BARQ FESTIVAL | International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona

The BARQ Festival, International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona, celebrates its 2nd edition from May 10th to May 15th 2022, which will take place onsite in the city of Barcelona and online during the Barcelona Architecture Week. The BARQ Festival is the only film festival dedicated to architecture and interior design in Spain and it is an initiative of Nihao Films, a production company specialized in architectural films, with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Arquin-FAD, and the Architects’ Association of Catalonia – COAC. The BARQ Festival is a film festival dedicated to analyse and to deepen in the relationships between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds exploring social realities, and architecture uses cinema to reach all of the society. With an extensive program that includes a selection of national and international documentary films and various parallel activities (talks, debates, workshops, conferences), the BARQ Festival brings to all its audience new perspectives on the creative processes behind architectural practice through cinema. By showcasing a selection of the most recent national and international productions in the field, the festival will serve as a platform for architectural films and cinema inspired by architecture from a social perspective. Our main objective is to bring the most current issues of contemporary architecture practice to the general public through cinema, creating a space for critical reflection on the spaces we inhabit.