The BARQ Festival, International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona, celebrates its 3rd edition from Sept 26th to Oct 1st 2023, which will take place onsite in the city of Barcelona and online at Filmin.
The BARQ Festival is the only film festival dedicated to architecture and interior design in Spain and it is an initiative of Nihao Films, a production company specialized in architectural films, with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Arquin-FAD, and the Architects’ Association of Catalonia – COAC.
The BARQ Festival is a film festival dedicated to analyse and to deepen in the relationships between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds exploring social realities, and architecture uses cinema to reach all of the society.
With an extensive program that includes a selection of national and international documentary films and various parallel activities (talks, debates, workshops, conferences), the BARQ Festival brings to all its audience new perspectives on the creative processes behind architectural practice through cinema.
By showcasing a selection of the most recent national and international productions in the field, the festival will serve as a platform for architectural films and cinema inspired by architecture from a social perspective. Our main objective is to bring the most current issues of contemporary architecture practice to the general public through cinema, creating a space for critical reflection on the spaces we inhabit.
· BARQ Award to Best Documentary Film: Awarded by the Jury of the competition documentary feature films section. It consists of a 1,500€ prize and a statuette.
· BARQ Award to Best Documentary Short Film: Awarded by the Jury of the documentary short films section in competition. It consists of a 600€ prize and a statuette.
The festival’s organization has the right to modify, add or update the awards. Also, the festival’s organization reserves the right to improve the amount or quantitative value of each award described above.
The 3rd edition of the BARQ Festival plans to hold an event to promote the Festival beyond the city of Barcelona, holding a special screening in Madrid with the works awarded at the festival. The festival’s organization will contact the people responsible for each work to agree on the conditions of this special session, which will be celebrated after the dates of the BARQ Festival 2023.
