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For our 25th birthday edition, ¡Viva! Iglesia, we also celebrate the late great Theatre 1 also hosts a returns with a specially selected Bigas Luna, in collaboration with Prof. spectacular -off performance programme of the most exciting film Fouz Hernández from the by Manchester Camerata and and theatre from across the Spanish- University of Durham. Kicking off with Italian violinist Francesca Dego (p5). speaking world. his 1992 outrageous and unrepentantly The music of Golijov and Piazzolla fun comedy Jamón, jamón, starring a will set HOME alight, kindling your Our Opening Night Birthday Party on young and Penélope imaginations through vivid and vibrant Friday 22 March sees the UK premiere Cruz (p13). music. of a Seriously Fun film, Tiempo después (Some Time After) (p8), and we’re Coinciding with our year- Last but not least, don’t miss our range honoured to welcome to Manchester long Celebration of Women of talks and workshops, including the esteemed Spanish director José in Global Cinema, the work the return of the Café Cervantes Luis Cuerda for a Q&A on this very of female directors, writers, and the Language Lab, the One special evening. No doubt music and producers and stars receives Hour Intros to Serious Fun and dancing will continue in the bar until special attention. Look out Contemporary Argentine Cinema, late! The party is free and open to all, for the logo throughout the and a discussion about the so please come along and help us to brochure. environment and mass corporate celebrate. agriculture. The festival fun continues in Theatre 1, ¡Viva! 2019 is infused where Señor Serrano are back with We’re celebrating 25 years of with some Serious Fun, their unique cinematic style of cross-border creativity, following the Spanish performance. Using video cameras, collaborations and and Latin American scale models, video projection and live partnerships, which cultural tradition of music, Kingdom (p4) continues to have brought the esperpento, which uses develop the idea of cinema-in-real-time. best film, art and satire, the grotesque and dark humour This production is an irreverent cocktail theatre from Spain and beyond to skewer the foibles of contemporary mixing bananas, consumerism, punk to audiences from Manchester society. As well as some cinema rock, King Kong, confusion, expansion, and the wider UK. Here’s to the classics from masters of esperpento coups d’état and very macho men in an next 25 years! Luis García Berlanga and Álex de la endless party. Acción mutante ¡Disfrutad el festival! 2 3 Manchester Camerata in association with HOME Upclose: ¡Viva! 2019 Fri 5 Apr, 19:30 Embodying our festival theme of Serious Manchester Camerata return to HOME with a special Upclose performance for ¡Viva! with soloist Francesca Dego, one of Fun as only they know how, Señor the most sought after young violinists on the international Serrano return to ¡Viva! with their scene, celebrated for her compelling interpretations and latest irreverent, unique multi-media flawless technique. Fire up your imagination through vivid and ¡VIVA! production, Kingdom. vibrant music, searing your minds with the red-hot sounds Also in Theatre 1, don’t miss of Golijov and Piazzolla. The evening’s programme includes Manchester Camerata, joined by Piazolla’s The Four Seasons of , a piece dripping in luscious melodies and passionate rhythms. THEATRE Francesca Dego, as they set the stage alight with the music of Golijov and Hannah Calascione creates live visuals in a film piece made Piazzolla in response to the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Piazzolla, with archive footage supplied by Construir TV - . Performing: Golijov Last Round Golijov Lullaby and Doina Piazzolla The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Performed By Francesca Dego Violin/Director homemcr.org/camerata-viva Theatre 1 Tickets £15 (conc. available)

Señor Serrano presents Kingdom Co-produced by HOME Tue 9 – Sat 13 Apr, 19:30 Following smash-hit performance Birdie as part of ¡Viva! 2017, Barcelona’s Señor Serrano are back, bigger and even better with their new production Kingdom. ‘An impeccable story of The company are a creative phenomena that are changing humankind told in the the face of the contemporary theatre scene. three dimensions of a Creating productions inspired by issues affecting society scale model’ , their irreverent style combines footage from classic EL PAÍS on Birdie movies, performance, scale models, dance and live music to create a unique cinema-in-real-time experience. ‘Puppeteers of the Telling a story of the impact of capitalism, consumption digital age... and desire, Kingdom has two unlikely sources of inspiration perfection’ – King Kong and the humble banana. One’s an icon of non- EL PERIÓDICO DE stop virility and force, the other’s a perfect example of the contemporary economic system – and they both have an CATALUNYA on Birdie insatiable appetite… homemcr.org/kingdom Theatre 1 Kingdom Tickets £15 (conc. from £5) 4 5 FEATURE FILMS: Quién te cantará Retablo Acción mutante Rojo Alanis Tiempo después Ana de día Viaje a los pueblos fumigados Animal Yuli ¡VIVA! El Ángel El Día de la bestia El Motoarrebatador El Silencio de otros SHORT FILMS: FILM El Verdugo El Camino de Santiago En las estrellas El Jarrón This year we screen 21 new feature films from Spain and Formentera Lady IPdentical Huevos de oro Latin America, including ten UK cinema premieres, and La Noria Jamón, jamón Tomorrow we’re delighted to present five short films before selected Jean-François i el sentit de la vida screenings. Highlights include the UK premiere of Retablo La Teta y la luna from the Peruvian Andes, a celebration of the late Bigas Las Niñas bien Luna with his Iberian Trilogy, and the UK premieres of Memorias de un hombre en pijama Argentine thriller Animal and Basque Oreina. Miriam miente Oreina With our 2019 theme Serious Fun, we’re also celebrating Pájaros de verano the Spanish and Latin American cultural tradition of Petra esperpento. Our series of films loaded with satire, dark Plácido humour and the grotesque kicks off with our opening night film, the UK premiere of absurdist comedy Tiempo después. We also screen works from master of parody and ambiguity Luis García Berlanga, and ¡Viva!’s favourite ‘enfant terrible’ Álex de la Iglesia.

