THIS November Instituto Cervantes, the Festival de Cine Europeo de Sevilla and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines will present the “New Cinephilias Online” film cycle featuring four recent movies which, due to their language and their themes, will innovate, take risks and play with contemporary structures and narratives.
The film series continues on November 13 and 14 with the comedy Violeta no coge el ascensor (Mamen Díaz, 2019). Violeta is in her early 20s, and is condemned to spend the summer in Madrid doing an internship at a publishing house. During these weeks, she makes new friends—including good and bad decisions and, most of all, learns that failure is more of an art than a drama. The movie will be accessible only on November 13 and 14 through https://vimeo.com/607379253.
The third title, This Film is About Me (Alexis Delgado, 2019) will be shown on November 20 and 21. The documentary portrays Renata Felicitas Soskey, who is a movie star tailor-made for the film that Alexis Delgado imagines: the “Gloria Swanson” of her particular Sunset Boulevard—though not quite in the decadent Californian mansion chosen by Billy Wilder in 1950, but in the Galician jail where Renata is serving a sentence for the brutal murder of her neighbor. The documentary will be accessible via https://vimeo.com/607398270.
La reina de los lagartos (Burnin’ Percebes, 2019) will conclude the cycle on November 27 and 28. The comedy is about Berta, a single, young and determined mother who engages in a summer love with Javi, who is a peculiar man passing through her life and that of Margot, her daughter. The spaceship that had to pick up Javi does not appear, and Berta faces what she most feared. Link is accessible here: https://vimeo.com/603905907.
The films will be shown through the Instituto Cervantes channel on the Vimeo platform (https://vimeo.com/channels/institutocervantes) and will be freely accessible for 48 hours from their start date and time. The series kicked off on November 6 with the thriller Arima (Jaione Camborda, 2017).
New Cinephilias Online is presented by Instituto Cervantes, in collaboration with the Seville European Film Festival and the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, in Spanish with English subtitles. Admission is free. For schedules, film details and further information, log on to Instituto Cervantes’ web site (https://manila.cervantes.es), or the Instituto Cervantes Facebook page: www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila.