FIRE!! Barcelona LGTBIQ+ Film Festival • From 5 to 15 June, 2025 • At the Institut Français
FIRE!! Barcelona LGTBIQ+ Film Festival • From 5 to 15 June, 2025 • At the Institut Français
FIRE!! trailer Barcelona LGTBIQ+ Film Festival • From 5 to 15 June, 2025 • At the Institut Français
FIRE!! trailer Barcelona LGTBIQ+ Film Festival • From 5 to 15 June, 2025 • At the Institut Français
¡Salsa!

¡Salsa!

Antonina Kerguelén Román • Colombia

Baby

Marcelo Caetano • Brazil, France, Netherlands

Bienvenido

Bienvenido

Miguel Usandivaras, Martin Jalfen • Argentina

Cactus Pears

Rohan Parashuram Kanawade • India, United Kingdom, Canada

Capitanes

Capitanes

Kevin Castellano, Edu Hirschfeld• Spain

Dragfox

Dragfox

Lisa Ott • Switzerland, United Kingdom

Linda

Mariana Wainstein • Argentina

Out

Dennis Alink • Netherlands

Pipes

Pipes

Jessica Meier, Kilian Feusi, Sujanth Ravichandran • Switzerland

Ruth

Ruth

Sonia Martí Gallego • Spain (Catalonia)

Shame

Shame

Hadi Moussally • Lebanon, Spain (Catalonia)

Only Kim

Solo Kim

Javier Prieto de Paula, Diego Herrero • Spain (Catalonia)

Thomas

Tomàs

Ferran Navarro-Beltrán • Spain (Catalonia)

FIRE!! Pro 2025

FIRE!! LAB 2025

From 9 to 11 June

5th LGBTI-themed film development and series writing laboratory

The FIRE!! LAB is a laboratory for the development of films and the writing of LGTBI-themed series, which seeks to encourage their production and marketing in Spain. The initiative, which will be carried out within the framework of the FIRE!! 2025, will last 3 days, from 9 to 11 June.

The screenwriters, directors and producers of the selected projects and films will receive advice/tutorials in the artistic areas such as screenwriting and direction, as well as production, marketing and internationalization, by leading professionals in the national and international audiovisual industry.

At the end of the classes and individual tutorials, the projects will be presented to different producers during a pitching session and the following 3 prizes will be awarded:

● FIRE Award!! LAB to support the development of a feature film: 2000€
● FIRE!! LAB to support the development of a series: 2000€
● Industry Award of the San Sebastian Festival: trip to the festival, stay and accreditation

To request more information: industria@mostrafire.com

The FIRE!! LAB is a laboratory for the development of films and the writing of LGTBI-themed series, which seeks to encourage their production and marketing in Spain. The initiative, which will be carried out within the framework of the FIRE!! 2025, will last 3 days, from 9 to 11 June.

The screenwriters, directors and producers of the selected projects and films will receive advice/tutorials in the artistic areas such as screenwriting and direction, as well as production, marketing and internationalization, by leading professionals in the national and international audiovisual industry.

At the end of the classes and individual tutorials, the projects will be presented to different producers during a pitching session and the following 3 prizes will be awarded:

● FIRE Award!! LAB to support the development of a feature film: 2000€
● FIRE!! LAB to support the development of a series: 2000€
● Industry Award of the San Sebastian Festival: trip to the festival, stay and accreditation

To request more information: industria@mostrafire.com

FIRE!! Lab TALENTS
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FIRE LAB 5 ▪ Laboratory for the development of films and the writing of LGBTI-themed series

Closed Call

Until March 1530

With the support of:

ICEC - Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies
ICEC - Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies
Ajuntament de Barcelona

In collaboration with:

San Sebastian Film Festival
SELECTED PROJECTS
TUTORS
ADVISOR(S)

Selected projects 2024

FEATURE FILMS

Tetium

TETIO

MANAGEMENT
Sergio Avellaneda Belmonte

PRODUCTION
Paula Amat (Debut Films)

Bump

BUMP

MANAGEMENT
Mires Ibars

SCRIPT
Pau Vidal Bosch

PRODUCTION
Cristina Sánchez

Hands Still

STILL HANDS

MANAGEMENT
Victor Diago

PRODUCTION
Andrés Mellinas (Boogaloo films)

