Inèdits – La Nau – Saturday 23 (19:00) Frame Antoine et Colette Synopsis Antoine Doinel is 17 years old, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him. Second part…
Inèdits – La Nau – Saturday 23 (18:00) Frame Scenes from the life of Andy Warhol Synopsis This extraordinary diary by avant-garde film legend Jonas Mekas chronicles Warhol’s everyday life and work, and the social and cultural milieu that swirled around him. The film includes footage from the first public performance of the Velvet Underground at Delmonico’s Hotel…
Inèdits – La Nau – Friday 22 (20:00) Frame Tender Fictions Synopsis Hammer’s 1996 documentary Tender Fictions is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical films that includes the iconic Nitrate Kisses and History Lessons. The film was chosen for the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, for which Lisanne Skyler wrote, “[Barbara Hammer’s] struggle becomes symbolic of all those…
Inèdits – La Nau – Friday 22 (19:00) Frame Alsasua 1936 Synopsis A recreation of the events that occurred during the Civil War in the working class town of Alsasua allows us to observe the positioning of the Church in the face of the war. Through the gaze of the young parish priest one perceives the profound…
Inèdits – La Nau – Friday 22 (18:00) Frame Peter and the Wolf Synopsis An animated retelling set to Prokofiev’s suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he’s bullied. When a wolf menaces the duck – as well as grandfather’s fat cat…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Wednesday 27 (21:00) Frame Unconditional Love Synopsis Is understanding between an extremely religious 80-year-old and her gay grandson possible? Are they able to overcome their beliefs in the name of love? This is a very personal story of the director Rafał. His grandmother Teresa brought him up and during his whole life…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Thursday 28 (18:00) Frame Looking at others Synopsis The gaze as the very definition of othering – and tourists as the very definition of Orientalization. But tourists that travel to Roma villages and Roma that market gypsy romanticism? What do both sides hope to get out of it? Can a…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Thursday 28 (19:30) Fotograma Wife, Girl, Mother (Tsuma Musume Haha) Synopsis Can a life size doll, an avatar or an artificial intelligence truly love you? Through unilateral love stories between humans and non-humans, the film explores different attempts to inhabit the world and draws a picture of Japan’s future. Details…
Amalgama Section- La Nau – Wednesday 27 (18:00) Frame Después de María Synopsis On September 20th, 2017 an event uncovered the uncomfortable reality of Puerto Rico. Capitalist policies had left the island vulnerable to climate change, and the first climate change refugees appear. Details Spain / 2019 / 30 min / Color DIRECTOR Nagore Eceiza FrameFrame
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Tuesday 26 (21:00) Frame Urpean Lurra Synopsis Nearly two decades ago the Itoiz reservoir flooded seven villages and three nature reserves on the slopes of Navarre Pyrenees. The environmental group Solidari@s with Itoiz documented on video the fight against its construction. Today, those who were there dream of the land that…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Tuesday 26 (18:00) Frame Maelstrom Synopsis Maelstrom is a found footage documentary about a paradise lost, composed out of hundreds of Syrian amateur videos. The film is inspired by the true story of a young Syrian refugee who, in search of a new home, tried to swim from Calais to England.…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Monday 25 (21:00) Frame Raposa Synopsis Cunning and slender, harassed and on the run, Reynard is a metaphor of a never ending obsession with each breath, each gesture, each thought. Marta seeks in the emptiness of her body a way to arrive to her inner essence, in an abstract search of…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Monday 25 (19:30) Frame The Fear of Dying in Transit Synopsis A hypnotic journey through the landscape of an underground construction site. Shot around the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, the film blends architectural observations with safety rituals. Facts dissolve within the realm of phobias and science fiction.…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Monday 25 (18:00) Frame Haunted (Hjemsøgelsen) Synopsis A mother, who rarely sees her filmmaker son, suddenly encounters a ghost outside of his childhood bedroom. He pays her a long overdue visit, to explore the mystery, and contemplate why his family has drifted apart. Details Denmark / 2018 / 30 min / Color DIRECTOR Christian…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Tuesday 26 (19:30) Frame Makun Synopsis Immigration Detention Centers (IDCs) are prisons for the innocent, and that is why our governments hide them from us. Having been able to document thousands of drawings on the walls of one of these IDCs (in the Canary Islands), MAKUN narrates several stories about…
Amalgama Section – La Nau – Wednesday 27 (19:30) Frame Der Patriot Synopsis At the age of 21, Vasily Vlasov became the youngest parliamentarian in the Russian Duma. Given his abundant confidence and self-assured manner, he could have been a refreshing new voice. But Vasily’s ideals are rooted in the deeply conservative party LDPR which is…
Official Section – La Filmoteca – Wednesday 27 (21:00) Frame My Mother´s Garden Synopsis Ryan is a young boxer from the Parisian ghetto. When his mother passes away, he has to go to Algeria to bury her body, according to traditions. When he arrives at the Algiers airport, he is greeted his uncle Youcef, whom he…
Official Section – La Filmoteca – Tuesday 26 (19:30) Frame A hard working man Synopsis As a result of Viktor’s gambling addiction, his restaurant is facing closure. When his daughter, Katja, gets engaged to the wealthy Noah, a kidnapping seems like the most effective way of obtaining a large amount of money. The kitchen assistants, Lena…
Official Section – La Filmoteca – Saturday 23 (18:00) Frame Braquer Poitiers Synopsis Nickel plated feet more than bandits, Francis and Thomas kidnap Wilfrid, the owner of a carwash business, source of a few fistfuls of euros a day. With Stockholm Syndrome at work for Wilfrid, in his own highly personal way, he enjoys the situation…
Official Section – La Filmoteca – Friday (21:00) Frame Electric Swan Synopsis Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050 , a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall – the ones who live beneath are…
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