Radar is the section of D’A – Barcelona Film Festival devoted to new voices and emerging filmmakers, an open space for contemporary talent with a clear ambition to offer a snapshot of the immediate present and of the cinema that is shaping the forms of the future. The section ensures gender parity in the representation of women and men directors, with a remarkably strong selection of films. For example, Des preuves d’amour, by Alice Douard, winner of a César for Best Short Film, makes her feature debut confirming a career linked to intimate and socially engaged storytelling; Les Immortelles, by director Caroline Deruas Peano, who debuted with the remarkable L’Indomptée (D’A 2017), now explores female friendship and the celebration of youth in a film starring Lena Garrel; the powerful Argentine film Los bobos, by Basovih Marinaro and Sofía Jallinsky (Argentina, 2025), a pitch-black thriller that won the Best Film Award in the FICX Premiere section at the Gijón Festival.
Also featured in Radar is one of the new revelations of French cinema, Nino, by Pauline Loquès, winner of the Best Emerging Actor award at Cannes 2025 and recently awarded two César prizes by the French Film Academy: Most Promising Actor for Théodore Pellerin and Best First Feature; Hiedra, by Ana Cristina Barragán, a Spain–Ecuador co-production that won Best Screenplay in the Orizzonti section at Venice 2025; Vainilla, an eighties-set coming-of-age film by Mexican director Mayra Hermosillo, premiered in Venice and winner of the Audience Award at the Morelia Festival; Il quieto vivere, by Gianluca Matarrese;
La noche está marchándose ya, by Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas, a metacinematic work that serves as a fitting metaphor for the state of Argentine culture, winner of Best Director at Seminci; and finally, Desire Lines, by Dane Komljen, an unsettling and experimental tale of obsession and identity on the margins of Belgrade, premiered in Locarno.
These films join those previously announced in the festival preview: Barrio triste, by Stillz; Dry Leaf, by Alexandre Koberidze; El sonido de la caída, by Mascha Schilinski; Two Seasons, Two Strangers, by Shô Miyake; and Un mundo frágil y maravilloso, by Cyril Aris.