Sections Edition 2025

ROMANTIC DRAMA
NORWAY · 2024
LANGUAGE: NORWEGIAN
COLOUR · 101 MIN.

Maria juggles four children and a demanding career, while her second husband, Sigmund, travels all the time. One day they get into a nasty argument, which leads Sigmund to ask for a divorce..

HOPEFUL DRAMA
SPAIN · 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR · 82 MIN.

On the eve of her 10th birthday, Sofía loses her father in an accident that changes everything. Now she lives alone with her mother, Juana, facing a reality they never imagined: the thin line that separates stability from poverty is crumbling under their feet. Juana fights desperately to protect Sofia from the insecurity and depression that haunt her, trying to maintain a semblance of normality. Meanwhile, Sofia finds refuge in her passion for the theatre, where the magic of rehearsals for the end-of-year play seems to offer her a momentary escape from her reality. But the emotional wounds they both carry will test their bond. Will this family be able to rise again when they have already lost everything?

COMEDIA DRAMÁTICA
FRANCIA · 2025
IDIOMA: FRANCÉS
COLOR · 98 MIN

París, 1963. Roland, el menor de una familia de seis hermanos, es un niño especial. Según los médicos nunca podrá caminar, pero su testaruda madre, Esther, simplemente se niega a aceptarlo. Mediante una combinación por igual de fe inquebrantable y negación excepcional, la mujer está decidida a desafiar cualquier adversidad para salir adelante.

 

THRILLER, DRAMA
COREA DEL SUR · 2024
IDIOMA: COREANO / JAPONÉS
COLOR · 108 MIN

In 1909, a group of Korean independence fighters embark on a dangerous mission. Led by charismatic leader Ahn Jung-geun, this clandestine group plans to assassinate Ito, the chief architect of the Japanese invasion, at Harbin railway station. With treachery lurking around every corner and powerful enemies determined to stop them, Ahn and his comrades will fight for their nation's freedom in an era of unrelenting Japanese oppression.

BIOPIC
GERMANY, POLAND, BELGIUM · 2025
LANGUAGES: GERMAN, ENGLISH
COLOUR · 116 MIN

The true story of Vera Brandes, a young promoter on the Cologne music scene in the 1970s, who risked everything to organise the greatest solo performance in music history: the legendary Cologne concert by jazz pianist Keith Jarret.

BIOGRAPHY, DRAMA 
FRANCE · 2024
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR · 98 MIN.

The Divine Sarah Bernhardt' tells the story of a woman who lived many lives, in which love and theatre were more important than anything else. Sarah's personality, her artistic genius, her love affairs and the events that marked her life were rich and consistently extraordinary. She was not only an immensely tragic actress with a rare magnetism, but also a woman ahead of her time. Free and determined, she boldly expressed her political and feminist views, often against the majority opinion.

DRAMA
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOUR - 88 MIN

Oso, a 45-year-old divorced man, lives on wheels. His home is a van that he drives around Barcelona in. Oso tells himself that this way of life is only temporary. With the help of neighbours, an illegal immigrant, a nostalgic 80s heavyweight and a waitress, he tries to regain economic and family stability. But when his ex's new partner shows up and invites him to the wedding, Bear is thrown into crisis and every aspect of his life is thrown into turmoil. He starts a race with no brakes, making mistakes until he crashes.

DRAMATIC COMEDY
FRANCE · 2024
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR · 108 MIN.

France, late 19th century. Louise Violet is a Parisian teacher, sent to the French countryside. In a place where daily life is linked to the seasons, the land and the crops, she must first convince the inhabitants to send their children to school. With the help of the mayor, the parents and their children eventually accept her. But soon, her past catches up with her. Despite the obstacles, Miss Violet will give her heart and soul into her belief: education is the key to freedom.

DRAMA
ITALY, ISRAEL - 2024
LANGUAGES: PERSIAN, ENGLISH
COLOUR - 108 MIN.

In post-revolutionary Iran, where women's rights and freedoms are oppressed, Azar, a courageous teacher, clandestinely gathers seven female students to read banned Western classics, despite the grave dangers involved.

DRAMA
GERMANY, ITALY - 2025
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, GERMAN, ITALIAN
COLOUR - 113 MIN

Leo is a fifteen-year-old girl who has grown up in Germany without a father. When she discovers his identity, she immediately sets out to find him. She discovers him in a beach bar on the coast of northern Italy. The reunion leaves Paolo overwhelmed and conflicted. After Leo's sudden appearance in his life, he struggles to balance his relationship with her and the family he now has. At first Leo just wants answers, but soon he begins to want to be a part of Paolo's life.

