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home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home ¡Viva! 26th Spanish & Latin American Festival Fri 6 – Thu 26 Mar Zaniki, 2018 ¡Viva!, our annual celebration of Spanish finally we welcome two Mexican directors to and Latin American culture is back, for its Manchester, indigenous filmmaker Itandehui ¡Bienvenidos a 26th edition. Returning to the festival’s Jansen with family drama Tiempo de lluvia roots, this year ¡Viva! focuses on films, (p15), and David Romay with his fiction with a specially selected programme of feature debut Detrás de la montaña (p9). the most exciting work from across the Other ¡Viva! 2020 highlights include the Spanish-speaking world. latest films from well-known Chilean Our Opening Night on Fri 6 Mar kicks off directors Andrés Wood (Araña, p7) and ¡Viva! with the fantastic La Hija de un ladrón (p4), Patricio Guzmán (La Cordillera de los from Catalan filmmaker Belén Funes, who sueños, p16), the Argentinian filmmaker will be here to present this, her first feature Carlos Sorín (Joel, p15), and Spain’s Benito 2020! film, to a no-doubt packed Cinema 1 – book Zambrano (Intemperie, p7). your tickets early! The opening weekend We’re proud to present nine debut feature- continues with the return of some familiar length films, including Ana García Blaya’s names and faces: a big budget historical homage to her late father, Las Buenas drama from Spanish director Alejandro intenciones (p13) and the dreamlike, tragic Amenábar, Mientras dure la guerra (p4) and drama Canción sin nombre (p6) by Melina a feel-good comedy from the prodigious León. ¡Viva! 2020 also features a focus Argentinian actor Ricardo Darín, La Odisea on indigenous filmmakers, including the de los giles (p5). exquisitely heart-breaking Wiñaypacha, set In ¡Viva! 2020 we screen a whopping 31 high in the Peruvian Andes (p13). feature films from Spain and Latin America, Last but not least, don’t miss our range of including 13 UK cinema premieres, and an talks and workshops, including the return of additional 10 short films – five of the shorts the Café Cervantes and the Language Lab, screening before selected features, and five and the One Hour Intro to Latin American of them gathered in a special programme to Indigenous Filmmakers. celebrate International Women’s Day on Sun 8 Mar (p5). ¡Disfrutad el festival! In addition to the Opening Night guests, we also welcome five other filmmakers to Manchester in March. From Spain, Gabriel Velázquez returns, with his folkloric, musical documentary Zaniki (p14), and Oriol Puig All films will begin at the advertised time with no presents his Catalan coming-of-age story adverts or trailers. El Sitio de Otto (p17). From Costa Rica we All films are in Spanish with English subtitles unless welcome Antonella Sudasassi and her debut otherwise noted. filmEl Despertar de las hormigas (p14), All age certificates are local to Manchester City celebrating female empowerment. And Council. The film programme is curated by Rachel Hayward, Head of Film, Jessie Gibbs, ¡Viva! Festival Coordinator, and Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and HOME’s Senior Visiting Curator: Film. Wiñaypacha, 2017 2 3 Suc de síndria CinemaAttic programme of shorts: Mujeres (15) Sun 8 Mar, 13:15 Mientras dure la guerra, 2019 Dirs various/ES 2017, 2018, 2019/85 mins/Spanish & Catalan wEngST Mientras dure la guerra Curated by the Edinburgh-based Spanish film experts (PG) CinemaAttic, five short films made by contemporary (While at War) Spanish female filmmakers. *en lugar de nada (*instead of nothing) Sat 7 Mar, 15:20 + introduction Brenda Boyer, 37 mins Tue 17 Mar, 13:00 In brutally honest conversations with her ageing punk Wed 25 Mar, 20:30 mother, Boyer reveals a toxic family history. Dir Alejandro Amenábar/ES 2019/107 mins Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego, Sub terrae Nathalie Poza Nayra Fuentes, 7 mins With 17 Goya Award nominations, This award-winning sensorial piece creates a nightmarish Amenábar makes a triumphant return effect, shot from above, as birds and humans scavenge to directing in Spanish with an intense below. emotional drama set in 1936, at the La Odisea de los giles, 2019 beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Suc de síndria (Watermelon Juice) La Hija de un ladrón, 2019 Celebrated writer, philosopher and La Odisea de los giles (12A) Irene Moray, 22 mins neighbourhood, 22-year-old Sara La Hija de un ladrón rector of the University of Salamanca, (Heroic Losers) With her boyfriend Pol, between tears and laughter, (12A) valiantly battles to bring up her infant Miguel de Unamuno initially supports Bárbara heals old wounds and redefines her sexuality. son and look after her troubled little (A Thief’s Daughter) the military rebellion hoping it will Sat 7 Mar, 20:40 brother, with an extremely precarious rescue Spain from the excesses of the Sun 15 Mar, 15:15 Adalamadrina Fri 6 Mar, 19:30 + introduction home and job situation. Insecurity Second Republic. Meanwhile, General Dir Sebastián Borensztein/AR ES 2019/117 mins Carlota Oms, 9 mins reigns for Sara, and the arrival of her Sat 7 Mar, 17:50 + Q&A Francisco Franco adds his troops to Ricardo Darín, Chino Darín, Luis Brandoni, Verónica Llinás 24-year-old Ada is obsessed with her gym instructor, but deeply unreliable father Manuel only how can she get him to notice her burning desire? Tue 24 Mar, 15:50 the uprising, secretly aspiring to take Set during the 2001 financial crash in Argentina, this funny, further destabilises her world. This is Dir Belén Funes/ES 2019/102 mins/Spanish and command of the war. The conflict well-paced, sort of heist movie presents an appealing Patchwork Catalan wEngST an emotionally engaging story that turns bloody and Unamuno questions fantasy: ordinary folk taking revenge on the crooked Maria Manero Muro, 8 mins Greta Fernández, Eduard Fernández, Àlex draws comparisons with the stark his initial stance. Culminating establishment. The tale begins with a group of friends and Monner, Tomás Martín A charming animation about Loly, from a pueblo near realism of the Dardenne brothers in Unamuno’s famous public neighbours who pool their savings, hoping to reactivate Valencia, whose life is saved by an anonymous liver donor. Our Opening Night film sets the bar or Ken Loach, and lives up to all its denouncement of Franco’s revolt, an agricultural cooperative. The day after they deposit high with a powerful first feature accolades and awards. the film offers lavish historical sets the money in a local bank, Argentina’s financial system from Catalan writer/director Belén and great performances, particularly collapses and they lose it all. When they discover certain Funes, starring Greta Fernández Events/ We are pleased to welcome director Belén Funes and producer from Eduard Fernández as Unamuno’s people have used prior knowledge of the crash to scam as a painfully lonely young woman nemesis, the ruthless General Millán- them, the hodgepodge collective launch an audacious plan navigating a toxic family situation, Marçal Cebrián to introduce the Opening Night screening on Fri 6 Mar, Astray. to recoup the stolen funds. Enjoy the talented ensemble with her errant parent played by her cast, including the prolific Ricardo Darín and his son Chino, and for a Q&A following the screening Event/ Introduced by Dr Abigail real life father Eduard Fernández. and stay in your seats for the amusing bonus scene during on Sat 7 Mar. Loxham, University of Liverpool. In a working-class Barcelona the credits! 4 5 Nuestra voz de tierra, memoria y futura, 1982 Intemperie, 2019 Nuestra voz de tierra, La Botera, 2019 memoria y futura (12A) Intemperie (15) La Botera (12A) (Our Voice of Land, (Out in the Open) (Boat Rower Memory and Future) Tue 10 Mar, 18:15 + introduction Girl) Thu 12 Mar, 20:40 Mon 9 Mar, 18:15 + introduction Dir Benito Zambrano/ES 2019/103 mins Dirs Marta Rodríguez & Jorge Silva/CO Sun 8 Mar, 18:00 Luis Tosar, Luis Callejo, Jaime López, Vicente 1982/109 mins Intemperie, 2019 Dir Sabrina Blanco/AR BR Romero 2019/75 mins This 2k digital restoration of a 1982 Shot in the Altiplano de Granada, Nicole Rivadero, Alan Gómez, Sergio Prina, documentary is a collaborative effort Araña, 2019 a vast plateau famous for its cave Gabriela Saidon by the Colombian political filmmakers dwellings, the action takes place in Set in an industrialised river Marta Rodríguez and Jorge Silva and Araña (15) 1946, in a dictatorship-era, post- neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, this the indigenous farmers of Coconuco, (Spider) war Spain where the indentured first-time film follows a 14-year-old in the southwestern highlands. Mon 9 Mar, 20:40 rural poor are used and abused by struggling to navigate the mysterious Combining a Marxist cinematic the landowners, and the model of process of ‘becoming a woman’. visual language with an indigenous Thu 19 Mar, 13:00 oppression comes all the way from Tati’s single dad barely scrapes by cosmogony, the film depicts the Dir Andrés Wood/CL AR BR 2019/105 mins María Valverde, Mercedes Morán, Marcelo the top. Packed with classic Western with his ferry rowboat and battered centuries-long oppression and Alonso, Pedro Fontaine tropes, life is cheap and violence is old taxicab, but Tati still dreams of resistance of farmers and indigenous In the early 70s Inés and Justo are a constant threat; but there is one breaking gender stereotypes and peoples. In striking black-and-white, part of a violent, far-right, nationalist man obeying a moral code: loner becoming a ferrywoman herself. the content ranges from interviews, group that plots to destabilise and shepherd, El Moro. A cruel farm School assignments and student rallies and meetings, to mythologised President Allende’s Socialist foreman has groomed a boy from an Canción sin nombre, 2019 cliques are equally hard for Tati to scenes with the Devil.