some other professionals from Canada, Israel, India, France, Denmark, United States and Italy who will present themselves their latest films. This year, our guest country is Mexico.

Since last year we surprised you with a new subject, never touched before in cinema: woman violence within the lesbian couple, this year the Festival is also dealing deeply with themes such as childhood transgender, rejection of Islamic homophobia, sexual harassment in family, sexual relations between Muslim women, sadomasochism as a philosophy of life, public humiliation at school, and we also pay homage to Tom of Finland and Ralf König’s characters, still in force. Ah!, and also a cinephile review about the legendary porn cinema made in France and performed by very young actors.

VENUES

5 October, 201626 September, 2015 by

FILMOTECA DE CATALUNYA

Plaça de Salvador Seguí, 1 – 9
08001 Barcelona
Tel.: 935 671 070

Entrance: 4 euros

CINEMA CLUB CATALUNYA 

Carrer de Sant Pere, 9 
08221 Terrassa 
Telèfon: 937885376

Screener: October 17

Entrance: 4 euros

ALBÈNIZ PLAÇA

C/ Anselm Clavé, 4
17001 Girona
Tel.: 972 410 660

EL FICGLB A GIRONA FILM FESTIVAL

5 October, 201621 September, 2015 by

This year we present very notable firsts: We have invited LA VIDA PURA, Panayotis Evangelidis (Greece 2015), a moving film, portrait of a young gay porn actor; and Cuban film production, wedding dress, Marilyn Solaya (Cuba 2014), with actors like Jorge Perugorría that from Strawberry and Chocolate was not involved in any other film gltb theme, and has received several awards from the public international festivals.

These, along with the Latin American short schedule are examples of independent cinema where, in the case of Cuban film, get to participate official institutions such as the ICAIC, this means that production is being imposed less-government links and where creativity than budget. A lesson in the end makes the policy change institutional aid.

You enjoy it one more year of this careful selection of what will be The 15th Barcelona International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Schedule