The 14th edition of the D'A Barcelona Film Festival will be held from 4-14 April, with the best of independent and auteur cinema. 131 titles will be presented, including feature films and shorts, with 25 world premieres, three European premieres and one international premiere. The festival will be opened by Isaki Lacuesta’s latest film Saturn Return [+lire aussi :
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interview : Isaki Lacuesta
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fiche film], starring Patricia López Arnaiz and Darío Grandinetti, winner of the Silver Biznaga Special Critics’ Jury Award in Malaga.

Talents is the competitive section dedicated to emerging directors with thirteen films. Two Spanish films will compete in this section, Un lugar común, by Celia Giraldo, starring Eva Llorach, and the Catalan Werewolf [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pau Calpe Rufat
fiche film] directed by Pau Calpe and starring Pol López and María Rodríguez Soto. From Sweden come Ernst De Geer’s irreverent comedy The Hypnosis [+lire aussi :
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interview : Asta Kamma August
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fiche film], awarded at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and Paradise Is Burning [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mika Gustafson
fiche film] by Mika Gustafson, winner of the Best Director Award in the Orizzonti section at Venice and Best Film in the BFI London First Feature  Competition. From France come Sisterhood [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nora El Hourch
fiche film], in which the French-Moroccan filmmaker Nora El Hourch offers a generational portrait of consent, race and class, and The Dreamer [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Mongolian director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, winner of the Orizzonti Best Actor Award at Venice; the Turkish production Dormitory [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nehir Tuna
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interview : Adura Onashile
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In the “Un Impulso Colectivo” (A Collective Impulse) section, ten independent Spanish films will be presented: To Laugh, to Sing, Perchance to Cry [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], a collision of musical melodrama and comedy by Marc Ferrer; On the Go [+lire aussi :
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interview : María Gisèle Royo, Julia d…
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interview : Virginia García del Pino
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interview : Jaime Puertas Castillo
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interview : Macu Machín
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fiche film], by Luis (Soto) Muñoz, Cine Quinqui brought to the present day; Solo arrojaron by Adrià Pagès Molina, who could be a descendant of Gus Van Sant; and Orandi, also the feature directorial debut of Serafín Teja.

The festival’s special sessions include, among others, Mamífera [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Liliana Torres, winner of the Best Actress Award at SXSW for María Rodríguez Soto; and Hate Songs by Alejo Levis, in which he recreates a dark episode in Rwanda. In addition, Clara Roquet (Libertad [+lire aussi :
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interview : Clara Roquet
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