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3.-5.12.2026
Zum Zeig Cinema
Carrer de Béjar, 53, Sants-Montjuïc, 08014 Barcelona
20:00 FRIDAY · BLACK BURNS FAST
Director: Sandulela Asanda · South Africa 2026 · 97 min
Original Language: Afrikaans · Subtitels: English and Spanish
Seventeen-year-old Luthando, adorkable, bookish, and forever drifting between reality and her vivid inner world, returns for another year at a prestigious South African all-girls’ boarding school. Her world tilts when Ayanda, a bold and effortlessly magnetic new student, arrives. As they begin a secret romance, Luthando is ushered into Ayanda’s orbit of confident, carefree friends, tasting freedom she has never experienced within the school’s rigid walls.
A deliciously clever coming-of-age story, Black Burns Fast is the debut feature of director Sandulela Asanda, as tender as Heartstopper and as quirky as Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 1
metamorphosis
18:00 FRIDAY · Shorts 1: METAMORPHOSIS
Communion, Petala Lopes, 2026 Brasil 23'
Chimeras Tonight, Veronika Neputina, United Kingdom 4'
Winner Peli Les Girls, XXYY, Spain 5’ (tbc)
Scissors, Hannah Alline, 2026 United States 13'
My Dear Dear Home, Yue Ran, 2026 Switzerland, China 20’
Transformations sometimes begin quietly and subtly, are not always visible, and yet in each of these films the change gradually takes shape. A transformation that arises in the moments between people, that marks farewells and new beginnings, that makes us merge with others or takes us to the limit. Let’s metamorph!
Original Language Version with English or Spanish Subtitles
21:00 SATURDAY 5th · LA BELLE ANNÈE
Director: Angelica Ruffier · SW, FR 2026 · 95min
Original language: Swedish, French · Subtitels: English
After the death of her estranged father, Angelica and her brother are forced to return to their childhood home, a big house in the french countryside overflowing with unspeakable clutter and the lingering presence of their despotic parent. As Angelica begins the overwhelming task of clearing it out, she comes across her teenage diaries, resurrecting a secret and fierce love she once harbored for her history teacher, Mademoiselle B. Through the words of the diaries, her adolescent infatuation unfolds in the present, and an intense longing grows within her: to meet Mademoiselle B again.
La belle année is Angelica Ruffier’s autobiographical odyssey through the year following her parent’s death, a kind of personal renaissance of the past. The film weaves together decisive documentary moments with cinematically staged dreams, raising questions about what shapes our character and our lives.
SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2
liquid dreams
18:00 SATURDAY · Shorts 2: LIQUID DREAMS
Lesbian Mud Wrestling, Kirsty Wilson, Australia 15'
Where is Your River?, Mari Moraga, 2026 Belgium, Brasil, Hungary, Portugal 13'
the eating of. an orange, May Kindred-Booth, 2026 United Kingdom 8'
Neo Nadha, May Ziadé, 2023 Líbano, United Kingdom 12'
Las Damas, Camille Zéhenne, 2026 France, Spain 18’
Nothing is written in stone in this program: everything begins to flow and grow. It takes shape in damp mud and imaginary rivers, in the sweet juice of an orange, or in papers that grow into a landscape, and finally dissolves into a melting ice cream. Let’s swim!
Original Language Version with English or Spanish Subtitles