23 - 27 NOVEMBER 2020
23 - 27 NOVEMBER 2020
23 - 27 NOVEMBER 2020
23 - 27 NOVEMBER 2020
14 - 17 OCTOBER 2026
IMDb Awards Listing Qualifier
(Festival Internacional de Cine Amor & Esperanza - Barcelona)
Official Listing AWARDS
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Love & Hope International Film Festival - Barcelona (L'HIFF) |
October 14-17, 2026
Official Selections Categorized by Genre and Format:
Feature Films, Feature Documentaries, Short Films, Short Documentaries, Music Videos, and Screenplays (Short & Feature)
English
Tickets will be live mid Aug 2026! Don’t miss your chance to experience the Love & Hope International Film Festival. Get your tickets today and be part of the celebration of cinema in Barcelona!
Español
¡Las entradas estarán disponibles a mediados de Agosto ddel 2026! No pierda la oportunidad de vivir el Love & Hope International Film Festival. Compre sus entradas hoy y forme parte de esta gran celebración del cine en Barcelona.
Official Selection 2026: Feature Films (All Categories and Genres) & Feature Documentaries
After the Freeze, Final Cut - Dir. Tenley E. Raj - 59:30 - USA
IN THE BLANK - Dir. Sara Palomo Tapia - 01:41:00 min - Spain
Million - Dir. Rudolf Merkner - 01:27:00 min - Czechia
SAMBHAVNA - Dir. REJANE D'ESPIRAC - 52:00 min - France
Little Pet - Dir. Alex Gruenenfelder - 01:31:30 min - USA
ForeFans - Dir. Ivan Malekin - 01:33:49 mini - Malta
Boru - Dir. Ronny A. Sosa - 01:32:00 min - Dominican Republic
Invincible - Dir. Emma Croft - 01:49:00 min - United Kingdom
This Is Not A Draft - Dir. Jack Blair - 01:40:00 min - USA
The Photoprapher on the Island - Dir. Bořivoj Hořínek - 01:09:00 min - Czechia
Official Selection 2026: Short Films (All Categories and Genres), Short Documentaries, Music Videos, and Web Series:
Forgotten Guardians - Dir. Manoj A B S - 28:46 min - India
Lethni - Dir. Luigi Di Domenico - 3:32 min - Italy
Level 9 - Dir. Helen Eller - 5:46 min - Spain
The Comfort Dogs of Uganda - Dir. Richard Wainwright - 29:55 min - Australia
Home - Dir. GEORGIOS GALANOPOULOS - 15:47 min - Greece
Go Down, Diller - Dir. Andrew Bateman -23:00 min - USA
Secrets of Kandahar - Cosmic Dance - Dir. Petr Chroustovský - 4:21 min - Czech Republic
The Unsilenced City: Six Love Song to Yerevan - Dir. Elaine Crowe - - 9:36 min - Armenia, Ireland
Nada Sin Ti - Dir. MIGUEL GARCÍA BERNAL - 12:20 min - Spain
A day through my eyes - Dir. Charalampos Kontopanagos - 12:44 min - Greece
Ascent - Dir. Robert Prein - 2:13 min - The Netherlands
Wheel Gone Kid 5-Suspicious Minds - Dir. Wayne Kelly - 10:39 min - United Kingdom
Garbage Rex - Dir. Steve Hunyi -19:21 min - United Kingdom
Respire Fort - Dir. Arthur FANGET - 14:00 min - France
Metacíclica - Dir. Lydia Zimmermann - 17:56 min - Spain
KAI - Dir. Christopher White - 7:30 min - USA
Two Prayers - Dir. Ulrica de la Mar - 8:40 min - The Netherlands
Pic Pic - Dir. Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand - 7:00 min - Canada
HEAD - Dir. Keith Ruggiero - 6:00 min - USA
The Rebel Reef: Seeds of Hope - Dir. Brynne Eliza Rardin, Patrick Joseph Krum - 24:47 min - USA
Buddies - Dir. Rahul Hansraj - 4:59 min - India
Sleeping Trudy - Dir. Charlotte Yang - 9:35 min - United Kingdom
The serotonin experience - Dir. Helen Eller - 8:36 min - Spain
Absence of Heart - Dir. David Nguyen - 33:07 min - USA
God's Will - Dir. Nia Yonkova - 20:12 min - Bulgaria
Love not Love - Dir. georgia bishop - 10:01 min - United Kingdom
Free on Bail - Dir. Spartakus Santiago - 28:58 min - Brazil
Candido - Dir. Giorgio Clementelli - 14:00 min - Italy
Porque hoy es Sábado - Dir. Alice Eça Guimarães - 12:24 min - Spain
Leo & Anna - Dir. Luca Forcignanò Serri - 15:00 min - Italy
Forever After in Love - Dir. Boris Schaarschmidt - 8:40 min - USA
Gemelas - Dir. Carla Rodriguez - 11:21 min - Spain
Dear Mama - Dir. Xiaohan Sun - 5:44 min - China
You Don't Even Listen to my Songs - Dir. Cheryl Kow - 12:55 min - France
Saudade - Dir. Lara Llamas - 5:24 min - Czechia
Făt-Frumos - Dir. Maria Marina - 14:37 min - Romania
Grizzly Jim - Dir. Richard Guthrie - 8:41 min - United Kingdom
Fishie - Dir. Dimitar Dimitrov - 36:00 min - Bulgaria
Love Letter to a Tree - Dir. Simona Theoharova - 9:49 min - Bulgaria, Germany, United Kingdom
Crimson Bonds - Dir. Benita Martins, Runa Schymanski, Hannah Rang - 17:35 min - Austria, Germany
