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About

Awards/Grants

Juana Robles (b. 1983, Tortosa, Spain) is a Kilkenny-based artist-filmmaker. Her work, often created with analog techniques like 16mm and Super 8, explores the body, identity, memory, and resilience through immersive, tactile cinema. Drawing from performance and ritual, she blurs personal and collective histories.

 

Juana has studied at the Lucerne School of Art and Design and Zurich University of the Arts. Her films have been shown at festivals worldwide, including Perth International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich, and exhibited in art contexts like CAN Centre d'art Neuchâtel, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow and Askeaton Contemporary Arts. Single works by Juana Robles are distributed by Light Cone (Paris) and Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris).

 

She is also a co-founder of Out of Focus, an initiative in Kilkenny dedicated to avant-garde cinema, and has contributed to the experimental film community through her roles at festivals like Videoex and the Lausanne Underground Film Festival (LUFF).

2025

Istanbul Int. Experimental Film Festival, Turkey

"Alicia"

Best Experimental Documentary

2024

Arts Council of Ireland

Film Bursary Award

Atelier 105, Light Cone, Paris

Post-production residency

2023

Arts Council of Ireland

Film Project Award 

2022

International Festival of Analog/Experimental Cinema KINOSKOP 

"Anastatica"
Audience Award

Experimental Film Festival Barcelona

"Anastatica"

Best experimental short

Arts Council of Ireland

Film Agility Award 

 

2021

Arts Council of Ireland

Film Project Award 

Arts Council Ireland

Film Bursary Award

Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland

"Nightshades"
First Prize Swiss Competition

2020

Arts Council of Ireland

Professional Development Award 

Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema

"and a porcelain cat"

First Prize ex aequo

Videoex Experimental film & Video Festival Zurich, Switzerland

"and a porcelain cat"

First Prize Swiss Competition ex aequo

MUFF Milwaukee Underground Film Festival

"and a porcelain cat"

Honourable Mention

Super Off International Super 8 Film Festival

"and a porcelain cat"

Honourable Mention

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