La Carn

Local title
Lihalett
Original title
La Carn
Director
Joan Porcel
Country
Year
2025
Festival
29th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Genre
Subject

A daring performance, digital love and an odd admirer. Liquid love. Suspense. A film that goes beyond the screen.

Lluís Garau, a young dancer, has created a performance inspired by Chatroulette, a platform that connects strangers at random via video call. In his restless search for connection and meaning, he becomes entangled in a series of increasingly unsettling encounters where desire, fear, and exposure merge with art and intimacy.

Director Joan Porcel, an expert in portraying artists’ creative processes through the documentary format, focuses this time on the young choreographer Lluís Garau and his experimental work and innovative journey. This serves as an initial frame for exploring the boundaries between fiction and reality while reflecting on the contemporary sexual-affective relationships.

“La Carn” portrays the human body without filters as a place of search and confrontation, and the digital space as a territory where the soul blurs and obsession takes shape. Exposed, Lluís moves between the real and virtual worlds until the boundary breaks. Multiple screens, no borders, genuine artistic research, and the dissolution of the fourth wall: this is a true Rebel film.

Javier Garcia Puerto

Director
Joan Porcel
Screenwriter
Joan Porcel, Pere Antoni Sastre, Lluís Garau, Pere Antoni Sastre, Lluís Garau
Cast
Lluís Garau, Lluís Garau
Producer
Charli Bujosa, Charli Bujosa
Co-producer
Martín Nigro, Iván Martín Ruedas, Iván Martín, Martín Nigro
Cinematographer
Marino Pardo
Production Design
María Boyarizo Martínez
Editing
Núria Guillén Rodrigo
Composer
Sergio Llopis
Music
Sergio Llopis
Production
Mansalva Films, Mansalva Films
Co production
MN Studios, Helsinki Films, MN Studios, Helsinki Films, IB3
World sales
Begin Again Films
Distribution
Begin Again Films
Sound
Laura Gantes
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Language
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Director
Joan Porcel

Joan Porcel is a Spanish filmmaker. He is a graduate in Audiovisual Communication and holds a Master's in Theory and Practice of Creative Documentary from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2016). His debut feature film, "Samantha Hudson, una historia de fe, sexo y electroqueer" ("Samantha Hudson: A story of faith, sex and electro-queer", 2018) garnered significant attention and was selected for numerous national and international festivals, winning the Audience Award for Best Spanish Work at the LesGaiCineMad festival in Madrid. His next film, a documentary "Sempre Dijous" (2020) won the Jury Prize for Best National Documentary at the In-Edit Festival in Barcelona.
Filmography:
Samantha Hudson, una historia de fe, sexo y electroqueer (2018, doc), Sempre Dijous (2020, doc), La Carn (2025)

Screenings

Screening090920 / Lihalett
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsJoan Porcel (Director, Screenwriter), Charli Bujosa (Producer), Lluís Garau (Screenwriter, Cast)
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