Published on April 9, 2026
Josep Maria Queraltó will be the protagonist of the 13th Spanish Cinema Forum, which will take place at the Gran Hall 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, part of the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Barcelona. This open platform invites filmmakers 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 audience. Notable figures who have graced this specialized forum include directors José Luis Guerín, David Trueba, José Luis Borau, Josep Maria Forn, José María Nunes, and Daniel Benmayor, actress Assumpta Serna, producers Julio Fernández, Edmon Roch, and Andrés Morte, actor Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, and historian Esteve Riambau.
Josep Maria Queraltó (Vallbona de les Monges, 1937) is an honorary president of the Aula de Cinema Col·lecció Josep M. Queraltó Foundation and a member of the European Film Academy, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain, and an honorary member of the Catalan Cinema Academy. He has received several awards, including the Creu de Sant Jordi and the Segundo de Chomón Award. Queraltó possesses one of the largest private collections of objects related to the seventh art and the audiovisual world in Europe, with over 20,000 pieces that range from shadow puppets, magic lanterns, and zoetropes to praxinoscopes and the Lumière cinematograph. He is currently working on a project to transform his collection—previously exhibited partially in numerous exhibitions across Spain and abroad, including in Jerusalem and Brussels—into a thematic, historical, pedagogical, and interactive museum. In 2014, Queraltó was featured in the documentary *JMQ, in Search of a Dream*.
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