SFC EVENTS / 2008 DOCUMENTA SPAIN
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER, New York
ShortMetraje: New short stories from Spain | December 14-18, 2008
ShortMetraje: New short stories from Spain | December 14-18, 2008
GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER, Chicago
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | December 5-29, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | December 5-29, 2008
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 17-23, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 17-23, 2008
NORTHWEST FILM CENTER, Portland
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 21-December 11, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 21-December 11, 2008
NORTHWEST FILM FORUM, Seattle
FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA FROM SPAIN | November 14-20, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA FROM SPAIN | November 14-20, 2008
MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, US
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 5-9, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 5-9, 2008
FILMOTECA REGIONAL DE CASTILLA Y LEON, Spain
LATINBEAT: From de Film Society of the Lincoln Center to Spain | November 18-December 23, 2008
LATINBEAT: From de Film Society of the Lincoln Center to Spain | November 18-December 23, 2008
FILMOTECA CANARIA, Spain
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | October 3-17, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | October 3-17, 2008
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA, Spain
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | July 9- August 17, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | July 9- August 17, 2008
CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, Spain
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | July 15-20, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | July 15-20, 2008
FILMOTECA REGIONAL FRANCISCO RABAL, Spain
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | May 20-25, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | May 20-25, 2008
VARIOUS VENUES, US
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary Tour | February 15- November 29, 2008
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary Tour | February 15- November 29, 2008
MEDINA DEL CAMPO FILM FESTIVAL, Spain
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas | April 11-19, 2008
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas | April 11-19, 2008
ESCOLA TECNICA SUPERIOR D’ARQUITECTURA DEL VALLES, Spain
Dissensus. Architecture, Politics and Cinema | March 26, 2008
Dissensus. Architecture, Politics and Cinema | March 26, 2008
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, New York
Latinoamerican Women Celebration | March 5, 2008
Latinoamerican Women Celebration | March 5, 2008
BFI SOUTHBANK, London
Spain (Un)censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
Spain (Un)censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
BFI SOUTHBANK & INSTITUTO CERVANTES, London
Other events celebrating Spain (Un)Censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
Other events celebrating Spain (Un)Censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
THE KING JUAN CARLOS I OF SPAIN CENTER, New York
Documenta Spain | February 5- March 25, 2008
Documenta Spain | February 5- March 25, 2008
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Is it fact or fiction, real or fake? This year’s program challenges the conception of reality and fiction. Fiction films that use documentary techniques, and documentaries that use traditional narrative fiction to portrait the world we live in. Come and guess which one is each- and enjoy the new films by up and coming filmmakers from Spain. All films with English Subtitles. Curated by Marta Sánchez. |
THE KING JUAN CARLOS I OF SPAIN CENTER, NYC |
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NOMADAK TX | Raúl de la Fuente | Spain | 86 min. | 2006 |  |
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The music does the talking in Nomadak TX, an exhilarating, feverishly globe-hopping documentary that follows Basque musical duo Oreka Tx as they seek out fellow artists in far-flung nomadic societies. They are masters of the txalapatra, an ancient percussion instrument they are seen hewing out of wood in the film’s opening moments. They ravel to remote regions of the world, using the txalaparta, as a medium for cross-cultural exchange. Traveling to the north of India, the Mongolian Steppes, the Sahara desert and Lapland, the film captures an exciting, organic musical conversation between cultures. Co--directed by Harkaitz Martínez de San Vicente and Igor Otxoa.In the Basque, Spanish, Gujerati, Hindi, Tsaatan, Bereber, French, Saharaui, Suomi, English, Mongol languages with English subtitles. Tuesday, February 5, 7:15 p.m. |
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THE RAILROAD ALL-STARS Estrellas en la Línea | Chema Rodríguez | Spain | 90 min. | 2006 | |
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“Women and mothers”, reads one of the banners cheering the players of the Stars of La Linea on the day of the decisive match. “We are women and mothers before prostitutes” is the first point of the decalogue they draw up in demand of their basic rights. Vilma, Marina, Mercy, Valeria are prostitutes working at La Linea and they are women living on the verge of misery, right on the border between morality and their own religious convictions, between emotional stability and social rejection. This is the story of a journey across this border. Tuesday, February 12, 7:15 p.m. |
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THE LEYEND OF TIME La Leyenda del Tiempo | Isaki Lacuesta | Spain | 106 min. | 2006 | |
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In the hands of chance, Lacuesta devotes himself to the life and work of the late, internationally revered flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla. Lacuesta splits the film into two back-to-back, tangentially related sub-stories that never intersect. Two complementary or contradictory sides: Camarón’s before and after, reality and myth, documentary and fiction. Cravan vs. Cravan revealed to us a director of unquestionable talent. The Legend of Time goes far beyond. It is the confirmation that we are before a superlative young Spanish filmmaker, the most promising of all. Tuesday, February 19, 7:15 p.m. |
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CAN TUNIS | José González Morandi, Paco Toledo | Spain | 86 min. | 2006 | |
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Juan and his eight brothers and sisters and dozens of cousins live in Can Tunis. He fills his days with singing, dancing, mischief and worse. His mother is in jail and his father tries to take care of the family as well as he can. Can Tunis is a seedy suburb of Barcelona. Since the 1980s, it’s the place where drug addicts come to get their fix. Can Tunis is a sincere and poignant portrait of a neighbourhood in utter disorder. How will these people ever be able to hold out in a better area of Barcelona? Tuesday, February 26, 7:15 p.m. |
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SUD EXPRESS | Chema de la Peña, Gabriel Velásquez | Spain | 93 min. | 2006 | |
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Sud Express is about crossing lives. Six stories about anonymous people who meet on a train travelling from Paris to Lisbon. Through the stars of this voyage across South-West Europe we explore their similarities and as yet blatant differences at this critical moment in time for the Old Continent. This is a vital movie because trains have always been just that: emotions in motion. Tuesday, March 4, 7:15 p.m. |
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THE TAXI THIEF El Taxista Ful | Jo Sol | Spain | 90 min. | 2006 | |
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Jose R. develops a routine as a cab driver on the streets of Barcelona. His life would be the same as any other 52-year-old cab driver, if it weren’t for the fact that the taxis he drives are stolen. Jose steals to be able to work. How can such an absurd situation develop? Is he simply crazy or a worker out of a job who has been doomed by the system and forced into this situation? Tuesday, March 11, 7:15 p.m. |
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SEPTEMBERS 2007 Septembres | Carles Bosch | Spain | 90 min. | 2007 | |
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Academy Award© nominated (Balseros) Carles Bosch delights us with a film about love, hope and desire behind the bars of a Spanish prison. Every September, Madrid’s Soto del Real Prison celebrates the Festival of Song. The participants are inmates who come from various prisons. Love, or its absence, serves as the common language to enable the spectator to understand the world of the penitentiary from a perspective we can all relate to. For all of them, love and desire make their lives behind bars worth living. Tuesday, March 25, 7:15 p.m. |
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