April 29th – May 9th

April 29th – May 9th

Filmin → CCCB → Filmoteca de Catalunya → Renoir → Zumzeig

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DAU. Degeneration (Part 2)
DAU. Degeneration (Part 2)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

DAU. Natasha
DAU. Natasha

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel

Barcos. Doce cartas náuticas
Barcos. Doce cartas náuticas

Vicente Domínguez, Elle Belga

One of These Days
One of These Days

Bastian Günther

Seize printemps
Seize printemps

Suzanne Lindon

Residue
Residue

Merawi Gerima

Poppy Field
Poppy Field

Eugen Jebeleanu

The Woman Who Ran
The Woman Who Ran

Hong Sang-soo

Cuerpo (Cialo)
Cuerpo (Cialo)

Małgorzata Szumowska

Mug
Mug

Małgorzata Szumowska

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Berlin Alexanderplatz

Burhan Qurbani

Rizi (Days)
Rizi (Days)

Tsai Ming-liang

D’A 2021 on Filmin

DAU. Natasha
Chapter of DAU megaproject, on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the waitress in the downtown cafeteria and the relationships, intimate or everyday, that are established between the characters. Silver Bear in Berlin.
Especials
Germany · 134 min
DAU. Natasha

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Iekaterina Oertel

DAU. Degeneration (Part 1)
Part of the DAU megaproject on the interiors of a secret research center in the USSR, dedicated to the decline of the center and the attempts of a far-right group to eradicate it. A colossal work destined to make history.
Especials
Germany · 122 min
DAU. Degeneration (Part 1)

Ilià Khrzhanovski, Ilià Permiàkov

Sangre
All body fluids come together in this tense erotic thriller about a toxic and addictive love triangle, directed by the winner of the D’A 2015 Critics Award and co-starring Natalia Tena.
Transicions
Argentina · 102 min
Sangre

Juan Schnitman

One of These Days
A seemingly ridiculous contest can become the greatest evidence of the dehumanization of a society. It is demonstrated by this scathing satire about a group of people who compete to take a car even if the price is health and dignity.
Transicions
Germany · 120 min
One of These Days

Bastian Günther

Passion simple
As the title implies, this is a story of simple passion that turns into devotion and, later, into an obsession for the pleasures of the flesh. An extreme and subversive revision of the classic pink story that was selected in San Sebastián.
Direccions
France · 99 min
Passion simple

Danielle Arbid

Seize printemps
The young Suzanne Lindon writes, directs and stars in a vivid portrait of adolescence, shiny as its title and mature as if directed by a celluloid veteran.
Talents
France · 73 min
Seize printemps

Suzanne Lindon

Simon chama
A deliciously fresh and rabidly youthful film about Simon, a teenager bored by the bickering of a decaying family who yearns to drop everything and travel to the United States. Premiered in San Sebastián.
Talents
Portugal · 84 min
Simon chama

Marta Sousa Ribeiro

Mamá, mamá, mamá
The young Argentine director presents a dreamlike and feverish coming-of-age where a girl who has just lost her sister has to enter the adult world at the hands of her cousins. Special mention in Berlin.
Talents
Argentina · 65 min
Mamá, mamá, mamá

Sol Berruezo Pichon-Rivière

Kala azar
A couple helping people who have lost their pet accidentally runs over a dog. Janis Rafa’s debut feature, official section in Rotterdam, walks between the disturbing strangeness of the best Greek cinema and the squalor of Central European drama.
Talents
Holland · 91 min
Kala azar

Janis Rafa

Gran Avenida
The lives of various people intersect in this urban story of truncated ambitions and hidden desires that is also an acid and sharp vision of Chilean society.
Talents
Chile · 80 min
Gran Avenida

Moisés Sepúlveda

Estanislao
The family mourning for the death of the mother becomes a disturbing return to the past for Mateo, who is reunited with his father and his childhood demons. An inner journey full of suggestive and dark dreamlike images.
Talents
Mexico · 93 min
Estanislao

Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez

Isabella
Matías Piñeiro, always fresh and bright, once again weaves contemporaneity and Shakespearean dramas in a story about two actresses seeking funding to build a play. Awarded in Berlin, Mar del Plata and Xixón.
Direccions
Argentina · 80 min
Isabella

Matías Piñeiro

En la oscuridad
The brilliant Lithuanian director Sharunas Bartas goes back to the 1940s to place us in the Soviet military invasion and the Lithuanian resistance movements in a war drama that is, at the same time, a hymn to freedom.
Direccions
Lituània · 126 min
En la oscuridad

Sharunas Bartas

A Good Man
A trans man has to decide whether to stop his hormonal treatment in order to become pregnant. Noémie Merlant (Portrait of a Woman on Fire) and singer Soko star in an energetic and moving drama that shatters clichés.
Direccions
France · 108 min
A Good Man

Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar

The Monopoly of Violence
With the arrival of new technologies, all brutality can be registered. A fierce and breathtaking documentary, nominated for the César Awards, about the monopoly of violence and police excesses in Macron’s France.
Especials
França · 88 min
The Monopoly of Violence

David Dufresne

Mía y Moi
Mourning and family inheritance are the background themes of this chamber drama co-starred by Bruna Cusí, where the relationship between two brothers and their partners becomes as suffocating as symptomatic.
Talents
Spain · 107 min
Mía y Moi

Borja de la Vega

El teléfono del viento
The aftermath of the tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011 is the main base for this road movie about a teenage girl who lost everything and is now looking for answers. A cathartic film about collective mourning.
Direccions
Japan · 139 min
El teléfono del viento

Nobuhiro Suwa

Siberia
The director of Bad Lieutenant leaves the urban maelstrom to enter the Siberian steppe, where Willem Dafoe plays a hermit who has to face inner demons and ghosts from the past.
Direccions
Italy · 92 min
Siberia

Abel Ferrara

¡Corten!

Dialogue with Marc Ferrer

Dialogue with Marc Ferrer, one of the most emblematic Barcelona directors of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona, who in the framework of the festival premieres his latest work, ¡Corten !. Festival director Carlos R. Ríos reviews his filmography with him and comments on his new film.

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Meet the Directors 2021
Interview
Meet the Directors 2021
D'A 2021 Awards: “Poppy Field” wins Talents
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D'A 2021 Awards: “Poppy Field” wins Talents
Short movies D’A 2021 at Berlanga venue in Madrid
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Short movies D’A 2021 at Berlanga venue in Madrid
Visita de Małgorzata Szumowska al D’A 2021
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Visita de Małgorzata Szumowska al D’A 2021
Festival downloads
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Festival downloads
D’A 2021 Highlights
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D’A 2021 Highlights
Dialogue with María Pérez Sanz, director of “Karen”
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Dialogue with María Pérez Sanz, director of “Karen”
DAU. At the doorstep of the Soviet ark
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DAU. At the doorstep of the Soviet ark
#HappyFilms, #HappyD’A
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#HappyFilms, #HappyD’A
Nostalgia for Eastern cinema
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Nostalgia for Eastern cinema
The French and Amour
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The French and Amour
Un Impulso Colectivo: Infiltrats
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Un Impulso Colectivo: Infiltrats
Awards 2021

All the awards

The D’A 2021 Talents award went to the Romanian film Poppy Field with a mention to Queridos vecinos . The jury of the Un Impulso Colectivo section has considered Karen the best film with a mention for Ovella . Finally, the Critics’ Award went to the film Seize printemps .

Focus Małgorzata Szumowska

Cuerpo (Cialo)
The father of an anorexic adolescent uses the services of a therapist who also happens to be a medium. Berlin awarded dramedy on the meaning of bodies in our society.
Focus
Poland · 90 min
Cuerpo (Cialo)

Małgorzata Szumowska

Mug
The face of a young worker is disfigured during the construction of a colossal monument to Christ, and the subsequent operation seems more a divine than a scientific matter. An incisive dark comedy, Grand Jury Prize in Berlin.
Focus
Poland · 91 min
Mug

Małgorzata Szumowska

The Other Lamb
A dark, haunting and horror-playing psychological thriller set in a patriarchal cult dominated by a tyrannical and abusive leader who ends up leading a teenage girl into rebellion.
Focus
Ireland · 96 min
The Other Lamb

Małgorzata Szumowska

33 Scenes From Life
A series of family and sentimental misfortunes lead Julia, a renowned photographer, on a dazzling descent into hell, in a tragicomedy that was awarded in Locarno and became a big success in Poland.
Focus
Poland · 100 min
33 Scenes From Life

Małgorzata Szumowska

Nunca volverá a nevar
The arrival of an attractive immigrant from the East causes, in a wealthy Polish community, a great impression due to his almost miraculous gifts as a masseur.
Focus
Poland · 113 min
Nunca volverá a nevar

Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert

Retrospective

Małgorzata Szumowska

D’A 2021 dedicates its retrospective to Małgorzata Szumowska, one of the most outstanding directors of contemporary Polish cinema and a cult author of European cinema, winner of the Silver Bear at Berlinale 2018 and a permanent presence at international festivals.

Sections

Inauguració
1 movies
Inauguració
Clausura
1 movies
Clausura
Talents
15 movies
Talents
Direccions
18 movies
Direccions
Transicions
6 movies
Transicions
Especials
11 movies
Especials
Focus
5 movies
Focus
Un impulso colectivo
10 movies
Un impulso colectivo
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
32 movies
Un impulso colectivo - Curts

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