The participle of the verb to hear

THE PARTICIPLE OF THE VERB TO HEAR

MANAGEMENT
Miguel Machetti

PRODUCTION
Ángeles L. Guerrero

Sinless conceived

WITHOUT SINS CONCEIVED

MANAGEMENT
Raquel Colera, Claudia Barthelemy, Jenifer de la Rosa

PRODUCTION
Jenifer de la Rosa

SERIES

The Year of Envy

THE YEAR OF ENVY

SCRIPT
Kevin Rodrigo Pérez, Lucía Pérez Oroz, María Moreno Novoa

Alone everywhere

ALONE EVERYWHERE

SCRIPT
Isabel Luque Garramiola and Camila Pineda Virgen

Commuter trains

COMMUTER TRAINS

SCRIPT
Manu Roma and Clàudia Manero

The Last Straight

THE LAST STRAIGHT

SCRIPT
Marta Lario Ruiz

Through your own fault

THROUGH YOUR OWN FAULT

SCRIPT
Enrique Huelva Jiménez

Tutor/s

FEATURE FILMS

JÚLIA DE PAZ

Júlia de Paz Solvas (1995) began her professional career with her debut film, Ama, premiered at the Malaga Film Festival, where she received the Silver Biznaga for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Feroz Puerta Oscura Award for Best Film, as well as obtaining a nomination for the Goya Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay.

His next project, the short film Harta —winner of three Biznagues at the Malaga Festival and the Gaudí Award for Best Short Film, among other awards— served as the basis for his second feature film, currently in post-production and scheduled for release in 2025.

In 2024 she presented the series The Long Shadows (directed by Clara Roquet and produced by Disney+), in which she participated as a second director. In addition, in the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival, the series Estimar was screened, directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, in which Júlia de Paz Solvas appears as co-screenwriter.

PAOLA BOTRÁN

Paola Botrán is an Executive Producer specialized in film and co-productions with 10 years of experience and background in international sales. Selected as Producer Under the Spotlight 2023 and one of the 10 Spanish production companies to follow by Variety, a member of the EAVE network after her selection in Ponts 2022 and EAVE Marketing 2023, she is currently an Associate Producer for film and series at Cattleya Producciones (a company of the British group ITV).

From Sideral, he has co-produced Segundo Premio by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, winner of the Biznaga d’Or for best Spanish film at the Malaga Festival. Previously, he was Head of Marketing at Latido, where he collaborated in the international strategy of more than 30 titles, including El Hoyo by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (Nº1 on Netflix) and C Campeones by Javier Fesser, among others.

She completed her experience as Post-Production Coordinator in series such as El Ministerio del Tiempo (T4 for TVE), Antidisturbios de Rodrigo Sorogoyen (for Movistar+) or Patria (for HBO).

ROCIO MESA

Rocío Mesa combines cinematographic creation with production and programming. Her latest feature film as a director and screenwriter, Secaderos (2022), had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival, winning the Dunia Ayaso Award, and was presented internationally at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin (Texas) where it won the audience “Visions” award. His first feature film was the creative documentary Orensanz (2013), premiered at the Seville European Film Festival and selected at international festivals such as BAFICI. Mesa practices analogue experimental cinema and her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and specialty festivals around the world. As a producer she has worked on numerous projects, such as the feature film Mbah Jhiwo / Alma Anciana (2021) by Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2021. Rocio Mesa is the director of LA OLA, Independent Films from Spain, an entity that aims to make contemporary Spanish cinema visible in North America. In addition, she has worked as a programmer for festivals such as Los Angeles or international events such as Art House Theater Day in the United States.

SERIES

JAVIER FERREIRO

Born in Lugo, Javier specialized in screenwriting before studying fiction directing at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV – Cuba). Back in Spain, he began to develop projects with his production company Amor y Lujo, and with the support of funds and institutions such as the ICAA, the ICEC and Ibermedia, among others. Recently, Javier has been the screenwriter of Vestidas de Azul (continuation of the successful “Veneno”) and has just premiered Mariliendre, his first series as creator and director, produced by SUMA CONTENT, the production company of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo. Mariliendre has the honour of being the first series in the Official Selection of the Malaga Festival to close it; and has also been selected for the French festival Series Mania. Beyond his work in the universe of series, Javier is developing his debut film as a director, Fame e febre which has the support of AGADIC and ICEC.

