20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme
UK premiere
Followed by a Q&A with the director and Mireia Mullor, film critic and journalist
dir. Luis E. Parés
with Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Pedro Casablanc
Spain | 2023 | 74 min | doc | cert. PG
In Spanish with English subtitles
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 forever the history of Spanish cinema giving some of its greatest directors: Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Carlos Saura, Víctor Erice, Basilio Martín Patino, José Luis Borau… The practice exercises of the students are still in the archives of the School. Parés makes a formidable excersice himself with the archival material helping understand the greatness of the dreams of those filmmaking students observing the modernisation process of a country ravaged by many traumas.
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We’d like to thank as well for their personal efforts, interest and support:
Marina Díaz López, Juan Blas Delgado, Nickolas Grace, Michela Bertolini, Antonio Molina Vázquez, Natacha Antolini, Prof. Maria Delgado, Prof. Peter W. Evans, Diane Gabrisiak, Thomas Riley, Bea Segura, Javier Fernández and Clara Caleo Green.