Festival de Cinema Budista de Catalunya (FCBC, Buddhist Film Festival of Catalonia), announced 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 features plus talks, and the full program will be announced in May. The 2022 edition featured Greetings From Fukushima, with German director Doris Dörrie attending, plus Descending the Mountain, by Maartje Nevejan (NL), Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache, by Khyentse Norbu (Nepal), and Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, by Pawo Choyning Dorji (Bhutan) among other works.
From Doris Dörrie’s Greetings from Fukushima:
![[black and white photo of young blond haired woman holding a broom, with right arm extended overhead, standing next to an older asian woman holding something, standing with a wrecked, open wooden house behind them, surrounded by cleaning supplies]](https://buddhistfilmfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/fukushima-mon-amour-full-column.jpg "Greetings from Fukushima")
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.
