March 23 — April 2

Program

2023

20.000 especies de abejas
After Berlinale, one of the debuts of the year arrives at D'A talking about identity and acceptance at the hands of eight-year-old Cocó, and a summer that will change her life and lives around her. A luminous drama and one of the films of the season.
Clausura
Spain · 124 min
20.000 especies de abejas

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

Archipelago
The duo Joanna Hogg and Tom Hiddleston once again demonstrates its potential with an acid plot on a wealthy family and their vacations, in a film that reminds Antonioni's cinema.
Focus
UK · 114 min
Archipelago

Joanna Hogg

Bowling Saturne
One of the most controversial films of the year, also one of the best according to Cahiers du Cinéma, is this gritty, giallo-tinged thriller about two brothers and the violent legacy their father leaves behind when he dies.
Direccions
France · 114 min
Bowling Saturne

Patricia Mazuy

El nacimiento de un río
In the emptiness of the night, the warm light of a radiator begins to shine in the bedroom of a lonely house. A woman sleeps. Next to her is her son, still awake. World premiere of an exquisite short about absence.
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
Spain · 27 min
El nacimiento de un río

Javier Calvo de Cabrera

El origen del mal
Someone is lying. Like a perverse version of Persona infiltrada, there's someone in this filthy rich family who doesn't tell the truth... A film that moves between acid comedy and family thriller.
Transicions
France · 125 min
El origen del mal

Sébastien Marnier

Esta no es una película sobre Cardenete
Three brothers from L'Hospitalet film their trips to a small town in Castilla between the 80s and 90s with a domestic camera. The director appropriates and redefines this footage to create a portrait of a place and time as fun as original.
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
Spain · 24 min
Esta no es una película sobre Cardenete

Paula Martínez Artero

Has estado aquí
When her mother begins to have symptoms of dementia, the director, through calls and memories, tries to reverse a process towards oblivion that seems irreversible. A nostalgic mother-daugther dialogue divided between two cities.
Simfonies de ciutat
Spain · 10 min
Has estado aquí

Vivian Muñoz Rodríguez

La hija eterna
One of the most charismatic duos in contemporary auteur cinema, Joanna Hogg and Tilda Swinton, transports us to a mansion converted into a hotel. There stay a mother and her daughter, in an atypical and touching gothic ghost story.
Focus
United Kingdom · 96 min
La hija eterna

Joanna Hogg

La ligne
A line of one hundred meters separates a family after a restraining order separates a mother and a daughter, and this borderline space will become a place of reunion and repair. A sharp tragicomedy with a cast in a state of grace.
Direccions
Switzerland · 102 min
La ligne

Ursula Meier

Love Life
The life of a young couple and their son goes by without problems until a tragic event will mark the return of the child's biological father. An intimate drama in the vein of the best contemporary Japanese cinema that moved the audience at the Venice Festival.
Direccions
Japan · 123 min
Love Life

Kôji Fukada

Misión a Marte
The mission of two brothers who have to go from Eibar to Mars to carry out an expert report is the starting point of this rabidly independent Iberian science fiction adventure with a punk spirit, in which even Jesus Christ has a role.
Un impulso colectivo
Spain · 71 min
Misión a Marte

Amat Vallmajor del Pozo

Monica
After receiving applause and praise in Venice, this moving story of a girl who, in the midst of a sentimental crisis, finds herself forced to return to her mother's house and confront her past, arrives at D'A.
Transicions
USA · 110 min
Monica

Andrea Pallaoro

Plan 75
Like an episode of Black Mirror, Plan 75 poses a near future where euthanasia is routinely practised on the elderly... And we follow three characters in this transcendental decision. A disturbing and moving film.
Talents
Japan · 105 min
Plan 75

Chie Hayakawa

Provocadora
Based on traces that, like diffuse memories, compose a whole, we enter Vera's summer, a girl who, for some obscure reason, doesn't seem to have a good time with her grandparents...
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
Spain · 13 min
Provocadora

Èlia Lorente

Querida A.
In this hyperconnected world it seems impossible to go unnoticed. But there are still many people who live below the technological threshold. This is the case of A, from whom no one has heard until a message from Facebook arrives...
Simfonies de ciutat
Spain · 20 min
Querida A.

Elena Molina

selftape
The sisters Joana and Mireia Vilapuig, actresses, meet again after some time away for work. However, everything is unexpectedly cold... A new Filmin series about aspirations, envy and sisterly love.
Special Sessions
Spain · 104 min
selftape

Bàrbara Farré

Somorrostro en tres actes
Somorrostro has gone from being the name of a marginal Barcelona neighbourhood to one of the busiest places in the city. A film that reviews this space through three stages and that is at the same time an audiovisual dialogue between a grandfather and his granddaughter.
Simfonies de ciutat
Spain · 16 min
Somorrostro en tres actes

Marga Almirall Rotés

Stay Awake
Two brothers have to live with their mother's opioid addiction, and the situation is increasingly toxic and untenable. A sleeper which is also one of the greatest cinematographic sensations of the year, awarded in Berlin.
Talents
USA · 94 min
Stay Awake

Jamie Sisley

Sushi
Today Betu will have dinner with his father. It will be the first time, and they will eat sushi. Jaume has never eaten sushi. It will be the first time. And possibly the last. Àlex Monner and Iván Morales join their talents in a powerful film about absence.
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
Spain · 20 min
Sushi

Iván Morales

Toda una vida
12 years ago a granddaughter started recording her grandmother: she wanted to capture the time that Alzheimer's was going to steal from her. More than a decade of filmed material is turned into an emotional story about the will to love.
Un impulso colectivo
Spain · 72 min
Toda una vida

Marta Romero

Un sol radiant
The world premiere of the winner of the D'A Film Lab 2022 brings us closer to the end of the world through the innocent look of a girl (Laia Artigas) who decides to organize what could be the last party for humanity.
Talents
Spain · 79 min
Un sol radiant

Mònica Cambra, Ariadna Fortuny

Un soroll llunyà
It is rice planting season in the Ebro Delta and Jun, a young man of Chinese descent, works as a seasonal worker. There he will find cultural and gastronomic connections with his origins. A documentary full of edges where the Delta shines with its own light.
Un impulso colectivo - Curts
Spain · 24 min
Un soroll llunyà

Adrià Guxens