The BCN Film Fest focuses on popular films for the general public with special attention to those related to the world of literature and history. This event aims to establish a close relationship with the cultural and popular character of the Diada de Sant Jordi, the most emblematic day of Barcelona. The festival opens with the film "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mike Newell that will be present during the event, and closes with "Roman J. Israel, Esq." by Dan Gilroy.
Barcelona City of Literature and Libraries of Barcelona have worked so that this second edition of the Dialogues of Sant Jordi is better than the first. The objective does not change: to bring writers and readers a few days before Sant Jordi so that they can talk about the books they have written and the topics they deal with. This year they participate: Amélie Nothomb, Carme Riera, Najat El Hachm, Philip Pullman, Albert Sánchez Piñol, José Eduardo Agualusa, Xavier Aldekoa and Fernando Aramburu.
ArtsLibris is a pioneering fair that is celebrated in the Arts Santa Monica whose objective is the diffusion and commercialization of the book of artist, the photobook and the contemporary edition. It is a meeting space between publishers and authors, as well as an international projection platform. ArtsLibris Barcelona 2017 is attended by more than 70 exhibitors, 45 of which are Catalan, 12 from other areas of Spain and 17 international publishers from France, Italy, Mexico, Germany or Argentina, among other countries. In this ninth edition highlights the celebration of the V International Symposium on Publishing and Collecting, moderated by Gloria Picazo
For the second consecutive year, and on the eve of Sant Jordi's day, the Culture Institute of Barcelona City Council presents La Nit del Drac (The Night of the Dragon), a meeting that invites attendees to celebrate, in a public space and in the open air, the anniversaries of the outstanding names of Catalan literature. This year: Maria-Mercè Marçal, Joan Brossa, Manuel de Pedrolo, Montserrat Abelló, Vicent Andrés Estellés and Maria Aurèlia Capmany.
The day of Sant Jordi in Catalonia is the day when the streets are filled with stalls of roses and books. It is tradition that men give women a rose and that women give a book to men. And the April 23rd is also the International Day of the Book, so to the custom of giving a rose was added the habit of giving a book (1930). Interestingly, that the day, April 23rd, is not a holiday but it seems so, because the streets of Barcelona are full of people. A day to wander around in Barcelona, a day for men to become symbolically knights and women princesses, and a day to promote the selling of books and, hopefully also the reading.
D'A - Barcelona International Author Film Festival 2016 reaches its sixth edition with the best films produced in the world: a combination of new and established directors, films that have triumphed in other international festivals and with the attention directed towards the new tendencies of the cinematographic creation, including the Spanish cinema. Those attending the festival will have the chance to meet the almost thirty directors who will visit the festival and talk with them about their works. There are 87 feature films and 13 short films, from 30 countries, with 33 films directed by women, 17 first works and 6 films selected by young programmers. Professional activities are also organized, and there will be nine towns that will host the Tour D'A in Catalonia and eight in the rest of Spain. To the usual spaces of the festival - Aribau Club 1 and 2, Teatre and Auditori of the CCCB, Filmoteca de Catalunya - joins the Zumzeig cinema of Sants quarter.
