Spanish Film Week 2018 / 16-22. October

Program:

16 October, Tuesday

19:30     ABRACADABRA
comedy, dir.: Pablo Berger, 96’, 2017
Carmen is a housewife from Madrid mother of teen Toñi and married with the macho man and obsessed with soccer Carlos, which her daily life complicating due to the abusive character of Carlos. During the party after a wedding of Carmen's nephew, her cousin Pepe decides prove his abilities as showman with a hypnosis session. After Carlos mocks Pepe in front of all invited, a ghost possesses Carlos, suffering strange and radical changes of attitudes and behaviors. Meeting with Pepe, Carmen looking for answers to discover what's happening.

Replay: 22 Octobre, Monday, 20:30

17 October, Wednesday

18:30     SUMMER 1993
drama, dir.: Carla Simón, 97', 2017
In the Summer of 1993, Frida, a six-year-old little girl, leaves Barcelona and her grandparents for the countryside. After her father, her mother has just died of a mysterious illness. Taken in by her uncle Esteve and aunt Marga, Frida discovers her new environment, an old stone farmhouse in a mountainous area close to a dense forest. Her new "parents" prove friendly. But Frida finds it hard to forget her mother and adapt to her new life.

20:30     THE AUTHOR
drama, dir.: Manuál Martín Cuenca, 112’, 2017
Álvaro is a man from Sevilla (Andalucía, south to Spain). Poor and clumsy, without imagination and inspiration to write, he works as accountant in a notary and he is married with Amanda, who unexpectedly became famous after to write her first novel. Dreaming with to make the great novel of all times and surpass Amanda, Álvaro goes to night class of literature, asking help to the teacher José in order to find the keys to make it.

19 October, Friday

16:30     THE BOOKSHOP
drama, dir.: Isabel Coixet, 113´, 2017
England, 1959. Free-spirited widow Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open a bookshop in a conservative East Anglian coastal town. While bringing about a surprising cultural awakening through works by Ray Bradbury and Vladimir Nabokov, she earns the polite but ruthless opposition of a local grand dame (Patricia Clarkson) and the support and affection of a reclusive book loving widower (Bill Nighy).

18:45     EMPOWERED
comedy, dir.: Santiago Segura, 87´,  2018
After a visit to an Indian healer, Paz loses control over what she says and starts speaking out everything that comes to her mind.

20:30     THE INVISIBLE GUARD
thriller, dir.: Fernando González Molina, 129´, 2017
Amaia Salazar, a police inspector in Pamplona, is directed by her superior to investigate a murder. The case concerns a teenage girl whose naked body was found at the side of a river close to Elizondo, Amaia's birth town, a rainy village surrounded by forests and mounts, full of local myths and ancient superstitions.

20 October, Saturday

16:30     GARABANDAL
drama, dir.: Brian Alexander, 96´, 2017
June 18, 1961. In a small village in Northern Spain, San Sebastián de Garabandal, four girls, Conchita, Jacinta, Mari Loli, and Mari Cruz, claim that St. Michael and the Virgin Mary have appeared to them. The village's parish priest, Fr. Valentín, and the Civil Guard brigadier, Mr. Juan Álvarez Seco, suddenly become protagonists in an overwhelming event.

21 October, Sunday

20:30     CAN’T SAY GOODBYE
drama, dir.: Lino Escalera, 96´, 2017
Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she hasn't spoken with in many years, is very ill. She refuses to face it and decides, against everyone's opinion, to take him to Barcelona, where she is convinced they'll be able to save him. They'll travel across the country in a desperate race to steal time from sickness and death, trying to recover lost time. And it is in that flight where the will finally find each other.

22 October, Monday

18:30     LOTS OF KIDS, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE
documentary, dir.: Gustavo Salmerón, 90´, 2017
Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.

20:30     ABRACADABRA
(replay)