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  The Israeli short White Eye wins Best Film and Best Director at the 46th edition of the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival

  24/10/2020 at 23:25 / Noticies

  The winning short film tells the story of how a seemingly trivial occurrence, the theft of a bicycle, has dramatic consequences for both the alleged thief and its owner The Night of the Venuses closing ceremony was hosted by Lídia Heredia and Queco Novell, who led the show with a witty and humorous combination of cinema and current affairs White Eye, a 21-minute long Israeli production, has won the awards for Best Film and Best Director at the 46th edition […]

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  The FILMETS festival’s closing gala, The Night of Venuses, will take place at 9 pm this Saturday at the Teatre Zorrilla in Badalona. The ceremony will also be broadcast live on local television channels in Catalonia

  22/10/2020 at 13:59 / Noticies

  The gala, which will be hosted by Lídia Herèdia and Queco Novell, will have a witty theme combining the world of cinema with current affairs La Nit de les Venus 2019 The 2020 FILMETS festival culminates this Saturday the 24th of October with the Night of the Venuses awards ceremony to present the prizes to the winning short films. The gala will take place at the Teatre Zorrilla in Badalona, from 9 pm, and will be broadcast live on local […]

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in The Art of Bodybuilding! one of the shorts competing in this year’s edition of the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival

  22/10/2020 at 12:45 / Noticies

  The film is a documentary about an art installation called ‘Sculpting the Body’, at which the American-nationalised actor was the central figure and presented as a form of living artwork The Art of Bodybuilding! can be viewed in session 6 of the festival at www.festivalfilmets.cat The FILMETS Badalona Film Festival presents another cinematic rarity in this year’s edition, which runs until the 25th of October. The festival is showing the short film The Art of Bodybuilding!, an 8-minute documentary directed […]

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  More than 200 short films were entered as contenders for the Best Short Film Produced and Filmed in Confinement category, which is new to FILMETS this year

  21/10/2020 at 18:34 / Noticies

  After careful consideration by the Selection Jury, several were chosen for their quality and feature in two sessions of the Official Section of the festival The films are part of sessions 10 and 11 of the festival, and just like all the other shorts in the FILMETS competition, they can be viewed online at www.festivalfilmets.cat Louis in Quarantine, Louis Schwizgebel In an effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, on the 14th of March this year the Spanish Government decreed a […]

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  FILMETS presents the documentary Exhumar a Prim (‘Exhuming Prim’), a raw and explicit film chronicling the exhumation of the man who was president of the Spanish Government between 1869 and 1870

  21/10/2020 at 16:56 / Noticies

  The short, directed by Víctor Cerdán, documents the autopsy carried out on Prim’s mummy by a team of scientists in 2012 Exhumar a Prim is included in session 25 of the festival and can be viewed online at www.festivalfilmets.cat along with all the other films in the competition In 2012, a team of forensic scientists opened the coffin of General Juan Prim almost 150 years after his assassination. The FILMETS Badalona Film Festival presents a short film directed by Víctor […]

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  For the very first time, FILMETS will offer a competitive International Session exclusively for LGBTI-themed short films

  20/10/2020 at 15:52 / Noticies

  The selected films have been recognised and awarded at various international film festivals The LGBTI shorts can be found in session 8 and viewed online at www.festivalfilmets.cat La distance entre le ciel et nous, Vasilis Kekatos For the first time, the FILMETS Badalona Film Festival will screen a competitive International Session exclusively dedicated to LGBTI-themed short films. As with all other films in the competition, film fans can register online to view the LGBTI-themed shorts at www.festivalfilmets.cat. Spectators will find […]

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