DART Festival Marks 10th Edition in Barcelona with 15 Documentaries on Art and Society
From November 26 to 28, the Mooby Bosque Cinema in Barcelona will host the tenth edition of the DART Festival, showcasing fifteen documentaries, including ten premieres. The festival will kick off with La mirada de Frida, which delves into Frida Kahlo's influence on culture. Featured documentaries cover artists like Fernando Botero, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Hilma af Klint. Political narratives are presented in Ai Weiwei's Turandot, Tina: Art, Love & Revolution, and Elephants & Squirrels. War on Art focuses on the preservation of artworks amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while The Oligarch and the Art Dealer discusses a legal conflict in the art world. The festival will also pay tribute to Carlos Saura, concluding with Carlos Saura: Ese niño de la fotografía, directed by Anna Saura.
Key facts
- DART Festival's tenth edition runs 26–28 November at Mooby Bosque Cinema in Barcelona
- The programme comprises fifteen films, ten of which are premieres
- La mirada de Frida opens the festival, addressing Frida Kahlo and Fridamanía
- Films are dedicated to Fernando Botero, Georgia O'Keeffe and Hilma af Klint
- Ai Weiwei's Turandot is directed by Maxim Derevianko
- Elephants & Squirrels by Gregor Brändli follows Deneth Piumakshi's restitution research involving Swiss museums
- The Oligarch and the Art Dealer by Andreas Dalsgaard covers the Rybolovlev–Bouvier legal dispute
- DART's Honorary Prize for Artistic Career goes posthumously to Carlos Saura, with a closing film by Anna Saura
- DART Lab hosts professional meetings on new technologies, visual culture and animation
- CaixaForum+ screens selected titles and two exclusive documentaries in December
Entities
Artists
- Frida Kahlo
- Fernando Botero
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Hilma af Klint
- Ai Weiwei
- Maxim Derevianko
- Tina Modotti
- Gregor Brändli
- Deneth Piumakshi
- Gilda Pourjabar
- Andreas Dalsgaard
- Dmitry Rybolovlev
- Yves Bouvier
- Denise Scott Brown
- Facundo Martínez
- Carlos Saura
- Anna Saura
- Giacomo Puccini
Institutions
- DART Festival
- Mooby Bosque Cinema
- DART Lab
- CaixaForum+
- exibart.es
Locations
- Barcelona
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Switzerland
- Ukraine
- Russia
- Iran