¡VIVA! FESTIVAL 2019 SERIOUS FUN FRI 22 MAR – SAT 13 APR 23 Days of Outstanding Film and Theatre from Spain and Latin America at Home
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home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home ¡VIVA! FESTIVAL 2019 SERIOUS FUN FRI 22 MAR – SAT 13 APR 23 days of outstanding film and theatre from Spain and Latin America at home ¡VIVA! 25 YEARS BIENVENIDOS A CONTENTS Theatre ............................................ 4 ¡VIVA! 2019 ¡VIVA! Film ........................................... 6-19 Getting here ............................... 20 SERIOUS FUN Tickets & booking .......................21 25 Festival calendar ......................22-23 YEARS 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 one-off performance programme of the most exciting film Santiago 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 Javier Bardem 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 Buenos Aires, 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 - Argentina. 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’ today, 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 drama 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 6 7 SERIOUS FUN 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, Carlos (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, Nora Navas, 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.