Festival Of New Spanish Cinema Miami 2008Nov 05–Nov 09

Spain’s complex and unique artistic filmmaking scene is finally beginning to achieve worldwide success, as proven in the past year’s Oscar awards. Though characterized by the enthralling, the daring, and the unprecedented, Spanish cinema has taken many different directions. Yet year after year, Spain offers new fearless and passionate auteurs debuting feature films, including Félix Viscarret, Albert Serra, and Rafa Cortés. Festival of New Cinema from Spain brings them together, along with established directors such as Iciar Bollain, Carles Bosch, Gracia Querejeta, José Luis Guerin and Jaime Rosales. Their new films explore diverse storytelling, genre and subjects, and with their previous features form an enriching and impressive body of work. All films with English subtitles.

Curated by Marta Sánchez. Organized by Pragda in collaboration with Miami International Film Festival and Centro Cultural Español (CCE). Support for the exhibition comes from Dirección General de Política e Industrias Culturales and Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) of the Spanish Ministry of Culture, Tourist Office of Spain, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC, Dirección General de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas, Filmoteca, AECI, of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Support for the opening reception provided by Freixenet and Tapeña.