This year's edition of FIRE!! will take place from June 4 to 14, with its main venue at the Institut français de Barcelona. The quintessential LGBTIQ+ cinema event in the Catalan capital is no longer a showcase and is now recognized as a festival: the two thousand euro economic endowment provided by the new Ventura Pons award for best feature film is the element that elevates the status of FIRE!!, an initiative launched in 1995 by Casal Lambda of Barcelona. "The percentage of LGBTIQ+ films worldwide is still lower than the ratio of non-strictly heterosexual people," assured the festival director, Antoine Leonetti, at the presentation of the 31st edition to the press.