Festival de Cinema Budista de Catalunya (FCBC, Buddhist Film Festival of Catalonia), announced the program for its second edition to take place October 24–27, 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. The first was successfully held in 2022, and FCBC is a collaboration with our International Buddhist Film Festival (IBFF).
FCBC will present eight feature films, from eight nations. The Opening and Closing Night Presentation will be The Great 14th: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama in His Own Words, by Rosemary Rawcliffe, who will attend; The Monk and the Gun, by Pawo Choyning Dorji; On the Road, by Lee Chang-jae; Pig at the Crossing, by Khyentse Norbu; Zen for Nothing, by Werner Penzel; The Departure, by Lana Wilson; Samsara, by Lois Patiño; and Tukdam: Between Worlds, by Donagh Coleman.
From Lois Patiño’s Samsara:
![[monk in orange robes with bare right shoulder, and shaved black hair, faces right against a flowing turquoise waterfall background]](https://buddhistfilmfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/samsara-full-column.jpg "Samsara")
The Buddhist Film Festival of Catalonia is a biennial joint initiative of the Coordinadora Catalana d’Entitats Budistas (CCEB) and the Fundacion Dharma-Gaia (FDG, Dharma-Gaia Foundation). It is organized by the CCEB, with the Dharma-Gaia Foundation as official sponsor and with the collaboration of the Buddhist Film Foundation.
The Coordinadora Catalana d’Entitats Budistes is a nonprofit association that encompasses communities of all Buddhist traditions in Catalonia. It was created in 2007 to coordinate and create synergies between Buddhist centers in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, with the aim of introducing and representing Buddhism in the society in which it has been taking root for over forty years. The CCEB has around thirty members from different traditions: Zen, Tibetan, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, among others.
Barcelona joins London, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, and Melbourne where International Buddhist Film Festival has produced and/or programmed a film festival from its base in California. The U.S. cities where IBFF has presented are San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, and IBFF is the film programmer for BuddhaFest Online, now in its fourteenth year.
Festival de Cinema Budista de Catalunya official website.
