Filmets, Badalona Short Film Festival 2024

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FILMETS was born in 2001 at the 27th edition of the Badalona International Short Film and Video Festival—which began way back in 1969 under the name Badalona Amateur Film World Event.

Since then it has become an important event and today is one of the short film festivals with the greatest presence at an international level, a meeting point between filmmakers and a loyal audience.

This year's program has yet to be released, but you can take a look at what was showing last year for an idea of what you can expect in the edition to come.

Last Year's Program

The inaugural session of the 49th edition opened with seven short films including the comedy-drama An Irish Goodbye which won the Oscar for best live action short and the prestigious British BAFTA award for best fiction; and Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles, by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine, 2022), an impressive documentary about the daily reality of the war in Ukraine that tells the story of sculptors that used to make religious statues who now build anti-tank obstacles to help fend off the Russian invasion. The opening evening was a tribute to the filmmaker Carla Simón, who will receive ed the Venus of Honor from FILMETS in 2023.

Opening Night Films

An Irish Goodbye, Ross White, Tom Berkeley (Ireland, 2022) In an emotional but unsentimental dramatic comedy filled with black humor, two brothers grapple their own relationship while attempting to fulfill the posthumous wishes of their recently-deceased mother.

Krab, Piotr Chmielewski (Poland, 2022) What if we could see the world in some of the ways that non-human animals see it? For example, from the perspective of a crab? Imagine the point of view of a crab about to be thrown into a boiling pot and, suddenly, paradoxically saved by a catastrophic event, becoming a survivor and witness of a tragedy.

Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles, Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk (Ukraine, 2022) In western Ukraine, sculptors of religious statues have repurposed their skills to build anti-tank obstacles. A documentary with great symbolism and aesthetically shocking power, this American co-production of Ukrainian origin offers an unusual, peculiar, focused vision of the changes in daily routines and work habits that the war has imposed.

Action!, Arne Körner (Germany, 2022) An experimental documentary that focuses on the clapperboard—a vital instrument, as an almost organic element that regulates the information flows of the film, that articulates it, that animates it with its beats.

Yegua, Javier Celay (Spain, 2023) A small Navarrese village in the Valdorba Mountains is dying. A modest farmer struggles to deal with a sick mare, his dependent wife and his own ghosts and moral dilemmas.

Niuada, Valèria Cuní (Catalunya, 2023) Boys and girls are not as innocent as they may seem. This is not at all a charming coming-of-age story in a rural, idyllic environment. In this pre-adolescent group only one opposes the contagious, gratuitous cruelty. A film with eerily credible performances by the entire children's cast.

Fortissimio, Victor Cesca (France, 2022) A hilarious musical comedy in the key of a fierce piano and personal duel between a priest and a mysterious prodigy girl from the street. Almost a western of piano keys in place of bullets, because, in this church there isn't room for both!

October Film Festivals in and around Barcelona

October’s calendar is packed with an impressive list of film festivals in and around the city. Check out our article October Film Festivals in and around Barcelona where you'll find gritty investigative documentaries, hair-raising fantasy and horror flicks and everything in between!

For more events check our online events calendar.