Programa

General Program of the +RAIN Film Festival 2024

In order to attend the different sections you have to register separately.

Research, Narrative, Ethics and Generative AI Industr

June 11, 2024. From 9:00 to 14:00

9:00 Presentation and welcome
9:15 Keynote Speaker: Shyam Sundar, Jimirro Professor of Media Effects at Penn State University presents the paper “Rethinking cinema in the age of Artificial Intelligence”
10:00 Keynote Speaker: Marcelo Bertalmío, research scientist at the Institute of Optics at CSIC, presents “Vision models for cinema”
11:15 Networking, coffee break
11:45 Keynote speaker: Christian Canton, head of Responsible AI (RAI) a Meta, presents “Creativity and AI for positive outcomes”
12:30 Keynote Speaker: Carlos Castillo, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, presents “Discrimination Risks in Artificial Intelligence: Reel Life vs Real Life”
13:15 Keynote Speaker: Rachel Falconer, Head of Digital Arts Computing Goldsmiths, University of London
13:45 Closing of the session +RAINSIGHT: Coloma Ballester

First day of the Festival

MediaComplex Auditorium

June 11, 2024. From 16:00 to 19:00

16:00 Inauguration of the +RAIN Film Festival. Institutional presentation and welcome by the rector of the UPF Laia de Nadal, the director of Sónar Mr. Ricard Robles and the director team of +RAIN Film Festival, Coloma Ballester, Jordi Balló, Anna Giralt i Frederic Guerrero.
16:20 Screening of films from the Official International Competitive Section: Sueño finlandés y paranoico (2024), Skopje 2014 According to ChatGPT (2023), Ripear un desierto (2024), Fried Egg (2024), and DUCK (2023)
17:00 Post-screening discussion with filmmakers: Jimena Aguilar, Pauline Blanchet, Felipe Elgueta, Rucha Thigale, and Rachel Maclean
17:30 Break
17:45 Screening of films from the Official International Competitive Section: Time Metallurgist (2024), When people talk about their dead, they look up (2024), Home Age to Avalokitesvara (2023), 512X512 (2023), and Morbo (2024)
18:30 Post-screening discussion with filmmakers: Tomáš Rampula, Anna Halbleib, Maria Than, Joris Mezouar, and Jonas Sanson
19:00 Closing by Anna Giralt Gris and Alan Salvadó

Performative event that includes music, audiovisual and installations generated with AI.

June 11, 2024

Free admission on a first-come, first-served basis until full capacity is reached (100 people).

LIVE Installations from 10:00 to 22:00

LIVE Sessions from 20:00 to 22:00

Creation, Experimentation and Production with Generative AI

June 12, 2024. From 9:00 to 13:00

9:00 Presentation and welcome by the directors and partners
9:05 Presentation and exclusive screening of Carme Puche and Sergio Álvarez-Napagao's work
9:35 Keynote on Real Time Memories and the Open Docs project by Jorge Caballero
10:00 Live session by Andrés Bartos and Lucija Stojevic on the memory of the Holocaust
10:25 Presentation of the winning work of the “SOLO Collection”
10:45 Keynote by Claudio Celis Bueno
11:10 Networking, coffee break
11:35 Interactive sessions and creative exhibitions by Victor Pérez and Boldtron from Krea.AI
12:25 Presentation of the Stable Audio project by Jordi Pons
13:00 Q&A Time

At Sala Aranyó

13:20 Project presentation on visual motifs and identity analyzed with AI: Visual Motifs meet Artificial Intelligence: A Comparative Research Project by Coloma Ballester, Manuel Garin, Dani Grandes, Gloria Haro, Adam Phillips, Alan Salvadó and Míriam Sánchez

Segundo dia del Festival

Auditorio del Campus del Poblenou

12 de junio de 2024. De 16:00 a 18:30

16:00 Welcome by Anna Giralt Gris and Alan Salvadó
16:05 Creating with AI. The use of AI in the creative processes of About A Hero. Presentation of the film by Mads Damsbo and Piotr Winiewicz
16:45 Performing with AI. Live creation of a collaborative film generated with AI by Radamés Ajna (Hugging Face), Laura Ginés, Martina Rogers, and Carolina Torres
17:30 Break
17:45 Award ceremony by Cristina Mont, Mads Damsbo, and Shyam Sundar
18:00 Closing film. Screening of the film Latex Kid (2024) and presentation by Fran Gas
18:20 Closing of the Festival by Anna Giralt Gris and Alan Salvadó