22 — 29 September 2016 CALENDAR 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2DT 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Tel: 020 7871 3515 Web: www.institut-francais.org.uk Tel: 020 7911 5050 Web: www.regentstreetcinema.com page page thu 22sep 6.30pm EL SUR dir. Víctor Erice 10 fri 23 sep 8.45pm ACANTILADO H dir. Helena Taberna 7 The film will be introduced by Geoff Andrew, Followed by a Q&A with Jon Kortajarena film critic and programmer Preceded by the short 36 HOURS 8.40pm LA NOVIA H dir. Paula Ortiz 4 dirs. Vincent Lacrocq and Kristell Chenut The film will be followed by a Q&A (tbc) with Prof. sat 24 sep 4.30pm EBRE. DEL BRESSOL A LA BATALLA H dir. Román Parrado 9 Maria Delgado (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) Preceded by an introduction by Hispanist fri 23 sep 6.30pm MARÍA CONVERSA dir. Lydia Zimmermann 4 Prof. Paul Preston (London School of Economics) The film will be followed by an on-stage conversation 6.30pm FALLING H dir. Ana Rodríguez Rosell 4 between Blanca Portillo and Prof. Maria Delgado (RCSSD) Followed by a Q&A with Ana Rodríguez Rosell, Emma Suárez and Birol Ünel sat 24 sep 8.40pm LA PUERTA ABIERTA H dir. Marina Seresesky 5 Followed by a Q&A with director Marina Seresesky sun 25 sep 6.30pm A PERFECT DAY dir. Fernando León de Aranoa 5 and actress Carmen Machi Followed by a Q&A (tbc) 8.40pm BERSERKER H dir. Pablo Hernando 5 sun 25 sep 4.15pm LES AMIGUES DE L’ÀGATA H 9 Preceded by the short EL CORREDOR | The Runner dirs. Laia Alabart, Alba Cros, Laura Rius, Marta Verheyen dir. José Luis Montesinos The film will be followed by a Q&A with two of the directors, Laura Rius and Alba Cros. mon 26 sep 6.30pm AMAMA H dir. Asier Altuna 7 Followed by a Q&A (tbc) mon 26 sep 8.40pm PIKADERO H dir. Ben Sharrock 8 Followed a Q&A with actress Bárbara Goenaga tue 27 sep 6.30pm LEJOS DEL MAR H dir. Imanol Uribe 8 Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker wed 28 sep 6.30pm UN OTOÑO SIN BERLÍN H dir. Lara Izaguirre 8 8.40pm LOBOS SUCIOS H dir. Simón Casal 6 The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director Followed by a Q&A with Lobos sucios's Executive 8.40pm NACIDA PARA GANAR H dir. Vicente Villanueva 6 Producer and Scriptwriter Paula Cons and Nir Cohen, Followed by a Q&A with Eulàlia Ramón & Cristina Castaño Film Programmer at UK Jewish Film Preceded by the short DETOUR dir. César Espada Preceded by the short ECO | Echo dir. Xacio Baño thu 29 sep 6.30pm ENDLESS NIGHT dir. Isabel Coixet 6 Followed by a Q&A (tbc) H Films in Competition. See page 11 for more information. Welcome to the London Spanish Film Festival CORE The London Spanish Film Festival launches its 12th edition with an extraordinary line-up of recent Spanish films, most of them UK premieres and a unique opportunity to watch them in London. PROGRAMME We’ll open with the much acclaimed La novia, Paula Ortiz’s second film, based on Federico García Lorca’s classic Bodas de sangre. Our closing film, Endless Night, is Isabel Coixet’s international production, which opened last year’s Berlin Film Festival, starring Juliette Binoche and Rinko Kikuchi. We are happy to welcome back Ana Rodríguez Rosell, who comes with her second film, Falling, an international production in which she’s worked again with Emma Suárez and the German-Turkish Birol Ünel. The three of them will be on stage to present the film. Another co-production we are happy to present is Fernando León de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day, featuring an extraordinary international cast challenged by the Balkans war effects in this comedy-drama. The extraordinary actress Blanca Portillo will join us as well to present Lydia Zimmermann’s documentary María conversa and talk with Prof. Maria Delgado about her acting work. As part of our Basque Window, veteran Imanol Uribe will present Lejos del mar, a film about the feelings of absence and vengeance provoked by terrorism, and Bárbara Goenaga will present Pikadero, by the Scottish, Basque Country-based, Ben Sharrock. Model and actor Jon Kortajarena, not exactly a newcomer to film as his debut was in Tom Ford’s A Single Man, will present the short 36 Hours and Acantilado. Our 8th Catalan Window will bring the fresh but solid debut of four film students, Les amigues de l’Àgata, a drama about the youths who participated in the last big battle of the Spanish Civil War, Ebre, which will be presented by the historian and Hispanist Paul Preston. Last but not least, we are proud to partner with BFI in the presentation of El Sur, Víctor Erice’s masterpiece about loss and memory, which is part of Pedro Almodóvar’s carte blanche for their full retrospective. We hope you will enjoy our selection and all the events