Activities

CONCERT. FURANCHOLOGY

FRIDAY 5TH AT 7:30PM. OUTSIDE THE CENTRO SOCIAL DO MAR

To kick off the 18th edition of FICBUEU, we will have a live performance by Furanchology, a Galician instrumental psych-soul jazz trio. With a repertoire consisting of their own compositions, Furanchology’s music is mainly based on psychedelic rock and electric jazz from the 60s and 70s, fusing with styles such as soul, funk, punk, and cumbia.

OPENING. PREMIERE OF ROMERÍA BY CARLA SIMÓN

FRIDAY 5TH AT 8:30PM. AUDITORIUM

The presentation of the 18th edition of FICBUEU will be complemented by the screening of Carla Simón’s film Romería on the same day it premieres in theaters. It will be a unique event that will feature the presence of part of the team that worked on the film at the Auditorium of the Centro Social do Mar: actor and director Alberto Gracia and actress Marina Troncoso. Shot in different locations in the Rías Baixas, this is the third feature film by the Catalan director, who, following the success of Estiu 1993 and Alcarràs, continues to explore family ties, one of the central themes of her filmography.

PROFESIONAL MEETINGS. DIALOGUES ON COMPOSITION

SATURDAY 6TH AT 11:00PM. MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

The morning of the Seminars  will be occupied by three dialogues between professionals from the world of film and series composition, with pairings designed to bring together professionals with a long career in the sector with newcomers. These conversations will culminate after the third dialogue in a large-scale meeting between the six participating professionals, in which the audience will be able to participate too.

The first dialogue of the day will feature Alicia Morote and Gustavo Gill, who will talk about how to take the first steps in the film music sector and the processes of writing, producing and narrating songs in film, with its artistic, dramatic and technical conditioning factors.

The second conversation will feature Iván M. Lacámara and Mara Villavicencio, with technology as a fundamental pillar. Lacámara and Villavicencio will talk about synthesizers and sound hybridisation and how this affects audiovisual musical language, while they will also delve into the importance of ‘temp tracks’ or provisional musical references.

Alberto Torres and Gabi Martínez will meet in a third conversation to talk about the relationship between sound design and music and the construction of a musical script to structure the narrative.

MASTER CLASS. FROM CLASSICISM TO MODERNITY: WOMEN SOUNDTRACK COMPOSERS

SATURDAY 6TH AT 4:30PM. MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

Doreen Carwithen, Shirley Walker, Rachel Portman, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Mica  Levi will be some of the women composers featured in this master class where we will discover the contributions of women to the history of film music. The lecture will focus not only on the most renowned figures, but also on the cult authors and the circumstances of cultural production and social reception that conditioned the presence of some of them.

The film critic Diego Salgado will be in charge of giving this master class. Salgado is the author of Supernovas: Una historia feminista de la ciencia ficción audiovisual together with Elisa McCausland, with whom he also presents the podcast Trincheras de la cultura pop. He also contributes to media such as Cine Divergente, Détour and Dirigido por, and is a member of the Film Critics Society.

CONVERSATION. MUSIC AND EDITING IN ROMERÍA

SATURDAY 6TH AT 6:30 PM. MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

Gaspar Broullón, producer and editor, will moderate this conversation between Ana Pffaf (editor) and Ernest Pipó (composer). Editing and music are two fundamental elements in the constitution of the rhythm of a film, and their correct conjunction can be decisive in achieving a satisfactory final result. During the meeting, both professionals will reflect on the joint work processes in the film Romería (Carla Simón), discussing with the audience the importance of synergies between the two disciplines.

Ana Pfaff has so far focused her work as an editor on independent cinema. She has worked with filmmakers such as Chema García Ibarra, Victor Iriarte and Clara Roquet. Many of the films edited by Pfaff have successfully toured international festivals, including the Golden Bear at Berlin of Alcarràs (2022) and the premiere of Romería itself in the Official Selection at Cannes. Her editing work was recognised with two Gaudí Awards and two Goya nominations. As a filmmaker, she is a member of the Dostopos collective together with editor Ariadna Ribas.

Ernest Pipó is a composer based in Barcelona. He began his musical career as a guitarist of generally instrumental and improvised music. He approached traditional written music and piano through his approach to the world of film; in this field, he wrote the scores for the feature film Estiu 1993 (2017) and the short film Después también (2019), previous works by the director Carla Simón.