DRAMA
IRELAND, BELGIUM - 2024
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOUR - 98 MIN.

In 1985, on Christmas Eve, in a small Irish village, Bill Furlong works as a coal merchant to support his family. One early morning, while delivering coal to the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church.

DRAMA
FRANCE · 2024
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR · 118 MIN.

Pierre, a railway worker in his fifties, is raising his two children on his own. The three of them are very close. When Louis, the youngest, leaves home to study at the Sorbonne in Paris, Fus, the oldest and worst student, becomes increasingly reclusive. Fascinated by violence, he becomes involved with extreme right-wing groups, the antithesis of his father's values. Soon tragedy strikes...

DRAMA
ITALY - 2024
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR - 135 MIN.

A director calls all his favourite actresses to shoot a film set in Rome in the 70s, explaining the vicissitudes surrounding a prestigious tailor.

DRAMA
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGES: SPANISH
COLOUR - 110 MIN

In a Valencian village in the post-war period, Ana tries to get by with her family; the civil war has opened a deep wound in all of them, especially in her brother-in-law Antonio. Ana tries to heal this wound with stews, secrets and silence, but when Isabel, recently married to Antonio, arrives in the family, Ana's attention and care are worth little or nothing: sacrifice is not always rewarded.

DRAMA
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 90 MIN

Pablo decides to get off the train at a station in a small town, buy an old ramshackle flat across the tracks and start living as if he were not the famous architect he really is. Perhaps he is running away from someone or something, or even himself. Everything in the village seems to be stagnating, except for Raluca, an optimistic woman open to surprises that can change your life. She has decided to trust her luck, even if life doesn't always show her the best side.

ANIMATION
FRANCE · 2024
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR · 81 MIN

A woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. The cold, hunger, poverty and war that surround them make their lives very hard. One day, the woodcutter's wife rescues a baby, a girl thrown from one of the many trains that constantly pass through the forest. This baby will change her life and the lives of all those who cross her path. Her story will reveal the worst and the best of human hearts.

DRAMA
SPAIN, CHILE - 2024
LANGUAGES: SPANISH, CATALAN
COLOUR - 110 MIN

Anabel's life with her mother Delia is marked by the death of Julián, Anabel's father. The arrival of an eviction notice leads them to leave their home in Barcelona and return for a time to the olive groves of Jaén, in search of a way to rebuild their future from their roots.

DRAMATIC COMEDY
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH, CATALAN
COLOUR - 96 MIN

Trying to get over the recent loss of her mother, Blanca takes refuge in the family home in Cadaqués to spend the summer with her family and friends. Between glasses of wine, boat trips and meetings with her lovers, Blanca will learn to hold on to the memory of what she has lived and learned.

DRAMA, ADVENTURES
ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM - 2024
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOUR - 116 MIN

After 20 years of absence, Odysseus appears on the shores of Ithaca, emaciated and unrecognisable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan War. Now he is forced to confront his past in order to save his family and find the love he has lost.

COMEDY
FRANCE - 2025
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR - 90 MIN

Mathias and his best friend Philippe are cycling from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Together they will repeat the journey their son Yuri made before he tragically disappeared. An adventure they will share with tenderness, humour and emotion.

DRAMATIC COMEDY
FRANCE - 2024
LANGUAGE: FRENCH, ENGLISH
COLOUR - 94 MIN.

Agathe is as charming as she is contradictory. She is single, but dreams of a love story worthy of the novels of Jane Austen. She is a bookseller, but dreams of becoming a writer. She has a great imagination, but life never lives up to the promises of literature. Invited to a writers' residence in England, Agathe will have to face her fears and doubts to make her dream of writing come true... and fall in love.

DRAMATIC COMEDY
GERMANY - 2024
LANGUAGE: GERMAN
COLOUR - 116 MIN

Summer 1990, in the midst of German reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall. A family finds millions of East German marks in an underground warehouse, a currency that is about to lose all its value against the West German mark. Taking advantage of various loopholes in the law, the family has only a few days to make a profit on the money, using as much ingenuity as possible.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN - 2024
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 80 MIN

With her own words, over the years, Almudena Grandes tells her way of seeing the world, understanding life and writing. But Almudena is no longer here. The aim of this film is to keep her memory alive, to celebrate her life and her work, without forgetting the painful void left by her death. Luis García Montero, her husband, delves into that void and, in doing so, completes the intimate portrait of a writer who knew how to tell us about our lives like few others.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOUR - 80 MIN

The daily life of the monks of the Montserrat Monastery as it celebrates its 1000th anniversary. A reflection on the passage of time in a Benedictine community governed by the Rule of St Benedict, showing what is not visible to the public: how the monastic community lives behind closed doors.

