The D'A Film Festival programs more than 100 films with 'Alcarràs' as the protagonist

The D'A Film Festival Barcelona returns one more year to the city's cinemas with the screening of 124 films, among which will be Alcarràs by Carla Simón and Cinco Lobitos by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. The twelfth edition of the Barcelona event with independent and auteur cinema will be held from Thursday, April 28 to Sunday, May 8 at the CCCB, the Renoir Floridablanca cinemas, the Zumzeig hall and the Filmoteca de Catalunya. The inauguration will take place at the Aribau Cinema. The Filmin platform will also join the billboard.

The festival will feature the presence of almost 40 directors and artistic teams who will present their films. Simón will be in charge of inaugurating the event with her second film, a portrait of the Lleida countryside that has won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, setting the bar high after the success of Estiu 1993. Ruiz de Azúa will be the one who will close it with her debut film about mothers and daughters starring Barcelona native Laia Costa, which has emerged as the big winner of the Málaga Festival.

The D'A 2022 will also feature Barcelona directors Meritxell Colell, who will present Dúo, and Nely Reguera, who will participate with La voluntaria, starring Carmen Machi. Some of the international directors who will visit the D'A Film Festival will be Nadav Lapid with Ahed's Knee, Yngvild Sve Flikke with Ninjababy, and Mounia Akl with Costa Brava, Líbano, with a screenplay by Clara Roquet from Osona. The festival is completed by fifty short films, with 36 of local origin, with works by David Moragas, Alba Bresolí, Laura Rius or Esteve Riambau, director of the Filmoteca.

Big names in contemporary cinema will be seen on the screens of the D'A Film Festival, with the presentation of films such as Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, starring Tilda Swinton; In Front of You by Hong Sang-Soo; Sundown by Michel Franco, starring Tim Roth; Diários de Otsoga by Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro, or Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino. Among the most outstanding proposals of Spanish cinema, there will be the new work by Carolina Astudillo, Canción a una dama en la sombra; Una película sobre parejas by Natalia Cabral and Oriol Estrada, and Los caballos mueren al amanecer by Ione Atenea. There will also be an important presence of French cinema, which will show its dynamism with films such as Guermantes by Christophe Honoré; Bergman Island by Mia Hansen-Løve starring Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth, who participates twice in D'A 2022, or France with Léa Seydoux.

The twelfth edition of the D'A Film Festival will distribute 40,000 euros in prizes. This year the category Un Impulso Colectivo is born, which aims to promote national authorship. In this new section, as in the Talents section, aimed at directors who are just starting their career and the best endowed, with 10,000 euros, they have achieved equal representation of participants.