Under the motto A cada carrer, una història, the Association Antic Gremi Revenedors, 1447 has held a competition to promote audiovisual creation in Catalan and reflection on the city of Barcelona. It is the fourth edition of the Premi Seqüència, which was awarded last Wednesday at the Sala Moragues del Centre de Cultura i Memòria del Born, in this Barcelona neighborhood. This time, the contest has invited participants to explore the Nomenclàtor of Barcelona's streets as a heritage and identity element. The short films presented have turned the streets into stages for reflection, vindication, and memory.
This year, the Seqüència Award strengthens its dissemination and presence in the media with the collaboration with La Xarxa +, which has included the winning films of the 2024, 2025, and 2026 editions within the catalog of its content platform. In addition, the works will also be broadcast on the affiliated local televisions.
During the award ceremony, which was hosted by journalist Maria Xinxó, the president of the entity, Francesc Sendil, welcomed the attendees, highlighting the award's link with the city. “This award is a tribute to Barcelona. To its memory. To its identity. And to all the people who, with talent and sensitivity, help us preserve what we are,” he said.
Who are the awardees?
The awarded short film in the category of Menys d’1 Minut has been Ets d’aquí?, by Marc Rovira, director of the project Esquetxes comèdia en català. In sixty seconds and with the ironic tone that characterizes him, the director focuses on one of the longest names in the Barcelonian Nomenclàtor: the Jardins de la Reina Elisabeth Cristina de Brunsvic-Wolfenbütte. In the category of Menys de 8 Minuts, the awarded short film has been La històrIA de Barcelona (Reimaginada), by Edgar Lledó. It is a historical recreation of Barcelona's guild past made with artificial intelligence. The journalist and jury member Francesc Canosa highlighted the film's potential to open new debates on contemporary creation: “IA is a technique, but also a tool. It is a valuable idea of our craftsmanship to tell history with new technologies and that is what we value.”
The Premi del Públic, chosen by the gala attendees with 46% of the votes, went to Emiliona by Maria Calabia and Eugenia Yúfera. A documentary about the neighborhood struggle and the history of Barcelona's neighborhoods that takes as its common thread the figure of Emília Llorca -popularly known as Emiliona- an activist from Barceloneta who gives her name to one of the streets in the neighborhood. The categories of Menys d’1 Minut and Menys de 8 Minuts are endowed with 1,500 euros, while the Premi del Públic is endowed with 500 euros.
The jury of this edition was formed by Marta Armengou (film critic, founder and director of Filmtopia), Francesc Canosa (journalist and writer), Anna Manso (screenwriter and writer) and Júlia Ojeda (doctor in Catalan literature and literary critic).
The Premi Seqüència is an initiative that, year after year, focuses on different themes of the city of Barcelona: its heritage, its neighborhoods, its names, its struggles and its transformations. With the aim of promoting the creation of cinema in Catalan, the competition invites to tell stories rooted in the city. With the passing of the years, the awarded short films will become an audiovisual testimony of current Barcelona: of the concerns and hopes of the people who inhabit it.
