The Disenchantment –
El Desencanto –
Jaime Chávarri
The widow and children of an official poet of Read more...
Aunt Tula –
La Tía Tula –
Miguel Picazo
A widower finds himself falling for his Read more...
The Cuenca Game –
El Crimen de Cuenca –
Pilar Miró
Two village men are falsely convicted of murdering a Read more...
Death of a Cyclist –
Muerte de un... –
Juan Antonio Bardem
An adulterous couple hit a cyclist while driving on a Read more...
The Hunt –
La Caza –
Carlos Saura
Three friends go hunting in a sun-scorched area Read more...
Nine Letters to... –
Nueve Cartas a Berta –
Basilio Martín Patino
A student’s Read more...
Poachers –
Furtivos –
José Luis Borau
An emotionally underdeveloped poacher’s first Read more...
Songs for After a... –
Canciones para... –
Basilio Martín Patino
Documentary about popular Read more...
The Spirit of the... –
El Espíritu de la... –
Víctor Erice
In 1940s Spain, two sisters become obsessed with Read more...
The Strange Trip –
El Extraño Viaje –
Fernando Fernán Gómez
A violent and bitingly Read more...
Viridiana –
Viridiana –
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel’s Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece of Read more...
Furrows –
Surcos –
José Antonio Nieves Conde
A portrait of postwar Read more...
Main Street –
Calle Mayor –
Juan Antonio Bardem
In this sobering indictment of provincial hypocrisy, Read more...
The Little Flat –
El Pisito –
Marco Ferreri & Isidoro M. Ferri
Ferreri’s Read more...
The Hooligans –
Los Golfos –
Carlos Saura
Read more...
The Executioner –
El Verdugo –
Luis García Berlanga
Berlanga’s most elegant film tells the story of a Read more...
Placido –
Plácido –
Luis García Berlanga
Nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film award Read more...
From Pink to Yellow –
Del Rosa…al... –
Manuel Summers
Two love stories are told in parallel: in the first, Read more...
My Dear Young Miss –
Mi Querida Señorita –
Jaime de Armiñán
Adela, a provincial middle-aged spinster, gleefully Read more...
Jan. 15- Feb. 17, 2008 –
London
BFI & Instituto Cervantes
Jan. 15- Feb. 17, 2008 –
London
BFI Southbank
Oct. 17- Nov. 4, 2007 –
New York
Museum of Modern Art
Oct. 17- 20, 2007 –
New York
Various venues
Is it possible to make good films during a dictatorship? Between Buñuel and Dalí (Un chien andalou, 1929) and Almodóvar’s first film (Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, 1980) there emerged a whole series of directors whose films developed the visual and oral language which would be used by subsequent Spanish film-makers. This is a cinema, argues Marta Sánchez, which has not always received the recognition it deserves.
Spanish cinema flourished during General Francisco Franco’s regime (1939–75) despite the dictatorship. Provoked by the system they lived under, Spanish directors told dramatic stories about the people’s hopes and troubles by using humor and symbols that reached their audiences and sidestepped the censors.
We are now showing a first-rate ensemble of films, which not only applaud freedom of expression, but also the courage and intelligence of the filmmakers who made them, who managed to find alternative ways of expression to appease censorship without relinquishing what they wanted to transmit.
More than three decades later, these twenty features reveal an enthralling, daring, and formally innovative era of Spanish cinema.
All films are from Spain and in Spanish, with English subtitles.
In memory of Fernando Fernán Gómez
Venues
BFI Southbank
London
Admission Prices
TICKET PRICE LIST:
Evening show (except Tues) and all shows on Saturday/ Sunday
Members: £7.60
Concessions: £5.25
Non-Members: £8.60
Non-Member concessions: £6.25
Under 16s: £5.25
Tuesday - all shows
Members: £5.00
Concessions: £4.00
Non-Members: £5.00
Non-Member concessions: £4.00
Under 16s: £4.00
Weekday matinees
Members: £4.75
Concessions: £4.25
Non-Members: £8.60
Non-Member concessions: £6.25
Under 16s: £5.25