INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ABOUT THE BRAINCCCB / 14 - 17 MARCH 2019

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PROGRAM

The Moment Dir: Richard Ramchurn Caravan located in Plaça Joan Corominas on Saturday and Sunday. Limited capacity. Register in the theater foyer.

SALA RAVAL

11am WITH ONE’S OWN VOICETalk The Strength of Touched Souls by Assumpció Malagarriga. Roundtable discussion With One’s Own Voice chaired by Cristina Salvador. Assumpció Malagarriga, Penélope Aguilera, Edgar Vinyals and Cristina Astier. Including the participation of Tere Pérez and Sonia Gainza.

SALA TEATRE

11am THE AGES OF THE MIND11am Talk The Beginning of the World of Emotions: Remei Tarragó

12pm Screening Music Is Life Dir: Santiago Torres

1pm Talk Retrogenesis and Life Stories. Nina Gramunt

1.40pm Roundtable The Ages of the Mind. Chaired by Nina Gramunt

3-5pm ScreeningMais ca vida Dir: Rubén Ríos Q&A

5pm TECHNOLOGY AND BRAINMore Human Than Human. Dirs: Tommy Pallotta, Femke Wolting

6.30pm TalkRobotics, AI and Social Media: The Need for an Ethical DebateCarme Torras (CSIC-UPC)

7.30pm Smartphones: The Dark Side Dir: Matthew Hill

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SALA TEATRE

11am THE MIND IN CULTURE11am Stage show And Who Are You? with Laura Calvet

12pm Show Magic and Brain: More Than an Illusion with the magician Igor

1pm Talk Cinema with (and without) Brain Eduardo de Vicente, film critic

3-5pm ScreeningPeces de agua dulce (en agua salada) Dirs: Marc Serena, Biel Mauri. Q&A

5pm SESIÓN DE CLAUSURAAt the Philosopher’s School Dir: Fernand Melgar Q&A

6:30pm Presentation ceremony of 9th Solé Tura Award

SALA RAVAL

11.15am SESSION B Screening of competition short films

1pm SESSION C Screening of competition short films

4.30pm SESSION A Screening of competition short films

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11.15am SESSION A Screening of competition short films

1pm SESSION B Screening of competition short films

4.30pm SESSION C Screening of competition short films

6pm OPENING SESSIONLife, Animated Dir: Roger Ross Williams

8pmOpening drink. Theater foyer.

SALA TEATRE

The brain is the featured star of this film festival, a meeting point to raise awareness of its different aspects, such as its amazing capabilities and the diseases and conditions that threaten it. This year’s program includes a variety of sessions and new sections, as well as the screening of the shorts selected to compete for the 9th Solé Tura Award and several non-competition feature films.

WHAT IS THE BRAIN FILM FEST?

CLOSING FILM

Sunday 17, 5pm, SALA TEATRE

At the Philosopher’s School (Switzerland, 2018)Documentary, 55’Director: Fernand Melgar

Five preschool-age children with mental disabilities leave home for the first time to confront a challenge: to go to school. They are going to have to struggle against all manner of new things in

a completely unknown environment: other children and adults, games and meals, behavior and communication. Melgar records and observes caregivers, families and the progress made over a one-year period.

Friday 15, 6pm, SALA TEATRE

Life, Animated (USA, 2016)Documentary, 92’Director: Roger Ross Williams

Ron Suskind, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Pulitzer Prize-winner, wrote a true-life story in 2014 entitled Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes and Autism. The book, on which this documentary is based, describes the efforts of his family to normalize Owen, an autistic

boy who manages to live with his condition by adapting the decisions of his life to the animated characters of Disney.

OPENING FILM

Sunday 17, 11am-2pm SALA TEATRE

THE MIND IN CULTURE11am Stage show And Who Are You? Creator and performer: Laura Calvet Alzheimer’s is the most common degenerative brain disease in developed countries. It represents the loss of our memory and history as a society. Childhood and old age join forces to find refuge in games and imagination.

12pm Show Magic and Brain: More Than an Illusion Performance by the magician Igor presented by psychologists from the Uszheimer Foundation.The basic tricks, optical illusions and predictive, rote learning, attention processes that the brain activates when viewing a magic trick are presented in a theoretical and practical manner.

