In-Edit 2026: 70 music documentaries in Barcelona from 29 October to 8 November

It starts this Thursday and its opening screening has no seats left. In-Edit, Barcelona's music documentary film festival, opens its 24th edition on 29 October with Broken English, the portrait of Marianne Faithfull, and until 8 November it is screening 70 titles at the Mooby Aribau cinemas about Bowie, Pulp, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jack Johnson, NOFX and nineties alternative rock. For those without a pass, the key lies in the second screenings.

What to see at In-Edit 2026: from Marianne Faithfull to Pulp and the Beastie Boys

The festival brings together 70 titles across eight sections, 64 of them world, European, Spanish or Catalan premieres, according to the organisers. Across features, shorts and special sessions, these are the titles with the best-known names and their screenings:

• Broken English, by Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth, opens the festival on Thursday 29 at 19:30 (sold out). It features Faithfull's last performance and last interview, with Tilda Swinton and George MacKay in an imaginary ‘Ministry of Not Forgetting’ and appearances by Nick Cave, Courtney Love and Beth Orton. Second screening: Thursday 5 November, 18:30.
• Earth, Wind & Fire, Questlove's documentary about Maurice White's band, has just one screening: Friday 30, 18:30.
• Bowie: The Final Act looks back at the Tin Machine years, the nineties and the road to Blackstar. The Friday 30 screening is sold out; Sunday 8, at 16:30 remains.
• The Fuck You Heroes, by photographer Glen E. Friedman, revisits more than 40 subjects of his skate, punk and hip-hop photos, from Black Flag and Minor Threat to Public Enemy, Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys. Friedman presents it on Friday 30 at 18:00; it is repeated on Tuesday 3 at 18:30.
• Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC, a Spanish premiere about the Hawaiian singer-songwriter's surfing, film-making and music: Saturday 31, 19:45, and Friday 6, 17:15.
• PULP: What Do You Do For An Encore?, by Garth Jennings, combines the band's comeback concerts at London's O2 with four decades of archive footage. The Sunday 8 screening is sold out; Wednesday 4, at 21:05 remains.
• The Best Summer, by Tamra Davis, closes the festival on Saturday 7 at 19:30, with the awards ceremony, and is repeated on Sunday 8 at 18:30. Davis rescued from the Los Angeles fires some tapes she recorded in 1995 during the Summersault tour of Australia and South-East Asia, featuring Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Beck, Pavement, Rancid and Bikini Kill.

Dolly Parton is also on the programme, albeit in a different way: the festival is bringing back For the Love of Dolly (2006), about a group of fans who make a pilgrimage to Dollywood, which In-Edit premiered twenty years ago. Its only screening, on Friday 30, is sold out. Beyond the big names, Saturday 31 turns to Nigerian music, with Wizkid: Long Live Lagos and the 1979 classic Konkombe, and the programme also includes 40 Years of Fuckin' Up, about NOFX (5 and 8 November), and Cerrone: Supernature (31 October and 5 November).

Films with two screenings usually alternate between the original version with Catalan subtitles (VOSC) and with Spanish subtitles (VOSE), so it is worth checking the session before buying.

Flamenco, Carla Simón and home-grown music cinema

A good part of the programme looks closer to home. Carla Simón presents Flamenco, her debut in music cinema: a 19-minute short film with the dancer Rocío Molina that is screened out of competition in the Spanish shorts session on Monday 2, already sold out. Albert Serra gives the Catalan premiere of Seize moments de ma vie, the concert by actress and singer Ingrid Caven with the Banyoles group Molforts (6 and 8 November), and Fernando Trueba presents Bajañí on Monday 2.

Flamenco also features in Triana: El faro que no cesa (Friday 30, with the film team and a warm-up), RITO, by Emilio Belmonte, and Califato ¾: Bale el êffuerço que emo exo, about the Seville group. Among the Catalan and Basque titles, highlights include Muguruza FM 40 Tour, with Fermin Muguruza (4 and 6 November), Flying Free: Historia de un himno, about the Pont Aeri track that defined makina, and Els concerts de la Transició.

In-Edit 2026 tickets: how much they cost and where to buy them

A single ticket costs €11, with a 25% discount for Carnet Jove holders. Sessions with a DJ warm-up or a performance after the film go up to €13, and special sessions, which include the opening, the closing and seven screenings with guests, to €16. Booking fees are extra. The In-Edit Lab activities, more than a dozen professional and training activities, are free with a reservation.

The packs and passes, from €38 to €150, are listed as sold out on the festival website, so at this stage tickets are bought screening by screening. Tickets are on sale on the In-Edit tickets page and, from Thursday 29, also at the cinema box office, which opens half an hour before the first session of the day. Tickets cannot be refunded or exchanged, and at the door you must show the ticket PDF, not the proof of purchase.

The whole festival is screened at the Mooby Aribau (calle Aribau, 8-10, in the Eixample), a stone's throw from the Universitat (L1 and L2) and Catalunya (L1 and L3) metro stations. Screens 1 to 4 have lift access and screen 5 has a stair lift.

After the film: DJs at the Ocaña and streaming on CaixaForum+

After the opening, the night continues with live music at the Terrassa Eleven of the NH Calderón hotel. From 30 October to 8 November, the meeting point is Club Ocaña, on plaza Reial, with DJ sets from 21:00 to 23:00 on weekdays and from 22:30 to 00:30 at weekends; with a ticket for any session, drinks cost €8. La Fàbrica Moritz offers an In-Edit menu every day, and capacity at all three venues is limited.

For those who cannot get to Barcelona, Catalan News reported that, for the first time during the festival itself, 15 titles from the programme will be available to watch free on CaixaForum+ from 7 to 22 November. The festival has not yet announced which ones; its permanent catalogue on that platform already includes documentaries from previous editions.

In the same week as the closing, Barcelona has another event for anyone wanting to go from the screen to live music: Mira Festival brings Arca, Tortoise and Max Cooper to Fira Montjuïc on 6 and 7 November, and its stage times have already been published. The rest of the month's events are in the November festival listings.

Sources: official In-Edit Barcelona website (2026 programme, individual film pages, tickets, practical information and news from 2 and 29 September and 26 October 2026), Codetickets, Catalan News (29 September 2026) and Ara, consulted on 28 October 2026.