DRAMA
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 116 MIN

1968. Esteban Guerra, a young RTVE executive, receives an assignment: Spain must win the Eurovision Song Contest. Eager for publicity, Esteban takes charge of the project alongside the eccentric Artur Kaps, creator of the great television shows of the time. Together they embark on 'Operation Eurovision', a plan to find the ideal song and performer to project the government's image of modernity.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 73 MIN

Documentary in which the illustrator and cartoonist Miguel Gallardo and Marco Navas, a miniaturist and sculptor diagnosed with Asperger's, make an educational and informative dissection of their experiences in the autistic spectrum. They talk about the situations in which people with autism can find themselves: when they need silence, order, to define their routines (or not). They talk about their great capacity to learn and adapt, how they manage their daily lives and how, over time, many of them imitate others "as if they had returned to their planet of origin".

SERIES - THRILLER
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 50 MIN

Claudia, who traumatically loses her daughter Angela, discover years later, as she begins to recover from the trauma, that her daughter may still be alive. Mum, it's me, Angela, please come and get me! These are the shocking words that Claudia hears on the phone that give her hope.

WESTERN
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 133 MIN

Harland Rust has a bad reputation as a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head. When he learns that his thirteen-year-old grandson has been sentenced to hang for an alleged murder, he decides to travel to Kansas. After a violent confrontation, Rust manages to break him out of jail and flee to the border. Rust and his grandson must join forces to evade the legendary Marshal Wood Helm and a notorious bounty hunter.

DOCUMENTARY
SWITZERLAND, UNITED STATES - 2024
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH
COLOUR - 90 MIN

In an intimate heart-to-heart conversation, the Dalai Lama, the world's greatest ambassador of compassion, invites everyone to embark on a journey to the source of happiness.

DRAMA
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 116 MIN

The disappearance of his wife leaves Fernando, a quiet geography teacher, completely devastated. He drifts aimlessly into the identity of another man as the gardener of a Portuguese villa, where he strikes up an unexpected friendship with the owner and enters a new life that does not belong to him.

DRAMA
HONG KONG· 1994
LANGUAGE: CANTONESE, MANDORIN 
COLOUR · 102 MIN.

Two separate love stories set in Hong Kong's popular tourist district of Tsimhatsui. The first describes the fleeting encounter between a young policeman in the throes of a love crisis and a mysterious drug-dealing femme fatale. The second focuses on the unique romance between a lonely, unassuming police officer and the young waitress at the bar where he eats his meals.

THRILLER DRAMA 
SOUTH KOREA · 2005
LANGUAGE: KOREAN, ENGLISH, JAPANESE
COLOUR · 112 MIN

The beautiful Kum-ja has spent thirteen years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a six-year-old boy. The crime shocked the public, both for its brutality and because the murderer was only 20 years old when she committed such a horrible act. After serving her sentence and being released, Kum-ja only wants revenge... but on whom?

MUSICAL ROMANTIC COMEDY 
CHINA, HONG KONG - 2015
LANGUAGES: MANDARIN, CANTONESE, ENGLISH
COLOUR - 119 MIN.

Two new interns arrive at a company specialising in marketing. Both will try to get through their probationary period while the economic world is reeling.

ANIME MUSICAL DRAMA 
JAPAN· 2022
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE
COLOUR · 121 MIN.

Suzu is a high school student who lives with her father in a small town in Japan. No one knows that she leads a double life in "U", a virtual world where her avatar, Belle, is world famous for her songs. But when a mysterious creature appears in the world of "U", Suzu's two identities will collide and change her life forever.

DRAMA
JAPAN· 2023
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE, ENGLISH
COLOUR · 123 MIN.

Hirayama seems totally content with his simple life as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo. Outside of his structured daily routine, he enjoys his passion for music and books. He loves trees and takes pictures of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past.

ANIME MUSICAL DRAMA
JAPAN· 2023
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE
COLOUR · 120 MIN.

