Josep - CinemaAttic's Catalan Film Festival

Scotland’s Spanish cinema mavericks CinemaAttic end the year once again with their Catalan Film Festival – focusing on the best productions made in Catalonia in 2019 and 2020.

This year’s programme has some of the most anticipated Spanish and Catalan films of the year. Instituto Cervantes collaborate in the screening of Josep by Aurel:

«February 1939. Spanish republicans are fleeing Franco’s dictatorship to France. The French government has built a concentration camp, confining the refugees, where they barely have access to hygiene, water and food. In this unlikely context, two men will become friends. One is a guard, the other is Josep Bartoli, a Catalan illustrator who fights against Franco’s regime. This European Film Awards nominated film is a portrait of Josep Bartolí, the Catalan artist who fought in the Spanish Civil War and fled to Mexico after escaping from a concentration camp. A soldier against Franco, a lover of Frida Kahlo and victim of the Hollywood blacklist».(FILMAFFINITY)

The Instituto Cervantes is collaborating with the presentation of the film made by Dr. Peter Anderson (University of Leeds) by Festhome TV.