Programa
All the sessions will be available in Catalan, Spanish and English.
To attend at the different sections of the +RAIN you must do it with the links enabled, individually for each section.
FEST
Screening of Dracula by the Romanian filmmaker Rad June. A reinterpretation of the myth incorporating generative AI. The film critically reflects on digital image dialoguing between technological innovation and cinematographical thinking. A collaboration with the Filmoteca de Catalunya.
18:00 Screening of Dracula by Radu Jude
RESEARCH
International research convention about the future of AI in digital content creation and its impact in the audiovisual sector.
Auditori del Campus del Poblenou
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09:00 Opening of the 2026 +RAIN Film Festival by its director Frederic Guerrero-Solé, and Vanesa Daza, Vice rector of Knowledge Transfer in the UPF.
9:30 La ficció de la creativitat artificial, presentation by Ramon López de Mántaras, emeritus researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) in CSIC
10:15 Global Perspectives on AI and the Screen Industries, presentation by Thomas Poell, professor of data, culture and media at the University of Amsterdam and director of the masters program in Media Studies.
10:45 Bringing Generative AI into Being: Controversies, Corporate Power and Creative Work, presentation by Christian Katzenbach, professor of communication and media studies at the University of Bremen (ZeMKI) and associate researcher at the HIIG
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Disseny Sonor amb IA Centrat en la Creativitat Humana, presentation by Oriol Nieto, Senior Research Engineer at Adobe Research
12:45 The Evolution of Propaganda from Film to AI, presentation by Veronika Solopova, AI researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in TU Berlin
13:30 The New Accessible Cinema, presentation by Anna Jankowska, professor and researcher in translation at the University of Antwerp and the Jagiellonian University (UNESCO chair in translation)
FEST
Competitive section of the international AI Film Festival.
Teatre del CCCB
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18:00 Opening, presentation and welcome by section directors: Margot Mecca and Alan Salvadó
18:15 Screening of the Competitive section films: ROOM 174, by Maria Bernardi; Ping Pong, by Tianji Yu; 09/05/1982, by Jorge Caballero and Camilo Restrepo; The Valley where LOAB lives, by Georg Tiller
19:15 Talk with the filmmakers
19:45 Break
20:00 Screening of the Competitive section films: Love Your Nails, by Narges Kalhor; Last May in Theaters, by Arief Budiman; Archiva Qu(ia)r, by Diego Marchante "Genderhacker"; L'uomo più bello del mondo, by Paolo Baiguera
21:00 Talk with the filmmakers
21:30 Farewell
WORKFLOWS
Presentations, case studies and round tables with artists and international experts about how AI tools are integrated into and transform creative processes.
Auditori del Campus del Poblenou
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10:00 Presentation and welcome by section co-director: Àlex Valverde
10:10 Generative AI and Value in the Creative Industries, presentation by Claudio Celis, professor of New Media and Digital Cultures in the University of Amsterdam
10:40 Lab-IA - Sobirania Tecnològica i Cooperativisme de Plataforma, presentation by Víctor Jiménez, coordinator and cultural engineer at Bitlab Cooperativa Cultural
11:10 Presentation by Chino Moya, film director and visual artist
11:30 Presentation by Oriol Rigata, filmmaker and AI creator
12:15 Presentation by Diego Marchante, transfeminist activist, transmedia artist and teacher
WORKFLOWS FEST
Presentations, case studies and round tables with artists before the festival’s awards ceremony.
Auditori del Campus del Poblenou
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16:00 Presentation and welcome by section co-directors: Margot Mecca and Alan Salvadó
16:05 Presentation of international filmmakers: Maria Bernardi, Tianji Yu, Georg Tiller, Narges Kalhor and Paolo Baiguera.
17:15 Break
17:30 Presentation of Mutations My Word, by Carme Puche and Sergio Álvarez-Napagao, project winner of the Barcelona Crea Grant - +RAIN 2025, an ICUB initiative to foster theoretical and practical reflection on cinema made with AI in Barcelona.
Moderated by Albert Elduque.
17:55 Presentation of the short film Membrana, directed by Anna Giralt Gris and produced by Jorge Caballero, based on an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Jorge Carrión, director of the Masters degree in Literary Creation at UPF–Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM)
18:30 Award ceremony of the 2026 +RAIN Film Festival
18:45 Celebration toast
LIVE
Musical and audiovisual event with live performances in creative dialogue with AI.
