2022 // Spain // 93 min.
A vision of the history of Spanish cinema through the life and professional career of Florián Rey, a director who began a prestigious career in the silent world and had great commercial successes during the Second Republic. His contribution was essential in the creation of the fledgling film industry. He was a character with lights and shadows, since his ideological ties led him to a progressive fall from grace until his retirement in complete oblivion. In the 21st century, discovering his mastery in the use of narrative rhythm and his refined technique leads us to recover the immense legacy he left behind.
- Selections:
Seminci, Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, 2022, Spain
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WEDNESDAY 17th // 17:30h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // Spain // 98 min.
Jon is an aspiring filmmaker who decides to shoot a movie with his friends. On the set, Jon will meet Darma. A mysterious girl. From the first moment, Jon discovers that Darma is unique and that he will end up falling in love with her.
- Selecciones:
Utsav Film Festival, 2022, India
Festival Internacional De Cine De Peligros, 2022, Spain
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WEDNESDAY 23th // 20:00h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2021 // Spain // 80 min.
AN ISLAND IN THE DESERT takes a journey through a unique and unrepeatable space and time that took place during the dictatorship in Spain. The Costa del Sol in the 1960s was the spearhead of modernity and a source of inspiration for Cinema, Literature, Music, Architecture and Fashion... Of all this, there remains the cinematographic, literary, architectural heritage, the records, or vintage furniture today... Also some buildings already protected by the Law of Cultural and Historical Heritage of the well-known "Relax Style". But there is still much to claim, to the rhythm of yeyé and rock and roll, and not to let its memory be lost in the nights of the neon in danger of extinction... A mythical place and time that gave Malaga and its coast the cosmopolitan character that today enjoy and offer.
- Selections:
Festival de Cine de Málaga, 2022, España
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THURSDAY 23th // 17:30h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // Phiplipines-Spain // 96 min.
Sancho, a Spanish go-getter, arrives in The Philippines seeking a job promised to him by his friend, Alonso. However, upon arriving in Manila, he discovers that Alonso has
disappeared under strange circumstances.
In his quest of locating his missing friend, Sancho finds himself unwillingly caught up in a whirlwind around the underworld of prostitution, drug trafficking, and corrupt
police from the hand of Alonso´s girlfriend, Clarisse, a young prostitute.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow dissects the post-colonial worldview on a round trip to the backstage of Duterte´s war on drugs where the tropical paradise conception of cheap beer and pretty women for sale becomes a nightmare for the white man.
In this homage to the Third Man, no one strives to look like a hero.
- Selections:
Festival Rizoma, 2022, Spain
- Awards:
Panorama, Fant Festival Cine Fantástico Bilbao, 2022, Spain
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THURSDAY 24th // 20:00h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // Brazil // 99 min.
"Meteorango Kid: Herói Intergalático", a 1969 film banned by the dictatorship, became a symbol of the counterculture in Brazil. Tropicalism, resistance and drugs in Salvador de Bahia. The director André Luiz Oliveira guides us through the myths of this work of "marginal" cinema. Meterango is still young, 50 years later..
- Selecciones:
Latin American Studies Association - LASA Film Festival, 2022, USA
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FRIDAY 25th // 17:30h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2021 // Spain // 100 min.
La Polla Records, one of the most legendary punk bands, returns to bid its farewell. To celebrate the group's last tour, its singer, Evaristo Páramos, revives 40 years of history from his town in the Basque Country. This is the extraordinary tale of villagers who revolutionised incensed music with songs turned into hymns by their thousands of followers.
- Selections:
Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián, 2023, Spain
Censurados Film Festival, 2023, Peru
- Awards:
Premio del Público, IN-EDIT Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical, Barcelona, 2021, Spain
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FRIDAY 25th // 20:00h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2021 // Spain // 83 min.
Dr. Tyrell said to Roy in the famous Blade Runner that "light that shines twice as brightly lasts half the time." Like Bambino, a life that was too short and at the same time too intense for the benchmark of a country that was beginning to wake up after dawn of endless and wild parties. Like Morente or Camarón, Bambino was at the time the last frontier of flamenco, which he rescued and brought the general public closer to. Artist of artists, idol in roadside bars, a kind of Lorca by bulerías, his inimitable style, his irresistible stage magnetism or his heartbreaking personality are already part of the myth, of the king without a kingdom, of a 20th century music giant.
