SFC EVENTS / DOCUSPAIN
ShortMetraje: Vivid short films from Spain | December 15 & 17, 2007
Murcine: Murcia Rueda | December 8-15, 2007
Spain (Un)censored | October 17-November 5, 2007
Book release, panel discussion and on-line poster exhibit | October 18 & 20, 2007
DOCUSPAIN: Spanish Documentary tour | ON GOING
ShortMetraje: Spanish Film Week | October 29 & November 2, 2007
Espectro Americano | October 1-6, 2007
ShortMetraje: Award winning Spanish short films | July 14-15, 2007
Modern Spanish Cinema | May 9, 2007
Cine Musica & Latin Power | May 5-13, 2007
American Spectrum: Short films from the Americas. | April 13-21, 2007
ShortMetraje: New short films by Spanish filmmakers | February 27-May 1, 2007
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During the past couple of years, the documentary has become one of the most exciting forms of new cinema. Pragda presents a series of provocative and brilliantly conceived Spanish documentaries that have revived the genre with new forms of expression. The program will tour the U.S. during 2007. Highlights of the documentary revival include the winner of the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at IDFA and Miami Film Festival Special Gran Jury Mention My Grandmother’s House; Oliver Stone’s remarkable and highly controversial study of Fidel Castro Comandante; the spectacularly powerful document about a Brazilian favela that uses music for social change The Miracle of Candeal; Academy award® nominated Balseros; "The most controversial Spanish film in decades." as per Fiachra Gibbons from The Guardian The Basque Ball by Julio Medem (Sex and Lucia); the humorous and very touching piece of Spain Seville Southside; and emotionally turbulent Memory Train. DOCUSPAIN has been organized with generous support from the Spanish Foreign Cultural Cooperation of the Embassy of Spain in Washington. Special thanks go to all the other participating Spanish Consulates in the US and the International Documentary Association (IDA). All the films will be screened with English subtitles. |
NORTHWEST FILM CENTER MIAMI BEACH CINEMATHEQUE UCLA HOPKINS CENTER FILM UCSB ARTS & LECTURES INTERNATIONAL HOUSE |
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MY GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE La Casa de mi Abuela | Adán Aliaga | SPAIN | 80 min. | 2005 |  |
| How does a pop duet work out for impulsive and irreverent six-year-old Marina and 75-year-old Marita? Cheeky Marina plays to the camera, ignoring the chiding of her aged grandmother, Marita. Marita’s crumbling house was built by her long-dead husband. She moved in when they married, over 53 years ago, and nothing much has changed since. Now her home is under threat; the neighborhood is being torn down, replaced with charmless apartments. | ||
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COMANDANTE | Oliver Stone | SPAIN | 99 min. | 2003 | |
| Relations between the USA and Cuba are anything but normal. One of the United States’ most outspoken and controversial directors interviews one of the world’s most outspoken and controversial heads of state –Comandante, Fidel Castro. No prior arrangements were made about what questions should or should not be discussed and Castro responds to each of them. | ||
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THE MIRACLE OF CANDEAL El milagro de Candeal | Fernando Trueba | SPAIN | 125 min. | 2005 | |
| Candeal is a marginal area in the heart of Salvador, the capital of Bahia and home of Grammy award winning musician Carlinhos Brown. The film is a stunning parable of how a notorious slum transformed itself into a model community through the power of music, pushed along by Brown’s commitment to the local youth. | ||
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THE BASQUE BALL - SKIN AGAINST STONE La Pelota Vasca - La Piel Contra la Piedra | Julio Medem | SPAIN | 115 min. | 2003 | |
| "With over 100 interviews and reels upon reels of archive footage, La Pelota Vasca is an incisive documentary on Spain, ETA, and the Basque region." - Jamie Russell, BBC Radio | ||
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SEVILLE SOUTHSIDE Polígono sur | Dominique Abel | SPAIN | 107 min. | 2003 | |
| Flamenco is the lifeblood of the Gitano’s, Spanish gypsies whose exile has lasted for centuries. In looking for the roots of the so-called "New Flamenco", the film takes you on a journey to Tres Mil Viviendas, a rundown estate on Seville’s South Side, and home to the city’s. | ||
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BARS IN THE MEMORY Rejas en la memoria | Manuel Palacios | SPAIN | 80 min. | 2004 | |
| This groundbreaking documentary uncovers the forgotten history surrounding Franco’s concentration camps and prisons created to deal with the Republican resistance fighters from the Spanish Civil War in 1936. | ||
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MEMORY TRAIN El tren de la memoria | Marta Arribas y Ana Pérez | SPAIN | 85 min. | 2006 | |
| A sensitive and thought-provoking documentary that artfully weaves interviews and extraordinary historical footage to tell the story of a hidden part of European history; the officially sanctioned mass exodus of some two million Spaniards to work in European factories in the 1960s. | ||
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BALSEROS Balseros | Carles Bosch and Josep M. Domčnech | SPAIN | 120 min. | 2002 | |
| In summer 1994, more than 50,000 Cubans took to the sea in a motley array of rafts and floating junk in an attempt to reach the Florida shores. Shot with an intense sense of both immediacy and intimacy, Balseros dives in to the difficulties of pursuing the ’American Dream’. | ||
Spain Foreign Cultural Cooperation, Embassy of Spain, Washington DC.
