Published on April 1, 2026
Josep Maria Queraltó will be the featured guest at the 13th Spanish Cinema Forum, which will take place at the Sala Gran of the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Barcelona (Montalegre, 6, 4th floor) on Tuesday, May 9, at 11 a.m. Admission is free.
The Spanish Cinema Forum, organized since the 2001-2002 academic year, is an initiative of the Film-History Research Center within the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona. It serves as an open platform where filmmakers are invited to discuss their artistic careers and engage in dialogue about their work. At the end of the event, the guest participates in a colloquium with the attending audience. Previous speakers have included directors José Luis Guerín, David Trueba, José Luis Borau, Josep Maria Forn, José María Nunes, and Daniel Benmayor, as well as actress Assumpta Serna, producers Julio Fernández, Edmon Roch, and Andrés Morte, actor Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, and historian Esteve Riambau.
Josep Maria Queraltó, born in Vallbona de les Monges in 1937, is the honorary president of the Aula de Cinema Josep M. Queraltó Foundation. He is a member of the European Film Academy, the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences of Spain, and an honorary member of the Catalan Cinema Academy. He has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Creu de Sant Jordi and the Segundo de Chomón Award. Queraltó boasts one of Europe’s largest private collections of objects related to the seventh art and the audiovisual world, with over 20,000 pieces ranging from shadow puppets, magic lanterns, zootropes, and praxinoscopes to the Lumière cinematograph and modern analog cinema.
Currently, he aims to transform his collection—already partially showcased in numerous exhibitions throughout Spain and even internationally in Jerusalem and Brussels—into a thematic, historical, pedagogical, and interactive museum. In 2014, Queraltó was the subject of the documentary *JMQ, in Search of a Dream*.
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