In collaboration with the Catalan Film and Audiovisual School (ESCAC), the implementation of a systematic plan to digitise our heritage collection has finally made it possible to increase the visibility of a series of key titles in the history of Catalan cinema, produced between 1940 and 2014, which, despite being well preserved in their analogue format, are unable to be screened in the current context of digital exhibition.
This marks the launch of Història Permanent del Cinema Català, which will include the films that we digitise each year, in addition to our regular programme of previews and tributes. The newly digitised films will be screened for the first time at the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
Other screenings of classic and contemporary films will subsequently be added to this permanently open window on the world of Catalan cinema. The initiative was launched in 2022, with the production of the very first digital copies of eight feature films and eight short films made in Catalonia from the 1940s onwards. In 2023 and subsequent years, an external commission made up of representatives of the film industry will select the titles proposed by the Filmoteca for digitisation on the basis of certain criteria, such as conservation status, digital copy availability and the agreement of the relevant rights owners to release them for cultural use.The catalog is expected to grow each year by ten feature films and ten short films that have been digitized.
Visibilitzem el cinema català (1940–2014) succeeds the Bàsics & Singulars film collection.
These collections are intended for film archives affiliated with the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), as well as for festivals, museums, and other cultural institutions that wish to make use of them.
Please contact: filmoteca.cultura@gencat.cat
Below, we provide details on the feature films included in Visibilitzem el cinema català—a systematic digitization initiative for the heritage collection held by the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
2022
Films
A tiro limpio [Clean Shoot] (Francisco Pérez-Dolz, 1964)
Los felices sesenta [The Happy Sixties] (Jaime Camino, 1963)
Tren de sombras, el espectro de Le Thuit [Train of Shadows] (José Luis Guerin, 1997)
Boom Boom (Rosa Vergés, 1990)
Vida de familia (Josep Lluís Font, 1963)
Furia española [Spanish Fury] (Francesc Betriu, 1975)
Un vaso de whisky [A Glass of Whiskey] (Julio Coll, 1958)
La ciutat cremada [The Burned City] (Antoni Ribas, 1976)
Short Films
Circles (Ricardo Bofill Leví, 1966)
Picasso 136 (Jordi Vall Escriu, 1970)
Picasso a Catalunya (Josep Palau Fabre, 1979)
Picasso, l’alegria de viure (Jordi Artigas, 1981)
Picasso nostre (Maria Lluisa Borràs, 1982)
Lecciones de cinematografía (Francisco Pérez-Dolz, 1956)
2023
Films
La hija del mar (Antonio Momplet, 1953)
Biotaxia (José María Nunes, 1968)
Tatuaje (Bigas Luna, 1978)
Entre la esperanza y el fraude (Mercè Conesa, 1977)
Alícia a l’Espanya de les meravelles [Alice in Spanish Wonderland] (Jordi Feliu, 1978)
Mater amatísima (J.A. Salgot, 1980)
Tras el cristal [In a Glass Cage] (Agustí Villaronga, 1986)
És quan dormo que hi veig clar (Jordi Cadena, 1989)
Things I Never Told You (Isabel Coixet, 1996)
Mones com la Becky [Monkeys like Becky] (Joaquim Jordà, 1999)
Short Films
L’àpat (Carles Santos, 1967)
Ferdinand y el ciempiés (Martí Pey, 1969)
Viaje a la explotación (Mercè Conesa, 1974)
Cristino de Vera (Joan-Gabriel Tharrats, 1975)
La porta (Jan Baca, 1977)
Ramon Muntaner canta a Miquel Martí i Pol (Jordi Cadena, 1977)
D’un roig encès: Miró i Mont-Roig (Josep Martí Rom, 1979)
Gargallo (Lluïsa Borràs, 1981)
Narcís Comadira: esculpint el temps (Ona Plana, 1996)
2024
Films
Concierto mágico (Rafael J. Salvia, 1952)
Maria Rosa (Armando Moreno, 1963)
El amor brujo [Bewitched Love] (Francesc Rovira Beleta, 1967)
Memoria (las bestias no se miran al espejo) [Memory] (Francisco Macián, 1974)
La ràdio folla (Francesc Bellmunt, 1986)
El perquè de tot plegat [What's it All About] (Ventura Pons, 1994)
El domini dels sentits [Domain of the Sense] (Isabel Gardela, Judith Colell, Teresa de Pelegrí, Maria Ripoll, Núria Olivé-Bellés, 1996)
La Monyos (Mireia Ros, 1996)
La niebla en las palmeras [The Mist in the Palm Trees] (Lola Salvador, Carlos Molinero, 2006).
Solitud (Romà Guardiet, 1990)
Short Films
¡Música... muchachos! (Miquel Iglesias Bonns, 1941)
Semejante a Pedro (Francesc Bellmunt, 1971)
Cartells d’un poble en guerra (Ernest Blasi, Gustau Hernández, 1975)
Tot l’enyor de demà (Josep Méndez, 1976)
Laberint (Agustí Villaronga, 1980)
Al Mayurka (fragments) (Agustí Villaronga, 1980)
Idil·li xorc (Romà Guardiet, 1983)
Silencis (Xavier-Daniel, 1982)
2025
Films
Atolladero (Óscar Aibar, 1995)
La cárcel de cristal (Julio Coll, 1956)
Companys, procés a Catalunya (Josep Maria Forn, 1979)
Fin de curso (Ignacio F. Iquino, 1943)
Marta (Francisco Elías, 1955)
Pasión lejana [Far Passion] (Jesús Garay, 1987)
Short Films
La Casa d'Odin (Paco Poch, 1979)
La Festa dels bojos (Lluís Racionero, 1977)
Rigor Mortis (Aurora Corominas, 1997)
Romàntic (Aurora Corominas, 1989)
Sirenes (Aurora Corominas, 1988)
Sobrevivir en Mathausen (Llorenç Soler, 1975)
Tango (Mario Gas, 1975)
Online viewing
Once screened, all titles will be available to view online via the Filmoteca de Catalunya channel for a period of one month.
In collaboration with:
Acknowledgements
Jordi Artigas, Esther Cases, Films 59 (Pere Portabella, Pasqual Otal, Jordi Vidal, Àxel Bosch), Films de l’Orient (Sandra i Marta Forn), Teresa Font, Adelaida Frias, Fundació Privada Palau (Anna Maluquer), Olga Giralt, Motion Pictures (Tony Albert), Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura (Natalia Chiner), Rosa Vergés, Video Mercury Films (Enrique Cerezo, Carlos Bernases).
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