SELECTED PROJECTS FOR THE AUDIOVISUAL PITCH 2026


Aigua Salada (Salt Water)
Team: Anna Tortajada i Carreras
University: Universitat Pompeu Fabra Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Aigua Salada (Salt Water) is a fiction feature film about losing a safe place and the need to reclaim one’s own voice.

Blanca Roseta
Team: Francesca Hernández Gil
University: Universitat de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Blanca Roseta is a coming-of-age thriller about the precarious working conditions faced by women from Ibiza, the anxiety of working in the hospitality industry, and the false promise of progress brought by tourism.

Boreals
Team: Marc Català, Aleix Bonet, Marta Gras
University: La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis Boreals is an immersive, interactive science communication installation that invites visitors to discover the formation of the Northern Lights from within. Through projection, light, sound, narration and an interactive globe, the experience transforms a complex scientific phenomenon into an accessible journey in which the audience moves from observation to participation.

Caliu (Warmth)
Team: Júlia Guisado Serrano
University: Universitat de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Alba has fled to Granada to distance herself from her family, but a fire at the family restaurant forces her to return to Igualada for the summer. With the business destroyed, the whole family must decide whether to rebuild it or sell it, a decision that soon turns into a battle. When a local farmer claims to have started the fire, Alba hopes his confession will put an end to the accusations, but tensions between the two families do not subside: the fire has merely brought to the surface conflicts that go back much further. When September arrives and no decision has yet been made, Alba feels trapped and is forced to put her life in Granada on hold.

CHYMA
Team: Beaulavie Nganga, Shamil Bonafé Hasanov
University: BAU Centre Universitari de Disseny Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis CHYMA is an interactive audiovisual installation that translates sound frequencies into geometric structures on water in real time. It functions as an ecosystem in which the user shapes sound through a magnetic interface, projecting the vibrational forms into the space through light.

Divina (Divine)
Team: Mar Genescà, Gabriela Barba
University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Non-fiction [+] Synopsis 15-minute documentary short portraying the life of Divina, a 20-year-old Roma flamenco dancer striving to build a professional career in flamenco, proving that it is possible to shape her own future without giving up her culture and roots.

Divine Taxidermy: Techno-Orientalism Studies
Team: Jana Yezhu Torrens Folch
University: BAU Centre Universitari de Disseny Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis Divine Taxidermy explores the instrumentalization and fetishization of the Asian figure, particularly women, and its correlation with audiovisual culture, technological innovation, visual trends and the speculation of future scenarios through an ambivalent and discriminatory discourse. The research takes the form of a system of three devices that reframe the connection between the Asian figure and technology. The project is conceived as an audiovisual design proposal for raising awareness and as an archive for the Asian community, focusing on deconstructing Western discourse through a self-critical lens.

Documental CE Europa: Som la Resistència (CE Europa Documentary: We Are the Resistance)
Team: Gerard Crespo Doncel
University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Non-fiction [+] Synopsis Documentary about the 2025/26 season of CE Europa’s men’s first team, as they overcame countless challenges and dreamed of making history.

Efectes Secundaris (Side Effects)
Team: Ainhoa Gelabert Rodríguez, Kaiden Pigem Malo
University: Master's Degree in Audiovisual Screenwriting (University of Lleida - UB) Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Four women take part in a clinical trial for a new drug that promises to transform them into the best versions of themselves, just as they have always dreamed. But there’s one problem: it causes side effects.

EL APTO (THE QUALIFIED)
Team: Nairee Bravo, Mia Mas de Xaxars
University: TecnoCampus Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis EL APTO (THE QUALIFIED) is an interactive/immersive short film that combines audiovisual storytelling, decision-making and a futuristic aesthetic. In a dystopian future, the artificial intelligence N.O.A. (Observation and Analytics Core) is responsible for the psychological assessment of police candidates and determines whether they are qualified to wield authority. Candidate #042, isolated in an examination room and connected to an augmented reality device, faces a series of hypothetical scenarios that put their judgement to the test. As the test progresses, N.O.A. begins to question the coherence of the human justice system, while the candidate’s decisions can lead to up to four different endings.

El Cortijo (The farmhouse)
Team: Esther Ruz, Ainhoa Venegas
University: ENTI (Escola de Noves Tecnologies Interactives) Year: 2026 Category: Videogames [+] Synopsis A first-person investigative thriller set in an isolated farmhouse in Andalucía, where you must explore, find clues and uncover the truth behind a series of murders. A narrative experience of mystery and suspense that combines rural traditions with a dark and unsettling atmosphere.

