20th Anniversary Edition – Core Programme

LA PRIMERA MIRADA

The First Look
Ciné Lumière I

UK premiere

£15, conc. £13

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.