VHS is the central theme of the 13th Americana Film Fest, which will open a window onto American indie cinema in Barcelona from March 10th to 15th. The festival, featuring 38 feature films and 20 short films screened at the Moobi Aribau, Zumzeig, Cines Girona, Cines Texas, and the Filmoteca de Catalunya, will include a retrospective dedicated to the Ross Brothers. There will also be a session at the historic Video Instan video store celebrating home video culture with a screening of the essay Videoheaven by Alex Ross Perry. We chose six titles from its program:

The Film Library welcomed one of the season's most distinguished visitors this Tuesday: Ira Sachs (Memphis, 1965) is an indispensable name in independent cinema of recent decades, a director who has been able to portray torrid passions in Passages (2023) or Keep the lights on (2012) but also the impact on our lives of more mundane issues such as being forced to change flats (Love is strange, 2014) or the difficulty of managing material and emotional inheritances (Summer in Brooklyn, from 2016).