Brain Film Fest comes to Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu

posted 4 March 2025

On 21 March, the Social Centre Auditorium in Sant Boi de Llobregat will host the free screening of three films: one for schools, and the other two open to all.

The is coming this year to Sant Boi de Llobregat in partnership with Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu's Torrents d'Art programme and backed by Sant Boi Town Council.

The festival, promoted by the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and co-organised by Malos Filmes, has prepared a travelling programme of three screenings which next Friday 21 March will come to the Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu Social Centre in Sant Boi de Llobregat with the aim of opening up the park to the general public and destigmatising mental health.

The programme is completely free and includes a morning session for schools, designed for students aged 12 to 17 to discuss the expectations of teenagers and their future. Later in the afternoon, there will be two screenings open to all which address issues such as anxiety, from the point of view of a group of comedians, and the difficulties and distress experienced by undocumented migrants.

All screenings include a half-hour discussion afterwards

At 9.30 am, the film for schools will be screened: directed by Esther Morente, in English (subtitled in Catalan).

In 1997, Bruce Farrer, a high school teacher in Canada, set his students an unusual task: to write a letter to themselves imagining what their life would be like twenty years later. Farrer kept all the letters and two decades later, now retired, sent them to their writers. This moving documentary portrays the impact these letters have on their recipients and provides striking insight into the child in all of us, the one we may have forgotten.

To book a place for your school, please email: ParcSanitari.Torrentsdart@sjd.es

At 3.30 pm, directed by Wendy Lobulillo will be screened in English (subtitled in Catalan).

captures the experience of angst through the eyes of a group of contemporary American comedians and explores their efforts to cope with an anxiety which they channel through their shows and in their daily lives. Part therapy, part behind-the-scenes look at stand-up comedy, it is a funny, profound and hopeful film.

Cristina García Pedrajas, psychologist at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, will take part in the discussion
To book a place, click HERE

At 7 pm, there will be a screening of by Boris Lojkine, in French (subtitled in Catalan).

While cycling through the streets of Paris delivering food to people's homes, Souleymane repeats his story. In two days' time he has to pass his asylum interview, the crucial step towards getting the papers that will allow him to work legally. But Souleymane is not ready. His story is an absorbing experience which seeks to convey the distress experienced by thousands of undocumented workers in countries and cultures alien to their own.

Yolanda Osorio, psychiatrist and coordinator of the ESMES (Homeless Mental Health Team) programme and the SATMI (Mental Health Care Programme for Immigrants) programme at Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, will take part in the discussion.