High school student Dai Miyamoto has been practicing his saxophone day and night since a friend took him to a live jazz performance that touched him deeply. Jazz takes him to Tokyo, where he meets a talented pianist and a novice drummer. Together they form JASS, a trio whose goal is to play at So Blue, Japan's top jazz club. But just as the possibility appears, something unexpected happens...

DOCUMENTARY
SLOVAKIA - 2023
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR - 94 MIN

By exploring Andy Warhol’s enigmatic persona and his deep-rooted family ties, this documentary reveals unseen aspects of life and inspiration of this iconic artist. Viewers are drawn into Warhol’s world through intimate interviews and authentic materials, from his roots in Slovakia to his transformative years in New York City. With previously unseen material and fresh perspectives, the film sheds new light on Warhol’s introspective nature and his profound influence on art and culture.

DOCUMENTARY
SPAIN - 2025
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
COLOUR - 89 MIN

A journey into the creative universe of Oscar Tusquets Blanca. A universe full of ideas where architecture, design, painting and writing coexist without hierarchy. Provocative and rebellious, Tusquets left his mark on architecture and design with works in the MoMA, the Pompidou and the Dalí Museum. His story is told by artists and designers such as Miquel Barceló, António López, Albert Serra, Milena Busquets, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julia de Castro, in a portrait that celebrates life and beauty.

DOCUMENTARY
ITALY - 2024
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR - 94 MIN

The life, travels, dreams and ambitions of a young Italian sculptor known throughout the world as 'the new Michelangelo'. This documentary follows Jago for two years as he moves from New York to Naples and works day and night in total solitude on his new sculpture: a modern version of Michelangelo's Pietà. For many months it will be just him and the marble, in a relationship of love and hate, desire and fear.

DOCUMENTARY 
ITALY - 2023
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, ITALIAN, FRENCH, FRENCH
COLOUR - 90 MIN

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his death, we embark on a journey through Pablo Picasso's Paris, amidst sunshine and shadow, convictions and contradictions, from a young, impoverished foreigner to one of the most important icons of the 20th century.    

DRAMA 
DENMARK · 1987
LANGUAGE: DANISH, FRENCH, SWEDISH, ITALIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH
COLOUR · 103 MIN

19th century. In a puritanical Danish village, two unmarried sisters nostalgically recall their distant youth and the rigid upbringing that forced them to renounce happiness. The arrival of Babette from Paris will change their lives. The newcomer will have the opportunity to repay the kindness with which she was welcomed by organising an opulent dinner with the best dishes and wines of French gastronomy

DRAMA
JAPAN · 2024
LANGUAGES: FRENCH, JAPANESE
COLOUR · 111 MIN

Japanese celebrity chef Obana opens a new restaurant in Paris in search of his elusive third Michelin star. But Obana finds life as an outsider in Paris difficult, even struggling to source ingredients. His ambition causes tension with his team. When his menu for a gala turns out to be a disaster, Obana promises his former mentor that if he doesn't get three stars, he will leave Paris. 

DRAMA, HISTORICAL, BIOPIC
UNITED STATES - 2023
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
COLOUR - 90 MIN

Based on the true story of luxury champagne brand Veuve Clicquot, which began in the late 18th century. After the untimely death of her husband, Barbe-Nicol Clicquot defies the conventions of the time and takes over the reins of the family wine business, leading the company through dizzying political and financial setbacks.

FANTASY, DRAMA
JAPAN · 2024
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE 
COLOUR · 90 MIN

A monk finds a kitten and names it Anzu. Thirty years later, the kitten has become a 'ghost cat' who talks and lives like a human, rides a moped and works part-time as a masseur. One day, the old monk asks Anzu to look after Karin, his 11-year-old granddaughter. At first their personalities clash, but gradually they begin to understand each other. And the girl asks Anzu for a favour: she wants to see her dead mother again. This is the start of a dramatic journey that will take them to hell itself.

ANIME
JAPÓ - 2024
IDIOMA:  JAPONÈS
COLOR - 97 MIN

High school student Kuroha Kaido discovers his late father's secret life as the Phantom Thief Kid, inherits his costume and embarks on a quest to uncover the mysterious organization behind his father's murder.