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.

All films will begin at the advertised time with no adverts or trailers. All films are in Spanish with English subtitles unless otherwise noted. All age certifications are advisory. Pájaros de verano

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Tiempo después (15) (Some Time After) Fri 22 Mar, 20:30 + Q&A Sat 23 Mar, 15:50 Fri 5 Apr, 20:30 Formentera Dir José Luis Cuerda/ES PT 2018/99 mins Lady (15) Oreina (15) Blanca Suárez, Antonio de la Torre, (The Deer) Areces, Secun de la Rosa Sat 23 Mar, 13:55 One Hour Intro: Plácido (U) In the year 9177, give or take a Thu 28 Mar, 18:25 Sat 23 Mar, 18:00 + El Día de la bestia (18) Serious Fun Sun 24 Mar, 16:00 + introduction Fri 5 Apr, 16:05 Q&A thousand years, the whole world (The Day of the Beast) Dir Luis García Berlanga/ES 1961/85 mins Dir Pau Durà/ES 2018/85 mins/Spanish & Dir Koldo Almandoz/ES 2018/88 mins/Basque, Sun 24 Mar, has been reduced to just one Cassen, José Luis López Vázquez, Elvira Catalan wEngST Spanish & French wEngST Sat 23 Mar, 20:35 + introduction 14:30 Representative Building and the grimy Quintillá, Manuel Alexandre José Sacristán, Sandro Ballesteros, , Laulad Ahmed, Patxi Bisquert, Ramón Agirre, Dir Álex de la Iglesia/ES 1995/102 mins Tickets: outskirts inhabited by the unemployed. Jordi Sánchez Iraia Elias On Christmas Eve in a small provincial Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago £4 full/£3 The World Building occupants include a Samuel, an aging hippy eking out an Segura, Terele Pávez Spanish town, the ‘sit a poor man at In Sahrawi refugee Ahmed’s impressive concessions petulant King of Spain; a General of the existence as a banjo player on the debut, he plays Khalil, a rootless young Father Angel Berriartúa has spent the your table’ charity initiative is in full Serious Fun is our theme Guardia Civil; two barbers; a liberation tiny island of Formentera, is suddenly man living in the city’s margins, where last 25 years studying The Apocalypse swing. The local bourgeoisie welcome for ¡Viva! 2019, adding a dash of theology monk and a fascist priest; and left in charge of Marc, the 10-year-old shabby industrial estates meet the according to St John, deciphering the the B-list movie starlets from Madrid, esperpento to the line up. As a creative a group of rebellious youth devoted to grandson he barely knows. Diagnosed beautiful Saria marshland, brimming hidden message behind the sacred text. auctioned off as dinner guests of style established by Spanish author Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset… with a heart condition, he struggles to with nocturnal wildlife. Khalil’s life is At last he has reached a conclusion: honour, but only in tandem with a token Valle-Inclán in the 1920s, esperpento Meanwhile, in the filthy fringes, one deal with his new responsibilities, as a mixture of wheeling and dealing, the Antichrist will be born in Madrid poor person invited to share the good has inspired playwrights and poor creature decides that by selling young Marc struggles to acclimatise to amorous disappointments and on 25 December 1995. To discover the fortune of wealthier families for one filmmakers to use satire, the grotesque very tasty homemade lemonade in the his grandfather’s bohemian existence friendship with an old poacher who exact location where the birth will take night only. Meanwhile minivan driver and dark humour as a critical tool ever Representative Building, another world without electricity or any mod cons. shares a house on the riverbank with a place he must enter into contact with Plácido struggles to make his first loan since. This talk will explain the typical is indeed possible. A darker side to this island paradise brother he has not talked to for years. Evil, and so arms himself to the teeth instalment before the bank closes for techniques and style elements of the Acclaimed filmmaker Cuerda returns comes to light as their relationship With an original score inspired by the and sets off, in somewhat improvised Christmas, dashing about in the bitter genre, and delve into the long list of to the absurd and irreverent humour of grows, shifting towards a more nuanced likes of Jonny Greenwood and Sigur fashion, merrily down the path of crime. cold, with his hungry family in tow. filmmakers it has inspired, including cult classic Amanece, que no es poco and ambivalent approach to 1970s Rós, Almandoz describes his film as “a Teaming up with José María, a young Naturally not all goes to plan with the Luis García Berlanga, Luis Buñuel, Pedro (1988) with this delicious slice of satire nostalgia and romanticised isolation. river movie. It is more liquid than solid, death metal fan, and Professor Cavan, grand charitable event, which reveals Almodóvar, Álex de la Iglesia, Alejandro and Python-esque humour. You’re in for Featuring a host of charismatic and open to evanescent thoughts. Italian connoisseur of the occult and TV petty jealousies, illicit affairs and Jodorowsky and Lucrecia Martel. a treat! characters and a great