The collective, which has managed the venue for the past 25 years, believes the Girona City Council acted "negligently" in approving the tender's terms. They explain that the decision grants management to a private, for-profit company, contradicting the municipal plenary's prior resolution that the Truffaut Cinema is a "public cultural service without a profit motive".

They criticize the Consistory for opting for a model of "privatization and commercialization" of a public cultural facility, holding the governing team members primarily responsible. Furthermore, they highlight that the tender's terms do not explicitly require programming in the original version, a "fundamental" requirement and the Truffaut's "main unique feature".

The collective argues that legal opinions support the possibility of withdrawing the tender due to public interest, citing Article 152 of the Public Sector Contracts Law. This stance was supported by Guanyem in the local government board, while Junts and ERC voted in favor of awarding it to the Cambrils company to "avoid fraud and act within the law".

They express particular criticism towards the Department of Culture, led by ERC, accusing it of "indifference and absolute passivity." They state they were informed that the "only legal way" was to set a 51% weighting for the cultural proposal and 49% for the economic aspect. However, they assert that, according to legal experts, it is possible to weigh cultural criteria at 70% and economic ones at 30%, which would have necessitated forming an expert committee.

They consider the cultural evaluation of the project, which was left to a "single municipal technician," to have been "arbitrary, biased, and unfair," failing to account for the collective's experience. The loss of the tender has sparked a "major wave of opposition," including a manifesto from the Catalan Film Academy with over 6,500 signatures and support campaigns from cultural entities and film professionals.