• The course, "The Longest Moment When Everything Seemed Possible. The New American Cinema Group ", will take place from 6th to 9th June in La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and will include 16mm projections.

• Those interested can now write to cursos@filmadrid.com The formalization of the registration will open on April 11, until full capacity, and will be made through the website of La Casa Encendida.

• This is the first announcement of the FILMADRID 2019 edition, which will be held from June 6th to 15th. Call for entries for its Official and Vanguard Competition is open until April, 1st.

FILMADRID International Film Festival announces the first confirmation of its 2019 edition. The ‘FILMADRID Seminar’ will be taught by the celebrated German film theorist, critic and programmer Olaf Möller who will be taking over from Jonathan Rosenbaum, Laura Mulvey and Nicole Brenez, protagonists of the seminars in the three previous editions. Throughout four days, the theoric will make a historical and critical approach of the New American Cinema Group movement, famous for films like Shadows or Pull My Daisy, but with so many titles that were forgotten. How were those films connected? What aesthetic ranges converged? Which movies promoted the avant-garde, the documentary and the fiction of those years? What was lost? This amazing course will dialogue with the works of Robert Frank, Storm de Hirsch, Cassavettes, Markopoulos, Mekas or Harold Humes, among others.

Venue: La Casa Encendida de Madrid

Dates: From Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th June

Schedule: 10:30am – 2:30pm (a total of 16 hours)

Language: It will be taught in English and there will be simultaneous translation into Spanish

Price: 60€

Registration dates: The formalization of the registration will open on April 11, until full capacity,
and will be made through the website of La Casa Encendida.

Those interested can now write to cursos@filmadrid.com

"I have worked on the New American Cinema Group previously throughout my career," explains Möller in the description of his course, "for example at the Oberhaussen Festival in 2012 with Ralph Eue I prepared a cycle on manifestos and trends in The 60s. Since then it's something I've had in my head. Many things happened within this group of artists, we could say that each day brought a new surprise ". One of the great attractions of the seminar will be the projections in 16mm during teaching hours. As Möller affirms, "thinking about the seminar, I always took into account how it could surprise the attendee to come. We will join films and see how they interact with each other and what kind of filmographies these directors developed".

Who is Olaf Möller?

Olaf Möller is a film programmer and critic, as well as a Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Scenographyat Aalto University in Finland. He regularly collaborates with prestigious film magazines such as Sight & Sound, Cinema Scope, MUBI Notebook, Eye for Film and Film Comment, among others. He is considered one of the most authoritative voices of film history and criticism, along with Jonathan Rosenbaum, Laura Mulvey or David Bordwell. He has curated cycles and retrospectives for festivals such as Rotterdam, the Viennale or Locarno, and was a member of the Selection Committee of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Möller is the author of numerous publications, including Fragmentos de búsqueda (2013), focusing on the cinema of Thomas Heisse, Romuald Karmakar (2013), about the German filmmaker, or Geliebt und Verdrängt: Das Kino der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949 bis 1963/ Loved and repressed: the cinema of the young Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963 (2016).

This course is an activity organized by Pasajes de Cine and La Casa Encendida, with the support of the Goethe-Institut Madrid and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.

For more information, please write to cursos@filmadrid.com

1. Meteors (Gürcan Keltek, 2017) Turquía/Holanda 85’
2. Also Known As Jihadi (Eric Baudelaire, 2017) Francia 102’
3. The Wild Boys (Bertrand Mandico, 2017) Francia 110’
4. The Unknown Craftsman (Amit Dutta, 2017) India 89’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
5. Inferninho (Guto Parente, Pedro Diógenes, 2018) Brasil 82’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
6. DRIFT (Helena Wittmann, 2017) Alemania 97’
7. Onde o verão vai (David Vicente, 2018) Portugal 20’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
8. Classical Period (Ted Fendt, 2018) USA 62’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
9. The Drift (Maeve Brennan, 2018) Líbano/Reino Unido 51’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
10. Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose, 2018) USA 60’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
11. They Still Burn (Felice d’Agostino & Arturo Lavorato, 2017) Italia/Francia 93’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
12. Carry On (Mieriën Coppens, 2017) Bélgica 12' ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
13. Our Madness (João Viana, 2018) Mozambique/Guinea-Bissau 90’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
14.  Trinta lumes (Diana Toucedo, 2018) España 80’
15.  O Termómetro de Galileu (Teresa Villaverde, 2018) Portugal 105’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
16. And What Is the Summer Saying (Payal Kapadia, 2018) India 23’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
17. Bundesliga (Tatsunari Ota, 2017) Japón 65’ ESTRENO INTERNACIONAL / INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

