Join us to watch a selection of the best new short films from Catalonia as selected by the festival team. This year’s programme will bring us from the tense drama of The Pyre, to the tender queer romance of Born at Night. Plankton explores masculinity in the face of impending fatherhood, and Snippets sees the return of festival favourite and Cannes Palme d’Or winning director Juanjo Giménez to Scottish screens. Short film has always been an incredibly important part of the Catalan Film Festival, and this year’s offering continues to show the incredible quality of the work coming from the region.
Saturday 4th April, time tbc
DCA, Dundee
TICKETS COMING SOON
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
The Pyre (La foguera)
dir. Àlex Gantzer
15 minutes
Year: 2025
Catalan with English subtitles
With a traumatic experience from the past clawing its way to the surface, Blanca gets in her car and begins a journey to connect with life, with grief and with an anger that she has been repressing for too long.
Gal·la works at the radio station. Nearly asleep, she leaves the program halfway through and reads a story to her little son that accompanies him in his dreams. One night, driven by the renewing energy of a mysterious boy, she decides to start a new radio station. A program of shared melodies that broadcasts from the intimacy of the room where mother and son connect with the world.
Born at Night (Ferides)
dir. Alba Cros Pellisé
18 minutes
Year: 2025 Catalan with English subtitles
The first encounter between Saó and Juliana leads to a rebirth in the middle of the night, where vulnerability and seduction intertwine to pave the way for a promising new dawn.
Snippets (Retales)
dir. Juanjo Giménez
20 minutes
Year: 2025
Spanish with English subtitles
A film student shoots his first short films in Super 8, while lamenting the fact that he doesn’t have a single moving image of his parents.
Joel has hardened into stone, hiding his feelings for such a long time. Yet with the return of an old love, cracks start to form in his armor