“BCN SPORT E-MOTIONS – INTERNATIONAL FICTS FESTIVAL”: 3 – 7 MAY IN CATALUNYA

Barcelona (Spain) will be the seat from 3 to 7 May 2016 of “BCN SPORT E-MOTIONS 2016 – Barcelona International FICTS Festival” (www.bcnsportsfilm.org) organized – in the framework of the Worldwide Championship of Cinema, Sport and Television “World FICTS Challenge” – by the “Fundacio Olympic Barcelona” directed by Dr Juli Pernas Lopez (director of Museu Olímpic i de l’Esport Joan Antoni Samaranch) with support of FICTS and in collaboration with the Ayuntament de Barcelona Institut Barcelona Esport, the Spanish Olympic Committee and Nikita Distribution.

The “Barcelona International FICTS Festival” will be held in prestigious different venues.

• The “Joan-Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum” (managed by the Barcelona Olympic Foundation) and located at the heart of the Parc de Montjuïc, is the nerve centre. It will host both the Opening and Closing Ceremonies to which will attend FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani and will be the venue for matinées for school children and afternoon sessions for the general public.

• The “Corte Inglés” (one of the Festival’s leading patrons for the seventh year running) will be screening a series of especially selected competing films at their Auditorium, “Sala Àmbit Cultural” on the sixth floor of their store in Portal de l’Àngel.

• The “Cinemas at Can Castellet” will host matinées for school children and afternoon sessions for the general public while the “Ateneu Barcelonès” will host, on 5^th May, a session of movies dedicated to Brazilians’ passion for sport.

• The “Auditorium of Sant Martí de Provençals” will host a debate after the projection of one of the films competing in the Festival. The “Centre Cívic Ateneu Fort Pienc” will host a cine-forum after the projection of one of the films and, on the 12^th May, there will be showing the “Chariots of Fire” movie followed by a debate.