Catalan Film Festival Short Films

The tenth edition of the Catalan Film Festival is here! This touring film programme brings award-winning Catalan films to Scotland, providing a cinematic reflection on human relationships, motherhood, families and the passage of time. 

See both of our Catalan Film Festival screenings for the special price of £16 when booked at the same time. Sign in and add your tickets to the basket, and the discount will be applied at the checkout.

Festival organisers CinemaAttic are excited to celebrate the profoundly creative and effervescent moment currently taking place across Catalan cinema. "The region’s filmmaking has once again been celebrated in major international festivals such as Locarno, Toronto, Berlin, Cannes and San Sebastian, from which we have gathered our favourite selection of short films to bring to Dundee Contemporary Arts."

bona nit, rambles (good night, rambles) 

Director: Maria Bareche & Clara Barfull / Duration: 29m

Barcelona's La Rambla is arguably the city's most photographed street, with thousands of people walking through it every day, making it a major tourist hub. But what happens on La Rambla after dark? This is the question two students from Pompeu Fabra University, Maria Bareche and Clara Barfull, wanted to explore when they began filming the street night after night.

Els buits (Gaps)

Director: Sofia Esteve Santonja/ Marina Freixa Roca/ Isa Luengo / Duration: 19m

Can the transmission of words restore a forgotten memory? Can it break the silence perpetuated between generations? At 17, Mariona was arrested and placed in a correctional facility run by the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer, an institution dedicated to 'regenerating fallen women' during Franco's regime and the first years of democracy. In 2023, she and her daughter are trying to put the pieces and gaps of this story back together.

A Hakka Song 

Director: Adrià Guxens / Duration: 11m

A song is heard in the distance. It comes from the Hekeng village, famous for its ancient earthen buildings, also called tulou. It is where the last original Hakka families live amidst the exodus of those looking for a more modern environment. Among them is Zhang Houyin, an old man concerned about the state of the village's temple; or his daughter-in-law, Pan Yi, who spends all day guiding tourists around these impressive structures.

El bon auguri (The Good Omen) 

Director: Alba Bresolí / Duration: 14m

A stone rests in a dry and abandoned place, on the outskirts of Barcelona, in the middle of a mountain that is no longer a mountain. Thousands of years ago it was a place to leave offerings. Sacrifices were made to ask for good omens. The stone remembers the last shepherd in the area, the only one who visited it, before disappearing with his sheep. In an eternal summer, suddenly, a visitor bursts into the stone’s existence.