soundtrack from It is a film that shows geographical parapsychologist, with wild abandon absurd bureaucracy, as Berlanga deftly King Crimson, Durà’s debut as writer- and human peripheries. It speaks of the priest battles to avert the birth of Led by Nuria López de la Oliva skewers the hypocrisy, selfishness, director is a pleasure to watch and friendship and betrayal, of furtive and the beast, and with it, the end of the and Prof. Andy Willis, University of venality, egomania, paternalism, and confirms his talents behind as well as in unrequited love, of solidarity between world. Salford & HOME’s Visiting Curator: inequalities of ‘respectable society’. front of the camera. different people, and of revenge.” Film. This talk will be BSL Event/ Introduced by Prof. Andy Willis, Event/ Introduced by Prof. Andy Willis, interpreted. Plus/ This film will be preceded by El Event/ We are pleased to welcome University of Salford & HOME’s University of Salford & HOME’s Camino de Santiago (Dir Mario Monzó/ Koldo Almandoz for a Q&A following the Visiting Curator: Film. This talk will Visiting Curator: Film. This talk will Tiempo después ES 2017/13 mins). screening on Sat 23 Mar. be BSL interpreted. be BSL interpreted. 8 9 El Verdugo (CTBA) Ana de día (15) (The Executioner) Acción mutante (18) Animal (15) (Ana by Day) Tue 26 Mar, 15:50 Tue 26 Mar, 18:05 Mon 25 Mar, 20:25 Sun 24 Mar, 17:50 + Q&A Mon 1 Apr, 20:00 Dir Luis García Berlanga/ES IT 1963/88 mins Petra (15) Dir Álex de la Iglesia/ES FR 1993/100 mins Nino Manfredi, Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Dir Armando Bo/AR ES Sat 6 Apr, 13:35 Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, Luis López Vázquez 2018/112 mins Dir Andrea Jaurrieta/ES 2018/105 mins Mon 25 Mar, 15:45 Juan Viadas Guillermo Francella, Peterson, Gloria José Luis, played by Italian star Nino Ingrid García Jonsson, Mona Martínez, Thu 28 Mar, 20:20 With this his anarchic and irreverent Carrá, Marcelo Subiotto Manfredi, is a young undertaker whose María José Alfonso, Álvaro Ogalla Dir Jaime Rosales/ES 2018/105 mins/ 1993 debut, Álex de la Iglesia Spanish & Catalan wEngST 50-something Antonio is a conservative personal ambitions have to take a back This directorial debut feature from announced himself as a new force Bárbara Lennie, Alex Brendemühl, Joan family man who has diligently followed seat when his path crosses that of an Jaurrieta – teacher, scriptwriter, within Spanish cinema. Set in the Botey, Marisa Paredes the rules and put in plenty of hard ageing executioner. José Luis might Preview/ Yuli (12A) producer, editor and actor – is a thrilling near future, Acción mutante follows Auteur filmmaker Rosales brings the work to achieve his perfect life. But remedy his lack of a wife by marrying journey into the personal liberation of a Tue 26 Mar, 20:10 atmosphere of Greek tragedy to the misguided plans of a terrorist the executioner’s daughter, but the woman unexpectedly expelled from her that bubble bursts when he finds Dir Icíar Bollaín/ES CU GB DE contemporary Spain in this portrait organisation made up of disabled comfortable but unfulfilling life when out he’s in urgent need of a kidney marriage comes with very specific 2018/109 mins/Spanish & English of a broken family suffering the people determined to bring down a with partial EngST a mysterious doppelgänger takes her transplant. When all legal means for expectations from his new father-in- consequences of secrets, lies and society ruled by beautiful people, for Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, place. Including echoes of Hitchcock obtaining a kidney fall through, he law. As their lives become increasingly violence. Petra, a fatherless young beautiful people. They infiltrate a high Keyvin Martínez, Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez and Lynch, an uncanny atmosphere turns to the black market where he’s intertwined the young man’s ability to woman, embarks on a search that society wedding, kidnap an heiress, A flamboyant visual and musical treat pervades the film as Ana abandons her forced to the moral edge by a couple make decisions about the direction of leads her to Jaume, a famous artist and and take off for outer space. Produced with some truly spectacular dancing, fiancé and career, and embraces an who put his desperation to the test. his own life seem to slip away. Marked a powerful, ruthless man (remarkably by the Almodóvar brothers, the film is Yuli tells the rags-to-riches story of alternative version of herself, complete Antonio will have to radically alter by a taboo-busting black humour portrayed by a non-professional actor). an entertaining, full-on assault on the Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta. with a job in a seedy cabaret. Exploring his sense of identity to follow his own typical of Berlanga’s collaborations Petra’s story entwines with the lives senses driven by a jet-black humour The film follows Acosta - nicknamed her sexuality from this new position in basic instinct: the animal instinct. With with screenwriter Rafael