MINIPUT 2024

This year's proposals range from historical information to hot current affairs, touching on human themes such as family, love and death, and infusing entertainment with depth. This year, we are also celebrating the 40th anniversary of one of the most important formats in our country, 30 minuts.

10 am

INTRODUCTION

By Víctor Sala (national coordinator of INPUT and coordinator of MINIPUT).

 

10.15 am

EXHAUSTED!

Canada, 22’, documentary, ICI Tou.tv

A journalist investigates our society’s widespread exhaustion.

 

10.35 am

INTERVIEW WITH HISTORY

Belgium, 45’, docutainment, VRT

Presented by: Clàudia Jansana, UPF student

We discover the past of the Belgian royal family through fictionalised interviews with past family members.

 

11.25 am

SOFIY AND HER WAR

Taiwan, 40’, social experiment documentary, PTS

Presented by: TBC

Using communication technologies, a group of Taiwanese teenagers put themselves in the place of a girl of their own age in the war in Ukraine.

 

12.10 pm

DEEP DATING

Switzerland, 25’, dating, SRF

Discussion involving the presenter Gülsha Adilji, moderated by Jèssica del Moral (presenter of the programme Connecticat de la Xarxa).

A format in which first dates are examined in depth with the help of a couples therapist.

 

1 pm

DE CLUB

Belgium, 37’, fiction series, VRT

Followed by a discussion with the series’ creator Leander Verdievel, moderated by Mireia Llinàs, lecturer on the GAC Master in Screenwriting.

Three couples meet at a fertility clinic and, despite having very different backgrounds, strike up a friendship based on their shared desire.

 

2 pm

WHO IS SPYING ON OUR KIDS?

Denmark, 44’, report, TV2

Presented by: TBC

Two journalists infiltrate the world of free gaming apps aimed at children and teenagers and test their huge capacity to collect personal data.

 

2.50 pm

APPLYING CREATIVITY TO INFORMING:

Presented by: Marina Domènech, UAB student

JUNG

Ecuador, 5’, animated documentary series, AlejandrIA

Artificial Intelligence brings six historical figures of philosophy to life, enabling them to narrate themselves.

ALONG DINOSAUR TRACKS

South Korea, 48’, educational, KBS

We follow in the footsteps of the dinosaurs along the south-east coast of Korea.

 

3.50 pm

FACING DEATH:

Presented by: Marta Valero and Cristina Coll, UPF students.

AMALIE IS DYING

Denmark, 30’, documentary, TV2 Echo

Amalie, a 21-year-old girl, is dying and she wants public television to accompany this process to portray it in all its rawness and humanity.

MIRACLE No. 71

Belgium, 47’, documentary, VRT Canvas

The director Nathalie Basteyns has been suffering from multiple sclerosis for 10 years and decides to make a road trip to Lourdes in the hope (not without self-consciousness) that a miracle will happen.

 

5.10 pm

FACTS, MYTHS AND VIDEOGAMES

Finland, 30’, edutainment, YLE

Followed by a discussion with the format's screenwriter and director Harri Alanne, moderated by Mariona Borrull.

We review the history of human civilisations, assisted by some of today’s most popular video games.

 

6 pm

SPECIAL SESSION:

THE FUTURE OF CATALAN ON PUBLIC TV CHANNELS

Moderator: Sergi Vicente (Director of betevé)

Participants: Sigfrid Gras (Director of 3Cat - Televisió de Catalunya), Esteve Crespo (Director of RTVE Catalunya), Núria de José (CEO of laXarxa+ - Xarxa de Televisions Locals).

60 years ago, the first television programme broadcast in Catalan was the audiovisual adaptation of the play La Ferida Lluminosa by Josep Maria de Sagarra. We bring together those in charge of the major Catalan broadcasters to ask what the next 60 years hold in store.

 

6.45 pm

TALK TO THE TUNDRA: HOW A YUP’IK VILLAGE HEALS TOGETHER

USA, 20’, documentary, PBD

An Alaskan village tackles the lack of resources for the mental health of its young inhabitants.

 

7 pm

SPECIAL SESSION: 40 YEARS OF 30 MINUTS

Moderator: Mònica Terribas

Participants: Joan Salvat and Carles Solà, Directors of 30 Minuts.

30 hits 40. One of 3Cat's flagship programmes and one of the world's veteran reporters. The three directors of 30 Minuts will provide the context and end the marathon of 30 Minuts stories that can be seen from midday at the CCCB’s Sala Raval.

 

7.50 pm

OMG. WE’RE EXPECTING TRIPLETS

Denmark, 29’, reality, DR

Followed by a discussion with the format’s producer Kaare Sand, moderated by Júlia Bacardit

We follow the lives of three families that have or are about to have triplets, documented by themselves.

 

8.40 pm

B DE VOLUMEN

Colombia, 22’, edutainment, Telemedellín

Talking about Botero means talking about Volume and about Medellín, and this format does so by reconstructing a dozen paintings by the Colombian artist.

 

9 pm

CONFESSIONS OF A NEO-NAZI

Germany, 37’, documentary, ZDF

Presented by: Òscar Guijarro, UAB student

A former Neo-Nazi explains the recent past and present of Nazism in Germany in an interview in which he’s represented by an avatar.

 

MARATHON: 30 Minuts

Marathon of reports from 30 Minuts at the CCCB’s Sala Raval (from 11 am to 6.15 pm)

 

11 am

Raval, l’últim esglaó (Raval, the last step) by Jaume Vilalta and Miquel Garcia (1988)

Txecoslovàquia: des del cor de la revolta (Czechoslovakia: from the heart of the revolt)  by Carles Bosch (1989)

 

12 noon

Heroïna, l’agonia d’una droga (Heroin, the agony of a drug) by Mariona Bassa and Carles Solà (1991)

Retrat d’una generació (Portrait of a generation) by Francesc Escribano (1989)

 

1 pm

Balseros, aventura sense final (Boat people, an adventure without end) by Carles Bosch (1994)

Mònica, un món a la mà (Monica, a world in her hand) by Manel Raya and Lluís Montserrat (1998)

 

2.15 pm

Procés a Pinochet  (The Pinochet trial) (1998)

 

3 pm

Fugint del futur (Fleeing the future) by Carles Porta and Francesc Pou (2001)

 

3.45 pm

Els nens perduts del franquisme (The lost children of Franco’s regime) by Montse Armengou and Ricard Belis (2002)

 

4.45 pm

Trànsit, menors transexuals (Traffic, transexual minors) by Roser Oliver (2016)

 

5.15 pm

Entre la terra i el cel: guerra (Between heaven and earth: war) by Manel Alías (2022)