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Spain Docs at NYU

September 7th, 2006 • Related Posts • Tags

Last year’s IDFA Joris Ivens award winner, LA CASA DE MI ABUELA by Adán Aliaga, (which I haven’t yet seen) kicks off an intriguing series of docs from Spain at NYU’s King Juan Carlos of Spain Center and presented by [ida]. I saw Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis’ State of Fear there – the screening space is very nice, and while the whole Q&A was conducted in Spanish, translation was available via earphones (a humbling experience, which is always a good thing). Complete line-up here:

DOCUMENTA SPAIN 2006:
RECENT DOCUMENTARIES FROM SPAIN
Spanish Documentary tour premiering in New York Begins – SEPTEMBER 12

When? Every Tuesday at 7:15 pm

Where? The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center located on 53 Washington Square South, between Sullivan and Thompson streets, New York.

Free and open to the public / English subtitles

In Documenta Spain 2006, presented by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center as the first film series to kick off its fall program, eight multi-awarded titles have been chosen not just for their artistic qualities but also for their social, historical and political relevance.

Documenta will begin September 12 (Tuesday) with the presentation of My Grandmother’s House (La casa de mi abuela) at 7:15 p.m. Winner of the prestigious Joris Ivens Award at IDFA and The Grand Jury and Special Mention in Miami Film Festival, this docu qualifies for the Oscar nomination. Director Adán Aliaga will be present for a Q&A session. Marta Sánchez, curator of Documenta Spain 2006, will also be present to introduce the series. For more details concerning the Fall Film series please visit http://www.nyu.edu/kjc online.

Fall programming
Tuesday, September 12, 7:15 p.m.
LA CASA DE MI ABUELA by Adán Aliaga, Spain, 2005 80 min.
The filmmaker Adán Aliaga will be present for a Q&A session. Marta Sánchez, curator of Documenta Spain 2006, will also be present to introduce the series.

Tuesday, September 26, 7:15 p.m.
RADIOPHOBIA by Julio Soto Spain/USA/Ukraine, 2005, 56 min.

Tuesday, October 3, 7:15 p.m.
EL TREN DE LA MEMORIA (Memory Train) by Marta Arribas y Ana Pérez, Spain, 2006, 85 min.

Tuesday, October 10, 7:15 p.m.
VEINTE AÑOS NO ES NADA (20 Years Is Nothing) by Joaquim Jordá, Spain, 2005, 117 min.

Tuesday, October 24, 7:15 p.m.
AGUAVIVA by Ariadna Pujol, Spain, 2005, 95 min.

Tuesday, October 31, 7:15 p.m.
INVIERNO EN BAGDAD (Winter in Bagdad) by Javier Corcuera, Spain, 2005, 78 min.
The filmmaker Javier Corcuera will be present for a Q&A session.

Tuesday, November 7, 7:15 p.m.
ENTRE EL DICTADOR Y YO (Between the Dictator and Me) by Juan Barrero, Raúl Cuevas, Guillem López, Mònica Rovira, Sandra Ruesga, Elia Urquiza, Spain, 2005, 60 min.

Tuesday, November 14, 7:15 p.m.
IBERIA by Carlos Saura, Spain, 2005, 99 min.

For synopsis and more info please visit www.nyu.edu/kjc

With the support of the Consulate General of Spain in New York and the collaboration of the International Documentary Association

These screenings are part of a documentary tour around the US in 2007 produced by Pragda International. For more information on this forthcoming tour visit www.pragda.com

There Are 3 Responses So Far. »

  1. Comment by Leo on 28 September 2006:

    That’s a very bad selection of spanish documentaries. In the last years we had excelent movies, but no those ones.

    “Entre el dictador y yo” is not a documentary. It’s 5 shorts films, some docs some ones not. “Aquaviva” is one of the poorest documentaries of the last years. “Iberia” is nothing, this man, Saura, is very popular, but that’s not a documentary, it’s only people dancing. He did the same movie 3 times. “20 años no es nada” is a bad movie of a great filmmaker (Jordà). I didn’t see Radiophobia, never arrived on the spanish cinemas.
    If you are really interested in the last spanish documentaries i recommend you the best: “Tierra Negra” (2005) by Ricardo Iscar
    “El cielo gira” (2005) by Mercedes Álvarez
    “La leyenda del tiempo” (2006) by Isaki Lacuesta
    “De niños” (2003) by Joaquim Jordà
    “Ivan Z” (2004) Andres Duque

    and some more… who did this selections? is pathetique

  2. Comment by Nicolò on 17 October 2006:

    Hi agnes,

    I’m looking for further information about “Winter in Bagdad”, by Javier Corcuera. Can you help me?

  3. Comment by agnes on 17 October 2006:

    No Nicolo, I don’t know that film. I’m no expert in Spanish films (if that is). You might try calling the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU. Their film programmer might have some knowledge on it if it’s from there or the filmmaker is. Though Leo, above, didn’t think much of the films they selected, it was, as he notes, a selection of films from a traveling exhibit. Best of luck in your search.