PROVOCATIVE, EDGY AND DIVERSE FILM PROGRAM AT FNSC 2010

Unconventional love stories, double agents, family gatherings and crazy nights will coincide this year at Festival of New Spanish Cinema. The third edition of the Festival has almost closed its film feature program with the selection of six heterogeneous, unconventional and multiawarded works of the most recent Spanish production.

Besides the already confirmed The Inner Island and Stigmata, the Festival will bring to 8 cities throughout North America the following films:

• Me Too (Yo, también), by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro
• Garbo, The Spy (Garbo el espía), by Edmon Roch
• Three Days with the Family (Tres días con la familia), by Mar Coll
• After, by Alberto Rodríguez
• Rabia, by Sebastián Cordero
• The Condemned (Los Condenados), by Isaki Lacuesta

CLANDESTI: INVISIBLE CATALAN CINEMA UNDER FRANCO, IN ISTANBUL

Are you in the Bosphorus city from June 24th to the 27th? Come to Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, the second stop of the European Tour of Clandestí film series.

You’ll have the chance to watch secretive and underground Catalan films banned during Franco’s regime, including works of groundbreaking filmmakers as Pere Portabella (El Sopar), José María Nunes (Sexperiencias), Antonio Padrós (Lock Out) or Lorenzo Soler (52 Sundays).

But we offer more than transgressive and mind-blowing films: on June 24th there will be a Panel Discussion with the participation of Mariano Lisa (Field for Men), and Manuel Barrios and Marta Sánchez.

OPEN CALL: WE WANT YOUR SHORT FILMS!

Are you Spanish and can’t keep your hands off a camera? Are you a secret master of the short form? Do you have a family member or neighbor who makes short films? We are looking for daring, eccentric, fun and colorful short films by Spanish filmmakers, working in Spain or abroad.

We need to select our favorite 16 Spanish short films to program at SHORTMETRAJE and the FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA (FNSC). Each project will exhibit 8 of these 16 short films.

RECOMMENDED SCREENING THIS THURSDAY: SHE IS THE MATADOR

A woman bullfighter? If you think such a thing can’t exist, She is the Matador (Ella es el matador), a stunning Spanish documentary, will change your mind for good.

For Spaniards—and for the world—nothing has expressed their country’s traditionally rigid gender roles more powerfully than the image of the male matador. So sacred was the bullfighter’s masculinity to the Spanish identity that a 1908 law barred women from participating in the sport.

On Thursday June 24th Women Make Movies and 92YTribeca presents this film directed by Spanish filmmaker Gemma Cubero, who will be in person for post-screening Q&A.

UP TO THE MINUTE INFO!

On Friday June 11th, the Deutsche Kinemathek hosted a conference devoted to conflicting cinema: Dangerous Cinema? Movies in Conflict with the Law, Money and Society.

Spanish filmmaker and historian Marti Rom talked about the Spanish case. Wanna see photos? Do you want to keep updated with the last news about our projects and events? Join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter for special videos, tickets giveaway and more!