26/03/2025 - The new works by sisters Marina and Carol Rodríguez Colás, David Moragas, Jaume Claret Muxart, Andrés Goteira, Nerea Castro, Salvador Sunyer and Anxos Fazáns are among the selected works

D’A - Barcelona Film Festival has announced the 26 projects chosen to participate in the fifth edition of its programme to promote emerging film talent, the D'A Film Lab Barcelona, which will take place in Barcelona from 30 March to 2 April.

Those selected in Final Cut, a competitive section aimed at projects in the post-production stage that compete for the D'A Film Lab Barcelona Award of 20,000 euros to promote the completion of the film, are: The Gang, directed by sisters Marina and Carol Rodríguez Colás, who made their debut with Chavalas [+see also:
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The D'A Film Lab Award jury is made up of Sandra Tapia (producer and partner at Arcadia Motion Pictures), Francesca Palleschi (deputy director of MIA Market Rome and head of Alliance4Development at Locarno Film Festival); and Ewa Szabłowska (head of programming at the New Horizons Festival in Poland). 

The Emerging Production section, dedicated to promoting films in the development phase, will feature fourteen projects: De Fang, directed by Anna Llargués (whose short film Trenc d’Alba premiered in La Cinef section at Cannes); Las manos quietas by the editor Víctor Diago; Los fines de semana by the resident at the Spanish Film Academy Alícia Moncholí; Foresta a non-fiction by Adrià Expòsit-Goy (his short film Mater Inerta premiered at Visions du Réel); Cara sucia by Ignacio Acconcia (El niño de fuego); Monstro by Andrés Goteira (Dhogs [+see also:
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interview: Esther García
series profile], produced by El Deseo); High by visual artist Daniel Alegrete; El espectro de Justine II by cultural restorer and curator Andrea Sánchez Iañez; last night i heard my laptop breathing through my headphones by Daniel Grandes (Tríptico); Baixamar by the previously screenwriter Fernando Tato; L'home més pacífic del món, a documentary by Raquel Barrera (La niña del gancho); Los materiales sensibles, the feature film debut by Alberto Van den Eynde; and Ardiek jakingo dute by June Lasarte. 

Finally, the Panorama Catalunya section will feature four Catalan-produced feature films in their original version in Catalan in post-production: The Culprits, the non-fiction by Marta Duran Lozano; Siemprevivas, by journalist Mar López Zapata; Tanit, a fiction film by Pep Garrido; and the documentary Al-Buhayra, by the duo Lucas Moro and Manuel Rossell. 

The projects selected for the laboratory will take part in an intensive four-day programme in which they will work in depth on aspects such as financing, co-production, sustainability, diversity, internationalisation, audience development and the distribution and sale of the projects.

The projects:

Final Cut

The Gang - Marina and Carol Rodríguez Colás (Belgium/Spain/Mexico)
Production: Fasten Films, Saga Film, Mart Films

Un Altre Home - David Moragas (Spain/Mexico)
Production: Oberon Media, Monstro Films

Strange River - Jaume Claret Muxart (Spain/Germany)
Production: Zuzú Cinema, Miramemira, Schuldenberg Films

As liñas descontinuas - Anxos Fazáns (Spain)
Production: Sétima, Elamedia

Who We Are - Salvador Sunyer (Spain/France)
Production: Materia Cinema, Avalon PC, Les Films d’Ici

From Dawn to Dawn - Xisi Sofia Ye Chen (Spain/France)
Production: The South Project, LaCima Producciones, La Fábrica Nocturna

Nomad Shadow (DOHA - The Rising Sun) - Eimi Imanishi (Spain/France/United States)
Production: Un Capricho de Producciones, Dialectic, Virginie Films, Incognito Films

Como Manolete en la víspera de su muerte - Álvaro Gómez Pidal (Spain)
Production: Producción Extraordinaria

Emerging Production

De Fang - Anna Llargués (Spain/France)
Production: Astra Pictures, Gaïjin

Las manos quietas - Víctor Diago (Spain)
Production: Guspira Films 

Los fines de semana - Alicia Moncholí (Spain)
Production: Oberon Media 

Foresta - Adrià Expòsit-Goy (Spain/Peru)
Production: Fractal 

Cara sucia - Ignacio Acconcia (Spain)
Production: Ayhe Productions

Monstro - Andrés Goteira (Spain)
Production: Gaitafilmes, Mordisco Films 

Canción animal - Nerea Castro Andreu (Spain/Romania)
Production: CSC Films

High - Daniel Alegrete (Spain)
Production: Lapislázuli 

El Espectro de Justine II - Andrea Sánchez Iañez (Spain/Andorra)
Production: Masa Madre Films 

last night i heard my laptop breathing through my headphones - Daniel Grandes (Spain)
Production: Igone Franco 

Baixamar - Fernando Tato (Spain)
Production: Kraken Media 

L'home més pacífic del món - Raquel Barrera (Spain)
Production: Gris Medio

Los materiales sensibles - Alberto Van den Eynde (Spain)
Production: Mansalva Films

Ardiek jakingo dute - June Lasarte (Spain)
Production: June Lasarte 

Panorama Catalunya

The Culprits - Marta Duran Lozano (Spain)
Production: Boogaloo Films, Guspira Films 

Siemprevivas - Mar López Zapata (Spain)
Production: The New Flesh 

Tanit - Pep Garrido (Spain)
Production: Atiende Films

Al-Buhayra - Lucas Moro, Manuel Rossell (Brazil/Spain)
Production: Al Cuadrado Films, EOC Producciones Cinematográficas, Salvatore Filmes

(Translated from Spanish)