The moderator of this event, Gaspar Broullón, is a Galician producer, editor, and director with more than 20 years of experience. He has received the Maestro Mateo Award for Best Editing four times for his work on the series Hierro (2019-2022) and Rapa (2022-2024), and worked as an executive producer on films such as O Corpo Aberto (Ánxeles Huerta, 2022) and Eroski-Paraíso (Jorge Coira and Xesús Ron, 2019). He is currently a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of A Coruña, and vice president of the Galician Audiovisual Cluster.

FILM ANALYSIS. DAVID LYNCH SEEN WITH THE EARS

SATURDAY 6TH AT 8:30PM. AUDITORIO

The films of the renowned director David Lynch will be the protagonist of this talk in which we will analyse the importance of sound and music in his films. Both elements form a fundamental part not only of the director’s aesthetic universe, but especially of his dramaturgy and narration. Lynch made use of both son and music for artistic purposes, to complete his films and turn them into an unique experience. Some of his most representative films will be discussed globally and particularly some scenes from Lynchian classics such as The Elephant Hand (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Twin Peaks (1990) and Mulholland Drive (2001), among others. The meeting will close with the screening of The Grandmother (1970), one of the first short films directed by the filmmaker.

The person in charge of this film analysis will be Conrado Xalabarder, a specialist in film music and creator of the website MundoBSO, which focuses on film music. Xalabarder has written for publications such as Fotogramas, El Periódico de Catalunya and the magazine of the Academia de las Artes y de las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. He is also a professor of Soundtracks at universities such as the Universitat de Vic and Pompeu Fabra, and collaborates as a musical consultant on films and other audiovisual projects.

TALKS WITH FILMMAKERS

SUNDAY 7TH AT 9:30 PM AND FROM MONDAY 8TH TO SATURDAY 13TH AT 8:30 PM. AMALIA DOMÍNGUEZ BÚA ROOM

Complementing the first screenings of the Official Selection and the GZ_00 Section, the authors of the screened works will participate in a meeting with the public. These talks will begin on Sunday 7 at 21:30h with the filmmakers of the GZ_00 Section, and will continue between Monday 8 and Saturday 13 at 20:30h with the teams of the short films selected for the Official Section.

The colloquiums will be open to the public, offering the opportunity to get to know the perspective of the directors, who will talk about their works and their creative processes. These meetings offer viewers the opportunity to talk to the filmmakers, thus enriching their experience at the festival. The talks will be streamed and made available online throughout the week to facilitate access for those attending the 9:30 PM session.

MEETING WITH ANXOS FAZÁNS

WEDNESDAY 10TH AT 5:30 PM. AMALIA DOMÍNGUEZ BÚA ROOM

Anxos Fazáns, winner of the Best Galician Short Film award at FICBUEU 2024 for Habitar, will explain the creative process behind her new film, As liñas discontinuas, which will soon be showing in cinemas.

FILM REVIEWS

FROM MONDAY 8TH TO SATURDAY 13TH

With the aim of encouraging reflection and to delve deeper into the films screened, we offer the public attending the screenings of the Official Selection a small notebook with critical analyses of the films included in each session. This publication, which will be distributed in physical and digital format, aims to provide FICBUEU audiences with another point of view in the perception of the films, moving away from subjective opinion and emotion to approach more objectively the artistic proposal of each film.

These texts will be written by Xavier Montoriol, a graduate in Modern Languages and Literatures from the UB, with a Master’s degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought from the UPF and in Audiovisual Curatorship from the EQZE. He is co-founder of Muelle5 and writes regularly for other film critics, with texts published in Outskirts, La pala de Walsh and Otros Cines Europa.

FICBUEU PLAYROOM

FROM MONDAY 8TH TO SATURDAY 13TH. MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

Continuing with our commitment to equality and work-life balance, FICBUEU 2025 will once again offer a playroom service to make it easier for parents to attend screenings and activities.

The FICBUEU Playroom will be located on the first floor of the Centro Social del Mar and will be a space for children between the ages of three and twelve. There, children will be able to take part in various cinema-related activities while developing their social skills in a playful environment. Each day will feature a workshop run by members of the Juan XXIII Association.

The FICBUEU Playroom will be available from Monday 8 to Saturday 13, enabling parents to enjoy all the sessions programmed within the Official Section.

Hours:

• From Monday 8th to Friday 12th: 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM.
• Saturday 13th: 4:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

This initiative has the support of the Consellería de Política Social e Igualdade of the Xunta de Galicia through the Corresponsables Plan, Ministry of Equality.

