The 15th edition of D’A Barcelona Film Festival will unspool from 27 March-6 April, offering audiences the best in recent independent and arthouse cinema, movies that have won awards at prominent festivals and those by the most promising filmmakers, as well as a slew of parallel activities. It will thus present 121 films, encompassing features and shorts (68 of which have been produced by Spain), with 21 world premieres on the cards. The ten-day event will be kicked off by Fury [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Gemma Blasco
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intervista: Gerard Oms
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In between, one of the highlights of its rich programme is the competitive Talents section, dedicated to emerging filmmakers with a maximum of two features under their belt. It comprises Romania’s The New Year That Never Came [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bogdan Mureşanu
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scheda film] by Italy’s Christian Filippi, also screened at Venice, in Biennale College Cinema; the similarly Italian title The Origin of the World by Rossella Inglese; Peacock [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Bernhard Wenger
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intervista: Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama
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This section is rounded off by the European co-productions Pierce [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nelicia Low
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intervista: Gürcan Keltek
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scheda film] by Moroccan writer Abdellah Taïa, which got an airing in the Proxima strand of Karlovy Vary. Alongside these, we find the amusingly titled Mexican flick The Devil Smokes (and Saves the Burnt Matches in the Same Box) by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, winner of Best First Feature at the latest Berlinale; Hong Kong’s To Kill a Mongolian Horse by Xiaoxuan Jiang, presented in Venice’s Giornate degli Autori; Argentina’s The Longest Summer by Alejandra Lipoma and Romina Vlachoff; Brazil’s Salomé by André Antônio; and Japan’s Adabana, directed by Sayaka Kai.

Among the most prominent Spanish titles in the programme, scattered among the different sections of the festival, are Deaf [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eva Libertad
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intervista: Miguel Ángel Blanca
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scheda film], the feature debut by Asier Urbieta, which got an airing at Göteborg; Duro, the sophomore opus by Francesc Cuéllar; and Esmorza amb mi, the first feature-length effort by Iván Morales, which is an adaptation of his own stage play.

Lastly, in the competitive Un Impulso Colectivo (lit. “A Collective Impulse”) section, 11 Spanish features will be showcased: Invasión pequeña, also by Miguel Ángel Blanca, in this case sharing directorial duties with Jesús Manresa Puche; Burnout by Ander Duque and Felipe Almendros; Buscant el meu propi nom by Pau García Pérez de Lara; La casa y el ternero by Rocío Montaño Parreño; Turismo de guerra. De la guerra también se sale by Kikol Grau; Dies d'estiu i de pluja by the Espurnes Collective; Jone, Sometimes by Sara Fantova; On eres quan hi eres? by Jana Montllor Blanes, a documentary about musician Ovidi Montllor; Te separas mucho by Paula Veleiro, which won an award at the most recent Gijón Film Festival; Coto privado de caza by Carlos Balbuena; and Retaguardia by Ramón Lluís Bande.