- Selections:
Festival Nuevo Cine Andaluz De Casares, 2022, Spain
Festival Escenario (cine + Musica), 2022, Argentina
Islantilla Cinefórum, 2022, Spain
Cineuropa Compostela, 2021, Spain
Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, 2021, Spain
Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla, 2021, Spain
IN-EDIT Festival Internacional de Cine Documental Musical, 2021, Spain
Semana Internacional De Cine De Valladolid - Seminci, 2021, Spain
- Awards:
Mención Especial del Jurado - Festival De Cine De Maracaibo, 2022, Colombia
Mejor Largometraje - Mon·doc, Muestra De Cine Documental De Montaverner, 2022, Spain
Mejor Documental - Premios Carmen. Academia Del Cine De Andalucía, 2022, Spain
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SATURDAY 26th // 17:30h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // Spain // 98 min.
Carla, a young waitress at a beach restaurant, takes care of her sick mother and combines work with her studies while dreaming of a better life. She is in love with Victor, a handsome young man, marked by his popularity and addiction to marijuana, who is determined to study psychology, despite the family's insistence that he follows in his father's footsteps and become a docker. His friend Martín, who feels great admiration for Víctor, despite being deeply attached to his boyfriend Jaime, is in a similar situation. He is warm but insecure, he struggles with himself in order to develop a career as a filmmaker, and also against the family pressure, which has a strong port tradition. Just an afternoon in the beach with Victor and his friends, will make Carla and Victor fall into an increasingly intense and profound attraction which will be tempted by Marina, an attractive, enigmatic young woman, obsessed with not falling into mediocrity, and whose passion for Victor will end up above everything and everyone. Friendship, love and desire will take them together on a journey through the time, marked by the first steps towards maturity and also to disenchantment that appears when life really shows its cards. A trip whose destiny implies certain sacrifices.
- Selections:
Festival Internacional De Cine De Cartagena Ficc, 2022, España
Festival Rizoma - Premio Rizoma De Cine, 2022, España
Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, 2022, España
Mostra De València, 2022, España
Mifo - Miami (formerly The Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival), 2022, EEUU
International Film Festival Of India Goa - Iffi, 2022, India
- Awards:
14 Candidaturas - 37 edición de los Premios Goya 2023
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SATURDAY 26th // 20:00h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // España // 90 min.
In Barcelona, a young girl hides and looks out of the window. As the city is besieged by bombs and soldiers, she prepares to flee. In a small mountain village, a mysterious person is waiting for her to help her get to France. During a journey of a few days, they walk through the border area and meet some of its inhabitants. From the top of the invisible line between two countries, she sees the world that she is leaving behind to descend into the unknown.
- Selecciones:
Festival Internacional de Artes Escénicas - Temporada Alta, Girona, 2023, Spain
SUNDAY 27th // 17:30h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
2022 // Argentina // 88 min.
Ricardo Darring is a moderately successful theatre director/actor. He staged some memorable plays a long time ago. Lack of the ideas for his writings and debts lead Ricardo to accept a proposal from a childhood friend, now mayor of his hometown Jorge Salcedo. On the occasion of the reopening of the Municipal Theater, Ricardo revives with the original cast the play that 30 years ago boosted his fame but forced him to leave his fellow cast member behind. Ricardo begins his journey back to his hometown full of doubts. He looks for the original cast and tries to convince them to participate in the play once again. He invites first Marcelo, his good friend from the past, and Clara, his youth love. Marcelo has a relationship of intense enmity with Salcedo. Ricardo decides to hide from them the real reason to participate in the play again and lies to convince him. Clara is torn between a relationship with Marcelo and the curiosity of discovering her first passion again. Ricardo has to recover the rest of the cast: marginals, alcoholics or simply lost in everyday life. The rehearsals go on and the play seems to have more and more things in common with real life. When it is revealed that Salcedo is sponsoring the event, Marcelo discovers Ricardo as a liar and a traitor. Ricardo faces the greatest dilemma, to repeat the betrayal of the past or to redeem himself in anonymity.
- Selections:
First-Time Filmmaker Sessions - Lift-Off Sessions, 2023, Inglaterra
Festival Internacional de Cine de Islantilla, 2023, España
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SUNDAY 27th // 20:00h
FILMOTECA DE CANTABRIA