Azcona, this is of Jaume, his wife and their son, and worthy of Luis García Berlanga. Yuli by his father - from growing up society, Ana seems both vulnerable and another fantastic performance from frequently cited as one of the best and step-by-step their fates are sealed. The on the streets of Havana, through his empowered, an eerie ambiguity that Plus/ This film will be preceded by Francella (The Clan), this wickedly ironic most influential Spanish films of all time. non-chronological order reflects their time at the Cuban National Dance holds the audience in suspense until a short performance from Young Identity. psychological thriller packs a great predestined outcomes, with chapters Event/ Introduced by Prof. Andy Willis, School, to performing at London’s the end. With its vibrant use of sound soundtrack and plenty of dark humour, that rearrange the plot to give you Event/ Introduced by the HOME Young University of Salford & HOME’s prestigious Royal Ballet. Based on and colour, and masterful framing and as it playfully provokes questions flashes of foresight and hindsight. Shot Programmers. Visiting Curator: Film. This talk will the 2007 memoir No Way Home, editing, plus a whole host of quirky about shifting morality in extreme on location near Madrid and Girona, be BSL interpreted. in Bollaín’s third collaboration with characters, this is great fun to watch. circumstances. the camera gracefully glides across scriptwriter Paul Laverty the lead role Event/ We are pleased to welcome the beautiful rural scenery in is played by Olbera Núñez as a boy Andrea Jaurrieta for a Q&A following this darkly witty melodrama, and Martínez as a young man, with the screening on Sun 24 Mar. which should tease, surprise and Acosta also appearing in the film as engage all the way to the end! himself. Focussing on Acosta’s difficult relationship with his domineering father, Yuli offers some fascinating insights into his life as well as a dazzling spectacle to enjoy.

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TRIBUTE La Teta y la luna (18) Huevos de oro (18) (The Tit and the Moon) Curated by Prof. (Golden Balls) Santiago Fouz Hernández, Sun 31 Mar, 17:40 + Introduction El Motoarrebatador (15) University of Durham, Sat 30 Mar, 17:50 + introduction Dir Bigas Luna/ES FR 1994/89 mins/Spanish, Dir Bigas Luna/ES 1993/90 mins Catalan & French wEngST (The Snatch and Betty Bigas, Viaje a los pueblos multidisciplinary artist Javier Bardem, Maria de Medeiros, Biel Duran, Mathilda May, Gérard Thief) Maribel Verdú, Elisa Tovati Darmon, Miguel Poveda fumigados (PG) and daughter of Bigas Luna. Bigas Luna returned straight after While maintaining Luna’s (Journey to Fri 29 Mar, 17:45 Jamón, jamón with a melodramatic characteristically high quota of naked the Fumigated Wed 3 Apr, 20:20 black comedy about the rise and breasts on screen in this third part of Dir Agustín Toscano/AR UR FR fall of a loathsome lothario, bringing the Iberian Trilogy, this coming-of-age Towns) 2018/93 mins you plenty more gratuitous sex and comedy is a distinctly gentler affair. In Sergio Prina, Liliana Juarez, Leon absurdity. Benito is an ambitious but Wed 27 Mar, 18:00 Las Niñas bien (12A) Zelarayan, Daniel Elías a small town in , nine-year- + Post-screening lowly construction worker with a big old Tete frets at the arrival of his new (The Good Girls) In Tucumán, northwest Argentina, discussion Miguel makes a living as a motochorro, dream – to build an enormous phallic baby brother, and jealously dreams skyscraper in Benidorm. His ticket to Fri 29 Mar, 15:50 Wed 27 Mar, 20:30 a thief snatching bags from his Jamón, jamón (18) of drinking from his mother’s breasts Dir Fernando E. Solanas/AR 2017/97 mins victory is his unfathomable success again. Appealing to the moon to Sun 31 Mar, 15:40 motorbike. But when a victim ends up rate with a string of women, whom send him his own personal mammary Ever since his epic documentary Dir Alejandra Márquez Abella/MX badly hurt Miguel is plagued by guilt, Fri 29 Mar, 19:50 + Introduction La Hora de los hornos (The Hour 2018/93 mins and he conceals his true identity to Dir Bigas Luna/ES 1992/92 mins he enlists in his mission to achieve glands, an exotic French dancer called of the Furnaces), Solanas has used Ilse Salas, Flavio Medina, Cassandra start looking after the unsuspecting Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, architectural domination. Through a Estrellita duly arrives in town. But in Ciangherotti, Paulina Gaitan , Anna Galiena his considerable filmmaking talents old woman. The closer he gets to decade of sexual adventures packed a playful love triangle style she has If you saw this back in the to campaign for social justice, to Based on a collection of short stories her, the more he becomes entangled with machismo and misogyny we watch rival claims for her attention – her 90s, you might just recall how champion the underdog, and to by contemporary Mexican author in his own lies, with some surprising the obnoxious Benito win it all – the performing partner Maurice, with