Barcelona Sports Film Festival

The Barcelona Sports Film Festival, the only sports-themed cinema and TV festival in Spain, is set to take place in Barcelona between 17 and 21 May. Any audiovisual production with a sports theme can compete, whether it is an animated film, documentary, report, fiction film, promotional or advertising video.

Films will be screened at six different venues:

• Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch
• Centre Excursionista de Catalunya
• Sala d’Àmbit Cultural El Corte Inglés
• Ateneu Barcelonès
• CaixaFòrum
• Filmoteca de Catalunya

Apart from the film sessions the festival includes a whole series of parallel activities that aim to illustrate that sport is a sphere of activity capable of entering into a symbiotic relationship with art, philosophy and innovation.

More inf@: BCN Sports Film Festival

6th Hong Kong Cinema Week in Barcelona

Ann Hui, representing the new wave of “made in Hong Kong” films, and the indefatigable Johnny To and Herman Yau, are just some of the names you will be hearing about in the 6th Week of Hong Kong Cinema.

With the collaboration of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels, Casa Asia and the Filmoteca are once again presenting this cycle, which has been growing in fans and followers of films from China.

And that is because the Hong Kong film industry is the second busiest in the world, after Hollywood, and ahead of Bollywood.

The cycle opens with Brian Tse‘s cartoon McDull Kungfu Ding Ding Dong on Friday evening, 25 February.

From then until 6 March, will be screened Night and Fog in Tin Shui Wai, by Ann Hui, Crime Story, by Kirk Wong, with Jackie Chan, and The Storm Warriors, from the brothers Oxide and Danny Pang, Sitges regulars.

Click over the image to visit the Casa Asia website.

El Meu Primer Festival: Cinema for young children

Can you imagine watching a film where the music is not on-screen but is played live by a pianist? Would you like to know the story of an elephant from Poland with vertical stripes or find out about Chaplin the man, one of the greatest characters of the cinema?

El Meu Primer Festival offers all that and lots more with a selection of films from around the world and from different periods, aimed at boys and girls aged between 2 and 12.

With the aim of entertaining and educating, stimulating imagination and creativity, at the same time as developing a critical mind, the festival has a rich and varied programme organised round four different sections.

This is the second time the festival has been held and once again it has a specific programme for families and another aimed at schools.

From 21 to 29 November, the best films will be on screen at the Filmoteca de Catalunya and Verdi Park Cinemas, while all those who want to awake their creativity are invited to attend the family workshops taking place at the Espai Experimentem and La Caldera.

El Meu Primer Festival Website