ForadCamp 2024 Announces the XIII Nature Film Exhibition

October 26 and 27 in Figaró-Montmany: quality cinema and activities in the heart of nature

ForadCamp 2024, the XIII Nature Film Festival, has announced the dates for its next edition, which will take place on October 26 and 27 in Figaró-Montmany, a privileged natural setting at the foot of the Montseny Natural Park. Once again, the festival will offer a selection of feature films where nature takes center stage, whether as the protagonist, the setting, or an essential element.

This year, ForadCamp will present five cinematic works, both documentaries and fiction, standing out for their variety of origins and approaches, reaffirming its commitment to personal, innovative, and independent cinema.

Among the selections are the most recent works of two directors who have already made their mark in previous editions. La hojarasca, by Macu Machín, is a hypnotic piece that explores the passage of time and the connection between a family of women and the landscape they inhabit. Meanwhile, «El bon auguri», by Alba Bresolí, is a poetic and profound story about natural cycles and their symbolic relationship with human lives.

The festival will also offer a global perspective with films that address current issues. Searching for Nika, by Stanislav Kapralov, provides a poignant chronicle of the impact of war and the power of solidarity in the midst of conflict. On the other hand, First Cow, by renowned director Kelly Reichardt, sensitively narrates a story of friendship, survival, and the relationship with the environment in a wild landscape.

This year, ForadCamp Kids will offer a space designed especially for families, with the screening of Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds, by Benoît Chieux. This magical and fantastical film invites both young and old to embark on a brave and captivating adventure.

Additionally, guided as always by the Aprèn team, we will take a hike through Sot del Bac and the Congost Valley. Don’t forget to reserve your tickets!

ForadCamp is a film festival organized by the Figaró-Montmany City Council and coordinated by the Independent Documentary Filmmakers Association INDOC. Year after year, the event seeks to connect the natural environment with high-quality, personal cinema with a strong innovative spirit.

Don’t miss ForadCamp 2024 and let yourself be captivated by the power of cinema and nature!

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

Submissions open for ForadCamp 2022

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Film submissions for ForadCamp 2022 – 11th Nature and Cinema Exhibition are now open.

Films must be non fiction, under 30 minutes, and nature should have a prominent place within the short film.

The screening of works selected will take place in Figaró-Montmany town, September 17 and 18, 2022.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2022. Films may be submitted through the internet platform Festhome.com or filling the submission form in our website.

Read the rules and guidelines and submit your film now!

Submissions open for ForadCamp 2021

Logo FDC general Film submissions for ForadCamp 2021 – 10th Nature and Cinema Exhibition are now open.

Films must be non fiction, under 30 minutes, and nature should have a prominent place within the short film.

The screening of works selected will take place in Figaró-Montmany town, September 25-26, 2021.

The deadline for submissions is May 23, 2021. Films may be submitted through the internet platform Festhome.com or filling the submission form in our website.

Read the rules and guidelines and submit your film now!

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.

2019 Award Winners

FORADCAMP 2019 AWARD LIST

These are the award winners of ForadCamp 2019, 8th Nature and Cinema Exhibition.

Lotus, by Mohammadreza Vatandoust (Iran, 2018, 14’)

«Lotus», by Mohammadreza Vatandoust, obtained the Best Documentary Jury Award 2019.

  • The Jury, composed of Ricardo Íscar, Núria Campabadal and Maria Alcázar, awarded the Jury Prize for Best Documentary, to «Lotus», by Mohammadreza Vatandoust. The Jury awarded it «for making a portrait of a person and a landscape, for the human and political dimensions of history, and for its great cinematic quality«.
  • Also, the Jury granted a Special Mention to «Floureja», by Pablo Heuson, «for the high quality of its formal and stylistic approach to the subject of the film«.
  • The Audience Award went to «All inclusive«, by Corina Schwingruber Ilić.
All Inclusive.

«All Inclusive», by Corina Schwingruber Ilić, Foradcamp 2019 Audience Award.

  • Distribution Prize sponsored by Festhome and awarded by INDOC, was for the short «Los rugidos que alejan la tormenta», by Santiago Reale, «for portraying with sincerity and simplicity the life of a boy who has decided to live in nature, finding there his place in the world, and as a plea for the absolute freedom of human beings to lead their lives«.
  • Granollers Cultural Association Mention was for «Lotus«, «for the excellent cinematic treatment, for the clarity of the message and for the emotiveness of his footage«.
    «Peix al forn», by Guillem Miró, obtained the Children’s Jury Price ForadCamp Kids 2019. 
  • Children’s Jury Prize, chosen by a Jury made up of five children under 12 years old, was awarded to «Peix al forn», by Guillem Miró because «the film teaches us that if we do not take care of nature, we will end up with the fishes of the sea and will have to eat plastic«.

We thank you all for your support, we’ll see each other next year!

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.

Films selected for ForadCamp 2019

We already know the list of the 17 short films selected for the Official Section of ForadCamp 2019. There will be shorts from Argentina, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Iran, Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland, and also a co-production Switzerland-Spain.

These are the 17 films selected:

      • All inclusive, by Corina Schwingruber Ilić (Switzerland, 2018, 10’)
      • Becoming, by Jan van Ijken (Netherlands, 2018, 6’)
      • Dead Sea dying, by Katharina Rabl & Rebecca Zehr (Germany, 2019, 29’)
      • Estereotipia, by Inés Espinosa (Spain, 2019, 15’)
      • Floureja, by Pablo Heuson (Belgium, 2017, 12’)
      • Ionas dreams of rain, by Dragoș Hanciu (Romania, 2017, 28’)
      • Laatash, by Elena Molina (Spain, 2019, 14’)
      • Lionel, by Juan Renau (Argentina, 2018, 14’)
      • Los que desean, by Elena López Riera (Switzerland, Spain, 2018, 24’)
      • Los rugidos que alejan la tormenta, by Santiago Reale (Argentina, 2019, 15’)
      • Lotus, by Mohammadreza Vatandoust (Iran, 2018, 14’)
      • Plágan, by Koldo Almandoz (Spain, 2017, 10’)
      • Shadows, by Noemi Sjöberg (Spain, 2018, 3’)
      • Sisyphe, by Driss Aroussi (France, 2018, 12’)
      • Sub terrae, by Nayra Sanz Fuentes (Spain, 2017, 7’)
      • Vlnění (Waves), by Vojtěch Domlátil (Czech Republic, 2017, 3’)

The screening of the selected short films will be held in the village of Figaró-Montmany on October 19 and 20, 2019. The full program of the Exhibition will be available by the end of September on our website.

Submissions open for ForadCamp 2019

Logo FDC general Film submissions for ForadCamp 2019 – 8th Nature and Cinema Exhibition are now open.

Films must be non fiction, under 30 minutes, and nature should have a prominent place within the short film.

The screening of works selected will take place in Figaró-Montmany town, October 19-20, 2019.

The deadline for submissions is June 16, 2019. Films may be submitted through the internet platform Festhome.com or filling the submission form in our website.

Read the rules and guidelines and submit your film now!