FIL Program 2025 Program Search
FIL Literature
Literature by the ear
Participants: Anna Pazos, Vanessa Rosales, Daniel Alarcón, Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
Moderator: Aránzazu Núñez
Anna Pazos
Invitado de HonorWriter and documentary filmmaker. She has produced several short documentaries and non‑fiction podcasts and contributed articles and reports to El País, La Vanguardia, Jacobin and Le Monde Diplomatique, among other media. She lived in Jerusalem between 2014 and 2015, where she wrote for Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In 2017, she received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at New York University. While in New York, she worked as a fact‑checker for the New York Times Syndicate and as an editor and producer for the BBC. In 2020, she released her first autobiographical short film with BBC Reel, The Circle: A Story of Love, Waves and the Arms Trade, based on her experience living on a boat with the son of an arms dealer. Since May 2020, she has co‑presented the podcast Les Golfes.
Other activities involving the participant:
An argument called desire
Vanessa Rosales
She is a Latin American writer and thinker whose work is located at the intersection between fashion, feminism, aesthetics and cultural history. Her voice, deeply essayistic and critical, has renewed the thinking about fashion as a form of knowledge and expression of power. Her work combines historical perspective, the study of the 'feminine', critical theory and an intense look at the visual from the cultural point of view.
Author of Mujeres Vestidas (2017), Mujer incómoda (2021), and Mad Men (2024), Rosales has been a pioneer in the use of fashion, style and aesthetics as lenses to analyze the history of the 'feminine', the 'masculine', the philosophy of appearances, the expressions of music and culture. Her work has been published in media such as Refinery 29, Vogue Latin America, The Business of Fashion, Vestoj, BBC World, El Malpensante and The Daily Beast.
She trained as a historian at the Universidad de los Andes, studied a master's degree in journalism (La Nación + Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) and then obtained a master's degree in Fashion Studies at Parsons The New School for Design, where she received the Dean's Scholarship.
In her career she has combined teaching, disobedient academy, critical writing and sound creation: she is the voice behind the podcast Mujer Incómoda, where she fuses aesthetic sensitivity and intellectual gaze. She also made the podcast Popularmente and Nación Moda. She has been resident critic at the School of Visual Arts (New York) and creator of the first diploma in critical fashion studies in Colombia.
She is currently developing Gazing, an editorial platform and video podcast about style, culture and gaze.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva
Daniel Alarcón
He is a novelist, journalist and executive producer of Radio Ambulante Studios, a sound journalism outlet that he co-founded in 2012. His books, including novels Lost City Radio (2007), At Night We Walk in Circles (2013), have been translated into more than fifteen languages.
He has collaborated with the American magazine The New Yorker since 2003, and since 2014 he has been a professor at the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz
Invitado de HonorBegoña Gómez Urzaiz (Tarragona, 1980) is a Barcelona-based journalist and writer. She writes regularly for La Vanguardia, co-hosts the podcast Amiga, date cuenta on Radio Primavera Sound and is a regular contributor to the programme Vostè primer on RAC1. Her bylines have appeared in publications such as El País, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and she has taught in the Master’s in Literary Journalism at the UAB. She edited and wrote the foreword to the collectively authored volume Neorrancios. Contra los peligros de la nostalgia (Neorrancios. On the Dangers of Nostalgia). The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters is her first book. It has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese and Polish and was published by Borough Press in the UK and Ireland, Norton in the US, Aufbau Verlag in Germany, Zahar in Brazil, Karakter in Poland and Stock in France.
