Programme
Opening Gala
The Inclús Festival opens its 14th edition with a special screening that will kick off a new programme dedicated to cinema, disability, and diverse perspectives.
La inauguració reunirà públic, professionals del sector audiovisual, representants d’entitats i equips cinematogràfics en una vetllada per celebrar el cinema com a espai de trobada, expressió i transformació social.
L’acte inclourà la presentació de la nova edició del festival i la projecció de Stand Up, de Mari Sanders, una producció dels Països Baixos i Grècia que va tenir la seva estrena mundial al Festival de Tribeca i serà première a Espanya.
Stand Up
Synopsis
The film follows Vera, a 23-year-old woman who, after an accident, must rebuild her life as a wheelchair user. During rehabilitation, she meets Xander, who has lived with a disability since birth and introduces her to a community where disability does not need to be hidden. Their encounter leads her to reconsider what it means to adapt, fit in, and build a new identity.
Written and directed by Mari Sanders, the film offers a contemporary perspective on disability, identity, autonomy, and the need to challenge the idea of normality.
- Genre: Feature Fiction Film
- Country: Netherlands / Greece
- Year: 2026
- Duration: 96 min
- Language: Dutch
- Screening: Dimarts 24 de novembre 2026
Official Selection
Feature Fiction Film
Short Documentary Film
Short Fiction Film
Animació
Feature Documentary Film
Activities and Workshops
ON! Session
Short Fiction Film
A session dedicated to CRIP cinema and new audiovisual narratives created from the perspective of disability.
Through fiction and documentary short films, the programme explores self-representation, activism, care, and different ways of inhabiting the world.
The ON! session champions the leading role of people with disabilities in filmmaking, both in front of and behind the camera, and offers a critical perspective on stereotypes and conventional representations of disability. In collaboration with LA CRIP, this programme creates a space to discover alternative forms of storytelling, share experiences, and question who tells the stories and from whose perspective.
Cinema in signs
Short Fiction Film
Cinemes Girona
27 November at 7:00 pm
Cinema en Signes is a section dedicated to short films presented in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). A space where signed cinema takes centre stage and where the Deaf community is fully represented on screen. The selected films showcase the expressive richness of LSC and the diversity of perspectives of their creators. An initiative to highlight diverse narratives within signed cinema and expand opportunities for representation of the Deaf community.
REL SECTION
Short Fiction Film
The REL Section is the space within the Inclús Festival dedicated to Catalan short films, curated by Albert Espinosa.
A selection that celebrates the talent, creativity and diversity of perspectives in cinema produced in Catalonia.
The screening will bring together a selection of recent Catalan short films, offering an opportunity to discover new voices and share with audiences the stories and creative processes behind each work.
Posa't a la nostra pell
Organisation: SRC Arep
Duck...ology
A rubber duckling reflects on how lucky it is to be a toy.
Entidad: Residència de diversitat funcional de Relleu
Area 51
A suspicious package arrives at a not-so-secret Area 51.
Entitat: Residència de diversitat funcional de Relleu
A veces…:
Los sentimientos que nos hacen humanos representados teatralmente.
Organisation: Aremi
Dreams
A short film that champions the right to dream.
Organisation: Fundació Portolà
It's Not That Difficult
During a meal overlooking Montserrat, the idea of making an anti-ableist documentary comes up.
Organisation: Fundació Privada Iris
Iris News
We enter a news programme where current affairs blend with the absurd and the surreal.
Entidad: Fundació Privada Iris
Stolen Love
A Parisian-style love story with a tragic twist.
Industry
Sessions
Relaxed Children's Screening
Pilotari Storytelling + Relaxed Children’s Screening
A children’s cinema session designed so that all children and their families can enjoy animation in a welcoming and flexible environment.
The session features a selection of short films from FAN Kids, the children’s programme of FAN – Festivals Animation Network, a network of five European animation festivals from Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain, supported by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. The selection brings together dialogue-free stories featuring a variety of animation techniques and visual styles, offering an opportunity to discover the richness of European animated cinema.
The screening will take place in a relaxed format, with adjustments to the usual cinema environment to accommodate people with different sensory and support needs. Audience members will be free to move around, make noise, or leave and re-enter during the screening.
Relaxed screening conditions: dimmed lighting, moderate sound levels and freedom of movement.
Recommended age: 4 years and over
Closing Gala
The Inclús Festival closes its 14th edition with Indómita llum, a documentary that invites us to discover different ways of perceiving the world and experiencing cinema.
Indòmita llum
Synopsis
Antu is a nine-year-old girl who was born blind. Thanks to her extraordinary sensitivity and curiosity, she discovers the world around her in remarkable detail. Aboard an old truck, she travels across Argentina with her parents, screening films in small, forgotten villages and imagining the stories she will never be able to see.
- Genre: Feature Documentary Film
- Country: Sapin / Argentina
- Year: 2026
- Duration: 78 min
- Language: Catalan & spanish
- Screening: Dimarts 1 de desembre
