The Sitges Film Festival was born in 1968 under the name of the 1st International Fantastic Film and Horror Week, and is considered to be the first fantastic film festival in the world. They are ten days of must visit, not only for film lovers, but for the public who wants to know the new trends and technologies applied to film, and the audiovisual world in general. For the Sitges Festival have passed performers, directors and producers of the highest level as Quentin Tarantino, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Paul Verhoeven, George A. Romero, John Landis, Dino de Laurentiis, Takashi Miike, Wim Wenders, Tony Curtis , David Cronenberg, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Raimi, Roger Corman, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Guillermo del Toro, Kim Ki Duk, Álex de la Iglesia, Guillermo del Toro or Susan Sarandon.
Big names in the Official Section of the Sitges Festival this year: Gaspar Noé, Lars Von Trier, David Robert Mitchell, Lee Chang-dong, Gareth Evans, Shinya Tsukamoto, Claire Denis, Peter Strickland or Andrew Niccol. Reinforces the Anima't section that will pay tribute to the 30th anniversary of the premiere of My Neighbor Totoro, and the Serial Sitges section will offer great surprises as the exclusive screening of the first episode of the ninth season of The Walking Dead. Órbita and Noves Visions are increasingly relevant sections and Midnight X-Treme will strengthen its popularity with the selection of films of this year. Superlópez will fly through the Sitges Festival before reaching the cinema screens, the Italian cinema and the documentary will be the protagonists of the Brigadoon section, and the remake of "Suspiria", by Luca Guadagnino, will inaugurate Sitges 2018.
Barcelona Gallery Weekend
Barcelona Gallery Weekend is an event for art lovers, collectors, professionals and artists that started in 2015 with the aim of becoming the annual event for the art in Barcelona. Exhibitions are scheduled in the most important galleries in the city, artistic interventions in emblematic places, guided tours (in collaboration with the ARCO Foundation they are organized the ARCO Gallery Walks, guided tours for the interested public; they are 12 and registration required), and special activities.
The Grand Slam of Writing is the grand finale of the first season of the Slam of Writing, a writing competition in which four participants have to improvise their texts in front of the public. These improvisers must overcome literary challenges designed for the occasion. Two examples: improvise the texts of a silent film and literary dialogue with dancers.
The emerging galleries are those that risk with the new talents, those that promote from the base the culture and the art; they represent the alternative to the official established with the freshest, daring, reckless and provocative proposals. This is the reason that has motivated them to create their own festival, on the weekend that Barcelona becomes the world capital of contemporary art. In this edition, the IV, new galleries and new quarters (Sants and Poblenou) are added to the event. The most important activities this year are the direct experiences with the viewer: performances, live paintings, workshops, sound art, new technologies, happenings and guided tours of all the exhibitions.
This film series, organized by the Filmoteca and the MNAC, and in which also vollaborate the Joan Miró Foundation, the FAD, the Museu del Disseny, the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Institució de les Lletres Catalans, the Mercat de les Flors, the Palau de la Música Catalana, the Servei de Biblioteques de la Generalitat de Catalunya, the Teatre Lliure and the National Theater of Catalonia, show us the relationship between the world of cinema and art from different points of view. Painting, theater, dance, architecture, music, design, literature, opera and even cinema, protagonists fictions and documentaries that configure a heterogeneous program of great interest.
FC Barcelona and Inter have won their first matches in the group stage, and will then visit the stadiums of Tottenham and PSV Eindhoven. The match between Barça and Milan will make it clearer who will be the teams that make it to the next round and in what position. Live the excitement of the Camp Nou and enjoy the play of Messi, Suárez, Rakitić and all the great players of this match.
