The Spanish Cinema Now

SANTIAGO SEGURA director and actor Torrente 4- Lethal Crisis– Dec 7 to 11

DANIEL SÁNCHEZ ARÉVALO director of Cousinhood - Dec 7 to 12

QUIM GUTIÉRREZ actor of Cousinhood - Dec 7 to 12

JONÁS TRUEBA director Every song talks about me - Dec 7 to 12

NACHO VIGALONDO director Extraterrestrial – Dec 7 to 12

ISAKI LACUESTA, director Double Steps - Dec 7 to 12

ISA CAMPO, screenwriter Double Steps - Dec 7 to 12

LUISA MATIENZO, producer Double Steps - Dec 7 to 12

ALBERTO MORAIS, director The waves – Dec 6 to 11

NORA NAVAS, actress Black Bread – Dec 14 to 18

ISONA PASSOLA, producer Black Bread – Dec 14 to 18

MIREIRA ROS, director Black Bread – Dec 7 to 14

JAVIER BALADIA, writer of the original book Barcelona before Dec 7 to 14

MARTA FIGUERAS, producer Barcelona Barcelona before – Dec 7 to 14

VICTORIA BERMEJO, screenwriter  Barcelona before – Dec 7 to 14

Background:

Over the past two decades, Spanish Cinema Now has accompanied the wonderful renaissance of Spanish filmmaking. One of the longest-running series at the Walter Reade, this year's edition will bring 16 features produced in the last year, a selection of Spanish shorts and a 10-film tribute to Luis García Berlanga, one of Spain’s greatest directors, who sadly passed away in November 2010. Together with Juan Antonio Bardem, Berlanga revolutionized the Spanish cinema in the Fifties and early Sixties with such masterworks as Welcome Mr. Marshall!, Plácido, and The Executioner. Yet beyond being important documents of the growing social resistance to Franco, Berlanga’s films are treasures because their extraordinary humor always seems to propel his often madcap tales into more general, timeless observations on the human condition. There are rarely villains in his works—only characters with greater or lesser levels of self-delusion.

Program:

You can check the whole lineup of screenings at the Film Society of Lincoln Center here:

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/series/spanish-cinema-now

During the festival Instituto Cervantes New York will hold three roundtables and film screenings.

Thursday, December 8

6.00pm Roundtable with Spanish Filmmakers Santiago Segura, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Jonás Trueba, Nacho Vigalondo, Mireia Ros y Alberto Morais.

Moderator: Javier Rioyo. In Spanish with simultaneous English translation.

Thursday, December 15th

6:00 PM -  Film Screening of Queridísimos Verdugos / Dearest  Executioners. A film by  Basilio Martín Patino. (In Spanish with English subtitles).

7:30 PM Roundtable:  The Executioner: A Trade of the Twentieth Century

Participants: Basilio Martín Patino, filmmaker & a journalist (TBD) & an executioner (TBD

In Spanish with simultaneous translation.

Friday, December 16th

6:00 PM -  Screening of documentary: Por la gracia de Luis / By the Grace of Luis. A film by Jose Luis García Sánchez. In Spanish without subtitles.

7:00 PM  - Roundtable: Berlanga, His Family and Other Creatures: Fetichism, Erotiscm & Stilettos Participants: Guillermina Royo Villanova, founder of El Dodo Magazine & José Luis García Sánchez, filmmaker. In Spanish.

Spanish Cinema Now is presented by Film Society at Lincoln Center and Instituto Cervantes New York in collaboration with the Instituto de la Cinematografia y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) of the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

About The Film Society at Lincoln Center:

The Film Society of Lincoln Center was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new directors, and to enhance the awareness, accessibility and understanding of film. Advancing this mandate today, the Film Society hosts two distinguished festivals. The New York Film Festival annually premieres films from around the world and has introduced the likes of François Truffaut, R.W. Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Pedro Almodóvar, Martin Scorsese, and Wong Kar-Wai to the United States. New Directors/New Films, co-presented by the Museum of Modern Art, focuses on emerging film talents. Since 1972, when the Film Society honored Charles Chaplin, its annual Gala Tribute celebrates an actor or filmmaker who has helped distinguish cinema as an art form. Additionally, the Film Society presents a year-round calendar of programming at its Walter Reade Theater and offers insightful film writing to a worldwide audience through Film Comment magazine. For more information, visit: www.filmlinc.com

About Instituto Cervantes New York

http://nyork.cervantes.es Instituto Cervantes New York belongs to the Instituto Cervantes network of cultural centers. Instituto Cervantes is an institution that was founded by the Spanish government in 1991 to promote the Spanish language and Spanish and Hispanic-American culture.  The central head office is located in Madrid and in Alcalá de Henares ( Madrid), birthplace of the writer Miguel de Cervantes. Instituto Cervantes is present on five continents with more than 50 centers spread out across many different countries.

Our institution is also responsible for organizing the DELE exams- Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera - (Diploma in Spanish as a Foreign Language), as well as issuing official certificates and diplomas for the participants of our courses; organizing Spanish courses; organizing training courses for teachers; supporting Hispanists in their activities and encouraging cultural activities in collaboration with other organizations.

The work of Instituto Cervantes is directed by representatives from the academic, cultural and literary world within the field of Spanish and Hispanic-America.  In New york, the Institute collaborates with museums, galleries, theatres, publishing houses and other cultural institutions, as well as Spanish and Latin-American organizations.