Mostra FIRE!! Film Festival 2026
International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Institut Français Carrer Moià 8, 08006 Barcelona
Film still from "Montréal, ma belle" directed by Xiaodan He (Canada, 2025).
Mostra FIRE!! showcases diversity through a carefully curated selection of feature length films and documentaries. Organized by Casal Lambda de Barcelona since 1995, it was the first LGBTIQ+ film festival in Spain.
For nearly two weeks, the Institut Français hosts a wide range of documentaries and short films that feature stories and testimonies from different people, presented by filmmakers who seek to break down barriers and address emotional diversity in the broadest sense.
2026 Program
The festival opens with Bouchra, directed by Orian Barki & Meriem Bennani (Morocco, Italy, USA, 2025), it's a unique combination of animation, documentary techniques and an ingenious narrative structure: a family drama between New York and Casablanca that transforms personal memory into a moving story about relationships with loved ones, identity, self-discovery and love.
Other films in the packed agenda include Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan's Departures (UK, 2025), a Manchester-made film inspired by a real-life heartbreak and self-funded by a collective of working-class LGBTQ+ filmmakers; Xiaodan He's Montréal, ma belle (Canada, 2025), a milestone in queer cinema from the Asian diaspora as the first fiction feature film centered on a Chinese protagonist eager to finally live out her lesbian identity; Helen Walsh's On the Sea (UK, 2025), a beautiful, sensual and sometimes tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire; Jérôme Bonnell's La condition (France, 2025), a film that explores with grace and sharpness female identity, class struggle and the weight of roles imposed by society; Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor's Dreamers (UK, 2025), the evocative tale of a traumatized Nigerian woman seeking asylum in Britain who meets a kindred spirit while confined in a immigration detention center; and Sophie Hyde's Jimpa (Australia, 2025), a celebration of LGBTIQ+ culture and the chosen family offering a subtle reflection on how social expectations and the concept of family have evolved over generations.
Ticket prices are €8 for a single session or €30 for a pack of five film sessions. All films are shown in original version most with subtitles in Catalan and/or Spanish.
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