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Arnau Vilaró (Bellvís, Lleida, 1986) is a Spanish screenwriter, essayist and university professor.

Noted for writing the screenplay for Alcarràs, the film that won the Golden Bear at the 2022 Berlinale, and for the book La Caricia del Cine.

Graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and PhD in Film Studies from the Pompeu Fabra University, he will work in the direction department of Summer 1993 (2017). He also write Alcarràs (2022) with Carla Simón, a winning film for the Golden Bear at the 72 Berlin International Film Festival. Son of farmers from Lleida, the film is inspired by part of Vilaró's childhood and family universe.

He is a professor of film studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​at the Open University of Catalonia and at ESCAC. As a researcher, he has dedicated his work to the study of French cinema and to the review of the work of Gilles Deleuze. He has developed his doctoral career at the Sorbonne Nouvelle universities in Paris and at the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, specializing in the history and aesthetics of French cinema. He has published in magazines such as Communication & Society, History and Social Communication, Cahiers du Grelcef, L'Atalante, Comparative Cinema, Secuencias, Zer, Área Abierta or Çédille and is the author of the monograph La caricia del cine (2017).

He has been responsible for programming such as Le corps et le lieu. Films autour by Ana Mendieta (2019) at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris 7 and Revolución, je t’aime (2018) 8 for the Barcelona City Council (2018).