FestivalFilm

Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival

data:30/05 - 04/06
locatie:Bioscopen in Amsterdam

Bienvenidos to the third edition of the Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival.

Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival is an film exhibition initiative allowing people based in Amsterdam and broader audiences to discover and engage with a selection of cinema from Spain and Spanish speaking Latin America. The festival introduces two new festival venues for this edition: Het Ketelhuis and Bimhuis, as well as Pathé Tuschinski and Eye. The festival will be held from 30 May till 4 June. This year, the following films from or about Latin America will show at the festival.

Gilda, I do not regret this love/Gilda, no me arrepiento de este amor

Director – Lorena Muñoz

Argentina | 2016 | 116 mins
Spanish with English Subtitles

Argentine cumbia star biopic about the popular tropical music singer who reached unimaginable fame that ended with unimaginable tragedy. This Latin American hit movie is inspired by singer Míriam Alejandra Bianchi, a Buenos Aires-born kindergarden teacher who gave up everything to achieve her dream of becoming a singer superstar. Gilda, however, didn’t fit in with the female musical icons of her time who were mostly sex objects. She composes and shows her own repertoire as an author and speaks to other women about their rights, endurances and about using their own voices for the first time in Argentina. Oreiro provides her own vocals to the late singer’s hits in the film. From the same producers as Clandestine Childhood which went on to become Argentina’s foreign-language Oscar entry.

Argentina’s stolen children/Algo mío

Director – Jenny Hellmann and Regina Mennig

2016 | Germany | 93 mins
Spanish with English Subtitles

This documentary memory (a German-Argentina production) shows two cases of politically motivated child theft are brought before the Argentinean court, throwing the affected ‘children’ into an identity crisis, as they are torn between their foster parents and their recently found biological families. The film captures the intensity of human and judicial conflict inside the very courtroom and beyond. “Algo mío” sheds new light on Argentina‘s history and reveals unknown facets of a national trauma. This documentary project will be hosted by Movies that Matter.

Kóblic

Director – Sebastián Borensztein

2016 | Argentina | 92 mins
Spanish with English Subtitles

As the military dictatorship spreads its tentacles into the furthest reaches of the country, Kóblic tries to hide deep within a vicious and violent Argentina. This mounting drama pushes towards a vibrant and violent outcome, bristling with all the tension of a good western while immersed in a very real historical context.

Last days in Havana/Últimos días en la Habana

Director – Fernando Pérez

2016 | Cuba-Spain | 93 mins
Spanish with English Subtitles

Veteran filmmaker Fernando Pérez brings a sympathetic observational eye to this portrait of lives in limbo. Here the old-fashioned tale of a dying gay man and his surrogate family of friends, neighbours and loved ones is transformed into a touching celebration of love, devotion and stoical endurance in which individual struggles reflect a wider picture of Cuban society. This film is a visceral and immediate depiction of modern-day Cuba that isn’t afraid to face the contradictions. The film bridged the gap between fact and fiction, documentary and feature, to deliver a complex portrait of the country. It was rewarded the Audience Award as well as Best Iberoamerican Film at Film Festival of Malaga 2017. Co-presented and hosted by Gay Night at Pathe de Munt and Roze Filmdagen; Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival.

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