This festival offers 10 different sections showing more than 200 films. Sitges 04 - Catalonia's official festival - promotes Catalan audiovisual creations like the Machinist or Febrer and is a distribution and exhibition medium for international productions.

The festival took place from 2-11 December 2004 in Sitges, south of Barcelona.

The Best Director Award was for Johnnie To for "Breaking News" (Hong Kong) and the Best Film Award was for "Old Boy" of Park Chan-Wook (South Corea).