Overview
- The festival runs March 19–29 across Barcelona venues including the CCCB, Filmoteca de Catalunya, and Aribau cinemas, presenting 122 films with 27 world premieres, 47 Catalan productions, 24 debut features, 55 works by women, and 49 shorts.
- Mia Hansen-Løve receives the 2026 Prize D’A, with a public dialogue on March 21 at the CCCB plus a masterclass and activities in collaboration with local film institutions.
- A Christian Petzold focus features a career retrospective, the Catalan premiere of Espejos No. 3, and a student-oriented masterclass on March 26 at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
- The event opened with David Moragas’s Un altre home and will close on March 29 with Júlia de Paz Solvas’s La buena hija.
- The D’A Film Lab Barcelona runs March 22–25, awarding development prizes of up to €20,000 and drawing European programmers, while a tribute screens Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse on March 22.