We would like to congratulate Xavier-Daniel for his twenty years as a Director of the film festivals specialized in LGTIB issues, and particularly for devoting such a long time to the FICGLB. As the Ministry of Culture, Ferran Mascarell said: “with his commitment, tenacity and love for cinema, Xavier-Daniel has combined Art and the struggle for sexual diversity in an excellent way (…) The FICGLB has been consolidated not just for being one of the worldwide reference festivals about homosexual subjects, but also for showing a lot of high quality productions which sometimes are not screened on commercial circuits and the audience has not the opportunity to see them.”

Usually he puts first the cinema quality over the themes, and the present edition, once more, will not disappoint us. The programme is plenty of current events: from the “savoir faire” of Israelian movies to a message against the sexual bullying at schools. Year after year, the Festival bets for short films and for young cinema students, who in fact are going to be our future filmmakers.

Congratulations companion for these 20 years!

Santi Lapeira

Chairman of Catalan Filmmakers College