DOCUMENTARY
CATALONIA - 2025
LANGUAGE: CATALAN
COLOR - 4 x 30 MIN

Can an ‘anime’ change a country? On 15 February 1990, Bola de Drac premiered on TV3 without great expectations. But, in a short time, the animated series based on Akira Toriyama's comic became an unexpected success that started a whole cultural and social movement... and a huge traffic of photocopies! This documentary series portrays a phenomenon that impacted several generations of Catalans, from linguistic normalisation to the discovery of Japanese culture, including political conflicts and the birth of a mass event like Manga Barcelona. For the first time, the protagonists of this adventure explain all the secrets of an exciting story. For many Catalans, yes, an ‘anime’ can change a country. Or at the very least, change their lives as Bola de Drac did.

SCIENCE FICTION
JAPAN · 1995
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE / ITALIAN
COLOUR · 113 MIN

Science fiction anthology consisting of three stories. «Episode 1. Magnetic Rose»: a group of four people hired to collect and destroy space junk receive a distress signal.  «Episode 2 ‘Stink bomb»: After accidentally taking an experimental pill, a young man is transformed into an unstoppable biological weapon that emits an odour that renders everyone around him unconscious.  «Episode 3: Cannon fodder»: in a bleak future, there is a walled city whose sole purpose is to fire its massive cannons at an unknown enemy.

ANIME
JAPAN - 2024
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE
COLOUR - 101 MIN

Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colours' of others. One day, she forms a band with Kimi, a classmate who radiates the most beautiful colour of all, and Rui, a music lover she meets in a second-hand bookshop. As they rehearse in an old church on a remote island, music brings them together. As the school festival approaches, so does their first live performance. What colours will they bring to the packed auditorium?

COMEDY
ITALIAN · 1953
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
BLACK & WHITE · 86 MIN.

Via Tuscolana connects the center of Rome with the Cinecittà film studios. Many people who work in the world of cinema, or who want to work in it, cross it every day by tram. These are the cases of three young women of modest origins who aspire to success: Luisa, with a talent that allows her to dream of becoming a successful actress; Franca, who wants to seduce a producer who will open the way for her; and Giuditta, so naive that she thinks she is the new Anna Magnani.

COMEDY
ITALY · 1958
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
BLACK AND WHITE · 106 MIN.

A gang of thieves from the humblest strata of Italian society, on the advice of a retired criminal, prepare a great robbery in the offices of a pawnshop in Rome. Their great hope, despite the clumsiness that characterizes them, is that the success of the robbery will help them escape the misery in which they live. But things do not go as planned.

DRAMA, COMEDY
ITALY - 1960
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN
BLACK & WHITE - 174 MIN

Marcello Rubini is a tabloid journalist on the lookout for celebrities at the many late-night parties held in Rome by the elite of Italian society at the time. The arrival in the city of a great film diva named Sylvia offers him an unbeatable opportunity to get his hands on a big story

DRAMA
ITALY, FRANCE · 1961
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH
BLACK AND WHITE · 122 MIN

Giovanni, a successful writer, and Lidia are a disenchanted bourgeois couple. One night they visit a friend who is in hospital with a terminal illness. Afterwards, they go to a party to present Giovanni's new book, although Lidia decides to go out for a walk in the city. Later they attend a millionaire's party together, where Giovanni flirts with the host's daughter and Lidia with a playboy. But nothing helps them escape from dissatisfaction and boredom. 

DRAMA
ITALY, FRANCE · 1963
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN, FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMANY.
COLOUR · 138 MIN.

Guido Anselmi, a film director under stress and in the midst of a creative crisis, enters a spa for a rest cure. But his wife, his lover and his producer, among others, harass and pressure him, talking him about the project he has had to interrupt. Guido takes refuge in his memories and daydreams, recalling the most important events of his life and all the women he has loved.

DRAMA
ITÀLY, FRANCE, ARGELIA · 1969
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN, FRENCH
COLOUR · 104 MIN.

Algiers 1935. Mersault is a discreet and apathetic man, with a flat and inconsequential life. When his mother dies, he remains indifferent, without showing any emotion or shedding a single tear. Soon after, he begins a sentimental relationship with Marie, a woman who really means nothing to him. And when he agrees to help a neighbor in a matter involving a young Arab girl, Marsault ends up killing, without knowing why and in cold blood, the girl's brother. Marsault is arrested and charged with murder.

DRAMA
ITALY, FRANCE, SOVIET UNION, UNITED STATES · 1970
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN, ENGLISH, RUSIAN
COLOUR · 107 MIN.

