RIOJA, TIERRA DE LOS MIL VINOS

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS This documentary offers a comprehensive look at the vibrant evolution of the Spanish wine industry, showing the interaction between new generations and the historic wineries of Rioja. Through captivating photography, careful editing and immersive music, the documentary delves into the essence of this region’s wine, bridging its […]
LOS PEQUENOS AMORES

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Teresa changes her holiday plans to help her mother, who has had a minor accident. Mother and daughter will spend a stifling summer together, unable to agree on even the most trivial things. However, their forced coexistence will bring to the surface unexpected issues, bringing Teresa to […]
LA PRIMERA MIRADA

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Also part of Memory and Utopy In a country destroyed by a civil war and in the midst of a dictatorship a film school was created. Against any intention by the regime, it became a space of freedom. The dream only lasted fifteen years, but it changed […]
ON THE GO

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Milagros stretches a carefree youth in her last years of fertility, while Jonathan is addicted to Grindr and seeking vengeance to overcome abandonment issues. Despite being unemployed, Milagros is determined to be a mother. That’s why she arrives to Seville in her father’s ‘67 Corvair with the […]
AMANECE

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Juan Francisco Viruega’s opera prima first follows Alba as she returns to her hometown after a romantic breakup, and then Candela, the sister who stayed home by the side of their now terminally ill mother. Together, Alba and Candela will confront and heal childhood woonds as they […]
RIQUENI

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Seville-born Francisco Bech has always been deeply connected to the music scene in his hometown. In 2011, he agreed with Rafael Riqueni to document the recording of his upcoming album. Unexpected circumstances turned this project into a much longer journey than initially planned, with the documentary’s filming […]
QUE NADIE DUERMA

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS In collaboration with: Lucía, a middle-aged single woman working as an IT programmer, faces a challenging situation when she loses her job in a struggling market. Deciding to take a drastic turn in her life, she buys a taxi and its license. In her new role as […]
TRATAMOS DEMASIADO BIEN A LAS MUJERES

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War’s end, this film is an adaptation of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 pulp novel We Always Treat Women Too Well. A compelling Carmen Machi plays an ultra-fascist, borderline psychopath, who is to marry a fascist comander. On her own she […]
PÁJAROS

20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme BOOK TICKETS Colombo works at a parking lot and tops up his meager wages by selling weed. Mario is a lawyer and a keen birdwatcher whom, due to a past accident, is unable to drive. Mario offers to pay Colombo to drive him from Valencia to a lake in […]
SOBRE TODO DE NOCHE

Close Your Eyes
Ciné Lumière, at the Institut Français
£15, conc. £13
sun 14 apr | 6.05pm
Dir. Víctor Iriarte
with Lola Dueñas, Ana Torrent, Manuel Egozkue
Followed by a Q&A (tbc)
Spain/Portugal/France | 2023 | 95 min | cert. 15
In Spanish with English subtitles