The Golden Ticket of the B-Retina Festival 2026 in Barcelona will be awarded to the legendary and iconoclastic German director Jörg Buttgereit, born in West Berlin in 1963. A filmmaker, playwright and film critic, he became the foremost exponent of European ultra-gore cinema in the late 1980s, standing out on the international underground film scene.
The highlight of his visit to the B-Retina Festival will be the special screening of his masterpiece, Nekromantik (1987), a disturbing necrophiliac love triangle in which the corpse becomes the central object of a domestic passion, with poetry of decay and genuine practical effects. We will screen a special version never before seen in Spain, digitised directly from 35 mm celluloid. A print that preserves the harshness, the grain and the colours of the original with the utmost cinematic fidelity to the 1980s, exactly as its creator conceived it. A session that vindicates freedom of expression after years of banning, censorship and court proceedings. On September the 19th 2026 you will have the unique chance to see Nekromantik on the big screen, in this special version and alongside Jörg Buttgereit, as part of the 11th edition of the B-Retina Festival.