of our 12th edition! Joana Granero | Director María Ugarte | Basque Window Programmer Patricia Pérez | Programmer Almudena Escobar | Shorts Programmer LA NOVIA MARÍA CONVERSA FALLING The Bride Maria Converses dir. Ana Rodríguez Rosell, with Emma Suárez, Birol Ünel dir. Paula Ortiz, with Inma Cuesta, Alex García, Asier dir. Lydia Zimmermann, with Blanca Portillo, Agustín | Spain/Dominican Republic | 2015 | 89 min | col | cert. 12 Etxeandia, Manuela Vellés, Leticia Dolera, Luisa Gavasa | Villaronga, Colm Tóibín | Spain | 2016 | 59 min | col | doc | | In Spanish, English, German and Turkish with English Spain/Germany | 2015 | 96 min | col | cert. 12 | In Spanish cert. PG | In Spanish with English subtitles | UK première subtitles | European première with English subtitles | UK première Blanca Portillo has one of Spain’s richest acting careers in Alma and Aslan, now separated, meet in the place where they Based on Federico García Lorca’s play Blood Wedding, which film, TV and theatre. She won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palm spent their best years while married. While they remember is considered one of his best works, La novia tells us the story Award for her work in Pedro Almodóvar’s film Volver and their shared dreams and try to figure out what went wrong, of a tragic love triangle set in the deep south of Spain. Ortiz’s her work has been awarded several times. Zimmermann’s Aslan tries to change Alma’s memories and make sense of treatment of Lorca’s play is respectful and very close to the documentary follows her creative process as she prepares to them for a new life. Shot with a very small crew in the dream original poetic dialogue, while the photography of Miguel embody the role of Maria of Nazareth in Colm Tóibín’s play setting of the Dominican Republic, Falling is a very intimate Amoedo enhances a fable-like atmosphere with nuances Mary’s Testament under the direction of Agustí Villaronga. film where the enormous talent of the actors thrives under of a catastrophe. All performances are powerful but Luisa 4 fri 23 Sep | 6.30pm | £12, conc. £10 | Ciné Lumière the perceptive and sensitive direction of Rodríguez Rosell, Gavasa deserves special mention, with a performance who visited us with her debut film, Buscando a Eimish, also worthy of a Greek tragedy, in the role of the cold-hearted The film will be followed by an on-stage conversation between featuring Suárez and Ünel, a few years ago. Blanca Portillo and Prof. Maria Delgado (RCSSD) widow, mother of the groom. 4 sat 24 Sep | 6.00pm | £12, conc. £11, University of 4 thu 22 Sep | 8.40pm | £12, conc. £10 | Ciné Lumière Westminster students £8 | Regent Street Cinema The film will be followed by a Q&A (tbc) with Prof. Maria With the support of: Followed by a Q&A with Ana Rodríguez Rosell, Emma Suárez Delgado (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Birol Ünel Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine and some With the support of: Spanish ham after the With the support of: screening. Courtesy of 4 LA PUERTA ABIERTA A PERFECT DAY BERSERKER The Open Door dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, with Benicio del Toro, Tim dir. Pablo Hernando, with Julián Génisson, Ingrid García dir. Marina Seresesky, with Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Robbins, Mélanie Thierry, Olga Kurylenko | Spain | 2015 Jonsson, Vicenc Miralles | Spain | 2015 | 100 min | col | In Asier Etxeandia | Spain | 82 min | col | cert. 12 | In Spanish | 106 min | col | cert. 16 | In English and Serbian, French, Spanish with English subtitles | UK première with English subtitles | UK première Serbian and Spanish with English subtitles When Hugo Vartán, a struggling writer, finds out that Through the years, we have programmed Marina Seresesky’s Fernando León de Aranoa’s film revolves around the efforts someone he vaguely knows was connected to a murder, the shorts (La boda and El cortejo) and are delighted now to of a group of aid workers to remove a corpse from a well next thing he does is to set out to investigate the facts and show her first feature film, the moving, at times even poetic, in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans. What initially use the story to write his next book – which needs to be story of Rosa, an embittered middle-aged prostitute living seemed like a relatively simple task turns out to be a nearly delivered in a few weeks. As his investigation progresses, with her mother – who was a prostitute as well. When Rosa impossible mission complicated by bureaucracy and the Hugo finds himself entering an enigmatic, dangerous accepts to take Lyuba, a little orphan Russian girl, it seems stubbornness of the population in conflict.