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In partnership with informationwelcome See calendar for full film and event listings or visit www.vivafilmfestival.com Box Office Season pass In partnership with For all ticket enquiries, please contact our Welcome to the 16th edition of ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film To create your own ¡Viva! festival pass, select Box Office staff on 0161 200 1500. Festival and another year of excellent cinema from across the Spanish- 8 films (excluding events) from the festival speaking world. line-up for only £40.00 full / £28.00 concs Matinées (Before 5.00pm) £5.00 full / £3.50 concs To book your festival pass, download the pdf This year we have extended the dates of the festival and dedicated the whole Evenings (from 5.00pm) booking form from the festival website or of March to ¡Viva! which we hope will allow you to catch all the films you £7.00 full / £5.00 concs collect a copy from Box Office and return with really want to see, and to discover some hidden gems along the way. Advance group bookings: Buy 9 tickets for a payment. screening and get the 10th free. Funders and sponsors: Just a few of our festival delights on offer include: Uruguayan comedy Mal eVent Please note, your season pass can only be Book online booked in person or over the telephone. día para pescar; Spanish family drama La vergüenza; Catalan coming-of-age One Hour Intro/ www.cornerhouse.org tale Little Indi and guest appearances from award-winning writer-director Spanish Cinema Now Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and short filmmaker Luis Arambilet. By phone Galleries Open Tue 2 March, 18:00 0161 200 1500 Booking line is open from We are also really excited to extend ¡Viva! into our galleries for the first Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Closed Mon £3.50 full / £3 concs Tue – Sat 12:00 – 20:00 time as we welcome internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Carlos Book in person Sun 12:00 – 18:00 Amorales to Manchester for a solo show of his work. Rachel Hayward, Cornerhouse and iViva! Cornerhouse Box Office is open for advance Programme Manager, presents an overview bookings from Mon – Sun: 12:00 – 20:00 Amorales’ exhibition, presenting his cross-media installations Psicofonias of ¡Viva! 2010, introducing the audience (2008) and Discarded Spider (2008), will open at Cornerhouse on to some of the most prominent directors, Sat 6 March and continues until Sat 27 March. actors and producers in contemporary Spanish and Catalan language cinema All certificates are recommended local The festival programme is subject to whilst providing recommendations for the certificates. Please check website for last minute changes, please see We look forward to seeing you there! festival’s must-see films. updates prior to screenings. www.vivafilmfestival.com for all ¡Viva! updates including details of ¡Disfrutad el festival! All films will be screened in Spanish with confirmed guests. English subtitles unless otherwise indicated. Argentine Embassy All films are screened at Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5NH For bookings call Cornerhouse Box Office 0161 200 1500 or book online at www.cornerhouse.org Front Cover: BAD DAY TO GO FISHING Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd. Registered Charity No 514719 Registered Company No 1681278 England 3 exhibition See calendar for full film and event listings or visit www.vivafilmfestival.com Carlos Amorales Cornerhouse presents a solo show by one of For this exhibition Amorales will present two Artist Talk/ Mexico’s leading contemporary artists, Carlos recent works: Psicofonias and Discarded Spider Carlos Amorales eVent Sat 6 – Sat 27 March Amorales. Using a broad range of media, (both 2008). In Psicofonias, Amorales’ graphic including performance, animation, sculpture and drawings are transformed into music. The Date TBC Gallery 1 installation, Amorales creates cross-media works large-scale two screen video installation, created FREE, check website for date confirmation Free that jar our reality by re-appropriating images by Amorales together with musician Julián Lede and re-presenting them in a less-than-familiar and digital programmer André Pahl, works We hope to welcome artist Carlos Amorales for form. Often dark in tone, and always dramatic, like a ‘virtual pianola’, translating drawings, an introduction to his distinctive art practice that Supported by his pieces are characterised by the recycling and represented by dots, into musical notes which ingeniously mixes photography, performance, manipulating of examples from his ongoing trigger two synthesizers as they scroll down animation, installation and sound in cross-media ‘liquid archive’ of images, many of which draw the screen. works revealing subtle connections to the artist’s Courtesy of Yvon Lambert Gallery upon cultural symbols from his native Mexico. urban homeland of Mexico City. 18 The video installation Discarded Spider shows Solo