D'A Film Festival 2025

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Spring brings with it one of the most prestigious film festivals in Europe. The D’A Film Festival Barcelona is a cultural event that features an international outlook of the best contemporary auteur cinema, combining the discovery of new talents with established cinematographies. A cinema that, after standing out in the great festivals, stops at an event that celebrates cinephilia and puts in the foreground the creativity, personality and artistic freedom of its directors.

This year's festival opens with Gemma Blasco's contemporary tragedy La Furia, a powerful, brutal film that draws a portrait of anger and pain following a rape. The festival also sees the Spanish premiere of grand master of body horror David Cronenberg's disturbing thriller The Shrouds. Other sensations of the season include Dea Kulumbegashvili's second film, April, which won the special jury prize at Venice 2024 and the award for best film in the Zabaltegi section at San Sebastian; Universal Language, by Matthew Rankin, winner of the audience award at the Cannes Film Festival 2024 and best Canadian film at TIFF; Viet and Nam, by Vietnamese filmmaker Truong Min Quy, with one of the most powerful queer films of the year; and Bagger Drama, by Piet Baumgartner, a film that was a hit at the last San Sebastian festival, where it won the New Directors section award. These names of emerging filmmakers are joined by two festival favorites, the Argentine Matías Piñeiro with his latest work, Tú me abrasas; and La Prisonnière de Bordeaux, by the great Patricia Mazuy.

This year's retrospective is dedicated to the Roberto Minervini, an Italian that settled in Texas who has forged a cinematic career completely dedicated to portraying the lives of the impoverished in southern America and their frustrated desires. His hybrid films are between documentary and fiction, a kind of hyper-realism that is as strange as it is poetic, which hides, in turn, a captivating emotion.

Tickets

Tickets are €35 for six sessions and the VIP pass is €80 which includes access to all sessions at the CCCB, Aribau Multicines and Zumzeig (seat reservation required) and one invitation to the opening session and one to the closing session.

Participating venues include CCCB, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Zumzeig and Aribau Cinema. Most showings take place in original language with subtitles in either Catalan or Spanish, see the official website for details.

Spring Film Festivals in Barcelona

Barcelona boasts a wide variety of renowned film festivals each spring, and 2025 promises to be another spectacular edition. Check out our article Spring Film Festivals in Barcelona where you'll discover festivals dedicated to fashion docs, films inspired by literature and history, astounding cinematic works that delve into the creativity, mystery and resilience of the human brain and films that explore the LGBTIQ+ experience.

For more events check our online events calendar.