ANA JOVEN

With a solid career in the audiovisual sector, she has worked in television, film and theater. He is currently head of development at the production company Minoria Absoluta, where he promotes fiction and entertainment projects.
She has been executive producer of Love Cost (3Cat) and Èpic Nails Volume 2, and director of formats such as Mónica y el sexo (Amazon) and Acoustic Home (HBO). He has also worked as a scriptwriter in programs such as Batalla Monumental, Persona Infiltrada and Tricicle: 40 years, and has participated in mass audience spaces such as Tu cara me suena, ¡Ahora caigo! and ¡Mira quién baila!.
She combines her professional work with teaching in master’s and postgraduate courses specialising in screenwriting and executive production. His commitment to the sector and his experience endorse him as a key figure in the industry.

VICTOR SALA

Co-founder of the online magazine Serielitzats and Serielitzats Fest, the Barcelona International Series Festival that has invited screenwriters such as Jesse Armstrong (Succession), David Simon (The Wire), Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) or Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad). He is a series critic for ‘Els Experts’ and ‘SerieSelektor’ on iCat FM.

Since 2022 she has directed the series laboratory Serielizados Kick, teaches television formats at Pompeu Fabra University and coordinates MINIPUT, a quality television show that has been held in Barcelona since 1992. He has written the short film Robota and the television pilot Psycho Palms for the production company Open the Portal, and is an advisor to several production companies.

Advisors

BOB POP

AUTOFICTION. LOST BREASTFISH. The process of believing and creating. To believe and create oneself.

Bop Pop is divided, as it were, between literature and the desire to eat. In 2010 he published his first novel, Mansos, republished by Alfaguara in 2021. He also has other publications such as the humorous essay Cuando haces Bop ya no hay stop (Ediciones Martínez Roca, 2013), Días ajenos (Somos Libros, 2017), the first installment of his literary and intimate diaries; or the essay Un miércoles de enero, in which he develops his facet as a critic of the media. He became known to the general public as a collaborator on Andreu Buenafuente’s program Late Motiv (Movistar +), of which he was the deputy director. In 2021 he made his debut as a fiction creator with Maricón perdido (TNT, Presented at FIRE!!), winner of the Ondas award for Best Comedy Series.

MANI MARTÍNEZ

AI RESISTANCE MANUAL. How to design projects with AI and remain a person.

Production Designer and Art Director with training in Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, he has more than 25 years of experience in film and television. He has worked in all departments related to production design, participating in national and international projects of all kinds, from independent films to large productions. In parallel to his professional career, he has taught classes and workshops at schools such as ESCAC, CECC and AFilm, specializing in production design and new tools applied to visual creation. He is currently leading the development of Keynema, an app focused on improving workflows for film crews using artificial intelligence, and combines this project with teaching, including the “AI Film Design” course at ESCAC, funded by the European program EU Next Generation.

CSABA SZABO

Founder and CEO of Terrea, Csaba Szabo is an expert in sustainability who provides concrete and measurable solutions to the audiovisual sector. After accompanying several producers to reduce the footprint of their productions, it collaborates with teams to integrate simple improvements that protect the planet, maintaining quality and optimizing resources.

earth.earth

Joan Montesinos

Presentation of projects. Diversity as a value

Joan Montesinos Aznar is part of the development department of Suma Content, a production company created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo. Previously, he has worked at Amor i Luxe, Zeta Studios and Lluís Miñarro. The projects he has been part of have been selected for the Rotterdam IFF, Malaga Festival, Seville European Film Festival, Seminci, FIRE Exhibition, Lesgaicinemad… among others. He is a member of the Valencian Audiovisual Academy, has taught at ESCAC and organizes the LGTBIQ+ Representation Conference at the Jaume I University.