Quiero Caminar Amorosa Soledad 12A the silhouette of the artist as he manipulates (Just Walking) (Lovely Loneliness) giant sculptural spider webs. A metaphor of Spanish Language Tour entrapment, these spider webs also have a dark eVent Sat 6 March & Mon 8 March Sun 7 March & Thu 11 March poetic beauty as they create intricate patterns Tue 9 March, 18:00 Dir Agustín Díaz Yanes / ES MX 2008 / 129 mins Dir Martín Carranza & Victoria Galardi across the screen. FREE, Booking Required Diego Luna, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil, AR 2008 / 82 mins For Gallery opening times please see pg. 1 Pilar López de Ayala Inés Efron, Nicolás Pauls, Fabián Vena, Join James Scorer, Lecturer in Spanish at Monica Gonzaga Manchester Metropolitan University, for a Aurora is serving time in prison for a robbery Spanish Language introductory tour of the that went badly wrong. Her three female ¡Viva! favourite Inés Efron gives a captivating exhibition. Intermediate level Spanish required. accomplices are free but embroiled in performance as Soledad, an artistic young increasingly risky dealings with a Mexican hypochondriac whose split from her boyfriend Tour drug dealer. As Aurora reaches the end of her sends her into a spin. Soledad gains support eVent sentence the four women decide to fight back from her friends and a chance encounter in a Wed 10 March, 18:00 in this vibrant revenge thriller. café provides an opportunity for her to find love FREE, Booking Required once more. Fri 5 March, 18:00 – 21:00 To start ¡Viva! in style, why not join us in Exhibition Preview the bar for a post-screening drink. Also, Join James Scorer, Lecturer in Spanish at throughout the festival our café and bar Manchester Metropolitan University, for an Join us to celebrate the opening of Carlos will have a selection of Spanish and Latin introductory tour of the exhibition. Amorales’ exhibition. American treats and special offers to keep the fiesta going for the whole of March! 4 5 films See calendar for full film and event listings or visit www.vivafilmfestival.com eVent mal día para pEscar 12A Daniel and Ana 18 One Hour Intro/ Cortos/Almería El viaje de Teo 12A (Bad Day to Go Fishing) Mon 8 March & Fri 12 March Hispanic Crime Thrillers INTERNATIONAL Short (Teo’s Journey) Sun 7 March & Tue 9 March Film Festival CTBA Thu 11 March & Sun 14 March Dir Michel Franco / MX 2009 / 90 mins Mon 8 March, 18:00 Darío Yazbek Bernal, Marimar Vega Dir Álvaro Brechner / UY 2009 / 110 mins £3.50 full / £3 concs Wed 10 March Dir Walter Doehner / MX 2008 / 90 mins Gary Piquer, Jouko Ahola, Antonella Costa, Damián Alcázar, Erick Cañete, Joaquín Cosio, Dagoberto Gama Michel Franco elicits compelling performances César Troncoso Led by Carmen Herrero, this talk explores the £5 full / £3.50 concs from his young actors in this controversial and Walter Doehner presents a warm-hearted tale of friendship and bravery as eight-year-old Teo goes engaging piece. representation of crime in recent Spanish and Jacob van Oppen, the former strongest man Latin American films. Considering issues such as A specially curated programme of short dramas on a journey in search of his father, from whom he has been separated at the Mexican-US border. on earth, and his wily manager Orsini tour law, order and punishment, it will discuss how from the Almería International Short Film Festival, Teo soon finds companionship and support from teenager Chuy whose inside information into the small towns staging wrestling matches and Siblings Daniel and Ana are at pivotal moments featuring work by some of Spain’s most talented new illegal immigration racket could be the answer to Teo’s problems. in their lives. Ana is about to be married and crime films can be used to expose and comment challenging the locals to beat the champ. on socio-political events and gender issues as well filmmakers. Remember – you saw them here first! When they arrive in the small town of Santa Daniel is a gregarious teenager discovering his personal and sexual identity. Yet their harmony as raising questions of citizenship and national Maria, the determination of a local woman identity. The films to be screened in this selection Podcast/ Crossing Borders poses major problems to their livelihood and is instantly and irrevocably shattered when they are: Sintonía (José Mari Goenaga), Tu(a)mor Carmen Herrero and Ana Valbuena provide a short introduction to a group of films from this their friendship. are kidnapped and subjected to an horrific (Fernando Franco), The End (Eduardo Chapero- year’s festival, including El viaje de Teo and Retorno a Hansala, which explore the representation of ordeal. Suddenly their carefree lives area distant This presentation will include discussions on films including Solo quiero caminar (pictured), Jackson), Heterosexuales y Casados (Vicente immigration in Spain and Latin America. Mal día para pescar is a quirky comedy exploring memory and family life will never be the same Villanueva), Fo(R)Rest In The De(S)Sert (Luiso again.