Secrets of Kandahar - Dreams - Dir. Petr Chroustovský - 4:24 min - Czechia
Orange Cove - Dir. John Lockmer - 11:45 min - USA
Latex girls - Dir. Françoise Desbois - 30:00 min - France
LITTLE DARLING - Dir. Xavier Guàrdia - 3:32 min - Spain
Building and Dwelling - Dir. Arjan Gebraad - 6:24 min - The Netherlands
With Her - Dir. Lanxinyi Zhang, Luke Osay - 10:00 min - United kingdom
Eye For An Eye - Dir. Ashley Bowers - 24:00 min - USA
Diego - Dir. Tora Meder Bird - 8:06 min - Spain
The Chapel Door - Dir. Aleksa Ristovic - 9:11 min - Malta
FOR YOU - Dir. EVA BEUNZA TORRADO - 3:15 min - Spain
VIENNA: Suddenly An Angel - Dir. Marko Albrecht - 19:39 min - USA
Line Dance - Dir. Timothy McCracken, Robert Kelly McAllister - 21:08 min - USA
Are You Okay? - Dir. Nikita India, Idriss Assoumanou - 6:43 min - United Kingdom
Angels Don't Smoke - Dir. Javier van Boren - 12:00 min - Spain, USA
The Three Of Us - Dir. Claudia Ventura - 13:29 min - USA
First Love - Dir. Rajiv Krishna Govindarajan - 36:42 min - India
Singh & Sinha - Dir. Mohan Das - 19:48 min - India
Dirty Sun - Dir. Charon Sun - 12:14 min - China
The Queen's Portal to Savior Land - Dir. Queen Adhikary - 3:31 min - XXXXXX
Garage - Dir. Dympna Jardine - 8:55 min. - United Kingdom
The Little Whale’s Mysterious Eggs - Dir. Chang Chen-Shi - 3:51 min - Taiwan
FATHER! - Dir. Abe Smyth, Sophia Adli - 18:51 min - United Kingdom
Inspiration - Dir. Diego Mezarina - 16:27 min - Peru
THE MOTHMAN - Dir. Josep Francesc Valero - 3:23 min - Spain
Wedding,Funeral - Dir. Lucan Zhang - 16:54 min - China
What happens to dreams when they get lost? - Dir. Michelle Sarah Pfuhl - 5:00 min - Germany
INVISIBLE ROOTS – In the shadow of femicide - Dir. Stefania Cugia - 30:00 min - Italy
Cool - Dir. SS Heliodor - 3:21 min - Australia
Homecoming Shenanigans - Dir. Sanelle Sibanda - 22:45 min - USA
Against Your Nature - Dir. Alessandro Magnabosco - 14:01 min - United Kingdom
Cet été-là - Dir. Yassine Hayani - 16:47 min - Belgium
3,650 Days - Dir. Nicola Peluso - 6:22 min - United Kingdom
The Dream on the Road - Dir. Lester Tang - 10:59 min - China
POETRIX - Dir. Ioulia Lymperopoulou - 7:17 min - Greece
Like Fire - Dir. Amy Serrano - 2:13 min - USA
Sour Fruit - Dir. Xiyin Huang - 7:35 min - China
HOPE: Introducing Dick Dyman - Dir. Richard Frenrando Dye - 6:10 min - USA
Something Pointless - Dir. Asa Bailey - 14:21 min - United Kingdom
The Last Sun - Dir. Nigel Canepa, Orlando Charvetto - 19:51 min - Gibraltar
A Wake - Dir. Besanya Santiago - 6:14 min - USA
Badia - Dir. Marcel Buisan - 25:17 min - Spain
The Black Tooth - Dir. Anita Serrano - 24:06 min - Argentina
I Can Share - Dir. Natália Eštočinová - 9:13 min - Czechia
Calima - Dir. Simone de Feo - 19:29 min - Italy
Interference - Dir. Susann Fanieng - 24:03 min - Germany
Play Room - Dir. Tom Whiston - 13:07 min - United Kingdom
SWITCH - Dir. Gia Kereselidze - 21:24 min - USA
ACCISMUS - Dir. Brandy Marien - 10:18 min - Canada
To Life! - Dir. Gloria Ester Lanuza - 7:39 min - USA
Dream Lover - Dir. David Simon - 17:00 min - France
LET'S PRETEND I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU - Dir. Daniel Pradilla De Bedout - 19:00 min - Spain
UNA QUESTIONE DI CUORE - Dir. Alessandro Zonin - 15:00 min - Italy
SORRY SORRY SORRY - Dir. Shin Hea KIM - 23:46 min - South Korea
La Cerrillana - Dir. Maria Andrea Urquiola - 15:04 min - Argentina
PARACLETUS // Hallucinate - Dir. Natalie Plaskura - 6:59 min - Germany
Official Selection 2026: Feature Scripts
(Note: These scripts have not yet been produced)
Mind Network - Wri. Steve Hunyi - XXXXX
The Fourth Psalm - Wri. John Martins III - XXXXXX
Lady Alchemy - Wri. Avril David - USA
Official Selection 2026: Short Scripts
(Note: These scripts have not yet been produced)
The beast - Wri. Lucia Blasco del Álamo, David Schleicher - Spain, USA
Vanessa - Wri. Benedetta Talotta - United Kingdom
Adelphes - Wri. Sasha Pereira - France
The Terminal Of Echoes - wri. Dante S. Briggins - USA
Ember & I - Wri. Amber Morgan - Australia
That's not it! — ¡No es eso! - Wir. David R Schleicher, Lucía Blasco del Álamo - Spain, USA
The Butterfly - Dir. Sharon Patricia Burtner - XXXXXX
Invisible Stars - Wri. Crystal Muma Rivers - USA
The Virgin Murray - Wri. Thomas Kieran Lewis - United Kingdom
Official Selection 2026: Below you will find all the posters for the selected films and scripts.