outrageous, chaotic, absurdly erotic rail against abuses of power in his Guadalupe Loaeza, Las Niñas bien is and comic results. Inspired by real wife, the lover, the power, the money – some unusual stage talents, and local and unrepentantly fun it was – and if native Argentina. He now takes his a vicious and delicious social satire life events – the initial mugging, the and lose it all again. lovelorn teenager Miguel. This surreal you haven’t seen it yet, you’re in for a aim at mass corporate agriculture, set amongst Mexico’s country club police strikes and public looting – fantasy is a charming fairy tale about wild ride! In a provincial Spanish town Event/ Introduced by Prof. Santiago with characteristic passionate elite during the 1982 debt crisis. With Toscano wanted to create a story that love’s young dream. José Luis, whose wealthy parents own Fouz Hernández, University of outrage at the environmental and an almost entirely female cast and “questions and transcends the limits the local underwear factory, falls in love Durham. This talk will be BSL Event/ Introduced by Dr Abigail human catastrophes he discovers. crew telling the downfall of a queen of prejudice, social condemnation, with Silvia, the sensuous daughter of interpreted. Loxham, University of Liverpool. Join us From the clearing of ancient forests, bee socialite, this beautifully shot double standards and the true nature a prostitute. His horrified mother hires for a post-screening discussion led by Dr to the indiscriminate fumigation period piece has plenty of echoes for of victims and victimisers.” Add a Raúl, an underwear model and ham Abigail Loxham and Prof. Santiago Fouz with pesticides that poison land contemporary society when it comes great rock soundtrack, some fun plot factory worker, to seduce Silvia away. Hernández following the screening. and people, Solanas crosses the to social inequality, classism, financial twists, and nuanced characters evoking What ensues is a fantastically surreal This talk and post-screening country with furious determination crises, and the specifically female shifting sympathies – it’s a winning combination of Spanish stereotypes and discussion will be BSL interpreted. to reveal the detrimental impact struggle for agency even at the top of combination. of agribusiness. He finds plenty of the tree. Relishing the perfect attention deliberately vulgar excess – anyone for shocking evidence of harm, but he also to detail in the 1980s sets and Plus/ This film will be preceded by the sex, drama, ham and naked bullfighting? Free events at the Instituto Cervantes encounters inspiring examples of social costumes, we follow model ‘good girl’ UK premiere of Tomorrow (Dir Andrew Don’t say we didn’t warn you! Sofia’s fall from grace, and maybe even Tarbet/ ES 2017/15 mins). Head down the road to soak up more Bigas Luna fun, with a screening of resistance, of ecological alternatives, Event/ Introduced by Prof. Santiago sympathise with her a little despite the 2016 documentary BigasXBigas presented by director Santiago Garrdio and of hope for a healthier, better Fouz Hernández, University of her flaws. It’s a long way down from Rua on Thu 28 Mar at 18:30, and video art exhibition Comedias Bárbaras food system in the future. Durham. This talk will be BSL the top… presented by Prof. Santiago Fouz Hernández from the University of Durham. Event/ Join us for a post-screening interpreted. The exhibition runs from Thu 28 Mar to Sat 13 Apr. Plus/ This film will be preceded by Plus/ This film will be followed by a discussion led by Alison Criddle, HOME’s Instituto Cervantes Manchester, 326-330 Deansgate, M3 4FN IPdentical (Dir Marco Huertas/ES drinks reception in the Event Space – Projects & Sustainability Coordinator, manchester.cervantes.es following the screening on Wed 27 Mar. 2018/9 mins). free entry with your film ticket. 12 13 young auteurs and the emergence of new names, and a transition towards more traditional narrative forms, higher production values, and explorations of the past rather than the present. This talk discusses Argentinian cinema from Language Lab: Miriam the late 1990s onwards, looking at why it ranks among the most exciting miente (12A) national cinemas in the world. Sat 30 Mar, 13:00-16:00 Led by Dr Ignacio Aguiló, Ana Valbuena from the Instituto University of Manchester. This Cervantes Manchester presents our En las estrellas talk will be BSL interpreted. bespoke study session for adult (12A) Spanish language learners and (Up Among the Stars) film fans. Following an introduction in accessible Spanish, and a full Sun 31 Mar, 20:00 screening of Miriam miente with Sun 7 Apr, 14:05 English subtitles, attendees can Dir Zoe Berriatúa/ES 2018/86 mins practise their Spanish language skills Luis Callejo, Jorge Andreu, Macarena using a specially designed Study Gómez, Magüi Mira Pack, discussing topics such as: family This whimsical drama about a relationships, adolescence, la fiesta grieving husband, Víctor, and his wise de 15 años, identity politics, racism nine-year-old son, Ingmar, sensitively and