1pm Talk Cinema with (and without) Brain Eduardo de Vicente, film critic.

Friday 15, 11am-1pm SALA RAVAL

WITH ONE’S OWN VOICEA place of encounter that gives voice to the collectives of “touched souls” by a variety of brain conditions, as well as several projects on the socialization and normalization of this condition.Assumpció Malagarriga will inaugurate the space with a talk entitled: The Strength of Touched Souls, to be followed by a presentation of several projects and a roundtable discussion entitled With One’s Own Voice. Cristina Salvador will moderate the table including the paticipation of Assumpció Malagarriga (Associació Superar l’Ictus), Penélope Aguilera (UVic-UCC), Edgar Vinyals (Associació Saräu) and Cristina Astier (UB-EITHealth), as well as Tere Pérez (CCCB) and Sonia Gainza (Apropa Cultura Director).

Saturday 16, 11am SALA TEATRE

THE AGES OF THE MIND11am Talk The Beginning of the World of Emotions by Remei Tarragó. 12pm Documentary Music Is Life (55’) Script and production: Santiago Torres. Director: Ramón Vallés.1pm Talk Retrogenesis and Life Stories by Nina Gramunt. Roundtable discussion The Ages of the Mind chaired by Nina Gramunt.

Saturday 16, 17pm SALA TEATRE

TECHNOLOGY AND BRAIN5pm Screening More Human Than Human (Netherlands, 2018, documentary, 79’) Dir. Tommy Pallotta, Femke WoltingArtificial intelligence offers promises that may have consequences. The directors attempt to construct a robot that can replace them throughout this film. But the question is: will this infinitely more intelligent, interconnected and possibly self-aware creation make humanity obsolete?

6.30pm Talk Robotics, AI and Social Media: The Need for an Ethical Debate Carme Torras (CSIC-UPC)

7.30pm Screening Smartphones: The Dark Side (Great Britain, 2018, documentary 30’) Producer and director: Matthew HillPeople are all increasingly glued to their smartphones and consumed by social media, but why? BBC reporter Hilary Andersson tracks down tech insiders who reveal how social media companies have deliberately developed habit-forming technology to get people hooked.

BRAIN FILM FEST ACTIVITIES

27 February to 17 March TEATRE LLIURE - MONTJUÏC Incògnit (85’)Director: Mònica BofillA play by the British playwright Nick Payne from 2014 about the brain, the best “machine for creating stories”.14 March, 7pm Talk Let’s Talk about Memory by Nina Gramunt, neuropsychologist from the Pasqual Maragall Foundation. www.teatrelliure.com

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES

Saturday 16, 3pm, SALA TEATRE

Mais ca vida (Spain, 2018) Documentary, 72’Director: Rubén Riós

In 2012, Rubén Ríos engages his team to shoot a short film with people living with intellectual disabilities.

Sunday 17, 3pm, SALA TEATRE

Peces de agua dulce (en agua salada) (Spain, 2018) Documentary, 79’Directors: Marc Serena, Biel Mauri

A documentary that explains not only the most important concepts of autism spectrum disorders, but also reveals what we as a society can do to include people with this disorder.

OUT-OF-COMPETITION SCREENINGS

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17Caravan located in Plaça Joan Corominas, next to the CCCB.

The MOMENT (Great Britain, 2018) Director: Richard RamchurnCapacity limited to 6 people per session. Register in the foyer of the Auditorium.

A film that you can control with your mind. In the near future, the interface between mind and machine has been perfected. Everyone is laced. This 22-minute short film is screened for groups of 6 people. The mental waves of one of these people can change the content every six seconds throughout the film, which means that it has 18 billion possible versions.

Tuesday 12 March 9.30am to 2pm, CCCB HALLNeuroart AwardAn art and scientific dissemination project that aims to inspire young secondary school students to create works of art about the nervous system: its structure, functions and plasticity.

