Figarò-Montmany

ForadCamp 2022 Festival Awards

Can Gardell

«Can Gardell», by Sílvia Subirós and Florencia Aliberti.

 

The XI edition of ForadCamp Nature and Film Festival took place in Figaró-Montmany on September 17 and 18. In addition to the Official Competitive Section, other outdoor spaces and activities related to cinema have been offered, at the foot of the Montseny Natural Park. A total of two hundred people have enjoyed high quality and personal cinema in which nature is the protagonist, context or reason for reflection.

A solid and diverse Official Section has shown a dozen works from the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany, co-productions from South Africa and France, Hungary and Belgium, and a wide presence of shorts from the Spanish territory.

The jury for this edition, composed by Cloe Masotta, Rubén Margalló and Federico Delpero, has awarded the Best Short Film Award (awarded the ForadCamp Rain Trophy and €300 in cash), for «Can Gardell», by Sílvia Subirós and Florencia Aliberti, “for the projection of a critical gaze, full of irony, to a rural world presented as a neoliberal fetish.” The jury has also awarded a special mention to «The day they blew up the mountain», by Alba Bresolí Aliberch, “for showing the capacity of cinema to preserve the vestiges of a reality in extinction. »

The Distribution Award, sponsored by Festhome and awarded by the INDOC Association, went to «Some Kind of intimacy» by Toby Bull, «for being an honest portrait in which the director, with minimal brushstrokes, depicts the relationship between human beings and nature, between life and death”.

The Special Mention granted by the Granollers Cultural Association, has been ‘ex aequo’ to the films: «Memory», by Nerea Barros and «The day that They blew up the mountain», by Alba Bresolí Aliberch. The mention has been granted in recognition of the work and good use of narration, photography and montage.

And, finally, the Audience Award has gone to «The day they blew up the mountain», by Alba Bresolí Aliberch.

We thank the great team of people who have made this edition possible. We look forward to seeing you next year!

Awardees and team of ForadCamp 2022

A balance of ForadCamp 2020


ForadCamp 2020, 9th Nature and Cinema Exhibition, was held on September 26 and 27 in Figaró-Montmany, with a large audience. Despite the capacity restrictions due to COVID-19, almost 150 people have been able to enjoy the films screened, with great feedback from the spectators.

We want to thank all the people who filled the Nuevo Casino Figaró and decided to visit a theater under such complicated circumstances as those of this year’s.

Likewise, we would like to thank the collaboration and support of our sponsors: the Diputación de Barcelona, the Can Plans farmhouse, Casa Tía Julia, Docs Barcelona, Karma Films, Vermuts Miró, the Cultural Association of Granollers and the Filmmakers of Granollers.

We hope to meet again in Figaró-Montmany next year, to celebrate together the 10th edition of ForadCamp!

Get caught up in nature!

 

ForadCamp 2020 will be a non competitive exhibition

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Due to the Covid-19 crisis and the uncertainty of not knowing if in October 2020 we will be able to celebrate the festival at Figaró-Montmany, we have decided not to open the call to receive short films for this year’s edition.

We are designing ForadCamp 2020 as a non-competitive exhibition with materials selected by our team. We hope the evolution of this pandemic let us make public screenings in October. Thanks for your patience! We will keep you updated.

Films selected for ForadCamp Kids 2019

This year ForadCamp opens a new section: ForadCamp Kids, aimed at children and their families.

In this section, we will screen 16 short films produced in Europe, America and Asia. There will be one international premiere, one Spanish Premiere, and four Catalan premiere. The section will have a Children’s Jury composed of students from the Montmany School, who will be in charge of awarding the First Prize for the best work.

These are the 16 selected films:

      • Amintiri din copilărie, by Mathieu Le Lay (Francia, 2018, 11’)
      • Big Booom, by Marat Narimanov (Russia, 2017, 4’)
      • Catastrophe, by Jamille van Wijngaarden (Netherlands, 2017, 2)
      • City of memories, by Signe Tveitan (Denmark, 2018, 5’)
      • Crab story, by Tatiana Poliektova, Filippo Rivetti (Russia-Australia, 2017, 4’)
      • Den Første Fjer, by Sine Juhl (Denmark, 2017, 4’)
      • Florigami, by Iva Ćirić (Croatia-Serbia, 2019, 5’)
      • Fly away, by Isaac King (Canada, 2017, 4’)
      • La secta de insectos, by Pablo Calvillo (Mexic, 2016’, 10)
      • Our Wonderful Nature – The Common Chameleon, by Tomer Eshed (Germany, 2016, 4’)
      • Peix al forn, by Guillem Miró (Spain, 2018, 4)
      • Plantae, by Guilherme Gehr (Brazil, 2017, 10’)
      • Quma y las bestias, by Ivan Stur, Javier Luna Cook (Argentina, 2019, 10’)
      • Sun cream, by Aylin Gökmen (Switzerland–Hungary, 2017, 9’)
      • Thermostat 6, by Maya Avron, Mylène Cominotti, Marion Coudert, Sixtine Dano (France, 2018, 5’)
      • Tierra sin mal, by Katalin Egely (Hungary-Argentina, 2017, 4’)

