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The 2021 edition will take place in a mixed, face-to-face and online format, although the face-to-face format will predominate. The festival will include 138 films from 25 countries in its program, which can be seen in the cinemas of the Cinemes Girona, CaixaForum, the French Institute and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, and the FILMIN platform. Of the program, the film that opens the festival stands out; the 14 Iranian films; the 15 from India; Philippine cinema, Japanese cinema or the new cinema that comes from China and Korea.

Sónar is still running, and from October 27 to 30, 2021 it will present two new festivals in Barcelona: the AI and Music Festival, an event dedicated to artificial intelligence in music creation, promoted by the S + T + ARTS program of the European Commission and in association with UPC and betevé. This new festival will coexist with SónarCCCB, in an extended, face-to-face and more musical version, with different live music stages, conferences, workshops and Sónar + D presentations.

After the 2020 online edition, the most important event in Barcelona dedicated to manga and its derived genres, will once again be face-to-face. This year's poster, by Carles Dalmau, is representative of that transition: it presents us with a post-apocalyptic city of Barcelona rescued by the optimism provided by the otaku culture. Tickets are not on sale yet, but they will be very soon, and keep in mind that they will only be sold online while supplies last.

Gastronomic Forum Barcelona 2021's main objectives are to advance towards sustainable food and contribute to the recovery of the sector in the post-covid stage. The show will have more than 300 exhibiting companies that will occupy a total of 10,000 m2, 6,000 m2 of exhibition space and 4,000 m2 for more than 70 activities, a gastronomic congress and the Forum Lab innovation area, carried out in collaboration with the World Capital. of Sustainable Food 2021 of Barcelona.

Under the slogan The illusion returns, Automobile Barcelona will show the novelties of 23 car brands in what will be one of the biggest events in the sector this year. The contest, which will take place at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuïc venue from September 30 to October 10 (from September 30 to October 1 for press and professionals, and from October 2 to 10 for the general public) , will focus on the future of sustainable mobility.

IbercameraAre you interested in classical music? Then you will be interested in getting to know Ibercamera, a benchmark in the musical life of Barcelona that organizes its concerts in the most emblematic music halls of the city.

Sitges International Film FestivalThe 54th edition of the SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia will have as its common thread the figure of the werewolf, one of the main icons of the classic theme of the inner beast. The Festival will treat this theme as an image of the Festival, with a retrospective of titles and the publication of a book. The 2021 edition also comes with new proposals that are specified in a program made up of 169 films, which collect the female gaze on fantasy cinema and the debate on the delimitation of content and new forms of the genre. In the program we find the most anticipated premieres by the fans. Films like Julia Ducournau's explosive Titane, Cannes 2021 Palme d'Or; Lamb, Icelandic folk-horror filmmaker Valdimar Jóhannsson and starring Noomi Rapace; The Deep House by Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury, an underwater supernatural horror proposal; or the latest installment in the Halloween saga, Halloween Kills, by David Gordon Green, with a fireproof Jamie Lee Curtis.

La Mercè - Barcelona's FestivalAfter 2020, the year in which La Mercè was held, but with many limitations, this year the most important event in Barcelona recovers its essence, although with all the necessary precautions. 2021 will put us back in touch with the traditions that we most appreciate and the classic scenes of the party will be present again and, as always, new spaces will be added. The proclamation that will mark the beginning of La Mercè 2021 will be in charge of Custodia Moreno Rivero, activist and neighborhood leader of the Carmel and Can Baró neighborhoods. Havana is the guest city in La Mercè 2021, so in La Mercè this year you can enjoy music, dance and images created in the capital of Cuba. On September 24, Passeig de Gràcia will host, between Diputació and Rosselló streets, the popular culture collectives of Barcelona. The Piromusical will be held, but not to be seen from the street, like last year.

The Vienna Philharmonic in the Sagrada FamiliaLa Sagrada Familia is the chosen stage in Barcelona for the celebration of the Vienna Philharmonic's special concert, on September 18. The day before, on September 17, there will be a general rehearsal open to the public with the intention of bringing culture and the Sagrada Familia closer to the citizens of Barcelona. In September they will inform, through the website and social networks of the Sagrada Familia, on how to access the invitations.

Pride BarcelonaBarcelona has hosted every summer and since 2008, the main gay pride celebration in the Mediterranean, attended by more than 380,000 people each year (under normal circumstances). Pride Barcelona is a non-profit event, both festive and demanding in favor of the rights of the LGTBI collective and offers a careful selection of activities: talks, seminars, cinema, artistic exhibitions, shows ... and during the night, in addition, the night bars, discos and saunas of the city hold special parties. However, due to the pandemic, this year's edition was divided into two parts: a more limited one that was held in June and an expanded one that was held on September 4. This year's motto is "Undetectable = Untransmittable", a motto that aims to help combat the stigma of HIV, since people with HIV in treatment with undetectable viral load do not transmit HIV.