The most anticipated September festivals in Barcelona

Barcelona lights up with culture and tradition. One of the city's most important festivals awaits us in September!

Korean Film Festival Barcelona, known as KFFB, takes place this year from 2 to 6 September at Cinemes Girona. This pioneering event, the first festival in the city devoted entirely to Korean cinema, aims to bring Korean culture closer and celebrate its richness through film, creating a cultural bridge between Barcelona and Korea.

In September and October, Penedès is in a festive mood to celebrate the grape harvest, an event that marks the beginning of the grape-picking season and attracts visitors seeking unique experiences in wine-growing settings.

The Extreme Barcelona Festival turns Parc del Fòrum into a hub of extreme sport and free entertainment. With competitions, exhibitions and activities for all ages, it is an unmissable event for lovers of adrenaline and urban culture.

Barcelona Acció Musical (BAM) once again shows that discovering new music can be one of the best ways to experience La Mercè. With a programme that embraces creative risk, diversity and emerging acts, the festival brings together artists who challenge labels and build bridges between cultures, languages and musical genres.

FSTVL B once again takes the pulse of the most restless side of today’s music. From 17 to 19 September 2026, Parc del Fòrum will bring together some of the acts shaping the independent and urban scene, with a line-up mixing established names, emerging artists and sounds that are hard to categorise.

In its fifth edition, this event not only celebrates with tastings, showcookings and workshops, but also stands as an educational and recreational platform promoting more sustainable food practices.

The Jornadas Europeas del Patrimonio, an event whose theme this year is «Heritage at Risk: Revive, Resist, Reimagine». This theme highlights the rich fabric of stories and legacies that intertwine Europe’s past and present.

For a few days in September, Vic becomes a place where music is not only heard: it is also presented, discovered and finds new paths. From 16 to 20 September, Mercat de Música Viva de Vic (MMVV) celebrates its 38th edition, bringing together artists, industry professionals and the public.

This festival seeks not only to highlight the city’s rich artistic diversity, but also to encourage art collecting and revalue the role of galleries as cultural epicentres open to all citizens.

Art Nou celebrates its 15th edition, reaffirming itself as one of the main showcases for emerging art in Barcelona and L’Hospitalet. The festival offers young national and international artists the opportunity to take their first steps in the professional sphere, connecting their work with galleries, independent spaces, institutions and new audiences.

Barcelona Districte Cultural (BDC) is renewing itself this autumn, presenting an expanded cultural offering that now includes, in addition to the already traditional performing arts and concerts, free visual arts, cinema and talks at various civic centres across the city. BDC thus consolidates four cultural strands: Argumenta, Escena, Pantalla and Temporals, enriching its programme with activities ranging from cinema to thought.

FilmoXica: bicicletas turns the screen at Filmoteca de Catalunya into the starting point for a summer on wheels. The series, designed for children and families, brings together films in which a bicycle can mean freedom, friendship, discovery or the start of an unexpected adventure.

The Verdi Kids programme brings family cinema to Barcelona’s libraries for the centenary of Verdi cinemas, celebrated in 2026. In collaboration with Biblioteques de Barcelona, the series offers a selection of films for all audiences, bringing the best children’s and youth cinema to neighbourhoods and turning libraries into spaces for cultural encounters.

KM América celebrates its fifth edition, consolidating itself as one of the main meeting points between Latin American literature, the Caribbean and Barcelona’s cultural scene. Over several days, libraries, cultural spaces and stages across the city will fill with conversations, readings, routes, workshops and shows that understand literature as something alive, shared and deeply connected to the present.