PRESENTATION OF FICBUEU MONOGRAPH #6. DESTINY AS FORM. IMAGES OF EXILE / EXILES OF THE IMAGE

SATURDAY 13TH AT 11:00PM. AMALIA DOMÍNGUEZ BÚA ROOM

The FICBUEU Monograph #6, in dialogue with the five titles that make up the retrospective, analyses the relationship between the concept of exile and the world of the cinematographic and audiovisual image. This essay is constructed by delving into the processes of research and reflection of two women poets and creators, the actress María Luisa Elío and the philosopher María Zambrano. At the same time, it analyses the way in which certain authors assume the creative process, essentially, as an experience. Their works, for this very reason, seem to become, at times, a kind of ‘temporary artefacts’ where their life and work converge (and are confused); their identities, their past or their memory with their destiny.

The author of FICBUEU Notebook #6 is José Manuel Mouriño, researcher, teacher, essayist and filmmaker. With a PhD in Fine Arts, Mouriño has curated exhibitions and carried out research and writings on authors such as Mikhail Romm, Andrei Tarkovsky, Norman McLaren and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among many others.

This presentation will be attended by Diego García, son of Jomí García Ascot, director of one of the films in the retrospective section, Remedios Varo 1913-1963 (1967); and Valentín García Gómez, head of the Secretaría General de Política Lingüística, who is once again supporting the publication of the booklet.

FICBUEU 2024 AWARDS CEREMONY

SATURDAY 13TH AT 23:00PM. MULTIPURPOSE ROOM

The winners of the 18th edition of FICBUEU will be announced at the awards ceremony that will take place at the end of the screenings of the competitive sections. The event, which is open to the public, will be attended by filmmakers, members of the different juries and representatives of the institutions and companies supporting the event. 

The event will feature live music by André Borraja and Martiño Malleiro Díaz.

GALICIAN SCHOOLS CEREMONY

SATURDAY 20TH AT 11:00AM. AUDITORIUM

The short films made in schools will be the protagonists of this ceremony, where the finalists in the Schools Section will be screened and the awards will be presented to the winners in the Special Education, Infant and Primary and Secondary Education Categories.

The ceremony, which has the support of the Kalandraka publishing house, will be hosted by the writer and publisher Olalla González, accompanied by the visual artist Marc Taeger, who will perform live drawing and animation.

The event will feature live music by Martín, Carmen e Juan Sánchez Paz.

SHOW. THE FAIR OF ILLUSIONS

SATURDAY 20TH FROM 12:00PM TO 1:30PM AND FRON 4:30 PM TO 6PM. OUTSIDE THE CENTRO SOCIAL DO MAR

The origin of cinema is the guiding thread of this artistic installation, an exhibition space in which, through zootropes, praxinoscopes and other inventions, we will discover how moving images originated. 

The fair of illusions is a theatrical installation in the form of a travelling fair of inventions set in the 19th century. The show, organised by the group Errabundo Pelele from Burgos, offers a walk through the history of optical toys and visual illusions that gave rise to the birth of cinema.

The public will be able to enter the installation free of charge to meet the Reynaud family, fairground workers from the past, who will give a guided tour of the exhibition. The company Errabundo Pelele will perform several 15-minute performances of this dramatised show between 12 PM and 1:30 PM and 4:30 PM and 6 PM.

5 STARS TAPAS ROUTE

Once again this year, we present, in collaboration with different bars and restaurants in Bueu, the 5 Star Tapas Route, an initiative that aims to merge cinema and gastronomy. From Friday 5th to Sunday 14th, the public will be able to visit different establishments in the town and taste gastronomic proposals inspired by the world of cinema.

This year, the participating establishments are Juerga, Volver, Pyramis, Noche Tapas, Casa Quintela, La Taberna de Casa Videira and Tiembla, Maruxa.

FICBUEU CHANNEL

In order to continue adding to the audiovisual archive of the festival and to make the recordings made during the event available to the public for later consultation, different activities will be rebroadcast by streaming and then published on the FICBUEU Channel on Youtube.

Through our Twitch channel, it will be possible to watch live all the talks with filmmakers, the activities that make up the Film Conferences, the presentation of the FICBUEU #6 Monograph, the Awards Ceremony and the Galician Schools Gala.

DONATIONS

Once again, we will collaborate with the Vigo/Pontevedra Food Bank to conduct a collection of food, hygiene, and menstrual management products.

The collection boxes will be available throughout the festival at the entrance of the auditorium of the Centro Social del Mar.