Comandante –
Oliver Stone
Stone and Castro, mano e mano Read more...
The Basque Ball -... –
La Pelota Vasca - La... –
Julio Medem
The Highest-Grossing Spanish documentary of all time Read more...
The Miracle of... –
El milagro de... –
Fernando Trueba
Candeal is a marginal area in the heart of Salvador, Read more...
Bars in the Memory –
Rejas en la memoria –
Manuel Palacios
This groundbreaking documentary uncovers the Read more...
Seville Southside –
Polígono sur –
Dominique Abel
Flamenco is the lifeblood of the Gitano’s, Spanish Read more...
Balseros –
Balseros –
Carles Bosch & Josep M. Domènech
In summer 1994, more than Read more...
Memory Train –
El tren de la... –
Marta Arribas & Ana Pérez
A sensitive and Read more...
During the past couple of years, the documentary has become one of the most exciting forms of new cinema. Pragda presents a series of provocative and brilliantly conceived Spanish documentaries that have revived the genre with new forms of expression. The program will tour the U.S. during 2007.
Highlights of the documentary revival include the winner of the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at IDFA and Miami Film Festival Special Gran Jury Mention My Grandmother’s House; Oliver Stone’s remarkable and highly controversial study of Fidel Castro Comandante; the spectacularly powerful document about a Brazilian favela that uses music for social change The Miracle of Candeal; Academy award® nominated Balseros; "The most controversial Spanish film in decades." as per Fiachra Gibbons from The Guardian The Basque Ball by Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia); the humorous and very touching piece of Spain Seville Southside; and emotionally turbulent Memory Train.
DOCUSPAIN has been organized with generous support from the Spanish Foreign Cultural Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain in Washington. Special thanks go to all the other participating Spanish Consulates in the US and the International Documentary Association (IDA). All the films will be screened with English subtitles.
SUPPORTED BY
SPAIN FOREIGN CULTURAL COOPERATION, EMBASSY OF SPAIN, WASHINGTON, DC
Venues
Various venues
Nationwide
Schedule
NORTHWEST FILM CENTER
July 13- August 16, 2007
BILL COSFORD CINEMAS
August 24-26, 2007
HARVARD FILM ARCHIVES
September 14-16, 2007
MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE
September 30 -April 27, 2007
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
October 18-November 11, 2007
UCLA
February 15-27, 2008
HOPKINS CENTER FILM
February 21, 2008
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
February 28, 2008
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
November 26 -29, 2008