INSTITUTO CERVANTES MANCHESTER
CULTURAL PROGRAMME September 2020 online INSTITUTO CERVANTES MANCHESTER
Cinema Conference
CONTEMPORARIES ONLINE Debut feature film by director David Macian from by Santiago Fouz (Durham University). Cartagena, Spain. A film that adapts Isaac Rosa's novel, In recent decades, various directors in Spanish cinema which analyses a mordant parable about the have worked on the expression of sexuality, as a form of precariousness of work. Critics have described it as a expression of human relations. Films by filmmakers such work of art, a macabre experiment. We encourage you to as award-winning Pedro Almodóvar and Ventura Pons experience “the wonderful spectacle of work”. are examples of how homoerotic feeling is expressed on Follow it on our Vimeo channel. the big screen. We invited film expert, professor Santiago Fouz from the Durham University, to discuss it further. Subtítules: English Follow it on our YouTube channel. Date: 4th September | 7pm Collaboration: Instituto Cervantes | Filmoteca AECID Date: 9th September | 6pm
Cinema Festival
CONTEMPORARIES ONLINE
Contemplation and the illusion of time standing still are The 26th edition of the VIVA Festival returns with an the bases of the opera prima of Sevillian director, Manuel interesting program from the Spanish-speaking world. A Muñoz Rivas. Between documentary and fiction, the tale meeting with three weeks of the best cinema in Spanish rescues the legend of an ancient civilisation buried under that takes us from Tierra del Fuego to Salamanca, from dunes in southern Spain. Researchers are drawn to Peru to Mexico; with films of recognised directors like appreciate the loneliness of this hidden place by the sea. Alejandro Amenábar, Sebastián Borenstein, Sabrina Follow it on our Vimeo channel. Blanco, Patricia Ortega or Gabriel Velázquez among others. Subtitules: English Date: 11th September | 7pm Dates: From 11th September to 1st October Collaboration: Instituto Cervantes | Filmoteca AECID More information: HOME Manchester INSTITUTO CERVANTES MANCHESTER
Workshop Conference
VISUAL NOVEL By Germán Gullón (University of Amsterdam). The fifth session of the "Visual Novel" series explains how Benito Pérez Galdós is one of the great novelists in to develop the script for a visual novel and how to take Spanish history and even though his novels have been into account the graphic, artistic and narrative translated into different European languages, he is little resources. It also shows how to use and translate a script known outside our borders. To commemorate the centenary of his death, Germán Gullón, professor at the into «Renpy». Follow it on our YouTube channel. University of Amsterdam, presents us with the multiple faces of the Canarian author. Follow it on our YouTube channel. Day: 14th September | 12am Day: 16th September | 6pm Language: Spanish Language: Spanish
Reading Club Cultural Day
By Álvaro González (University of Leeds). ONLINE This autumn, our Reading Club in Manchester-Leeds, will We start the new academic year with an "Open Day" read the novel Últimas tardes con Teresa, by Juan Marsé, online, so you can get to know the courses and activities writer from Barcelona. Our aim is to hone reading we offer at the Instituto Cervantes in Manchester. An comprehension and spoken skills in Spanish through the ideal opportunity for you to have a first contact with our magnificent work of the writer. language and culture. (+).
Language: Spanish First Session: 17th September | 6pm Language: Spanish Sign up: Instituto Cervantes de Leeds Date: 17th September INSTITUTO CERVANTES MANCHESTER
Cinema Poetry Reading
CONTEMPORARIES ONLINE By Terence Dooley (Translator). Editor and short filmmaker Carlos Agulló chooses a Translator Terence Dooley presents his ambitious work particularly delicate subject to begin his career as a Ten contemporary Spanish Women Poets (Shearsman documentary filmmaker. Los demás días: a moving of books, 2020), which is the first anthology of Spanish the daily life of Pablo Iglesias, a palliative care doctor, women poets to be published in the UK with poems by who shows us the demanding and emotional gaze of Pilar Adón, Martha Asunción Alonso, Graciela Baquero, those who have to face death and offers us a whole Mercedes Cebrián, María Eloy-García, Berta García lesson in life. Faet, Erika Martínez, Elena Medel, Miriam Reyes and Follow it on our Vimeo channel. Julieta Valero. Subtitules: English Follow it on our YouTube channel. Day: 18th September | 7pm Date: 22nd September | 6pm Collaboration: Instituto Cervantes | Filmoteca AECID Languages: Spanish | English
Cinema Cultural Day
CONTEMPORARIES ONLINE Directed by Jonás Trueba and in line with the creative Instituto Cervantes joins in celebrating the "European universe of his film Los ilusos (2013). La reconquista is a Language Day" to highlight the linguistic and cultural film about time, or the awareness of time: about lost and diversity of Europe, along with the importance of learning recovered time; about what we remember about languages to enhance knowledge. We have developed a ourselves and what we don't; about the words, gestures programme of activities and "trial classes" aimed at and feelings to which we remain faithful because they spreading the importance of the languages of Spain in define us and challenge us in the present, the past and Europe. Follow the event in our social media. the future. Follow it on our Vimeo channel. Date: 25th September Subtitles: English Collaboration: Europia | Società Dante Date: 25th September | 7pm Alighieri | Alliance Française | Instituto Cervantes Leeds. Collaboration: Instituto Cervantes | Filmoteca AECID. SPONSOREDY BY:
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