Mostra FIRE!! Film Festival 2025

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Film still from "Cactus Pears," directed by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade (India, UK, 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. The 2025 program has not been announced, but read on to discover the picks in last year's session to get an idea of what's to come.

2025 Program

The festival opens with Javier van de Couter's Tesis sobre una domesticación (Argentina, 2024), the story of trans actress and writer Camila Sosa Villada, who masterfully embodies a protagonist who refuses to succumb to either the norms of success and family or the expectations of life as a trans woman. It is a bold portrait of a woman who defies definitions and must face the cost of her iconoclastic life. Other films in the packed agenda include Marco Calvani's High Tide (USA, 2024), set in Provincetown, it weaves a colorful web of queer lives intersecting on the beaches of one of North America’s premier gay destinations; D.W. Waterson's Backspot (Canada, 2023) with a high-voltage soundtrack that flips the gay cheerleading genre on its head; Fawzia Mirza's directorial debut The Queen of My Dreams (Canada, Pakistan, 2023), a luminous comedy-drama about the complicated (and often omnipresent) bonds between mothers and daughters; Morgan Simon's Une vie rêvée (Somewhere in Love), the touching story of a mother and son struggling to make ends meet in a low-income housing estate in the Paris suburbs, a celebration of everyday love and family in its many forms; and Rohan Parashuram Kanawade's debut feature Cactus Pears (India, UK, Canada, 2025) a natural and sincere narrative of familial bereavement and queer longing that moves away from the most predictable tropes, a gem of independent Indian cinema.

Spring Film Festivals in Barcelona

Barcelona boasts a wide variety of renowned film festivals each spring, and this year 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.

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