Spanish film week
The Embassy of the Spain in Cairo, in cooperation with the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), is presenting the 4 th Spanish Film Week 2006. In this occasion, they selected 6 films produced in 2003, five features and one documentary, a rich kaleidoscope of creativity, solid narrative and social sensitivity that reflects the maturity of contemporary Spanish cinema.
Soldiers of Salamina
David Trueba, 2003
A novelist drops her career in order to track down a true story which occurred during the last days of the Civil War. The writer reconstructs the pieces of the story, plagued with contradictions and enigmatic characters
Monday, 4 December
The Bolchevique's Weakness
Manuel Martيn Cuenca, 2003
Pablo is a very normal guy. He's a bit over thirty, works in an investment bank and is utterly bored. One Monday, at nine in the morning, during a traffic-jam in the centre of Madrid, he drives straight into the back of the convertible of a woman. That day, his life takes a spectacular turn.
Tuesday, 5 December
The Hours of the Day
Jaime Rosales, 2003
Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona . His entire life takes place in the small family business. However, underneath the calm appearance of an affable man, there lies an abyss.
Thursday, 7 December
November
Achero Maٌas, 2003
Impelled by a spirit still glowing with idealism, Alfredo arrives in Madrid where he attemps to create a "free art, done with the heart, capable of making people feel more alive". Theatre as life, life a theatre… there is no longer any difference.
Friday, 8 December
The Life that Awaits You
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragَn, 2003
In the idyllic valley of a region in the north of Spain a mortal dispute breaks out. Gildo kills his neighbour Severo. The reason, a dispute over a beautiful, fat dairy cow.
Saturday, 9 December
Foreigners
Helena Taberna, 2003
The little-known, everyday face of other cultures is shown through the experience of several immigrant women living in Madrid
Sunday, 10 December
All films will be screened in Spanish with subtitles in English at CiC (20, Safeya Zaghloul Str- Monira) at 7 pm.
Soldiers of Salamina
David Trueba, 2003
A novelist drops her career in order to track down a true story which occurred during the last days of the Civil War. The writer reconstructs the pieces of the story, plagued with contradictions and enigmatic characters
Monday, 4 December
The Bolchevique's Weakness
Manuel Martيn Cuenca, 2003
Pablo is a very normal guy. He's a bit over thirty, works in an investment bank and is utterly bored. One Monday, at nine in the morning, during a traffic-jam in the centre of Madrid, he drives straight into the back of the convertible of a woman. That day, his life takes a spectacular turn.
Tuesday, 5 December
The Hours of the Day
Jaime Rosales, 2003
Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona . His entire life takes place in the small family business. However, underneath the calm appearance of an affable man, there lies an abyss.
Thursday, 7 December
November
Achero Maٌas, 2003
Impelled by a spirit still glowing with idealism, Alfredo arrives in Madrid where he attemps to create a "free art, done with the heart, capable of making people feel more alive". Theatre as life, life a theatre… there is no longer any difference.
Friday, 8 December
The Life that Awaits You
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragَn, 2003
In the idyllic valley of a region in the north of Spain a mortal dispute breaks out. Gildo kills his neighbour Severo. The reason, a dispute over a beautiful, fat dairy cow.
Saturday, 9 December
Foreigners
Helena Taberna, 2003
The little-known, everyday face of other cultures is shown through the experience of several immigrant women living in Madrid
Sunday, 10 December
All films will be screened in Spanish with subtitles in English at CiC (20, Safeya Zaghloul Str- Monira) at 7 pm.
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