Barcelona's D'A Film Festival is back for an 11th edition — and in actual cinemas, too. Between 29 April and 9 May, the festival will offer a hybrid format, with screenings in cinemas in Barcelona (62 feature films and 26 shorts) and 37 titles available to view on the Filmin platform. This year, it’s also making a flying visit to Madrid: between 7 and 13 May, madrileños will have a chance to catch twelve of the festival’s most outstanding films at participating Renoir Plaza España cinemas.

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The programme for the Madrid leg includes the festival’s opening film, Bye Bye Morons [+lire aussi :
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interview : Małgorzata Szumowska et Mi…
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interview : Burhan Qurbani
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interview : Eugen Jebeleanu
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interview : Emmanuel Mouret
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The D’A festival is always keen to champion home-grown art house cinema, and audiences in both Barcelona and Madrid will be treated to independent titles including Mia & Moi [+lire aussi :
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interview : Borja de la Vega
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interview : Maria Pérez Sanz
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interview : Jo Sol
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Other Spanish films in the line-up for Barcelona (and available on Filmin) include 9 fugas [+lire aussi :
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interview : Guillermo Benet
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interview : Javier Fernández Vázquez
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The festival’s main competitive section — offering a prize of €10,000 — is reserved for emerging filmmakers with a maximum of two features under their belts. Fifteen finalists have been selected, including recent festival favourite Marygoround [+lire aussi :
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interview : Daria Woszek
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interview : Suzanne Lindon
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interview : Fabio et Damiano D'Innocenzo
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This feast of European cinema is rounded off by Miss Marx [+lire aussi :
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interview : Susanna Nicchiarelli
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interview : Cristi Puiu
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interview : Guillaume Brac
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Finally, true cinephiles won’t want to miss a double helping of the work of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovskiy, who will be presenting DAU. [+lire aussi :
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interview : Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
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interview : Ilya Khrzhanovskiy
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fiche film] (running time: pushing seven hours). There’s also a varied programme of workshops and events dedicated to topics including the distribution and export of European films and how to crack the festival circuit (more information can be found on the festival’s website).