The exhibition of the selected short films will take place in Figaró-Montmany, on October 19, 2019 during the morning. The whole program of the Exhibition will be available at the end of September on our website.

2018 Award Winners

FORADCAMP 2018 AWARD LIST

These are the award winners of ForadCamp 2018, 7th Nature and Cinema Exhibition.

Zirdzin, hallo! (Hello, horse!), (by Laila Pakalnina, 2017)

«Zirdzin, hallo!», by Laila Pakalnina, obtained the Best Documentary Jury Award 2018.

  • The Jury, composed of Mercedes Álvarez, Sara Xiol and Raül Ruiz, awarded the Jury Prize for Best Documentary, to «Zirdzin, hallo!», by Laila Pakalnina. The Jury awarded it «for the original look of the director, which allows us to discover a new reading of the landscape, with the intermediation of the elements created by man, that stand between the viewer and nature. A very suggestive vision with a great planning and assembly work, in short, a minimalist short film that is at the same time very expressive«.
  • Also, the Jury granted a Special Mention to «Cucli», by Xavier Marrades, because, «from a small story of a character that is very close, and of his intimate relationship with a bird, he offers us his particular vision of universal themes such as mourning, death, the meaning of life, and acceptance of the positive and negative aspects of existence, showing love for the protagonists without falling into the melodramatic excess «.
  • The Audience Award also went to «Cucli«.
"Cucli", by Xavier Marrades, 2017.

«Cucli», by Xavier Marrades, Foradcamp 2018 Audience Award.

  • Distribution Prize sponsored by Festhome and awarded by INDOC, was for the short «Ligne Noire», by Mark Olexa and Francesca Scalisi, «for the narrative consistency, for the risky photography, for the careful work of sound and, above all, for portraying a clear and condensed way, with a memorable sequence plane, a deep conflict in the relationship between human beings and nature «.
  • Finally, Granollers Cultural Association Mention was for «Two ºC-New York City«, by Maxime Contour, «for its photography, framing, color and montage work, which provides an original look at New York«

Films selected for ForadCamp 2016

We already know the list of the 14 short films selected for the Official Section of ForadCamp 2016. There will be three Spanish films, two of which Catalan, and also shorts from Belarus, France, Germany, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and a coproduction from Netherlands-New Zealand.

These are the 14 films selected:

  • “165/60”, by Anton Brutski (Belarus, 2014, 17 min.).
  • “Beyond the forest”, by Francesca Bertin & Leonhard Kaufmann (Germany, 2015, 9 min.).
  • “Borda d’água”, by João Viegas & Miguel Canaverde (Portugal, 2015, 18 min.).
  • “Establishing Eden”, by Margit Lukács & Persijn Broersen (Netherlands, New Zealand, 2016, 10 min.).
  • “Fóra do Continente”, by Nico Martínez Millán (Spain, 2014, 20 min.).
  • “Inamovibles”, by Tànit Fernández & Isaac Rodríguez (Spain, 2015, 5 min.).
  • “Miejsce”, by Julia Popławska (Poland, 2015, 15 min.).
  • “Mot nord (North bound)”, by Jørn Nyseth Ranum (Norway, 2015, 10 min.).
  • “Nobody Dies Here”, by Simon Panay (France, 2016, 23 min.).
  • “Obiekt”, by Paulina Skibińska (Poland, 2015, 15 min.).
  • “Rumba (Waterfall)”, by Laila Pakalnina (Latvia, 2016, 20 min.).
  • “Som pastor”, by Borja Zauzen (Spain, 2015, 8 min.).
  • “Strana Udehe (Udehe country)”, by Ivan Golovnev (Russia, 2015, 26 min.).
  • “The art of flying”, by Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2015, 7 min.).

 

The screening of the selected short films will be held in the village of Figaró-Montmany on October 8 and 9, 2016. The full program of the Exhibition will be available by mid-September on our website.