El Dosmileru (The 2000s)
Team: Alexandra Martínez, Julià Martínez
University: Master's Degree in Audiovisual Screenwriting (University of Lleida - UB) Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis El Dosmileru (The 2000s) is a Catalan sitcom project consisting of 10 episodes, set in a small cinema in the Gràcia neighbourhood. When the owner decides to sell the premises, the cinema employees join forces to prevent it from closing. Through humour and everyday situations, the series portrays job insecurity, the transition into adulthood, the search for identity, and the transformation of local cultural spaces.

El Niu (The Nest)
Team: Patricia Horas, Mariona Maria
University: Universitat Pompeu Fabra Year: 2026 Category: Entertainment [+] Synopsis El Niu (The Nest) is a low-stimulation environment where five characters, inspired by the theory of multiple intelligences, travel throughout Catalonia to address children’s real questions and concerns, turning each question into an activity or challenge for them. El Niu is more than a children’s programme: it is a tool that understands childhood and transforms it into a safe, educational, low-stimulation space, offering an escape from the fast-paced, oversaturated and overstimulating digital environment.

Entre dues Terres (Between two lands)
Team: Hatim el Mrabet Haje
University: Universitat de Lleida Year: 2026 Category: Non-fiction [+] Synopsis Entre dues terres (Between Two Lands) is a personal and testimonial documentary that explores the migration experiences of a Moroccan-origin family divided between Tangier and Catalonia. Through their testimonies, the project reflects on migration, identity, family ties, and what it means to live between two lands.

Entre Murs i Segles (Between Walls and Centuries)
Team: Amaica Alsina, Ruby Southern
University: Universitat de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Non-fiction [+] Synopsis A four-part, 50-minute historical documentary series exploring the evolution of the Hospital de la Santa Creu, from its foundation to the creation of what is now the Biblioteca de Catalunya. The series features a presenter who serves as a narrative guide, dramatized scenes that bring the past to life, and interviews with experts to provide deeper insight into its history.

Junkonaut
Team: Pol Lleida
University: ENTI (Escola de Noves Tecnologies Interactives) Year: 2026 Category: Videogames [+] Synopsis Junkonaut is an exploration game where you recycle waste into a hole that keeps growing. Turn tiny scraps into absurd amounts of recycled cosmic matter. Upgrade your equipment, explore forgotten worlds and meet strange junkyard friends. No matter what, the hole must grow.

La Cripta (The Crypt)
Team: Joe Belda Pi, Aurèlia Torné Subirats
University: Universitat de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Entertainment [+] Synopsis A late-night show with a 1950s–60s aesthetic, where each week a guest from the entertainment industry dresses up and, improvising from an open script, takes on the role of a historical or fictional character opposite the host.

Matasanos
Team: Rain Forcada, Adrià de la Iglesia
University: TecnoCampus Year: 2026 Category: Videogames [+] Synopsis In a space emergency room, a team of 2 to 4 inexperienced medical robots must work together to treat alien patients in a frantic environment.

Mediamorfosi i Autogestió de Continguts Digitals (Mediamorphosis and Digital Content Self-Management)
Team: Bartomeu Plomer Ginel
University: BAU Centre Universitari de Disseny Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis A network of wireless devices for sharing digital content outside the globalized internet.

Missing Lady
Team: Emma Salvador, Anna Pecellín, Mar Genescà, Ariadna Soler
University: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Videogames [+] Synopsis Missing Lady is an investigation video game that incorporates a short audiovisual component. The protagonist, Olivia, must explore a building and decipher the puzzles Aurora has left behind. What initially appears to be an isolated disappearance soon turns out to be a real estate conspiracy.

Nana per la mama (Lullaby for mom)
Team: Clàudia Ayala Ambrosio, Mar Buhigas García
University: Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis When Gina travels with her mother to Murcia to say goodbye to her grandmother, a new feeling emerges within her: the fear that one day she too will have to say goodbye to her mother. This marks the beginning of an emotional journey that leads her to explore the importance of family memory, the experience of grief, and the fleeting nature of those she loves most.

PLANTA 0 (Ground floor)
Team: Laura Montero
University: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Year: 2026 Category: Entertainment [+] Synopsis PLANTA 0 (Ground floor) is an original music show in which nine emerging artists face a candid, in-depth interview inside an industrial elevator. As the elevator rises floor by floor, the conversation reveals the behind-the-scenes side of music creation, interspersed with short segments capturing the artists’ daily routines. Each episode culminates in a live session performed inside the elevator itself, where music breaks through all boundaries, turning the finale into an artistic release.

