From yesterday and until tomorrow, Torre Barrina, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, is again the headquarters of L’Horror Film Festival, in its second edition. This international horror film festival, which promotes the gender perspective, seems to have arrived to stay.
Yesterday the official inauguration was held with a meeting between professionals and entities of the sector. All in all, to kick off a program that this year includes emerging filmmakers, consolidated authorships, unreleased works, presentations, conversations and networking spaces. The capacity of all activities is limited and an invitation must be requested.
Time and the gender perspective within terror
On Thursday 16, the the day will begin at 4 p.m. with the conversation Terrifying Conciliation, dedicated to addressing the challenges of balancing work and family life. At 6 p.m. the special session We are always on time will be presented, focused on the social project A TEMPS for the prevention of gender violence, promoted by La Dona És Actualitat, with the collaboration of the Mossos d’Esquadra. The day will conclude at 7:30 p.m. with Because I'm worth it, a new section that explores the gender perspective in all its dimensions within terror and the fantastic.
Women also make horror cinema
Friday 17, at 4 p.m., they will open the New Talent Section, dedicated to discovering new creators and new points of view within the genre. At 6 p.m. the talk Haberlas, haylas. Women in horror cinema, will take place, where the group Acció Terror de Dones Visuals will reflect on the presence and contributions of women in this field. Finally, at 7:30 p.m., a selection of the best works from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2025 will be screened, a benchmark in which women create new spaces of power in front of and behind the camera.
A new cinema festival
This film festival was born two years ago with a main objective: to give visibility to the gender perspective through horror cinema. Furthermore, it also seeks to promote the values of equality through leisure, bringing new visions to the hegemonic ones, all this to generate new perspectives, offer new opportunities and more spaces for representativeness. And, all this, it does with the best tool it has found and the best audiovisual tool: horror. Its organizers claim that genre cinema is more fashionable than ever, and assure that they do not want to remain alien to this boom to reach new audiences.
You can find all the information on the festival website and on its Instagram.
