OPENING NIGHT

Friday March 2: 7.00pm

Héroes (Heroes: Forever Young)
Rated: G
Run time: 95 min

OV in Catalan with English subtitles.
Fiction – Adventure.

An entertaining film for adults and teenagers alike: A young publicist, with a successful professional life but with an empty personal one, finds himself reconnecting with survivors of the most emotionally satisfying but challenging period of his childhood – the last summer he spent with his local gang..

Saturday March 3: 3.00pm

Maria y Yo (Maria and I)
Rated: G
Run time: 80 min

OV in Spanish and Catalan with English subtitles
Documentary - Animation Film.

A marvellous documentary: Like many other children with autism, Marialives in her own world. In her case it’s on one of the Canary Islands. This is the story of her journeys with her Dad, a successful cartoonist, to travel the distance that separates her island from the rest of the world. An original tale full of humour, irony and sincerity, about how families live with a child with a severe disability.

Saturday March 3: 7.00pm

Elisa K (Elisa K)
Rated: MA15+
Run time: 85 min

OV in Catalan with English subtitles.
Drama.

The directors’ pick of the Festival: Elisa, the child of separated parents, behaves a little oddly after a visit to the city, but that’s all. But fourteen yeasr later she becomes terrified by the memory that has suddenly emerged from her childhood. A virtuoso performance by actress Aina Clotet.

CLOSING NIGHT

Sunday March 4: 7.00pm

14 d’Abril: Macia Contra Companys
(14 April: Macia Versus Companys)
Rated: G
Run time: 90 min

OV in Catalan with English subtitles.
An historical ‘mocumentary’.

Television fiction under the formal guise of a documentary, which appears to have been recorded in 1932, yet with the methods, style and equipment of nowadays. Thanks to this journey through time, the heroes of one of the most important episodes in history of Catalonia during the 20th century discuss the details of that moment in the first person, while an inquisitive camera allows us to relive the events that took place in Barcelona between 14 and 17 April 1931, three days that the Catalan Republic was in force. All with the aim of displaying the grandeur and the precarious nature of a half-improvised gesture by Companys, corrected for the sake of sovereignty by Macia, and which degenerated into a shouting quarrel between the two great myths of contemporary Catalan history.