class conflict in the Dominican covers some serious topics with humour Memorias de un hombre Republic. and compassion. Víctor has descended en pijama (12A) into alcoholism and depression, but Conversational Spanish recommended. he was once a talented filmmaker and (Memories of a For full film details see p16. Quién te cantará (12A) model maker extraordinaire. Struggling Man in Pyjamas) to cope with his current reality, he Tue 2 Apr, 18:25 El Ángel (15) Sat 30 Mar, 20:00 takes his devoted son on flights of Mon 8 Apr, 20:35 (The Angel) Mon 1 Apr, 15:50 fancy using some delightful animation Dir Carlos Fernández de Vigo/ES Dir Carlos Vermut/ES FR 2018/124 and 2D special effects, drawing on the 2018/74 mins Tue 2 Apr, 20:20 mins hundreds of movies they’ve watched Raúl Arévalo, María Castro, Manuel Eva Llorach, Najwa Nimri, Carme Elías, Tue 9 Apr, 20:30 Manquiña, Santi Balmes together. Produced by Álex de la Dir Luis Ortega/AR ES 2018/115 mins Dive down the rabbit hole into an Iglesia, there are hints of darkness After the phenomenal Lorenzo Ferro, Chino Darín, Daniel Fanego, enigmatic hall of mirrors featuring here, but it’s also a beautiful homage success of Arrugas (¡Viva! 2012), is a hedonistic teenager with the face a beloved singer and her talented to classic cinema and traditional we’re thrilled to present a second film of an angel and the mind of psychopath. With fan; an amnesiac superstar and her animation. ¡Viva! cinephiles get set to from comic strip artist Paco Roca, an his movie star swagger and blond curls he finds devoted assistant; a doting mother be enchanted by this magical tale. autobiographical story adapted for it easy to seduce, steal and manipulate, but the big screen in partnership with also resorts to extreme violence on a whim. and her bullying daughter… When an Plus/ This film will be preceded Diana López and Ángel de la Cruz. The Inspired by the longest-serving prisoner in ‘accident’ leaves fame-weary Lila with by La Noria (Dir Carlos Baena/ES classic 2D animation is book-ended by the history of Argentina, imprisoned since acute memory loss, super-fan Violeta’s 2018/12 mins). remarkable karaoke performance live-action scenes with Raúl Arévalo, the early 1970s, this stylishly energetic film suggests an unusual solution – Violeta One Hour Intro: a familiar face for ¡Viva! fans. Paco, a revels in the darkest side of delinquency in 40-something bachelor from Barcelona, a way that’s both horrifying and thrilling to can teach Lila to be Lila again. Drawing Contemporary Argentine comparisons with Hitchcock, Bergman finally sees his childhood dream watch. Carlitos teams up with schoolmate and Almodóvar, and voted Best Film Cinema come true: a job working from home Ramón to embark on a journey of discovery, in his pyjamas. However, just when love and crime – and all just for the hell of it. by the critics at the San Sebastian Mon 1 Apr, 18:30 International Film Festival, madrileño he’s reached the zenith of personal As if reality is one big movie set, Carlitos Tickets: £4 full/£3 concessions director Vermut continues to create happiness, he falls in loves with a does everything for effect, to make an stylish and exciting cinema packed At the turn of the 21st century, a crop woman who’s not convinced his main impression, to push the boundaries, to with complex female leads. With great of young Argentinian filmmakers were objective in life should be to remain at feel truly alive. music, witty dialogue, dark emotions celebrated for their innovative films home in his pyjamas. and high drama, this is a hypnotic charting that period of socioeconomic collapse. Now, two decades later, we Plus/ This film will be preceded by the film to disturb and delight as the UK premiere of El Jarrón (Dir Rubén sophisticated plot unfurls. find a different cinematic context, Quién te cantará with the consolidation of these former Tejerina/ES 2018/12 min). 14 15 family expectations – as well as the complexity of accepting our parents for who they really are. Event/ Introduced by Dr Rebecca Jarman, University of Leeds, on Wed 3 Apr. This talk will be BSL interpreted. Retablo (15) Miriam miente (12A) Wed 3 Apr, 18:15 + (Miriam Lies) Introduction Thu 4 Apr, 20:30 Sat 6 Apr, 15:45 Dirs Natalia Cabral & Oriol Estrada/ Dir Alvaro Delgado Aparicio/ DR ES 2018/80 mins PE DE NO 2018/95 mins/Quechua and Spanish Dulce Rodríguez, Carolina Rohana, wEngST Pachy Méndez, Frank Perozo Magaly Solier, Amiel Cayo, Junior Bejar, This award-winning first fiction feature Hermelinda Luján from Cabral and Estrada is a coming- High in the remote Peruvian Andes, of-age story that transports you to the 14-year-old Segundo is training to follow Caribbean with a theme they know his father’s footsteps in the traditional Alanis (18) well: class conflict in the Dominican folk art of retablo-making – crafting Republic. In this conflict whiteness is intricate, artisan story-boxes depicting Thu 4 Apr, 18:00 + Q&A aligned with higher status, something religious scenes and important everyday which mixed race teenager Miriam Tue 9 Apr, 16:30 