City Symphonies

Audiovisual creation project

What are our cities like? And what can the gaze of filmmakers reveal about them?

Trailer of "La barriga de la montaña"

Lola Clavo

On Montjuïc, a hill that’s both magical and deadly, normativity and monstrosities converge and feed off each other in an interplay of earth, water, stone and chiaroscuro.

Trailer of "Algunos recuerdos (no) son míos"

Rebecca Tolosa Gilroy

At the Ca La Dona Documentation Centre, a self-managed bi-lesbian-feminist archive, one of the archivists becomes obsessed with a photograph. Looking at it over and over again, touching it over and over again, she forges a bond with it and discovers a kiss mark on the face of “Lupita”. O...

Trailer of "Casa de bambú, piso de cemento"

Kim Hernandez

Emelita, Luz, Maria and Arlene left the Philippines at different times in their youth to settle in Barcelona and Hospitalet de Llobregat.

Trailer of "Serem el que sempre hem desitjat"

Hajar B. Boujtat

Four friends who live on the outskirts of the city make the centre of Barcelona their place to meet up. They talk and share their worries, aspirations and concerns as they walk, laugh and eat together. With humour and freshness, the film shows us how Moorish women live and feel about an environment ...

Trailer of "Loquilla mía"

Claudia Estrada Tarascó

As if it were intimate correspondence, the filmmaker reflects on her relationship with her sister who, from one day to the next, disappeared from her life and was sent to a juvenile detention centre. In the letters she wrote from there, her sister describes her routine at the centre, the friendships...

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 ...

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.

Somorrostro en tres actes

Marga Almirall Rotés

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

Trailer of "The Good Omen"

Alba Bresolí Aliberch

A stone lies in a dry, abandoned place on the outskirts of Barcelona, in the middle of a mountain that's no longer a mountain.

Trailer of "One, two..."

Verònica Font

A portrait of people dancing, of gesture, of the body, of pleasure, of emotion.

Trailer of "Memory zero"

Isabel Requena

We arrived in the Carmel district in 2020.

Trailer of "A City Within a City"

Raquel Marques i María Romero García

In 2013 we filmed the last few months of the Encants Vells flea market before it moved to its new location: a building with a mirroring roof, constructed to regulate the chaos of the old market.

Trailer of "each gesture"

Valentina Alvarado

A hand becomes the protagonist in a piece that outlines, from a macro viewpoint, a city seen as a tactile scenario, with different women working on artisan crafts.