BARQ Festival – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona.
BARQ Festival 2025 · International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe collaborates with the BARQ Festival, the only international competitive film festival on architecture and design in Spain. This festival is dedicated to exploring the connections between the seventh art and architecture, an initiative by Nihao Films, a production company specializing in audiovisual architecture projects.
Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds and communicate social realities, while architecture uses cinema to reach society as a whole. With a broad program that includes a selection of national and international documentary films, as well as various parallel activities (talks, debates, workshops, and conferences), the BARQ Festival brings audiences new perspectives on the creative processes of architecture through cinema, fostering dialogue between both arts and generating debate around urban, social, and environmental issues.
BARQ Festival 2023 – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona
The third edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival is here, the only architecture film festival in Spain.
The BARQ Festival was born in 2021 as part of Barcelona Architecture Week as an initiative of NIHAO Films. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe collaborated from the start together with Arquin-FAD and COAC and continues to support it now that the BARQ Festival is being consolidated with a selection of documentaries from high quality cinematography from around the world, with its own dates and a great cultural offer with a presentation of the winning feature film in Madrid and with parallel activities around neuroarchitecture and the connections between architecture and cinema.
We are very excited to continue to be part of the growth of this project and we encourage you to go see and participate in the dialogue that many of the directors of the ten feature films and the thirteen national and international short films that will be released will open about social housing, urban segregation, the re-signification of urban spaces and the impact of architecture on human well-being.
26-09-2023 > 01-10-2023
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BARQ Festival 2022 – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona is an initiative by NIHAO Films with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ARQUIN-FAD and Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya.
This film festival seeks to vindicate architectural films as a specific genre and to deepen the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues surrounding the spaces we inhabit.
The festival will celebrate its second edition from May 10th to May 15th 2022, within the framework of Model. Barcelona Architecture Festival, in person and in online format, with an extensive programme that includes a selection of national and international documentary films as well as a variety of parallel activities (talks, debates, workshops, conferences). One of the screenings includes in the programme is the premiere of the documentary “[On Set with] Lilly Reich”, resulting from the 2nd Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture.
11-10-2021< 21-1-2022 – call for submissions 2022
10 -5-2022 < 5-5-2022 – segona edició del BARQ Festival – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona
BARQ Festival 2021 – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona.
The highlight of the 5th edition of the 2021 Architecture Week is the International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. This is the only competitive film and architecture documentary festival in Spain, in addition to the already consolidated exhibition of Arquinfilm architecture documentaries at the Filmoteca. The first edition will take place from 11 to 16 May 2021 in person at Cinemes Girona and online through the Filmin platform.
The festival includes an extensive program with films from around the world and several side activities. It is a cinematographic event that highlights those films that show in an innovative way current issues related to architecture such as urban activism, politics, the economy, the environment, cultural and social diversity, l access to housing or equal rights between people. It offers a demanding selection of documentary films that seeks the quality, originality and technical and artistic solidity of unpublished productions in Spain.
A total of 8 feature films in competition, 1 out of competition and 11 short films in addition to debates, presentations and side events. All programming and information can be found at BARQ Festival. Organised by Nihao Films, COAC, Arquin-FAD and Mies van der Rohe Foundation.