DAVID MORAGAS

Marketing concepts and audience definition

Director of Marketing and Communication at Filmin since January 2022, Pilar Toro’s career has always been linked to film and television. From her beginnings at Canal+ through her time at NBC Universal, where she specialized in Social Media while managing the social media campaign for the film La Llamada, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi; until she arrived at Netflix Spain, where she worked on the campaigns of titles such as Élite, Las Chicas del Cable, Paquita Salas, Nevenka or Sky Rojo.

DAVID MORAGAS

WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU

David Moragas is a writer, screenwriter and film director. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication at Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona, and did a master’s degree in Film Directing at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, in New York, thanks to a scholarship from the Obra Social la Caixa.

His films have received numerous awards, including a nomination for the Gaudí Awards of the Catalan Film Academy for Tomorrow We Leave – a short film that won the VOC award from Òmnium Cultural – and another nomination for Best Editing for his film A Stormy Night. He currently resides in Barcelona and combines his work as a director and screenwriter with teaching at Pompeu Fabra University. “Fervor” is his first novel. His second feature film, Otro Hombre, will be released in theaters in the fall of 2025.

Joan Ruiz

Internationalization of audiovisual projects, from development.

Born in the Pyrenees (1990), Joan Ruiz graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Audiovisual Distribution and Marketing from the Open University of Catalonia. In 2013 he joined the team of the Industry Department of the San Sebastian International Film Festival as coordinator and curator of conferences and round tables and as head of professional publications. In 2015 he began the professional days of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona and was responsible for five editions. Communication coordinator of the Talking Galleries Barcelona 2017 symposium and collaborator of LOOP Fair. In 2018 he developed the communication project of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola school in Tabakalera. In 2019 he conceived La Pedrera – D’A Film Lab and began working for the Business Development Service of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies. In January 2020 he joined the Catalan Films team.

ROUND TABLE

Thursday 12 June, 6pm

New horizons and challenges of lesbian cinema in Spain

Round table: New Horizons and Challenges of Lesbian Cinema in Spain

The round table New horizons and challenges of lesbian cinema in Spain, will evoke the emergence of a new generation of female directors capable of realistically transmitting the real experiences of the youngest lesbian collective (from Alba Cros to Zaida Carmona, Irona, Ruth Caudeli, Sara Fantova, Irene Moray, Isa Luengo, Sofía Esteve or Nora Haddad), to remember how complicated it is for women to make films and even more so with a lesbian theme (remembering, for example, the years it took Arantxa Echevarría to shoot Carmen and Lola, or the difficulties of others to make a place for themselves in cinema, such as Marta Balletbó-Coll), despite the increasingly common presence of lesbian actresses outside the closet in our film scene (Susi Sánchez, Inma Cuesta, Anabel Alonso, Elena Anaya, Alba Flores or Anna Castillo, for example). New projects, such as the production companies Amor y Lujo, Vayolet Films, or Loba Loba, also seem to be changing things, towards a better representation of lesbian women in Spanish cinema. We will discuss this with the producer Carlotta Schiavon, the film critic Violeta Kovacsics Grisolía, the film director Sara Fantova, moderated by Mar Canet, director of La Casa del Cine.

LGBTI CENTER Thursday 12 June 6pm Free entrance The table will have interpretation in Catalan sign language Retransmissió en directe des del Canal YouTube del centre LGBTI de Barcelona.

Activity organized in collaboration with:

LGBTI Centre of Barcelona

Speakers

Speakers

Carlotta Schiavon

Producer and founder of Vayolet Films. He has completed his studies at ESCAC and UCLA. He has worked in the production department of multiple projects in Spain and the United States. After several years in Los Angeles, he founded the production company Vayolet Films in Barcelona. His latest projects have been Farrucas , winner of Best Short Film at the XIV Gaudí Awards and Els Buits , winner of the Silver Biznaga for Best Documentary Short Film at the 27th Malaga Film Festival. He currently has several short film, feature film and series projects in the development phase. She is a member of the board of directors of Dones Visuals and is co-coordinator of the Acció Producció programme.
Violeta Kovacsics Grisolía

Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1981. Film critic, PhD in communication and teacher. He writes regularly for publications such as Caiman, Cuadernos de Cine, Cinemania and the Diari de Tarragona. She is a professor of Film History at ESCAC and also teaches at the Pompeu Fabra University and the Open University of Catalonia. She is responsible for publications at the Sitges-International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia and was the first woman to preside over the Catalan Association of Film Criticism and Writing. He has coordinated the book Very Funny Things. New American Comedy .

