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  • Jordi Cadena & Judith Colell – Elisa K (2010)

    Jordi Cadena2001-2010DramaJudith ColellSpain
    Elisa K (2010)
    Elisa K (2010)

    At eleven, everything in Elisa’s life will lose its innocence. One day whilst her father is asleep and her brother is on a swing outside, her father’s friend will rape her, as she cries he tells her if she stops he’ll give her a silver bracelet. It’s from that moment on she will forget what happened to her for a very long time.
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  • Albert Serra – El cant dels ocells aka Birdsong (2008)

    2001-2010ActionAlbert SerraSpain

    The sublime and the mundane run hand-in-hand in Birdsong, Albert Serra’s stunningly photographed, intensely contemplative re-telling of the biblical journey of the Magi. Much of the sublimity derives from the film’s visuals, superbly tactile black-and-white images alive to the textures of the rocky landscape, which, along with the precise gradations of lighting (each scene seems shot at the one exact moment of day when its creation was possible) and the rustling of wind on the soundtrack, imbues the barren land with a richness of meaning commensurate with the Magi’s divine mission.Read More »

  • Carla Simón – Alcarràs (2022) (HD)

    2021-2030Carla SimónDramaSpain

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    The life of a family of peach farmers in a small village in Catalonia changes when the owner of their large estate dies and his lifetime heir decides to sell the land, suddenly threatening their livelihood.Read More »

  • Ventura Pons – Barcelona (un mapa) AKA Barcelona: A Map (2007)

    2001-2010DramaSpainVentura Pons


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    Synopsis:
    Timid, elderly Ramon once worked at a Barcelona theater, later burned down, where he enjoyed dressing up in women’s costumes. He’s now married to Ros and owns a house whose rooms he has rented out.Wishing to spend his last days in peace, Ramon visits his tenants to ask them to leave.Read More »

  • Carlos Benpar – Cineastes contra magnats AKA Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)

    2001-2010Carlos BenparDocumentarySpain

    This is the first of a series of two documentaries concerning the way the cinema industry is not respecting the author works as they were conceived, in the many ways this can be done. This first documentary is dedicated to technical ways that industry implements thinking to be an improvement to make better public oriented movies, but what’s really happening is that these works are being sadly manipulated.Read More »

  • Pere Portabella – No compteu amb els dits (1967)

    1961-1970ExperimentalPere PortabellaSpain

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    The medium-length film No compteu amb els dits, Pere Portabella’s first work as a director, starts with the following phrase: “defeated…but not conquered”. This may or should be taken as an allusion to the technical K.O. taken by Portabella from Franco’s regime during the sixties as regards his work as a producer. Through the extremely raging playthings of the words of Catalan poet Joan Brossa, Portabella attempts to dismantle the forms of advertising discourse of that time. —pereportabella.comRead More »

  • Albert Serra – Honor de cavalleria aka Honour of the knights (2006)

    2001-2010Albert SerraArthouseEpicSpain

    Matt Zoller Seitz (The New York Times) wrote:
    Elmore Leonard once said that the key to telling an exciting story was leaving out the parts that people skip. The “Don Quixote” adaptation “Quxiotic/Honor de Cavalleria” is composed of little else.

    In adapting Miguel de Cervantes’s novel about the senile would-be knight, Don Quixote (Lluís Carbó), and his sidekick, Sancho Panza (Lluís Serrat), the film’s writer and director, Albert Serra, favors landscape imagery and natural sounds over dialogue and music.Read More »

  • Albert Serra – Els noms de Crist AKA The Names of Christ (2010)

    Arthouse2001-2010Albert SerraExperimentalSpain

    Filmmaker Albert Serra specifically conceived the series The Names of Christ (2010) for the exhibition Are You Ready for TV? It consists of 14 episodes, with a total duration of 193 minutes, and is based on the book The Names of Christ (1572-1586), by Friar Luis de León. Serra constructs a narrative based on a free, poetic structure, which ironically deconstructs the conventions and grammars of the film, art and television worlds.Read More »

  • Isaki Lacuesta – Cravan vs. Cravan (2002)

    Documentary2001-2010Isaki LacuestaSpain

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    In Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon’s Remembrance of Things to Come, a thoughtful and illuminating survey of Denis Bellon’s photo-reportage between the two world wars, the filmmakers provide a framework for the interpretation of Bellon’s artistically rendered, zeitgeist images as prescient, historical documents that, in hindsight, provide an insightful glimpse of the looming, profoundly transformative world events that would unfold at the first half of the twentieth century. However, in this subjective, often arbitrary process of contemporal assignment of the meaning of images, the intersection between logical deduction and extrapolation continues to be amorphous and untenable.Read More »

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