Throughout this series of projections, we will explore a variety of documentaries that offer a selection of works with which the viewer can get an idea of the latest Andalusian non-fiction productions of non-fiction. Personal stories not always about Andalusian, but always created from the lens of our land.
Address: Inés Romero and Juan Pablo Coca
Year: 2023
Duration: 60 minutes
SINOPSIS
Jarcha was one of the most important musical groups in Spain in the 1970s. They rescued folklore and denounced the situation of Andalusia in those years. The harmonies of voices and their connection with the public made many of their songs become hymns during the Spanish transition. One of its most well-known themes, 'Freedom without anger', has been a musical background in numerous political events of different signs, not only in Spain but in many Latin American countries. Now, half a century later, the current formation calls in a concert (Jarcha 5.0) its former components. The meeting serves as the basis for this documentary that reviews the group's trajectory.
Address; Paloma Zapata
Year: 2022
Duration: 90 min
SINOPSIS
A filmmaker is fascinated by the art of a flamenco dancer in an archival material of the 1960s and decides to follow the thread. The research takes her to Antonia Singla, a dancer who was born on the beach of the Somorrostro of Barcelona and who was deaf to being born. At only 17 years old, he became a world-class cult dancer and countries like Germany considered it the best in the world. Also, when she was 30, La Singla abruptly disappeared from the scenes without a trace. Behind her fascinating look, La Singla hid a tragic story. The filmmaker, determined to reveal her, rescues from oblivion an advanced woman in her time, unjustly erased from history and who made a great contribution to flamenco, the Roma culture and the deaf community.
Address: Juan Mata
Year: 2023
Duration: 54 minutes
SINOPSIS
The life of Ana de Pombo, born in Cantabria in 1896, is the history of a multifaceted, ambitious and controversial woman, the fruit and reflection of the convulsive 20th century that she had to live. Recognized modesty, it became the right hand of Coco Chanel in the Paris of the 1930s. However, his biography is far more polyhedrical, dark and complex than his designs. He finished his days in Marbella, where he tried to resurrect for the last time as a host of Jean Cocteau in the dream of an arcadia of artists.
Address: Enrique Iznaola Gómez, Ignacio Ortega Campos
Year: 2024
Duration: 95 min
SINOPSIS
Reflection on Spanish cinema, taking as a starting point seventy interviews with prominent filmmakers and filmmakers in which both their work and their vision on different general themes such as industry or the evolution of Spanish cinema or current issues such as the arrival of digital platforms are analyzed.
Address: José Manuel Serrano Cueto
Year: 2023
Duration: 75 min
SINOPSIS
Osario Norte is a documentary feature film about actor Jorge Rigaud, popular in the 1960s for his Valentine's Day character, but above all he addresses his last days of life, his sad death in 1984 and his oblivion. The film reflects on the fugacity of success, the fragility of memory and the relentless of death.
The actor Pedro Casablanc and the writer and filmmaker José Manuel Serrano Cueto investigate those days and recover the memory of Jorge Rigaud, buried for three decades in the mass grave of the parish cemetery of San Salvador in Leganés.
Address: Rafael Guerrero Moreno
Year: 2022
Duration: 54 minutes
SINOPSIS
The documentary reveals the unknown magnitude of the Nazi repression against Spanish exiles, especially in France where some 70,000 Republicans worked hard under the Vichy regime and the German occupation between 1940 and 1944. The forgotten history of these Rotspanier (literally translated as "Spanish Reds"), a name by which the Germans called the Spanish Republicans, is recovered from the main historians specialized in this subject, still under investigation. Tens of thousands worked in very hard conditions to build the five huge submarine bases and the three thousand bunkers that make up the Atlantic Wall and still remain on the French coast. The memory of those exiled with the voice of their descendants, who claim the need to remove them from oblivion and in many cases also the recognition for their active participation in the struggle for the liberation of France from the Nazi yoke, is also recovered. The sons and grandchildren of the Rotspanier who appear in the documentary, mostly descendants of Andalusian exiles, regret that the suffering and courage of their parents and grandparents have not been sufficiently recognized in France.
Lorca Award for the best documentary at the International Film Festival in Granada in November 2023.
Address: Silvia Moreno and Dani Llamas
Year: 2023
Duration: 83 minutes
SINOPSIS
Trebujena, 1987. An almighty Spielberg chooses this Andalusian people to roll its great overproduction, The Sun Empire. The community is shaken by its arrival and a fanatic is looking for its idol. History reveals the cultural shock in the midst of globalization.
House of Culture. Pz. de Austria, s / n. 29631. Honey Arroyo. Benalmádena.
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