SFC EVENTS / FILM AND MUSIC & LATINO POWER
THE FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER, New York
ShortMetraje: Vivid short films from Spain | December 15 & 17, 2007
ShortMetraje: Vivid short films from Spain | December 15 & 17, 2007
FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE CARTAGENA
Murcine: Murcia Rueda | December 8-15, 2007
Murcine: Murcia Rueda | December 8-15, 2007
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York
Spain (Un)censored | October 17-November 5, 2007
Spain (Un)censored | October 17-November 5, 2007
VARIOUS VENUES, New York
Book release, panel discussion and on-line poster exhibit | October 18 & 20, 2007
Book release, panel discussion and on-line poster exhibit | October 18 & 20, 2007
VARIOUS VENUES, US
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary tour | ON GOING
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary tour | ON GOING
INSTITUTO CERVANTES, Rabat and Casablanca (Morocco)
ShortMetraje: Spanish Film Week | October 29 & November 2, 2007
ShortMetraje: Spanish Film Week | October 29 & November 2, 2007
ALTER ARTE, Spain
Espectro Americano | October 1-6, 2007
Espectro Americano | October 1-6, 2007
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Houston
ShortMetraje: Award winning Spanish short films | July 14-15, 2007
ShortMetraje: Award winning Spanish short films | July 14-15, 2007
MEMPHIS IN MAY INT’L FESTIVAL, Memphis
Modern Spanish Cinema | May 9, 2007
Modern Spanish Cinema | May 9, 2007
NEW EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, Spain
Cine Musica & Latin Power | May 5-13, 2007
Cine Musica & Latin Power | May 5-13, 2007
MEDINA DEL CAMPO FILM FESTIVAL, Spain
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas. | April 13-21, 2007
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas. | April 13-21, 2007
THE KING JUAN CARLOS I OF SPAIN CENTER, New York
ShortMetraje: New short films by Spanish filmmakers | February 27-May 1, 2007
ShortMetraje: New short films by Spanish filmmakers | February 27-May 1, 2007
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Two programs spice this year’s fim festival. We brought films from all around the world for your delight! |
NEW EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, Spain DATE: May 5-13, 2007 MORE INFO CLICK |
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AWESOME, I FUCKIN’ SHOT THAT | Nathaniel Hornblower (Adam Yauch) | US | 90 min. | 2006 |  |
| A cinematographic celebration of live music. As an innovative audiovisual experience, the rap band Beastie Boys gave fifty video cameras to their fans before they went into the concert they were performing at Madison Square Garden in New York. Those fifty pairs of passionate and frantic eyes captured the atmosphere of the concert, as well as the power of live music. Awesome, I fucking shot that is a kaleidoscope of images shot from every possible angle, moment and position. | ||
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JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY | Bert Stern | US | 85 min. | 1960 | |
| Classed as the best jazz film ever made, it recreates the legendary performances of greats such as Thelonious Monk and Louis Armstrong during the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. The director, Bert Stern, not only captures the aura of genius and humanity of these legends, but also transports us to that 1958 summer’s day, making us travel nostalgically to the America of that time. This is a gem that jazz lovers cannot miss. | ||
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FAVELA RISING | Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary | Brazil/US | 80 min. | 2005 | |
| The winner of more than 25 awards, including that for the best documentary at the Tribeca Festival and best film of the year at IDA, this documentary is a song to the fight for freedom. Anderson Sá is a former drug-dealer of the Brazilian favelas, who becomes a social revolutionary in the most frightening district of Rio de Janeiro. With the help of hip hop music and Afro-Brazilian street dancing, he unites his community to fight directly with the armed gangs of adolescents who control the drug business, and the police who allow it. This true documentary contains horrifying images that have never previously been seen, recorded by the local children themselves. This, along with the powerful sound track, makes Favela Rising one of the best documentaries of 2006. | ||
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GLASTONBURY | Julien Temple | UK | 138 min. | 2006 | |
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In 1971, a young teenager called Julien Temple ran away from home to go to a festival called Glastonbury Fayre, in an area near Somerset. There he would join 12,000 dancing fans for a couple of days of chaos, dance and rock that would have a permanent effect on him. The memory of getting up at dawn and seeing David Bowie play is still, according to the film maker, one of the best of his life. An unbeatable Julien Temple, the producer of videos for The Cure, ABC, Sade, and films such as Absolute Beginners, The Filth and the Fury (the brilliant documentary on the Sex Pistols), captures Glastonbury with a thousand eyes, without leaving out anything. The performances include Coldplay, Velvet Underground, Primal Scream, Bjork, Nick Cave, R.E.M., Pulp, and many more. Masterly. This film documents 30 years of the world’s biggest music festival, using the producer’s archives and live recordings. |
