From the 20th to the 27th of October, the Cambridge Film Festival presents a new edition of ‘Camera Catalonia’, that brings to the UK audiences a sample of the best recent Catalan films. Six productions are scheduled this year: 'Pacifiction', 'Alcarràs', 'Sinjar', 'The Burning Cold', 'Men’s Cooking' and 'We won’t kill each other with guns'.
Catalan cinema contains numerous traces of radicalism or avant-garde. The pioneer Segundo de Chomón and the painter Salvador Dalí marked a trend later followed by the Barcelona School, the militant and underground cinema of the seventies or, more recently, Albert Serra.
In 2012, he won Your Film Fest, a competition organised by YouTube and supported by Ridley Scott. Not long after, he was working on an online series produced by Scott himself and the actor Michael Fassbender. Now, David Victori has consolidated his status as a filmmaker with Cross the Line (No matarás), his second feature film, which submerges the viewer in a Barcelona full of neon lights and unexpected twists and is being presented at the 53th edition of the Sitges International Fantastic ...
El director, productor i activista català ha estat el protagonista d’una retrospectiva del seu cinema al Regne Unit, clausurada aquest 15 de febrer amb la projecció de 'Pont de Varsòvia' (1989) i una masterclass impartida pel propi Portabella. Repassem amb ell una trajectòria d'art, cinema i compromís.
The most ambitious, creative and complete international retrospective of works by Pere Portabella will tour London’s most engaged cultural institutions from 26 November 2019 to 15 February 2020. Programme supported by the Institut Ramon Llull, showing at Close-Up Film Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Whitechapel Gallery, Brixton Prison, Cafe Oto, BFI Southbank, Low Company and University of Cambridge.
Juanjo Giménez’s film Timecode, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Festival for the best short, yesterday picked up the same prize at the European Film Awards ceremony held in Berlin. The short shows the peculiar relationship between two security guards in a car park.
As part of the ArteKino Festival, the Cinémathèque Française in Paris is screening the feature film 'Vivir y otras ficciones' (Living and Other Fictions) on 9th December. The film, directed by Jo Sol, is being previewed before its release in cinemas.
It has been 16 years since Marseille played host to the first Hispanic film festival, the Festival Cinehorizontes, which this year will be on from 9th to 17th November at different venues in the French city. With Jocelyne Faessel as president, this edition has seven Catalan productions and directors Bruna Cusí and Jo Sol will be present.
The London Spanish Film Festival celebrates the 7th edition of the Catalan Window from 24 to 30 September, featuring three films from Catalonia, with the support of the Institut Ramon Llull and Catalan Films. This years the festival dedicates a special session to Isabel Coixet, who will join us for an onstage interview to present her film 'Learning to Drive'.
Based on real events, Born follows the adventures of coppersmith Bonaventura, his sister Marianna and the rich merchant Vicenç, with whom both have pending issues. All of them lived at the beginning of c XVIII in the disappeared neighborhood of El Bornet in Barcelona. Three persons facing up to a time of big social, political and also intimate mutations.
A weekend-long tribute to the internationally known filmmaker who simultaneously launched the film careers of Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, curated by Bigas Luna’s daughter, Betty Bigas.
Moreover, Pere Faura’s dance company is performing this Friday at the MOVE! Festival in Krefeld, with the show “Sin baile no hay paraíso”. This festival previously programmed another dance company founded in Catalonia on 18th and 19th October: Thomas Noone Dance, performing “Watch me”, “As if I”, “Brutal Love Poems” and “Alice”. Later, on 19th November, Sònia Sánchez will present Le ça. El ello there and ...
Ignasi M. is Ventura Pons’ 25th film and his third documentary, after Ocaña, retrat intermitent (1977) and El Gran Gato (2002). With Ignasi M. this will be the sixth time, after Carícies, Amic/Amat, Morir (o No), Anita no perd el tren and Barcelona (un mapa) that this prestigious North-American festival has programmed the Catalan director’s most recent film.
Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival will be showcasing an exciting range of events from the 24th of May to the 8th of June. Catalunya is its international partner this year and the festival features a programme organised in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull. The Festival will feature over 25 events to celebrate the vibrant arts of Catalunya, through Catalan theatre, film, dance, music, workshops, talks and food. To talk about it we have interviewed Maria Bota, direcotr ...
The British city of Salisbury will host more than 25 Catalan cultural offerings between 24th May and 8th June, which will be included in the Salisbury International Arts Festival with the slogan "the festival celebrates the vibrant arts of Catalonia".