The seventh edition of the Brain Film Fest, the film festival promoted by the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, will screen the new works of Claudia Pinto (While you are you), Maite Alberdi (The infinite memory), Marta Romero (Toda una vida) and Álvaro Longoria (The Life of Brianeitor). The event, which has the ages of the brain as its common thread, will be held at the CCCB, from March 13 to 17.
Cinema and neuroscience will be the protagonists in some forty productions and activities on mental health, emotional resilience, Alzheimer’s and innovation linked to the brain. One of this year’s highlights will be a study on the emotional management of the actors in The Snow Society, with casting director María Laura Berch and actor Santiago Vaca.
“Science, today, allows us to know much more about what each of our vital stages is like. Cinema is a clear testimony of this”, considers the president of the Pasqual Maragall Foundation Cristina Maragall. “When the topic of the different ages of the brain is so latent on our screens, we know that we have to explore it at the Brain Film Fest” , he remarks.
The festival will open with the Oscar nominee for best documentary, The Infinite Memory. With its director, Maite Alberdi, starring in a retrospective of the work in which Alzheimer’s, a disease suffered by the protagonist Augusto Góngora, is treated with light and hope.
The topic that Alberdi’s documentary addresses is transversal and horizontal in the festival and its selection of films. Directly connected, the Goya and Gaudí award-winning While You Are, will be screened in a session to benefit Alzheimer’s research. The documentary film, directed by Claudia Pinto, will be presented alongside its protagonist Carme Elías, an actress who made her diagnosis public on stage at the Brain Film Fest.
Along with the documentary Todo una vida, by Marta Romero, – a love letter to her grandparents – the film La vida de Brianeitor, by Alvaro Longoria, will also be screened in the Schools Section dedicated to younger audiences.
Longoria’s film will be presented alongside its protagonist, connected virtually. Braineitor, who has hundreds of thousands of followers on his Twitch platform channel, suffers from degenerative muscle atrophy and is a youth reference embodying the values ??of self-improvement and willpower.
In addition, the Brain Film Fest will deal with such topics as mental health (The Longest Goodbye, a documentary by Ido Mizrahycon, which will close the event), our relationship with artificial intelligence (Mars Express, by Jérémie Pèrin) or reflections on gender and age (Creatura, by Elena Martín Gimeno, or 20,000 species of bees, by Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren). The Boy, Chaplin’s masterpiece, will also be screened along with many more titles and activities in a festival full of artistic synapses.