Sara Fantova

Bilbao, 1993. In 2013 he began his university studies at ESCAC, specializing two years later in film direction. She graduated in 2018 with No me despertéis, a short film shot in Bilbao and based on a personal experience, a film that participated in the official selection of Seminci and in Voices Shorts in Rotterdam, among other competitions. She is also one of the eleven co-directors of La filla d’agú, a collective feature film tutored by Sergi Pérez, premiered and awarded in Malaga. In 2023, he directs 3 episodes of the series Esto no es Suecia. Developed as part of ESCAC’s Debut Feature Programme, Jone is sometimes his first feature film.

Moderated by

Mar Canet

An entrepreneur of film culture, she is the director and founder of La Casa del Cine de Barcelona, a school of film theory and direction. Co-founder of the American American Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, coordinator of the Most International Wine Film Festival of Vilafranca del Penedès, programmer of FIRE!! Mostra LGTBI de Barcelona, coordinator of the matinees for INS of the D’A Barcelona Film Festival. CEO of the production company of The New Flesh (Nominated for the GOYA 2023 for the short documentary Dancing with Rosa, nominated for mira niño, 2024).

Meetings with directors and artistic teams

Algun@s director@s will be present at the screening of their film; the audience will have the opportunity to talk to ell@s at the end of the screening, in the room or on the terrace of the French Institute.

Kokuhaku

Meeting with Adrià Guxens,
director of Kokuhaku
DIV 06/06 ● 22 h

If I Die, It'll Be of Joy

Meeting with Alexis Taillant,
director of If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy
DIS 07/06 ● 18 h

Shame

Meeting with Hadi Moussally,
director of Shame
DIS 07/06 ● 20 h
Fri 13/06 ● 16 h

Los amantes astronautas

Meeting with Javi Oran,
lead
actor of Los amantes astronautas
DIS 07/06 ● 22 h (with interpretation
in Catalan)

Luces azules

Meeting with Gustavo Pecoraro Brondino,
 screenwriter of Luces Azules
SUN 08/06 ● 18 h

Ana Kann Alles

Meeting with Loida García,
director of Ana Kann Alles
DIU 08/06 ● 20 h (with interpretation
in Catalan)

One Dances, the Other Doesn't

Meeting with Emilie Girardin Dobosiewicz,
director of One Dances, the Other Doesn’t
DIU 08/06 ● 20 h (with interpretation
in Catalan)

One Dances, the Other Doesn't

Meeting with Cristian Mariani,
actor of 300 letters and Lucas Galambos, director of the short film Desvíos
DIU 08/06 ● 22 h

 

Snapshots

Meeting with Irene Corts Curto,
director of Snapshots
DIV 13/06 ● 8 pm

The Devil's Garden

Meeting with Pol Rebaque,
director of The Devil’s
GardenDIV 13/06 ● 8 pm

Valencia, I love you

Meeting with Carlos Giménez Pons,
director of Ruth
DIV 13/06 ● 20 h

Just Kim,

Meeting with Javier Prieto de Paula,
 director of Solo Kim,
and Kim Cabral, lead
actorDIV 13/06 ● 20 h

The Pardas

Meeting with Simone Sojo,
 director of Las pardas
DIV 13/06 ● 20 h

Jones, sometimes

Meeting with Sara Fantova,
 director of Jone, sometimes
FRI 13/06 ● 20 h

Sunday of grams

Meeting with Alex de la Croix,
 director of Domingo de gramos
DIS 14/06 ● 20 h

A cheap movie

Meeting with Osama Chami,
 director of Una película barato
DIS 14/06 ● 20 h

Thomas

Meeting with Ferran Navarro-Beltrán,
Director of Tomàs
SAT 14/06 ● 22 h

Star, comet, satellite and planet

Meeting with Pedro de Echave,
Director of Star, Comet, Satellite and Planet,
and Pablo Azorín, producer
SAT 14/06 ● 22 h

Source list 2025

Distribution and programming professionals will find our Source List here, with the contacts of the distributors of all the programmed films, both feature films and documentaries and short films.

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