Other activities involving the participant:
Tribute to Montserrat Roig +. Words in struggle
Unique motherhoods
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta (Radio Primavera Sound)
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta. (Radio Primavera sound)
Bad mothers
Saturday, November 29
17:00 to 17:50
Barcelona, Invitado de Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
An argument called desire
Participants: Adrià Targa, Anna Pazos, Sira Abenoza, David Moragas
Moderator: Gabriel Ventura
Adrià Targa
Invitado de HonorAdrià Targa spent his childhood and adolescence between this city and the Sant Pere i Sant Pau neighbourhood, which features in the long poem Acròpolis (Acropolis). He studied classical philology at the University of Barcelona while also organising cultural activities at the now-closed Ramon Llull student residence. At 21 he published his first book of poems, L’exili de Constança (The Exile of Constança) (2008), inspired by Ovid’s imagined exile. This was followed by Boques en calma (Calm Mouths), Ícar (Icarus) (2015) – available in full online via the digital magazine Stroligut – the pamphlet Liorna (2015), Canviar de cel (Changing Sky) (2021), Acròpolis (Acropolis) (2024) and Arnau (2024), the latter a novel in verse exploring the final day in the life of a thirty-year-old man haunted by the ghosts of depression, sex, drugs and poetry. He has received major awards including the Gabriel Ferrater Prize in Sant Cugat, the Vicent Andrés Estellés Prize in Burjassot, the Barcelona Jocs Florals for Acròpolis and most recently the Catalan Poetry Critics’ Prize for Arnau, a work described by the jury as ‘a visionary work that has stirred readers of Catalan poetry and drawn the attention of critics, who have acknowledged its singular importance for an entire generation.’
Other activities involving the participant:
The Poetry Room
Anna Pazos
Invitado de HonorWriter and documentary filmmaker. She has produced several short documentaries and non‑fiction podcasts and contributed articles and reports to El País, La Vanguardia, Jacobin and Le Monde Diplomatique, among other media. She lived in Jerusalem between 2014 and 2015, where she wrote for Haaretz and The Jerusalem Post. In 2017, she received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies at New York University. While in New York, she worked as a fact‑checker for the New York Times Syndicate and as an editor and producer for the BBC. In 2020, she released her first autobiographical short film with BBC Reel, The Circle: A Story of Love, Waves and the Arms Trade, based on her experience living on a boat with the son of an arms dealer. Since May 2020, she has co‑presented the podcast Les Golfes.
Other activities involving the participant:
Literature by the ear
Sira Abenoza
Doctora en filosofía y directora de La Casa dels Clàssics. Más allá de su compromiso con la difusión universal de los clásicos, es fundadora y directora del Institute for Socratic Dialogue, una fundación que impulsa el diálogo socrático como herramienta de inclusión y promoción de la justicia. Su trabajo puede verse reflejado en los documentales Filosofia a la presó (premio Seminci al Mejor Documental, 2015), sobre el curso de diálogo socrático que imparte en las cárceles catalanas, e In dialogue, que refleja una mesa de diálogo entre exterroristas en Irlanda del Norte. Ha sido consultora de RSC y sostenibilidad en sectores como la banca, la energía y la agroalimentación durante quince años, y ha impulsado proyectos de emprendimiento social en Centroamérica. Actualmente, es profesora del Departamento de Sociedad, Política y Sostenibilidad de ESADE, investigadora del Instituto de Innovación Social y directora del Programa Vicens Vives. Colabora con Núvol y elDiario.es, y es autora de publicaciones como No consentiràs pensaments impurs (Fragmenta, 2024) y Consejo de familia: el órgano que sostiene el salto generacional (Harvard Deusto Business Review, 2025).
Other activities involving the participant:
Literature and democratic resistence: debate or combat (Foreign Action of Generalitat)
Gabriel Ventura
Es poeta, aunque su trabajo se expande hacia otras disciplinas, como la performance o el cine. Entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan W (2017), Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls (2020) (poemario que ha dado título a una exposición en el MACBA). Ha recibido la beca Montserrat Roig y ha realizado estancias en residencias literarias como la Residència Finestres. Sus obras se han presentado en festivales y espacios como Fundació Brossa, Museo Tàpies, Festival Eñe, Festival Veu, Barcelona Poesia, entre otros. Sus poemas se han traducido al inglés, francés, griego, neerlandés, turco y portugués. Actualmente es profesor en BAU (Barcelona).
Monday, December 01
19:30 to 20:45