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► February 15   

TE DOY MIS OJOS

Spain 2003

Take my eyes

Director: Iciar Bollain.

Cast: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña, Rosa M. Sardá, Kivi Manver

In Spanish with English subtitles. 103 min.

7 Goyas: For best film, director, leading actor, leading actress, supporting actress, script and soundtrack.

San Sebastián Film Festival: best actress, best actor.

Synopsis:  "A very damaging and a wrong one, but a love story all the same," is how director Iciar Bollain describes Take My Eyes, an award-winning tale of domestic abuse. Laia Marull gives a terrific performance as Pilar, a terrified housewife on the run from husband Antonio his regular outbursts of violent rage. Taking refuge with her sister Ana , she tries to build a new life - but she's still in love with the man who beat her.

► February 22

¡HOLA! ¿ESTAS SOLA?

Spain 1995          

Hi! Are you alone?

Director: Iciar Bollain

Cast: Silke, Candela Peña, Elena Irureta

In  Spanish.  90 min..  

Valladolid International film festival: Best new director.

Synopsis: Trini and La Niña are the same age: 20, and have the same uncomplicated way of going about things; they simply go ahead and do them. The two girls also share the lack of a mother. During their trip, they share everything, including Olaf, a Russian who knows not a word of Spanish and with whom La Niña has an affair.

►March 1                                                           

LA TIGRA                                                      

Ecuador 1990

The Tigress

Director: Camilo Luzuriaga

Cast: Veronica García y Rossana Iturralde

In Spanish, with English subtitles. 80 min.

Cartagena Festival: Best movie.

Synopsis. Based on a novel y Jose de la Cuadra, this Ecuadorian feature looks at female identity through film may be the best visual equivalent of literary "magical realism" ever filmed. "La Tigra" a beautiful woman whose voracious appetite for men and sex and power makes her a formidable force on the farm she runs with her two sisters. Francisca discards lovers with abandon and holds her sisters, workers and the authorities in her power as if they were enthralled by some unseen forces of nature.

►March 8

GALA

Spain 2003

Gala

A Documentary film directed by: Silvia Munt

In Spanish, Catalan, French, Russian and English, with Eng. subtitles. 105 min.

Col.legi de directors de cine de Catalunya: Best Documentary

IV Festival de Tudela: Jury Special prize

Synopsis: The voyage of this film production team starts in Russia, where the great love of Salvador Dalí, known by Gala, was born. Gala, that mystic Gala, that sensual Gala, that mysterious Gala, that Gala absorbed by that man, and that man absorbed by Gala, never mind. She did everything she wanted to do; everything she believed she had to do. How many of us could say the same? The life of this wonderful woman depicted on the screen is taken from the books written by her, by her friend Anastasia Tavetaiva, and by her two brilliant husbands, Eluard and Dali.

►March 15

SOLAS

Spain      1999

Alone

Director: Benito Zambrano

Cast: Ana Fernández, María Galiana, Carlos Alvarez.

In Spanish, with English subtitles. 98 min.

1999 Berlin Film Festival Winner of the Audience Award for Best Picture.

5 Goya Awards

Synopsis: A powerful and touching story of love and redemption, “Solas” is a drama of Spanish women whose emotional life is as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a beautiful but troubled woman adrift in a nameless city in southern Spain. She drinks, smokes and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother, who comes to stay with her when her father leaves home for surgery. The mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor downstairs while patiently trying to reach out to her daughter, whose bitterness is no match for her mother’s love and devotion.

►MArch 29                                        

LA FLOR DE MI SECRETO Spain 1995      

The flower of my secret

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Cast: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Imanol Arias.

In Spanish. 103 min.

Best Actress to Marisa Paredes in several festivals.

Synopsis: A comedy about a romance novelist whose crumbling marriage has left her depressed and unable to work. At a low point, she writes a scathing indictment of her own books (which are penned under another name), with no one realizing critic and author are one and the same.

►April 5

YERMA

Spain 1999

Yerma

Director: Pilar Távora

Cast: Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Irene Papas, Juan Diego

In Spanish, with English subtitles. 118 min.

Synopsis: Yerma longs for a child but is unable to conceive. After an old, wise woman assures her that the reason she cannot become pregnant may be due more to her husband than herself, Yerma regards her unfeeling spouse with growing hatred. Her increasing obsession causes her to be tempted to seduce Victor, a shepherd from the village, but her moral values repress her feelings. Desperation drives her to the brink of insanity, reaching a breathtaking climax in this brilliant drama by the great Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca.

►12 de abril                                       

FLORES DE OTRO MUNDO

Spain1999

Flowers of another world

Director: Icíar Bollaín

Cast: José Sancho, Lisette Mejía,Luis Tosar , Marilin Torres.

In Spanish. 105 min.

Cannes 1999: Critics Award

Synopsis: Patricia is a Dominican who flees Madrid seeking space and economic security for her small children.  Marirrosi comes from Bilbao, works and has a comfortable and autonomous life but is alone.  Milady, who is Cuban, has just turned twenty years old and has left Havana seeking another world.  The three try to find happiness in each other’s company, next to some of the men of  Santa Eulalia, a Spanish town where there are no young women.  Patricia and Marirrosi arrive together, in a caravan organized by the men of the town. Milady is brought to the town by Carmelo, a rich man that travels regularly to Cuba.

►April 19                           

MI VIDA SIN MI        

Spain/ Canadá 2002

My life without me

Director: Isabel Coixet

Cast: Sarah Polley, Amanda Plumier, Scott Speedman, Leonor Wathing,

María de Medeiros.

In Spanish with English subtitles. 108 min.

Goya Award: Best screenplay  and best original song.

53 Internationale Filmfspiele Berlin: Exhibitors Prize.

Synopsis. Ann is twenty three, she’s got two young daughters, a husband who spends more time unemployed than working, a mother who hates the world, a father who has spent the last ten years in jail, a job as a night janitor in a university she could never attend in the daytime... She lives in a trailer on the yard of her mother’s house, on the outskirts of Vancouver. This grey existence changes completely after a medical check-up. Paradoxically, since that day Ann discovers the pleasures of living

►April 26                                           

FRIDA                                              

USA/ Canada/Mexico 2002

Frida

Director: Julie Taymor

Cast: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Antonio Banderas

In English, with Spanish subtitles. 123 min.

2 Academy Awards: Best Original Store, best Artistic direction.

1 Golden Globe

Synopsis "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

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