events. Segundo reveres his father, but cannot fail to see, not least in the he’s also becoming restless with the Dir Anahí Berneri/AR 2017/82 mins attitude of her own (white) mother. As weight of carrying the family legacy on Sofía Gala, Dana Basso, Silvina Miriam and her friend Jennifer prepare his shoulders. When he stumbles across Sabater, Vuletich for the their joint 15th birthday party a heart-breaking secret his father is This fifth film from writer/ extravaganza, panic sets in when she harbouring, Segundo will come to face director Berneri is a superbly well-told realises the date she’s met online is the raw reality of his deeply religious tale of a few days in the life of a young in fact black. It’s tragic to witness the and conservative landscape, as well mother working as a prostitute in corrosive effects on all concerned of as a more profound connection with Buenos Aires. Winner of Best Director this endemic and internalised racism, his father than he’d ever imagined. and Best Actress at the San Sebastian but Miriam is bound to win your heart This coming-of-age story masterfully International Film Festival, the film in this topical exploration of identity explores the weight of heritage, the portrays a proud young woman doing politics. boundaries of love, and the burdens of her best for her infant son, with the beautifully naturalistic performance Also screening as part of the Language enhanced by the real-life mother- Lab on Sat 30 Mar (see p14). son relationship. Working conditions sometimes force Alanis into difficult and dangerous scenarios, but she is cast neither as a victim nor a weak woman. The deliberate lack of judgement of the oldest profession is refreshing – with interesting reflections of the female Jean-François i el sentit de la vida (12A) a novel escape in the form of French existentialist philosophy. archetypes of virgin, mother and whore (Jean-François and the Meaning With deep commitment to the ideas of Albert Camus, he turns up his coat collar, calls himself Jean-François, and – set in a country where prostitution is of Life) legal but brothels are not. resolves to make a pilgrimage from Catalonia to Paris. En Sat 6 Apr, 17:45 + Q&A route he meets Lluna, an older girl who awakens his budding Event/ We are pleased to welcome hormones and becomes his surprising travel companion. Mon 8 Apr, 16:20 Anahí Berneri for a Q&A following the Dir Sergi Portabella/ES FR 2018/90 mins/Catalan wEngST Accompanied by a baroque score and suitably philosophical screening on Thu 4 Apr. Max Megias, Claudia Vega, Pau Durà, Théo Cholbi chapter titles, this is a stylish and sweet coming-of-age Portabella’s debut film is a witty and whimsical tale. Winner of Best Director and Best Score at the Toulouse take on the growing pains of adolescence. Young teenager Cinespaña. Francesc – a solitary boy with an eye patch and a Event/ We are pleased to welcome Sergi Portabella for a Q&A Miriam miente psychiatrist – is natural prey for school bullies, until he finds following the screening on Sat 6 Apr. 16 17 Preview/ Pájaros de verano (15) (Birds of Passage) Tue 9 Apr, 18:10 Dirs Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra/CO MX DK 2018/120 mins/ Wayuu, Spanish & English with partial EngST Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez El Silencio de otros (12A) committed in the name of General Franco’s government. As the 1970s North American youth embrace hippie (The Silence of Others) In a ground-breaking international court case, victims of culture, a marijuana bonanza hits Colombia, quickly turning re-education camps, child abduction and torture have come farmers into seasoned businessmen. In the Guajira desert at Sun 7 Apr, 18:00 + Post-screening discussion together to break their silence and confront the perpetrators. the northernmost tip of South America, a Wayuu indigenous Dirs Almudena Carracedo & Robert Bahar/ES US 2018/95 mins Filmed over six years, we follow survivors as they fight a family takes a leading role in this new venture, and discovers Almodóvar’s El Deseo production company presents state-sanctioned amnesia, and watch as sections of society the perks of wealth and power. But when greed, passion, and this multiple award-winning documentary from begin to break away from the longstanding Pact of Forgetting honour blend together, a fratricidal war breaks out and will madrileña filmmaker Carracedo and American to rally to the call for truth and justice. Preview/ Rojo (15) soon put their family, their lives and their ancestral traditions director Bahar. In April 2019 we commemorate 80 years since at stake. In a bold stylistic change from Guerra’s earlier Event/ Join us for a post-screening discussion led by Dr Shivani the end of the Spanish Civil War, but also the beginning of a Mon 8 Apr, 18:15 + Introduction work, a masterful use of genre film style allows the story to Pal, Salford Citizens Advice, and Prof Andy Willis, University of Dir Benjamín Naishtat/AR FR DE NL BR 2018/109 mins 40-year dictatorship; The Silence of Others captures the first transition