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LEOS CARAX: GUEST OF HONOUR



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Since his dazzling emergence in the 1980s, Leos Carax has embodied, like few others, the untamed artist: global cinephilia’s best-kept secret and one of the last great poets of both the intimate interior and the street. A cult figure, famously elusive and surrounded by an almost mythical underground aura, Carax has spent four decades building a small yet feverish and monumental body of work that has already earned an enduring place in the history of contemporary art.

His cinema is a bastion against formal convention: a space of unbridled romanticism, tragic lyricism and constant visual invention.

The filmmaker will present his latest film, C’est pas moi, take part in a conversation with the audience and be celebrated with a retrospective programme revisiting a selection of his work.

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JOÃO PEDRO RODRIGUES Y JOÃO RUI GUERRA DA MATA: MÁRGENES SPECIAL AWARD



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The Portuguese creative duo will receive the Márgenes Special Award 2026 in recognition of an artistic collaboration in which the boundaries of authorship dissolve, giving way to a hybrid, constantly evolving sensibility.

Over more than two decades, João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata have built one of the most radical, coherent and unmistakable bodies of work in contemporary cinema. Presenting this duo with the Márgenes Special Award 2026 means celebrating an artistic alliance in which the boundaries of authorship dissolve, giving way to a hybrid, constantly evolving sensibility.

In their shared universe, documentary, melodramatic fiction, poetic essay and performance exist not as separate genres but as layers of the same fabric, interweaving desire, fetish, autobiographical memory, phantasmagoria and mythology.

With this award, the Márgenes Festival pays tribute to two essential filmmakers who have made shared creation a realm of boldness, mystery and sheer fascination.


JAUME CLARET MUXART: MÁRGENES FUTURA AWARD



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The Festival presents the Márgenes Futura Award to Jaume Claret in recognition of a filmmaker who has made a striking entrance onto the international film scene with remarkable expressive maturity and a deep commitment to the poetry of images.

His cinema has the rare ability to capture the intangible. Through a mise-en-scène of consistently serene and understated beauty, his work explores the awakening of desire, the transition to maturity, the intimacy of family life and an almost physical relationship with landscapes and human geographies.

Presenting Jaume Claret with the Márgenes Futura Award means celebrating filmmaking that places complete trust in the power of purely visual and sonic language, sensitive to light and time. It recognises the courage of a young filmmaker who has emerged on the international film scene with remarkable expressive maturity and a deep commitment to the poetry of images.


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Márgenes expands its programme beyond the conventional screen to explore the borderlands between image and sound. Live AV performances transcend both the traditional notion of the screening room and the boundaries of audiovisual language itself: here, innovation unfolds live, in the unpredictable immediacy of performance. These encounters, where visual and sonic arts enter into dialogue in real time, become a laboratory in which a new language emerges: hybrid and alive.



INMERSIVE TERRIOTORIES: THE SENSORY ETHNOGRAPHY LAB


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In collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía, Márgenes presents a programme this year dedicated to Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, an international reference point at the intersection of anthropology, cinema and contemporary art.

Founded by Lucien Castaing-Taylor in 2006, the lab has championed a practice that shifts documentary filmmaking from informative storytelling towards a fully embodied perceptual experience, in which image, sound, the body and the cinematic apparatus shape sensory forms of knowledge. SEL combines aesthetic inquiry with filmmaking to explore the possibilities of image and sound beyond word-centred narratives. With a formal rigour that grants sound as much autonomy as image, its films bring us closer to ways of life and experiences that are difficult to express in words, transforming how we perceive the world. As a space for teaching, a production platform and a framework for research, the lab approaches cinema as research and research as aesthetic practice: a perspective that has influenced new generations of filmmakers and artists and helped expand the boundaries of audiovisual language.

Lucien Castaing-Taylor will join the programme to introduce some of the films and take part in several discussions with audiences.