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TOCATA Y FUGA | Alex O'Dogherty | Spain | 20 min. | 2006 | |
| In a remote petrol station at midnight, a police inspector recognises an absurd robber in a security video as the singer of a music group that ruined his wedding. | ||
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SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE ALL STARS | Zach Niles, Banker White | Guinea/ Sierra Leone/ US | 80 min. | 2005 | |
| Traumatized by physical injuries and brutal losses in Sierra Leone’s civil war, a group of refugees fight back with the only means they have — music. The six-member Refugee All Stars came together in Guinea after civil war forced them from their homeland. | ||
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ROMANTICO | Mark Becker | US | 80 min. | 2005 | |
| Carmelo and his companion Arturo walk the streets of San Francisco going from restaurant to restaurant, where they earn their living singing love songs in return for tips. Until one day Carmelo goes back to Mexico. There he will see his family for the first time in many years but almost as soon as he arrives he realises that he cannot support his relatives. So he takes his guitar once again and tries to earn enough money to buy a ticket back to the United States. At the age of sixty, the idea of crossing the desert seems absurd, but he has no other option. A beautiful, moving and emotional account…this man talks about his life, his struggle…he shows us genuine human dignity, and the purity of an authentic artist. | ||
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13 TZAMETI | Gela Babluani | France/Georgia | 86 min. | 2005 | |
| A twentysomething with financial problems decides to follow some instructions that were not meant for him. He must meet a man in the middle of a forest. The two will be number 13. However, what looks like a harmless adventure soon becomes a hellish trip to France. The European film revelation of 2006 which was awarded the jury’s special prize at the Sundance Festival, allows us to sample film in its purest form. Without doubt, it is a surprisingly written film, directed by and starring a young French beginner called Gela Babluani, who will give people a lot to talk about. | ||
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SUELY IN THE SKY O Céu de Suely | Karim Ainouz | Brazil | 90 min. | 2006 | |
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After two years of living in São Paulo, Hermila goes back to her village in the north-east of Brazil with her newborn son, where she anxiously waits for her husband. Time passes slowly and she gradually realises that he has left her. As her anxiety grows, she revives her relationship with an ex-boyfriend, João Miguel. However, Hermila has an ethereal and irreverent spirit. Having decided to find enough money to leave the suffocating atmosphere of her village, she offers a prize that is difficult to raffle -an idea she came up with when talking to her new friend, Georgina, a local prostitute. Hermila adopts the name of Suely, which distances her from her family and her past and marks her journey towards new and broad horizons. The best Latin American film of 2006 according to the International Film Critics’ Association, and the winner of the biggest awards, it is the second film from the producer of the brilliant Madame Sata. |
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THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii | Catalin Mitulescu | Rumania-France | 106 min. | 2006 | |
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On the last day of the Ceausescu dictatorship, Eva is living with her parents and her seven-year-old brother Lalalilu. She is seventeen, very attractive and has just fallen in love for the first time, meanwhile she is dealing with becoming an adult. Eva has a secret desire that she has only shared with her brother: to escape from Romania and travel the world. Lalalilu cannot tolerate the idea of his sister leaving, and with Tarzan and Silvica, his best friends from school, he draws up a plan to kill the dictator so that Eva can stay and live in a free country. Shown for the first time at the Cannes Festival, this film offers us incredible performances which sensitively show the subtleties of the age when we discover the reality around us. |
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MEANWHILE Mientras Tanto | Diego Lerman | Argentina | 90 min. | 2006 | |
| Violeta asks Mono for "some time" to decide what to do with their relationship. Eva arrives in the city prepared to do anything to change her life. Meanwhile is the account of "some time", of that time that goes by whilst various stories intertwine in a giddy puzzle that doesn’t quite fit together. A moving description of stories that come together by chance, a choral tale of the uncertainty, desperation, boredom, love and indifference that run through urban relationships, a comedy-drama about the ties that make up city life. | ||