from ancient courting rituals with dowries of goats, Salford & HOME’s Visiting Curator: Film. Darío Grandinetti, Andrea Frigerio, Alfredo Castro, Diego attempt to bring to justice those accused of political crimes Cremonesi to bloodbath shootouts and patriarchs and matriarchs hell- The well-deserving winner of Best Director, Actor and bent on revenge in a truly epic tale. Cinematography at San Sebastian International Film Festival 2018, this hugely stylish and atmospheric psychological thriller takes place in mid-seventies Argentina. The hypnotic EVENTS drama follows Claudio, a successful lawyer in a quiet ¡VIVA! Café Cervantes provincial city, whose picture-perfect life begins to unravel Sun 7 Apr, 16:00-17:30 when a disturbing encounter with a stranger turns violent. Free event at the Instituto Cervantes ¡Bienvenido, siéntate! In unique style the film recreates the mounting tension and Head down the road for a screening of five shorts by An informal gathering of Spanish-speaking film lovers. violence leading up to the 1975 military coup, with more or ¡VIVA! Goya-winning director Miguel Becerra Ortiz on Wed 3 Apr Come and practise your language skills while sharing your less oblique references to the politics of the time, but mainly at 18:30, plus a post-screening director Q&A and Spanish opinions on this year’s ¡Viva! programme. focuses on the personal corruption of individuals just trying wine reception. to lead their lives. Enjoy the fantastic central performance We recommend language learners have intermediate level from Grandinetti, plus Castro as a superbly creepy Colombo- Instituto Cervantes Manchester, 326-330 Deansgate, Spanish or above to participate fully in this event. esque detective! M3 4FN Free, booking required. This event will take place at 25 Event/ Introduced by Dr Carmen Herrero, Manchester manchester.cervantes.es HOME, led by staff from the Instituto Cervantes. Metropolitan University. This talk will be BSL interpreted. YEARS

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20 21 ¡VIVA! 2019 SERIOUS FUN Mon 1 Apr 15:50 Film Quién te cantará (12A) FESTIVAL CALENDAR Mon 1 Apr 18:00 One Hour Intro One Hour Intro Contemporary Fri 22 Mar 20:30 Film + Q&A Tiempo después (15) UK Premiere Argentine Cinema Mon 1 Apr 20:00 Film Animal (15) UK Premiere Sat 23 Mar 13:55 Film Formentera Lady (15) UK Premiere Tue 2 Apr 18:25 Film Memorias de un hombre en pijama UK Premiere Sat 23 Mar 15:50 Film Tiempo después (15) UK Premiere (12A) Sat 23 Mar 18:00 Film + Q&A Oreina (15) UK Premiere Tue 2 Apr 20:20 Film El Ángel (15)

Sat 23 Mar 20:35 Film + Intro El Día de la bestia (18) Wed 3 Apr 18:15 Film + Intro Retablo (15) UK Premiere

Sun 24 Mar 14:30 One Hour Intro One Hour Intro: Serious Fun Wed 3 Apr 20:20 Film El Motoarrebatador (15) UK Premiere Thu 4 Apr 18:00 Film + Q&A Alanis (18) UK Premiere Sun 24 Mar 16:00 Film + Intro Plácido (U) Thu 4 Apr 20:30 Film Miriam miente (12A) Sun 24 Mar 17:50 Film + Q&A Ana de día (15) Fri 5 Apr 16:05 Film Formentera Lady (15) UK Premiere Mon 25 Mar 15:45 Film Petra (15) Fri 5 Apr 19:30 Theatre Manchester Camerata in association Mon 25 Mar 20:25 Film Acción mutante (18) with HOME presents Upclose: ¡Viva! 2019 Tue 26 Mar 15:50 Film Animal (15) UK Premiere Fri 5 Apr 20:30 Film Tiempo después (15) UK Premiere Tue 26 Mar 18:05 Film El Verdugo (CTBA) Sat 6 Apr 13:35 Film Ana de día (15) Tue 26 Mar 20:10 Film preview Yuli (12A) Sat 6 Apr 15:45 Film Retablo (15) UK Premiere Wed 27 Mar 18:00 Film + post-screening Viaje a los pueblos fumigados (PG) UK Premiere Sat 6 Apr 17:45 Film + Q&A Jean-François i el sentit de la vida discussion (12A) Wed 27 Mar 20:30 Film Las Niñas bien (12A) Sun 7 Ap 14:05 Film En las estrellas (12A) UK Premiere Thu 28 Mar 18:25 Film Formentera Lady (15) UK Premiere Sun 7 Apr 16:00- Event Café Cervantes 17:30 Thu 28 Mar 20:20 Film Petra (15) Sun 7 Apr 18:00 Film + Post-screening El Silencio de otros (12A) Fri 29 Mar 15:50 Film Viaje a los pueblos fumigados (PG) UK Premiere discussion Fri 29 Mar 17:45 Film El Motoarrebatador (15) UK Premiere Mon 8 Apr 16:20 Film Jean-François i el sentit de la vida (12A) Fri 29 Mar 19:50 Film + Intro Jamón, jamón (18) Mon 8 Apr 18:15 Film preview + intro Rojo (15) Sat 30 Mar 13:00- Event Language Lab: Miriam miente (12A) Mon 8 Apr 20:35 Film Memorias de un hombre en pijama UK Premiere 16:00 (12A) Sat 30 Mar 17:50 Film Huevos de oro (18) Tue 9 Apr 16:30 Film Alanis (18) UK Premiere Sat 30 Mar 20:00 Film Quién te cantará (12A) Tue 9 Apr 18:10 Film preview Pájaros de verano (15) Sun 31 Mar 15:40 Film Las Niñas bien (12A) Tue 9 Apr 20:30 Film El Ángel (15) Sun 31 Mar 17:40 Film + Intro La Teta y la luna (18) Tue 9 Apr – Sat 19:30 Theatre Señor Serrano presents 13 Apr Kingdom Sun 31 Mar 20:00 Film En las estrellas (12A) UK Premiere Co-produced by HOME 22 23 For venue, event information KEEP and booking e-news homemcr.org/sign-up homemcr.org/viva-2019 Twitter Box office HOMEmcr 0161 200 1500 @HOMEmcr Audioboom HOMEmcr YouTube HOMEmcrorg Flickr HOMEmcr

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