City Symphonies

What are our cities like? And what can the gaze of filmmakers reveal about them? A collection of films by women filmmakers, made in Barcelona and its metropolitan area. "City Symphonies" is an audiovisual creation project of the CCCB with the collaboration of Dones Visuals.

Somorrostro en tres actes

Marga Almirall Rotés

Somorrostro is the name currently given to a beach in Barcelona.

Has estado aquí

Vivian Muñoz Rodriguez

After a long journey of migration lasting 20 years, the director faces her most difficult time: watching her mother age from afar and seeing how her dementia-ridden mind begins to forget those few moments they shared in Barcelona and Bogotá.

Querida A.

Elena Molina

We live in an age of control and hyperconnectivity; all our gestures and movements seem to leave a trace and yet there are lives that float below the threshold of visibility.

Ronda

Marina Rodríguez Colás

The peripheral city of Hospitalet has inherited a spirit of traditional combativeness, fighting to conquer its own space.

Anhel de llum

Alba Cros Pellisé

Anhel de llum is an exploration of Barcelona through light, as it falls on the streets of the city and the people around me who live there: my chosen family. The sun as a brush that naturally highlights what can be seen and what remains in the darkness, clashing with the human artifice ...

Amalgama

Beatriz Pérez Martín

If the city is constructed by people and people are constructed by emotions, what places in the metropolis are reserved for our most human part? Do these places actually exist? Amalgama is the need to return to our origins to rediscover our centre.