October's calendar is packed with an impressive list of film festivals in and around the city. You'll find gritty investigative documentaries at the CLAM International Social Film Festival, hair-raising fantasy and horror at the Sitges International Film Festival, hauntingly beautiful dance films at Choreoscope and so much more!
Barcelona's Festival Cinema Jueu is dedicated exclusively to celebrating the artistry and creativity of Jewish culture, which is itself inextricably bound to the city and to Spain. Each year the festival delivers a diverse series of cinematic and artistic projects exploring a variety of genres and topics in great depth: from documentaries and feature films to independent shorts and audiovisual pieces. On the program this year are Gad Elmaleh's semi-documentary, semi-autobiographical film Reste un peu (France, 2022); Luis Pérez Bordoy's documentary El alemán de la tienda de fotos (Spain, 2022); Yariv Mozer's chilling investigative documentary The Devil's Confession: The Lost Eichmann Tapes (Israel, 2023); and Jolanta Dylewska and Andrzej Wajda's Marek Edelman... and There Was Love in the Ghetto (Poland, Germany, 2019), a moving documentary about romance in the Warsaw Ghetto, as told by Marek Edelman, activist, surgeon and former commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Sitges turns into a film lover's paradise for a week of screenings, exhibitions and presentations of fantasy films from across the world. With a solid track record, the Sitges International Film Festival offers a stimulating framew
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