The Cinespaña Festival, which starts on Friday, October 6, will present more than 120 films from all over the Iberian Peninsula, from the Pyrenees to the Atlantic, over ten days in Toulouse and the Haute-Garonne.
History is like this: Toulouse, the capital of Republican exile, can only be a beautiful and great showcase for Spanish cinema. Cinespaña, which has become a two-year Spanish and Portuguese film festival, will present more than 120 films in its 28th edition. Six films in the documentary competition, eight in the fiction competition, including “Creaturas” by Carlos Vermut, director of “La niña del fuego,” and “200,000 Species of Bees,” for which the eight-year-old young actress Sofía Otero received an award. The bear. Silver Medal for Best Performance in Berlin, or even “The Girls Are Alright”, which combines theater and cinema, the first film of the actress Itsuno Arana, the Acting Award at Cinespaña for the original film “Eva in August”.
There are several previews in the program. Thus, “Mal viver” and “Viver mal”, the Portuguese duo of João Canejo, the Silver Bear of the last Berlinale (Sunday, October 8 at 1:30 pm and 4 pm on ABC). In the first part, five women fight to keep a hotel alive. In the second, everything is seen through the eyes of the hotel guests… and also the documentary “Cesaria Evora” about this icon who defied fate from poverty to fame (Saturday 7, 9 pm on ABC). Once again, “In Good Company” by Sylvia Mont, who will screen her film on Wednesday, September 11, at Pathé Wilson.
Feminist struggles in the Basque Country in the 1970s
The “Cuerpos Rebeldes” cycle will include the works of those women directors who fell silent during the Franco era and revealed themselves in the democratization, while the focus on “Contemporary Cinema of the Canary Islands” will bring this cinema “to the light and to the sublime.” “Landscape,” says Alba Paz, co-director of the festival.
“El dia del ciné Español” is celebrated across Spain on October 6, marking its bicentenary. The film of Ana Mariscal, the pioneering actress of Iberian cinema, singer, dancer and actress Lola Flores, with, among others, on opening night on Friday, the intense “Embrujo” in its French premiere in a restored version (9pm at Cinémathèque). And “Stories of Portuguese Cinema” accompanied by José Manuel Costa, director of Cinemateca Portugesa, two films “Change of Life” and “Past and Present” by Manuel de Oliveira (Friday 13 and Saturday 14, at Cinematheque). . We will cite in bulk the images of women in the “Mirrada” section, the “Young Audiences” section, and another section, “Trash Animation,” along with animated films of another kind… and do not forget the literary meetings: Elvira Navarro (Monday) 9, Cervantes Institute), Antonio Muñoz Molina ( Saturday 14, White Shadows). And of course, the unmissable festive aperitifs and music, every evening, at the Cour de la Cinémathèque.
