{"id":59960,"date":"2021-04-11T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=59960"},"modified":"2021-04-08T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T03:29:32","slug":"instituto-cervantes-presents-the-works-of-four-contemporary-spanish-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2021\/04\/11\/instituto-cervantes-presents-the-works-of-four-contemporary-spanish-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Instituto Cervantes Presents the Works of Four Contemporary Spanish Filmmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This April, Instituto Cervantes de Manila<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>will screen online the works of four contemporary Spanish filmmakers. The film series “Del corto al largo<\/strong>” will be streaming two works (a short and a feature film) by each of the selected filmmakers: directors \u00c1lex Montoya<\/strong>, Bel\u00e9n Mac\u00edas<\/strong> and Juanjo Gim\u00e9nez<\/strong>, and producer Mar\u00eda del Puy Alvarado<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The films will be shown through the Instituto Cervantes’ Vimeo channel<\/a>\u00a0and will be freely accessible for 48 hours from their start date and time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The series, which comprises of eight films, will kick off on April 7, Wednesday, at 2 a.m. with the online screening of\u00a0Lucas<\/i>, directed by\u00a0Alex Montoya<\/b> in 2016. Available anytime for 48 hours, the short film can be watched for free and with English subtitles through this link<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Enjoy the weekend watching the comedy\u00a0Asamblea<\/i>, directed by Alex Montoya in 2018. It is\u00a0<\/span>an interesting work of adaptation of the play \u201cLa gente<\/em>\u201d, by Juli Disla<\/strong> and Jaume P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, also screenwriters of the film. The emergence of assembly groups after the political movements after 2011 served their authors to cast a comic look at decision-making processes and the capacity for dialogue of the human being.\u00a0<\/span>The movie will be available on April 10 & 11, and will be accessible through this link<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The film cycle will continue on April 14, Wednesday, with\u00a0Mala espina\u00a0<\/i>(2001), a\u00a0<\/span>short film by\u00a0Bel\u00e9n Mac\u00edas<\/b>, which tells the summer story of a teenage girl who lives in a huge conflict with her elders. <\/span>Mala espina<\/span><\/i>\u00a0can be seen free on April 14 & 15 by clicking this link<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>The same week, on April 17 & 18, Bel\u00e9n Mac\u00edas\u2019 feature film\u00a0Marsella<\/i>\u00a0(2013) shows a dramatic duel between its two protagonists, Goya Toledo<\/strong> and Mar\u00eda Le\u00f3n<\/strong>, both in a true state of acting grace.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The third filmmaker on focus will be\u00a0Juanjo Gim\u00e9nez<\/b>.\u00a0<\/span>On April 21 & 22, Wednesday, Instituto Cervantes will offer the free online screening of\u00a0Rodilla<\/i>\u00a0(2009),\u00a0<\/i>a short film about the world of soccer, the passions it arouses, and the emotional universe that it means for many people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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It will be followed on April 24 & 25 by<\/span>\u00a0Juanjo Gim\u00e9nez’s feature film<\/span>\u00a0Nos hacemos falta<\/i>\u00a0(2001), a<\/span> peculiar road movie that tells the encounter between different antiheroes.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, the series will close with two samples of\u00a0<\/span>producer\u00a0Mar\u00eda del Puy Alvarado<\/b>\u2019s work. Her trajectory has touched almost every gender. A fine proof is given by the short film\u00a0Pulse\u00a0<\/i>(2013), a thriller set in Ukraine but shot in Madrid, which tackles one of the many crimes that are unfortunately perpetrated around the world against adolescents.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The closing movie of the cycle,\u00a0Antonio Mu\u00f1oz Molina, el oficio de escritor<\/i> (2014), will be streamed on May 1 & 2. With it, Mar\u00eda del Puy Alvarado faced the proposal to produce a documentary about the writer Antonio Mu\u00f1oz Molina, to give an account of the main creators of Spanish culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The films, presented by Instituto Cervantes in collaboration with\u00a0<\/span>ALCINE, the Alcal\u00e1 de Henares Film Festival (Spain), and the\u00a0Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, will be\u00a0in Spanish with English subtitles<\/b>. Admission is\u00a0free<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For further information on this film series, please check out the event page<\/a> on the Instituto Cervantes de Manila Facebook page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Instituto Cervantes is presenting the works of directors \u00c1lex Montoya, Bel\u00e9n Mac\u00edas, and Juanjo Gim\u00e9nez, and producer Mar\u00eda del Puy Alvarado online in the film series “Del corto al largo” throughout this April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[14658,14657,14651,14659,14649,14646,14660,14650,14652,14661,14653,14655,14656,14654,14647,14648],"class_list":["post-59960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-alex-montoya","tag-antonio-munoz-molina-el-oficio-de-escritor","tag-asamblea","tag-belen-macias","tag-del-corto-al-largo","tag-instituto-cervantes-de-manila-films","tag-juanjo-gimenez","tag-lucas","tag-mala-espina","tag-maria-del-puy-alvarado","tag-marsella","tag-nos-hacemos-falta","tag-pulse","tag-rodilla","tag-spanish-films-in-the-philippines","tag-what-to-watch-in-april-2021"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/04\/institutodecervantes.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59960"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59992,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59960\/revisions\/59992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}