SFC EVENTS / 2008 DOCUSPAIN: SPANISH DOCUMENTARY TOUR
ShortMetraje: New short stories from Spain | December 14-18, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | December 5-29, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 17-23, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 21-December 11, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA FROM SPAIN | November 14-20, 2008
FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA | November 5-9, 2008
LATINBEAT: From de Film Society of the Lincoln Center to Spain | November 18-December 23, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | October 3-17, 2008
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 15-20, 2008
LATINBEAT: From the Film Society of Lincoln Center to Spain | May 20-25, 2008
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary Tour | February 15- November 29, 2008
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas | April 11-19, 2008
Dissensus. Architecture, Politics and Cinema | March 26, 2008
Latinoamerican Women Celebration | March 5, 2008
Spain (Un)censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
Other events celebrating Spain (Un)Censored | January 15 through 17 February, 2008
Documenta Spain | February 5- March 25, 2008
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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. |
INTERNATIONAL HOUSE UCSB ARTS & LECTURES HOPKINS CENTER FILM February 15-27, 2008
NORTHWEST FILM CENTER MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE |
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MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE La Casa de mi Abuela | Adán Aliaga | SPAIN | 80 min. | 2005 |  |
| How does a pop duet work out for impulsive and irreverent six-year-old Marina and 75-year-old Marita? Cheeky Marina plays to the camera, ignoring the chiding of her aged grandmother, Marita. Marita’s crumbling house was built by her long-dead husband. She moved in when they married, over 53 years ago, and nothing much has changed since. Now her home is under threat; the neighborhood is being torn down, replaced with charmless apartments. | ||
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COMANDANTE | Oliver Stone | SPAIN | 99 min. | 2003 | |
| Relations between the USA and Cuba are anything but normal. One of the United States’ most outspoken and controversial directors interviews one of the world’s most outspoken and controversial heads of state –Comandante, Fidel Castro. No prior arrangements were made about what questions should or should not be discussed and Castro responds to each of them. | ||
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THE MIRACLE OF CANDEAL El milagro de Candeal | Fernando Trueba | SPAIN | 125 min. | 2005 | |
| Candeal is a marginal area in the heart of Salvador, the capital of Bahia and home of Grammy award winning musician Carlinhos Brown. The film is a stunning parable of how a notorious slum transformed itself into a model community through the power of music, pushed along by Brown’s commitment to the local youth. | ||
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THE BASQUE BALL - SKIN AGAINST STONE La Pelota Vasca - La Piel Contra la Piedra | Julio Medem | SPAIN | 115 min. | 2003 | |
| "With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, La Pelota Vasca is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region." - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio | ||
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SEVILLE SOUTHSIDE Polígono sur | Dominique Abel | SPAIN | 107 min. | 2003 | |
| Flamenco is the lifeblood of the Gitano’s, Spanish gypsies whose exile has lasted for centuries. In looking for the roots of the so-called "New Flamenco", the film takes you on a journey to Tres Mil Viviendas, a rundown estate on Seville’s South Side, and home to the city’s. | ||
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BARS IN THE MEMORY Rejas en la memoria | Manuel Palacios | SPAIN | 80 min. | 2004 | |
| This groundbreaking documentary uncovers the forgotten history surrounding Franco’s concentration camps and prisons created to deal with the Republican resistance fighters from the Spanish Civil War in 1936. | ||
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MEMORY TRAIN El tren de la memoria | Marta Arribas y Ana Pérez | SPAIN | 85 min. | 2006 | |
| A sensitive and thought-provoking documentary that artfully weaves interviews and extraordinary historical footage to tell the story of a hidden part of European history; the officially sanctioned mass exodus of some two million Spaniards to work in European factories in the 1960s. | ||
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BALSEROS Balseros | Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domènech | SPAIN | 120 min. | 2002 | |
| In summer 1994, more than 50,000 Cubans took to the sea in a motley array of rafts and floating junk in an attempt to reach the Florida shores. Shot with an intense sense of both immediacy and intimacy, Balseros dives in to the difficulties of pursuing the ’American Dream’. | ||
SUPPORTED BY
Spain Foreign Cultural Cooperation, Embassy of Spain, Washington DC.
