The Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival or the BCN Film Fest, which focuses on the ties between audiovisuals, literature and history, has now finalised the programme for its sixth edition, to be held from 21 to 29 April in Barcelona. This year's festival includes 70 films in the event's eight sections, including seven world premieres.

The festival opens with the world premiere of the Spanish film Espejo, espejo [+lire aussi :
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The other premieres (all Spanish productions, spread across different sections of the festival) will be El frío que quema, directed by the newcomer Santi Trullenque, starring Greta Fernández, Adrià Collado and Roger Casamajor; Amor de madre, by Paco Caballero, starring Quim Gutiérrez, Yolanda Ramos and Carmen Machi; the choral comedy Todos lo hacen [+lire aussi :
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fiche film], by Martín Cuervo, with Salva Reina, Macarena Gómez, Andrea Duro, Kira Miró, Julián López and Toni Acosta; El Pilar, a documentary by Esther Cases on clandestine filmmaking in the late Franco era; El comensal [+lire aussi :
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The Official Section of the festival includes features films such as the Spanish drama Guilt [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] after Málaga) and with Manuela Vellés as co-writer and in the central role of a woman who has been sexually abused; the German The Conference, by Matti Geschonneck; the British Mr. [+lire aussi :
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interview : Arnaud Desplechin
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interview : Yvan Attal
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The Official Section Out of Competition includes, among others, films such as Ennio [+lire aussi :
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interview : Juan Miguel del Castillo
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interview : Claire Simon
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Finally, China by Cineasia, a selection of short films by ESCAC students, documentaries focusing on great painters (Art al cinema) and the retrospective on Jeremy Thomas, accompanied by the documentary dedicated to him by Mark Cousins (The Storms of Jeremy Thomas [+lire aussi :
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interview : Jeremy Thomas
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interview : Bernardo Bertolucci
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