The u22 Barcelona Young Film Festival, now in its sixth edition, will be hosted once again by the Fundació Joan Miró, which will become a showcase, screening, promoting and bringing together the finest up-and-coming filmmakers on the Catalan film scene.

This year, the festival presents an official selection of twenty shorts by young directors under the age of 23, chosen from among the more than 350 works submitted. The screenings include six international and eleven Catalan shorts being shown for the first time, as well as others premiered in Cannes, Locarno and Berlin, reaffirming u22's commitment to continue discovering new filmmakers and promoting local talent.

The programme also features a wide range of associated activities such as seminars for professionals, specialist workshops, retrospectives, round tables, pitches and the first edition of the u22 LAB, the festival's screenplay laboratory, tutored by Arnau Vilaró, one of the scriptwriters on Alcarràs.

In this, its sixth edition, the festival will include retrospectives of the work of Ulrich Seidl, Meritxell Colell, León Siminiani and Virgínia García del Pino and will feature other leading figures, among them Liliana Torres, Ernesto Castro, Marwa Arsanios, Laura Ferrés and Laura Jou.

See the full festival programme here.

u22 is a project in partnership with the Fundació Joan Miró that thus strengthens the original spirit of the CEAC (Centre for Contemporary Art Studies), a space for debating and exploring various artistic disciplines that was the brainchild of Joan Miró.

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Place

Auditorium and terraces of the Fundació Joan Miró

Dates

From 25 to 29 September 2024
 

Reservations

Ticket sales open on 30 August on the u22 website