At the end of World War II, Giovanna travels from Italy to Moscow in search of her husband, Antonio, a soldier who went missing during the Russian campaign of 1943. Giovanna refuses to believe that Antonio is dead. Years earlier, the couple had married and enjoyed their honeymoon just before Antonio was sent to the front. Their plan to make the authorities believe that Antonio was insane did not work. Now Giovanna, with only a photo of Antonio, is willing to do anything to find out where he is. 

DRAMA, COMEDY
ITALY, FRANCE · 1971
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR · 106 MIN.

Rocco Papeleo, who emigrated to the United States to make a living as a boxer and has worked for twenty years as an elevator operator in an Alaskan mine, travels to Chicago to attend a boxing match. In the city he meets a model who takes him home on a whim. Rocco decides to stay in Chicago for a few days and, due to his naivety and good heart, gets involved in various adventures with strange characters.

COMEDY, DRAMA 
FRANCE, ITALY · 1973
LANGUAGE: FRENCH
COLOUR · 130 MIN.

Four friends, tired of the monotony of their boring bourgeois life, lock themselves up for a weekend in an old mansion on the outskirts of Paris with the idea of eating relentlessly until they die. The members of this grotesque collective suicide are Ugo, a successful restaurateur and chef; Philippe, an eccentric judge who still lives with his nanny; Marcello, an attractive, impotent airline pilot; and Michel, an obsessed television producer. Gastronomic debauchery is soon joined by sexual licentiousness, when Marcello hires prostitutes.

DRAMA
ITALY, CANADA · 1977
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR · 106 MIN

6 May 1938. Rome has prepared a parade in honour of Hitler on the occasion of his visit to meet Mussolini. The whole city is in a frenzy to welcome him. But in a tenement house, a housewife, mother of six, and a radio announcer, who for some reason fears the police, remain on the sidelines of the fascist celebrations. An affectionate relationship, full of emotion and trust, develops between them.

DRAMA
ITALY · 1984
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOUR · 85 MIN.

A man of high society lives secluded in a castle, believing he is King Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire. He has been like this for 20 years, since he suffered an accident and hit his head when he was disguised as this historical figure. His sister and a group of servants take care of him, maintaining the illusion that the world takes place in the Middle Ages. Now a psychiatrist has devised an elaborate plan to restore the man's sanity.

DRAMA
ITALY, SOVIET UNION · 1987
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN, RUSIAN, FRENCH 
COLOUR · 118 MIN

Romano Patroni, a down-and-out architect now working on a steamboat, explains his unhappy life to a client he has just met, a Russian gentleman named Pavel. Despite his humble origins, Romano graduated from architecture school and married a wealthy heiress. Exhausted by a monotonous and empty life, Romano decides to spend some time at a spa in Tuscany, where he falls in love with a shy Russian woman with black eyes.

DOCUMENTARY
ITA LY · 2007
LANGUAGES: ITALIAN
COLOUR · 98 MIN.

Documentary about the life and career of the iconic Italian star Marcello Mastroianni. An intimate look at his contribution to the history of cinema and his impact on popular culture through interviews with Mastroianni himself, archival footage, and testimonials from family members, including his daughters Chiara and Barbara, and major figures in the film industry.

Q&A with ELOY CALVO, director of the film; MARTIN TOGNOLA, illustrator of the graphic novel; RAMON PARDINA, screenwriter of the graphic novel and the film and MERCÈ SARRIAS, co-screenwriter of the film.

Presentation of the book MEMORIAS DE UN CINÉFILO SARNOSO by Gerardo Sánchez.

Screening of THE STRANGER as part of the Marcello Mastroianni Centenary, the 1967 classic directed by Luchino Visconti starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anna Karina, based on the novel THE STRANGER by Albert Camus, and subsequent conversation with Hélène Rufat and Vicenç Villatoro, moderated by Adrià Pujol, on the figure of Albert Camus.

MONDAY 28 APRIL - 18:30H 

As part of the BCN FILM FEST, three authors who have won awards for their most recent works published in Catalan will visit the CASA SEAT auditorium. The journalist and communicator Roger de Gràcia will be in charge of moderating a round table in which the following will participate:

• XAVIER BOSCH, author of Diagonal Manhattan
• ESTEL SOLÉ, author of Aquest tros de vida, Premio Ramon Llull
• LAIA AGUILAR, author of Wolfgang

Don't miss this opportunity to meet the authors of some of the best-selling books this Sant Jordi.