La Gran Pantalla, the International Film Festival for the Elderly, is an intergenerational meeting space to promote cinema as a tool for dialogue, reflection and social transformation around the imaginaries that society perpetuates on the elderly. This film festival aims to highlight the beauty of old age, highlighting what unites us and what differentiates us as people who are at different times in life.
The 2023 edition of La Gran Pantalla
This year, on The Big Screen , 9 feature films and 18 short films will be screened, and various dialogues will be held with the teams of these productions or around the theme that the films deal with. This edition will again have a previous session at the Filmoteca de Catalunya and, in addition, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the event, there will be an open-air concert with the group Son de la Rambla organized by the Barcelona City Council.
The programming of this 5th edition will focus on topics such as love, care, loneliness, the digital divide, the climate emergency or intergenerational relationships.
Feature films
- Good luck Big Leo, by Sophie Hyde, a film in which Emma Thompson plays the role of a widow who wants to experiment with sex.
- Francesca i l'amor , directed by the award-winning Catalan director Alba Sotorra, also presents the same theme. This time from the documentary.
- Toda una vida, by Marta Romero Coll, a documentary in which the filmmaker follows her grandparents for 12 years.
- Temps difícils. Cants per les cures , where the director Susanna Helke takes us into the subject of the privatization of local care services for the elderly in a small municipality in Finland.
- 20.000 especies de abejas, directed by Estibaliz Urresola, shows three women, from three very different generations.
- Utama, a film by Alejandro Loayza Grisi where an elderly Quechua couple and their grandson see how an unusually long drought threatens their way of life.
- Loli Tormenta, the posthumous film by Agustí Villaronga. Starring Susi Sánchez, it presents the story of some children who hide their grandmother's illness with ingenuity, in order to continue by her side.
- Cantando en las azoteas, a documentary by Enric Ribes that tells the story of Gilda Love, the last drag queen in Barcelona's Chinatown.
- Omara, a documentary by Hugo Pérez that tells the story of Omara Portuondo, Cuba's legendary diva who has been a driving force in Afro-Cuban music for more than half a century.
Short films
The official short film section will screen fifteen international short films this year, with fiction, documentary and animation films from Spain, Italy, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Chile and Uzbekistan.
Admission is free, but reservations must be made.
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