Quan el cervell escolta (When the brain listens)
Team: Laia Gonzàlez Hugas
University: BAU Centre Universitari de Disseny Year: 2026 Category: New Technologies and Immersive Experiences [+] Synopsis Interactive installation that transforms brain activity into an immersive audiovisual experience and invites audiences to reflect on attention, technology and the privacy of personal data. It includes a STEAM KIT, a two-hour workshop for secondary school students.

Qui no arrisca no pisca (No risk, no gain)
Team: Clàudia Núñez, Laura Esteban
University: TecnoCampus Year: 2026 Category: Entertainment [+] Synopsis Qui no arrisca no pisca (No risk, no gain) is an entertainment and educational programme that explores, with humour and an approachable tone, the origins and meanings of some of the most distinctive expressions in the Catalan language. Through street interviews and appearances by charismatic personalities, the programme celebrates the region’s cultural and linguistic richness, bringing it closer to younger audiences. A fresh, participatory and dynamic format.

Re-Made: Recycling Artists
Team: Andrea Sánchez, Eleuterio Jesús del Rio
University:
Year: 2026 Category: Entertainment [+] Synopsis 12 recycling artists face the same challenge: proving that nothing is disposable by transforming waste into fantastic creations. With ingenuity and creativity, they will compete to create the best sustainable furniture and decorative pieces, with a €30,000 prize and the opportunity to open their own studio.

Servint_CAT (Serving_CAT)
Team: Maria Berenguer Pintó
University: Universitat de Vic Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Servint_CAT (Serving_CAT) is a fictional web series project of approximately 20 minutes per episode that portrays a generation of young Catalan queer people growing up in a context of emotional precarity, social crisis and identity disorientation. The web series follows a group of queer Catalan young people —Pau, Júlia, Adirà and Alayaah— as they try to build their identities in a 2026 Catalonia marked by recession, aesthetic pressure and a generational sense of uncertainty about the future. Each episode is self-contained and focuses on one of the protagonists during a moment of personal crisis. The characters live together in a shared house for queer young people in vulnerable situations, guided by Samantha, the “Mother”. The project draws inspiration from real initiatives in Catalonia such as AHORA DÓNDE – Le Refuge, which provides housing and support to LGBTQI+ young people in vulnerable situations.

Sleepless
Team: Victoria Garcia, Icíar González
University: Universitat Pompeu Fabra Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Sleepless is a fiction screenplay that tells the story of Lai, a young man who becomes unable to rest at night, tormented by feelings of guilt and isolation, after a worldwide blackout renders all electrical systems unusable, including those that helped him manage his anxieties. The project, born from a hybrid final degree project, aims to reflect on the role new technologies play in our lives, particularly in the lives of younger generations, and on the shortcomings and insecurities we hide behind technologies such as social media, YouTube videos and AI.

SPROUTS
Team: Duna Agustí, Ferran Bartumeus
University: La Salle – Universitat Ramon Llull Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis In a lush futuristic city called Oasis, a young inventor named Oto creates the Sprouts, robot-plants capable of bringing the dying Great Tree back to life. To save the world they are about to lose, he will have to outsmart sap-hunting pirates, uncover the city’s secrets, and team up with the person he least expects.

TAKYON
Team: Martí Oliveras Planas, Jordi Gratacós Gamper
University: ENTI (Escola de Noves Tecnologies Interactives) Year: 2026 Category: Videogames [+] Synopsis TAKYON is a fast-paced 2D action platformer where you play as a panda with the ability to dash through enemies and make your way through a mysterious cave divided into three different areas.

Temporada alta (Peak Season)
Team: Martina Simarro Gutierrez, Abril Mullet Badia
University: Universitat de Lleida Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Temporada alta (Peak Season) is an ensemble comedy set in an old campsite on the Costa Daurada, where a diverse community sees its way of life threatened when the property is divided and part of it is put up for sale. Faced with the possibility of losing the place they consider home, the campers will have to overcome their differences and come together to defend it.

Tramuntana
Team: Kenia Samper, Claudia Rubini, Martí Pujol
University: Blanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull Year: 2026 Category: Fiction [+] Synopsis Nadia struggles to keep her family’s fishing tradition alive in a Costa Brava village where the trade is disappearing.

Universitaris (University Students)
Team: Laura Martínez, David Calvo
University: Universitat de Barcelona Year: 2026 Category: Non-fiction [+] Synopsis Universitaris (University Students) is an informative audiovisual format that offers an unfiltered look at what it is like to study different university degrees in Catalonia. By following several students over the course of a week, we discover their daily lives, challenges, personal experiences and future aspirations, providing young audiences with an accessible, useful and entertaining academic guidance tool.
































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