The fifteenth edition of the Enfocats Festival is already underway at the Centre Cívic Pati Llimona in Barcelona, an event that, once again, uses photography, cinema and the word as tools for social transformation. It does so by giving voice to different protagonists through professionals of image, word and audiovisual.
This year, the event puts the focus on the living neighborhood memory, that which gives meaning to a territory and shapes its identities and emotional ties. The starting point of this theme are the neighborhoods, understood as spaces built through the shared experiences, memories and narratives of their inhabitants. Enfocats 2026 wants, precisely, to open its spaces to make visible, nourish and collectively work on this memory.
Through routes, screenings, workshops and exhibitions, the living neighborhood memory is worked as an element rooted in the present, linked with the past and projected towards the future, nourished by a diversity of vital and resistance experiences that open opportunities to build narratives that feed this memory.
Homage to Carme Garcia Padrosa
In the framework of the festival, Pati Llimona pays tribute to the photographer Carme Garcia Padrosa, resident of the Barri Gòtic, with the exhibition Carme, the heart of home, with the collaboration of the Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona and the Consorci per a la Normalització Lingüística.
Also included is the exhibition route organized by the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya and the Experimental Photo Festival, Carme Garcia unpublished, as well as the designation of an exhibition hall of the civic center with the name of the photographer.
Five exhibitions to show the neighborhoods
The 2026 program presents five exhibitions with the collaboration of different entities from the Gothic Quarter and Barcelona. On the one hand, the children's center of Pati Llimona presents New Views of the Gothic Quarter; the Aprenem Junts association discovers for us the treasures of the little Gothic Quarter and the students of the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia participate with their own proposal. On the other hand, RUIDO Photo presents the proximity documentary report Resistants – Tales of memory and identity, and the Francesca Bonnemaison Library, with the collaboration of the Women's Culture Center laBonne, hosts a collective exhibition of female photographers.
A new look at the Gothic
In this edition, Pati Llimona has proposed to go out into the street to cast a look at the spaces of the Gòtic and at the people who inhabit it. For this, up to six routes of different themes have been programmed to get to know emblematic spaces and the stories of their protagonists.
Alba Vendrell, from the cultural association Tot Història, will do a historical tour through LGTBI+ Barcelona; the artist Norma Cano will lead the routes Photographers in conflict and Photographers in transition; Victòria Bonet will accompany the route of the street exhibition Unpublished Carme Garcia; Xavier Escrivà, owner of Cinema Maldà, will show it from the inside and, finally, there will be a literary walk with the reading club Temps Perdut and the Llibreria Sant Jordi.
Cinema, also present
The cinema returns to the festival's program with three essential titles to get to know key spaces and characters of the city's history.
The historian Gregor Siles Molina and the writer and LGTBI+ rights activist Jordi Petit will coordinate a film forum of the film Ocaña, intermittent portrait. The Young Programmers of Moving Cinema and A Bao A Qu will present In Construction, by José Luis Guerín, a reference author of contemporary Spanish cinema. The documentary The Baixeras School. More than a century of stories, which allows to know one of the key educational centers of the neighborhood, will also be screened.
Participatory photography
Beyond the exhibitions, participatory photography will be present in this edition with the workshop proposed by the Photographic Social Vision Foundation. Through collaborative dynamics, the keys to evaluate and reformulate photographic projects of the participants and generate adequate strategies to make them viable will be analyzed.
This year there will also be Off-Pati proposals from associations linked to the center. Among them, the activity open to the neighborhood Tardeo kuir veïnal, from the cultural association Ningyo, with dance workshops, musical bingo, and musical performances.
A reading group will also be held around Emma Goldman: the revolution as a way of life, by Vivian Gornick, at the Biblioteca Francesca Bonnemaison. At the headquarters of the Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya, the Barna Barris 2024 – Barri Gòtic project can be visited.
You can consult the schedule of the Enfocats Festival 2026 here.
