Le Saphir de Saint Louis

Coming soon Synopsis In Saint-Louis Cathedral, in La Rochelle, in a chapel filled with merchant marine ex-votos, one can contemplate a painting that witnesses the tragedy of the “Saphir” in 1741.  This slave schooner was becalmed for days and days in inter-tropical waters, with 271 slaves and 30 crewmembers on board. This little painting is…

Simba In New York

La Nau: Friday 17 (20:00) | Friday 22 (20:00) Synopsis Walt Disney died 50 years ago. But to this day, millions of children grow up watching the films he produced. To this day, he is seen as the embodiment of the American Dream. A student writing his bachelor thesis remembers his childhood fascination for the USA. Details…

Tokyo Project

Filmoteca: Saturday 18 (20:00) | Tuesday 21 (22:00) Synopsis On a business trip to Tokyo, Sebastian explores the city with a mysterious woman he keeps running into wherever he goes, discovering heartbreakingly that the truth, and the past, are as elusive as love. Details Estados Unidos · 2017 · 31 min. DIRECTOR Richard Shepard CAST Elisabeth Moss, Ebon…

Sadgati (Deliverance)

La Nau (Aula Magna): Tuesday 21 (18:00) Sinopsis When untouchable out-caste Dukhi goes to the village Brahmin to get the date of his daughter’s marriage fixed in accordance to Hindu astrology, the Brahmin in turn asks for labour without pay in exchange. Already sick and feeble due to a recent fever, Dukhi accepts and starts cleaning…

La cabina

La Nau (Aula Magna): Monday 20 (18:00) Synopsis This TV production narrates the progressive anguish of a man (López Vázquez) that gets trapped in a telephone booth. What initially seems like a simple setback slowly becomes a troubling and terrifying situation that makes the man anxious and desperate. Details Spain · 1972 · 34 min. DIRECTOR Antonio Mercero CAST…

Strip Search

La Nau (Aula Magna): Monday 20 (18:00) Synopsis Two parallel stories take place in this film. Linda Sykes is a US citizen held in China, where she is being interrogated by a police officer. Sharif Bin Said’s situation is very similar: an Arab held in New York, where he is interrogated by an FBI agent. Both…

La última feria

La Nau: Tuesday 21 (20:00) | Thursday 23 (18:00) Synopsis Life is a movie with a predictable ending for all of us. With their 7 billion future clients in mind, Spanish and Portuguese funerary businesspeople meet every year in Ourense to explore the innovations in their sector.  There are some diamond caskets, others lined with fur, noble…

Ver nieve

La Nau: Saturday 18 (18:00) | Friday 24 (18:00) Synopsis The inhabitants of a house rehearse and muse about the script of a movie that doesn’t exist yet. Through play, questions and rhythm, they impact each other to find the future script inside the other. Details Spain/Belgium · 2016 · 30 min. DIRECTOR Alex Reynolds CAST Ferran Mesa, Nilo…

Fifty Rupees Only

La Nau: Tuesday 21 (20:00) | Thursday 23 (18:00) Synopsis Bollywood films feed the imagination of millions of youngsters in India by projecting wonderful and passionate love stories. But the reality is quite different. Many parents decide their children´s fate with the “SAGAI”, a ceremony where chosen future partners are committed, a contract binding total strangers at an early age,…

Desertorxs

La Nau: Saturday 18 (20:00) | Monday 20 (20:00) Synopsis ‘Desertorxs’ is a documentary about the Chilean post-dictatorship. It is also a techno-trans ritual to destroy national identity. In ‘Desertorxs’, the collective imagery is deconstructed through a. exorcising techno music dance. Error, repetition and disguise offer the possibility of creating something new, based on transgression and the…

La part maudite

La Nau: Saturday 18 (20:00) | Monday 20 (20:00) Synopsis There was a purely analytical or conceptual art, an explicit will to disregard the aesthetical dimension of a piece of art to create wholly intellectual art. This attempt failed, but it changed the ontology of art. ‘La part maudite’ questions the mistrust towards the aesthetic level of…

Los mutantes

La Nau: Friday 17 (18:00) | Friday 24 (20:00) Synopsis A word written in black tears through a white background. A light projects the children’s silhouettes on a dirty wall. A young boy’s face is illuminated in the middle of a movie theatre. A ghostly figure takes us back to a moment that will never return. The…

25 Cines / seg

La Nau: Friday 17 (18:00) | Friday 24 (20:00) Synopsis Throughout/During the shooting of a documentary about abandoned cinemas a conflict of interests between the director and the producer stops the shooting of the movie. This will not stop the cinema from being demolished. Neither hold back the filming of a documentary about it, nor the director from making…

Graffiti

Filmoteca: Friday 17 (22:00) | Wednesday 22 (20:00) Synopsis An apocalyptical world. A devastated city. A lone survivor. Edgar has learned how to live in solitude rummaging for food among the rubble and avoiding the areas contaminated by “the incident” that ended life as we know it. But one day Edgar’s life is interrupted when he finds a…

Twilight

Filmoteca: Saturday 18 (22:00) | Tuesday 21 (20:00) Synopsis Alicia is a young girl that dreams about being an actress but Works as a clown in a mediocre travelling circus. While on tour in a small mountainous town where not even electricity has arrived, she meets Abelito, a child with a severe skin condition that prevents him from going…

LA Cabina 2017

La X Edición del Festival La Cabina se celebró en València del 16 al 25 de noviembre de 2017. La inauguración se celebró en el Palau de la Música de València y el festival se realizó en sus sedes principales: La Filmoteca de València y el Centre Cultural de la Nau. Palmarés 2017 Sección Oficial:…

Body

Filmoteca: Saturday 18 (22:00) | Tuesday 21 (20:00) Synopsis Cathy is a caregiver and she lives alone. Too alone. One day, her estranged sister calls her for her birthday, and proposes a trip to the seaside. Details France · 2016 · 42 min. DIRECTOR Léonor Serraille CAST Nathalie Richard, Ludmilla Dabo, Dominique Dièterlé, Claire Cathy, Emmanuel Robin, Jean-René Lemoine. ImágenesImágenes