Sala Aranyó del Campus del Poblenou
Free entrance by order of arrival until filled to capacity
19:30 Presentation and welcome by section directors: Sònia Espi, Frederic Font and Blazej Kotowski
19:40 Live by external operator (Ilia Viazov, Paulina Andrzeja i Diego Alejandro Morales Castillo). A performance of sonic codependency in which two post-instrumentalists and an external operator build a collective intelligence emerging from negotiation, mutual control and the dissolution of individual agency, through self-built instruments and motion-tracking interfaces.
20:10 Live by Farzaneh Nouri, sound artist and researcher. A performance exploring the aesthetic potential of non-representational data, meaning data not tied to conventional musical representations (notes, rhythms or coded timbres), within the computational processes that describe the improvisatory environment for a musical agent.
21:00 Live by njk (Cristian Subirà and Nacho Pezzati). Algorithmic Accompaniment sonically explores the alienation generated by the promise of technocentric progress, building dystopian and retrofuturist jingles from degraded stems to reflect on how AI systems threaten to displace essential human values (empathy, intuition, autonomy) in favour of productivity and profit.
HUM+RAIN
Screening and analysis session: a critical reflection on the transformation of subjectivity in digital environments and in the context of AI.
Sala Nau del Campus del Poblenou
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10:00 Presentation by the representative of the Side Event: Tomas Macsotay
10:10 Screening of film bits and talk with Christian Katzenbach, Fernando Zaparaín, Roc Albalat, Júlia Lull, Nausikaä El-Mecky, Pol Capdevila and Tomas Macsotay
Side Event organized by the Department of Humanities of the UPF
TRANSLATE+RAIN
What is the role of translation and subtitles in cinema and AI?
Sala 55.309 (Sala de Conferències) del Campus del Poblenou
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10:00 Presentation by the co-director of the Side Event: Paula Igareda
10:10 ¿Subtítulos con alma? Creatividad humana vs IA, research presentation and workshop by Marta Brescia Zapata, postdoctoral researcher in audiovisual translation at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
10:45 Round table with Anna Jankowska, Rosario de Zayas Rueda, Damián Santilli i Rafa López, moderation by Paula Igareda
Side Event organized by the Department of Translation and Language Sciences of the UPF
AD+RAIN
Debate on the transformation of advertisement with generative AI.
Sala Nau del Campus del Poblenou
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12:00 Presentation by the directors of the Side Event: Frederic Guerrero-Solé and Carles Sanabre
12:10 Inteligencia Artificial Emocional, presentation by Isabelita Virtual, creative director and AI consultant.
12:30 Project presentation with Chino Moya, film director and visual artist.
12:50 Project presentation with Àlex Casabó, CEO and co-founder of KASAK.
13:10 Commentary and debate moderated by Mireia Rigol with Carlos Ortet (cofounder and CEO at Zoopa), David Pueyo and Jofre Banquells (creative director at Ogilvy).
13:30 Open debate moderated by Mireia Rigol with Isabelita Virtual, Chino Moya, Àlex Casabó, Carlos Ortet, David Pueyo and Jofre Banquells
Side Event organized by the Department of Communication of the UPF
MEDIA+RAIN
Explore the role of AI in journalism and its social, ethical and professional impact.
Sala 55.309 (Sala de Conferències) del Campus del Poblenou
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12:10 Presentation by the director of the Side Event: Roger Cassany
12:15 Project presentation with Veronika Solopova, researcher in AI at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and at the TU Berlin
12:30 Project presentation with Rob Lang, newsroom AI editor at Reuters
12:45 Signària: Identitat sonora per a persones sordes signants en context radiofònic, project presentation by Xavi Vinaixa, CTO at Sorensen AI
13:00 Goita: un sistema agentic per a la descoberta cultural a Barcelona, project presentation by David Quiñonero, Director of Digital and AI at Diario ARA
13:15 Round table moderated by Roger Cassany with Veronika Solopova, Rob Lang, Xavi Vinaixa and David Quiñonero
Side Event organized by the Department of Communication of the UPF
SINAPSI
Plural and deliberative closed doors lab, in which creatives, researchers, AI and ethics experts, law professionals, institutional representatives, and cultural industry agents meet to exchange points of view, cocreate conceptual frameworks and generate relevant questions.
(Restricted access. Invite only)
IV OPEN FORUM ON ARTS, SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Event promoted by the redACTS, the IV edition of the Open Forum on Arts, Science & Technology. A transdisciplinary contamination space to share questions about current artistic and scientific research and to create new knowledge communities.
Sala ARSENAL del Campus del Poblenou
Event content to be detailed soon.
Event organized by redACTS in collaboration with HacTe