FILMIG - Plataforma Cero

From Platform Zero, within the framework of the organization of the FILMIG —Traveling Migrant Book Fair— We share with you that the The third edition of the fair will take place in Barcelona from April 13 to 18, 2026.

This year, FILMIG arises under an urgent and necessary question: What stories aren't you reading? A direct challenge to the publishing industry, cultural institutions, and society as a whole. What voices continue to be left out? What stories, memories, and knowledge continue to be silenced, erased, or relegated to the margins of our libraries and bookstores?

Throughout the week, FILMIG will be deploying a itinerant programming in different spaces throughout the city: talks, book presentations, workshops, labs, and documentary screenings. The tour will culminate with the opening of the exhibition hall on April 17th and 18th, with a closing ceremony that, once again, will take place in the Casinet de Hostafrancs, in the district of Sants-Montjuïc, on Saturday, April 18.

FILMIG was born in 2024 as a independent and self-managed project, driven from grassroots culture, with the will to to open cracks in a publishing industry that continues to exclude many of our voicesIt is a meeting space for migrant and racialized women writers, editors, artists and readers; a place to recognize each other, share knowledge and build networks, understanding culture as a living, communal and profoundly political practice.

Each day is conceived as a porous and participatory territorywhere the fair is not just an exhibition, but collective practice, moving archive and laboratory of possible futures.

From the mission of Plataforma Cero, through FILMIG, we believe that your participation contributes to decentralize the literary canonto expand the margins of what is legible and audible, already To position migrant culture as a space for critical thinking, artistic production, and social transformation.

The act of connecting through words motivates people to write and read. It is also important as a playful activity for acknowledging our history, writing about our present, and thinking about how we envision our future.

A space like FILMIG is extremely important because it showcases the editorial diversity and also the range of interests that exist in Barcelona and the rest of Spain.

We believe the idea of creating migrant networks is fundamental.

FILMIG's role in the fight for epistemic justice is key. It's a festival organized and self-managed by migrant and racialized bodies, so it's crucial that we make visible and assert our right to be there.

[...] In books and film, the stories of Black and Brown people have always been told through a Western, white lens. Demanding that our work be made visible and published is epistemic anti-racism.

This gathering is a space for listening, connecting, and dialogue, and that transforms. It has transformed me, and that's why I believe in its importance.

The FILMIG closure expands into a intercultural cultural programming, where With the feet It is proposed as a space to sing, dance, and move the body; to celebrate existence amidst the violence and difficulties faced by racialized people in the current geopolitical context. Because we don't just write on paper: The body also speaks, remembers, and expresses itself.

We understand joy as a indispensable political practiceEspecially in the festive spaces we build from grassroots culture, where music, dance, and collective presence become forms of resistance, care, and affirmation of life. The closing event thus proposes a vibrant and shared encounter, where the written word engages in dialogue with the moving body, listening, and collective celebration.

Throughout its two previous editions, FILMIG has established itself as a act of cultural justiceNot only because it makes books and authors more visible, but because build horizons where our words matterThey find their own place and open up dialogues that are necessary for the city. We understand culture as a common territory from which to contest narratives, produce memory and generate community.

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