Thursday 14, 11am AUDITORIUMCCCB PROGRAMA ALZHEIMERThe Jungle Book (USA, 1967). Animation, 78’Dir: Wolfgang ReithermanSpecial screening for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, organized by the Alzheimer’s Program of the CCCB. alzheimer@cccb.org

Saturday 16 at 4.30pm Sunday 17 at 1pmSALA RAVAL

SESSION C / 91’¿Por qué apuntan a Sirio? Spain, 2018, fiction, 5’ Dir: Jon Nieva Rivero

Tous Les Jours France, 2017, fiction, 13’ Dir: Philippe Orreindy

L’Auxiliaire Belgium, 2018, fiction, 9’ Dir: Frédéric Plasman

El vuelo de Michael Spain, 2018, documentary, 19’ Dir: Jesús de Frutos Ayuso

Help Spain, 2018, fiction, 10’ Dir: Jorge Nebra

Cactus Spain, 2018, fiction, 12’ Dir: Alberto Gastesi

Elena y Elena Spain, 2017, documentary, 15’ Dir: Nieves Prieto Tassier and Elisenda Polinyà

Miedos Spain, 2018, fiction, 8’ Dir: Germán Sancho

Tuesday 19 March

More information: www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com

The MOMENT (Great Britain, 2018) Dir: Richard Ramchurn

Smartphones: The Dark Side and subsequent discussion (Great Britain, 2018, documentary, 30’) Producer and director: Matthew Hill

BRAIN FILM FEST MADRID

Saturday 16 at 11.15amSunday 17 at 4.30pm SALA RAVAL

SESSION A / 89’Bostezó el perro y casi se traga mi drama Spain, 2017, documentary, 13’ Dir: Noemí Parga Iglesias

Nictofobia Mexico, 2018, fiction, 14’ Dir: Karla Campuzano

Robarte una noche Spain, 2018, fiction, 15’ Dir: Fernando Vera Moreno

Buenos Días Spain, 2018, fiction, 10’ Dir: Danny Campos

Psicolapse Spain, 2018, fiction, 7’ Dir: Arnau Gòdia Montesinos

Compatible Spain, 2018, fiction, 15’ Dir: Pau Bacardit

Khroma Spain, 2018, fiction, 15’ Dir: Jordi Ferré Batalla

Saturday 16 at 1pmSunday 17 at 11.15am SALA RAVAL

SESSION B / 89’El desequilibrio perfecto Spain, 2017, documentary, 17’ Dir: Pau Ortiz

Accident De Personne Spain, 2018, fiction, 4’ Dir: Álvaro Martín

Carlotta’s Face Germany, 2018, animation, 5’ Dir: Fabian Driehorst and Valentin Riedl

Insidia Spain, 2018, fiction, 18’ Dir: Paco Ruiz

Julia y Manuel Spain, 2018, fiction, 11’ Dir: Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta

A Young Girl Netherlands, 2018, fiction, 17’ Dir: Jeannice Adriaansens

Memini Italy, 2018, documentary, 17’ Dir: Marco Rossano

COMPETITION SCREENINGS

ORGANIZATION

The Brain Film Fest was initiated and is organized by the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and co-organized by the Uszheimer Foundation and Minimal Films.

Steering Committee Director: Albert SoléMinimal FilmsExecutive Director: Cristina Maragall Pasqual Maragall Foundation Social Relations Director: Loli Pagán Uszheimer Foundation

Advisory Committee Paz Flores, Simón Lee, Luis M. Martínez, Olga Subirós, Santiago de Torres

PresenterToni Puntí

REGISTRATION AND TICKETS

Entrance to the Brain Film Fest is free of charge for all activities, except for the parallel activities, including the play Incògnit at Teatre Lliure.

Prior online registration is recommended at the following link because of limited capacity: https://brainfilmfest.eventbrite.es.

You can register in the foyer of the CCCB theater during the festival according to available capacity.

CONTACT

Email: info@brainfilmfest.comTel: 935 134 110

SOLÉ TURA AWARD

Steering Committee Pasqual Maragall Foundation, Minimal Films, Uszheimer Foundation

Brain Film Fest 2019 JuryClaudia Aineto, José Coronado, Karine Fauria, Sílvia Quer, Olga Subirós

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AS PART OF

WITH THE SUPPORT OF

CO-ORGANIZED BYINITIATED AND ORGANIZED BY IN COLLABORATION WITH

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES