Adrià Guxens

Adrià Guxens (Tarragona, 1992) graduated cum laude in Journalism from UAB and in Film Directing from ESCAC. His first student short film, The Door, was selected at the Toronto Festival (TIFF KIDS) in 2018. That same year, he presented An Instant, which now has over 1 million views on YouTube. In 2019, after his first trip to China, he premiered I Don’t Think It Is Going to Rain at ZINEBI, which received a Silver Biznaga at the Málaga Film Festival. In the following years, he released new shorts that continue exploring the Chinese-Spanish relationship, such as A Distant Noise (D’A) and A Hakka Song (Trento). In 2024, he premiered his latest short film, Kokuhaku, at the Sitges Festival. Guxens has served as a jury member at festivals such as Venice, Sitges, and Guadalajara. In 2017, he joined the programming team at Venice Days, and since 2021, he has been the head of LGBTI+ short film programming at the Raindance. He has also been the jury secretary at the Sitges Festival since 2018 and teaches directing at ESCAC. He is currently developing two feature films: Three Songs, which went through the Brussels Co-Production Forum among other labs, and won the Filmin Award at FICX Pro; and Lóngquán, which has started filming in China in 2025 and won the Locarno WIP Award of 2025.