Spring Weekend, 13th edition
Screening courtesy of New Wave Films
Dir. Alvaro Gago
with María Vázquez, Santi Prego, Tatán, Susana Sampedro
Spain | 2023 | 99 min
In Galician with English subtitles
Ramona lives in a Galician fishing village. She works in a canning factory, hardly speaks with her husband and her daughter, who has given her a grandchild is now ready to stand on her own. She lives life successfully, but the moment to make a change may have arrived.
María Vázquez offers a wonderful performance as Ramona, a strong and nuanced female lead, carrying the entire film on her shoulders with great dignity. Alvaro Gago, who won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize in 2018 with his short by the same title, developes it and creates characters that are rich and relatable offering an engaging take on resilient womanhood. The film has won the director and the lead actress several national and international nominations and awards.
Let’s toast Spanish cinema with the compliments of Alhambra beer before the screening from 7.30pm.
Ciné Lumière
at the Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
South Kensington
London SW7 2DT
Box Office: 020 7871 3515
Riverside Studios
101 Queen Caroline Street
Hammersmith
London W6 9BN
Box Office: 020 8237 1010
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.