VANGUARDIAS

1. Nazidanie (Boris Yukhananov, Aleksandr Shein, 2017) Rusia 148’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
2. Fluid Frontiers (Ephraim Asili, 2017) Estados Unidos 23’
3. Manila Scream Expanded (Roxlee, 2018) Filipinas 66’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
4. Plus Ultra (Helena Girón, Samuel M. Delgado, 2017) España 13’
5. Mountain Plain Mountain (Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby, 2018) Japón, Países Bajos, España 21’
6. The Disappeared (Adam Kaplan, Gilad Baram, 2017) Israel 45’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
7. Can Limbo (Martín Baus, 2018) España/Chile 76' ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
8. Star Ferry (Simon Liu, 2018) Hong Kong/ Estados Unidos 8’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
9. Optimism (Deborah Stratman, 2018) Estados Unidos/Canadá 15’
10. Caerán lóstregos do ceo (Adrián Canoura, 2018) España 25’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
11. Fugue, A Light's Travelogue (Els van Riel, 2017) Bélgica 29’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
12. Between Relating and Use (Nazli Dinçel, 2018) Argentina/ Estados Unidos 9’
13. What I Remember (Antoinette Zwirchmayr, 2017) Austria 64’

PASAJES DE CINE

1. ¿Para qué sirve un zeide? (Ilan Serruya, 2018) España 16’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
2. La Isla (Miguel Rodríguez, 2017) España 56’
3. En el poema el Ciervo huye (Rafael Guijarro, 2018) España 8’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
4. Kunda (Pablo Teijón, 2018) España 9’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
5. El Penalti (Alonso Valbuena, 2018) España 22’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
6. Ansiedad y la cámara (Rocío Montaño, 2018) España 36’ ESTRENO MUNDIAL / WORLD PREMIERE
7. Mi amado, las montañas (Alberto Martín Menacho, 2017) Suiza/España 24’
8. Ver a una mujer (Mònica Rovira, 2017) España 58’
9. La cosa vuestra (María Cañas, 2018) España 43’ FUERA DE COMPETICIÓN / OUT OF COMPETITION
10. La cosa nuestra (María Cañas, 2006) España 16’  FUERA DE COMPETICIÓN / OUT OF COMPETITION

PROYECCIONES ESPECIALES

1. The Day After (Hong Sangsoo, 2017) Corea del Sur 92’  INAUGURACIÓN // OPENING FILM
2. Claire’s Camera (Hong Sangsoo, 2017) Corea del Sur 69’ CLAUSURA // CLOSING FILM
3. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman, 2017) USA 197’
4. En attendant les barbares (Eugène Green, 2017) Francia 75’
5. Little Crusader (Václav Kadrnka, 2017) República Checa 90'
6. Das Satanische Dickicht - EINS / ZWEI / DREI (Willy Hans, 2014 - 2017) Alemania 81’  ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE

FOCO ENDLESS NIGHTS

1. Noite Vazia (Walter Hugo Khouri, 1964) Brasil 93’
2. Tout une nuit (Chantal Akerman, 1982) Bélgica 90’
3. Noches de vino tinto (José María Nunes, 1968) España 98’
4. Violated Angels (Koji Wakamatsu, 1967) Japón 56’
5. Vendredi soir (Claire Denis, 2002) Francia 90’
6. Nuit de chien (Werner Schroeter, 2008) Francia 110’
7. Die Strasse (Karl Grüne, 1923) Alemania 89’
8. Io sono Valentina Nappi (Monica Stambrini, 2017) Italia 49’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
9. Queen Kong (Monica Stambrini, 2016) Italia 19’

FOCO TONINO DE BERNARDI

1. La favolosa storia (1967-68): reúne los cortos Il vaso etrusco (1967), Il bestiario (1967-68), Il sogno di Constantino (1968) Italia 95’  ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
2. Médée Miracle (2007) Italia 83’
3. Rosatigre (2000) Italia 106’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
4. Ifigenia in Aulide (2016) Italia 90’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
5. Elettra (1987) Italia 93’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
6. Dei (1968-69) Italia 150’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
7. Lei (2002) Italia 105’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
8. Appassionate (1999) Italia 95’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE

FOCO RAQUEL CHALFI

1. Bobo and the Hairstyling Industry (1969) Israel 8’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
2. Fall (1970) Israel 3’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
3. Posibilites or Bluebeard and me (1983) Israel 49’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
4. Her Dream (1987) Israel 18’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE
5. The Hidden Fountain – The World of Miriam Chalfi, 1992-2016 (2018) Israel 97’

FOCO KHALIK ALLAH

1. Antonyms of Beauty (2013) USA 27’
2. Field Niggas (2014) USA 60’
3. Black Mother (2018) USA / Jamaica  75’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE

METRAJES ENCONTRADOS

1. La película infinita (Leandro Lisorti, 2018) Argentina 54’ ESTRENO EN ESPAÑA / SPANISH PREMIERE

THE VIDEO ESSAY

1. Beyond Action (Ana Rodríguez León, 2018) 6’
2. La corista roja (Jorge Negrete, 2018) 12’
3. Cuadrante solar conjunto (Luis Lechosa, 2018) 22’
4. Cruce de Tiempos: Los fantasmas de Kenji Mizoguchi y Chris Marker (Diego Cepeda, Toni González, Carmela García, Luis Franze, 2018) 4’
5. Strange, What Love Does (Diego Cepeda, Luis Franze, Claudia Munuera, 2018) 6’
6. Hollis (Miguel Rodríguez, 2018) 3’

• In its 4^th edition, FILMADRID will have four retrospectives: three of them focused on film directors and one on the concept of night in film. 

• The retrospectives of this year’s edition will be “Endless Nights”, with the night as the drive shaft of the festival; Tonino de Bernardi, the Italian genius; Raquel Chalfi, an unknown myth of feminism; and Khalik Allah, a contemporary revolutionary of Black cinema. 

• Almost all of the films to be projected in the three retrospectives dedicated to filmmakers have never been shown in Spain.

 Madrid, April 20^th, 2018 - FILMADRID, International Film Festival, is gradually unfolding its programme just over a month and a half before the festival. Now reveals the contents of its Focuses section: renowned to filmmakers of great international relevance whose films remain practically unknown in Madrid.

Retrospectives:  “Endless Nights”, Tonino de Bernardi, Raquel Chalfi, and Khalik Allah.

• “Endless Nights”: all the colours of darkness

The night, a place of shadows but also of inspiration, is one of the spotlights, the main theme of Filmadrid 4^th edition. The whole festival will revolve around this concept, reaching its highpoint with “Endless Nights”, a retrospective devoted to films whose action takes place over a single night.

Together with well-known authors such as Claire Denis or Werner Schroeter and revolutionaries such as the Japanese Koji Wakamatsu and the Italian Monica Stambrini (whose works remain unreleased in Spain), the series will analyse different representations of the night, shaping it as a space of transformation and liberation.

The retrospective will begin with the German film Die Strasse (Karl Grüne, 1923), whose screening will have live music.

For the first time in its four years of life, Filmadrid proposes a thematic series open to all times and nationalities. “Endless Nights” is conducted in collaboration with Cine Estudio (Círculo de Bellas Artes). 

• Tonino de Bernardi: the persistence of the myth

Considered as a master by Jonas Mekas and Pedro Costa, Tonino de Bernardi (Chivaso, 1937), is a myth of the Italian filmmaking, a unique example of brilliance and independence. His films have been starred by key figures of European cinema, such as Isabelle Huppert, Inês and María de Medeiros, or Lou Castel.

His career starts at the end of the 1960s, in the context of underground cinema, with milestone works such as Il vaso etrusco (1967). The reinterpretation of Greek myths is an essential topic of his filmography, as shown in Elettra (1987), Médée Miracle (2007) –with Isabelle Huppert, who recreates Medea’s role– and Ifigenia in Aulide (2018), his most recent work, whose premiere in Spain will take place in Filmadrid 2018. Female presences remain always in the middle of his works and serve as well as a reflection from the changes of our world and from the unchangeable values.

This will be the first time Tonino de Bernardi’s films will be seen in Spain. The retrospective is carried out in collaboration with Filmoteca Española.

• Raquel Chalfi: for a dreamlike feminism

An unusual figure of feminism in the 1980s, Raquel Chalfi (Tel Aviv) remains as one of the most fascinating and unknown figures of Middle Eastern cinema.

Famous in Israel for her poetic work, Chalfi started filming in the 1970s, embracing the avant-garde of that time and focusing on the complexities of female identity and the freeing of those chains, often using a forceful dreamlike tone.

In her most recent work, The Hidden Fountain (2018), the film director pays tribute to her mother, the sculptor Miriam Chalfi.

This retrospective of Chalfi’s work –totally unknown in Spain– is carried out in collaboration with La Casa Encendida. 

• Khalik Allah: Black Power of the 21th century

With his first feature-length film, Field Niggas (2015), New Yorker Khalik Allah (born in 1985) revolutionized African-American cinema, capturing an unusual portrait of Harlem's people and their crude existence. The film takes its title from a legendary speech by Malcolm X, taking up the spirit of Black Power from contemporary sensibilities. A photographer before filmmaker, Allah composes sublime images that at the same time reflect an extreme suffering, that of the black American community, forgotten by politicians and harassed by the police.

In his new feature film, Black Mother (2018), which will be premiered in Filmadrid in Spain, the director travels to Jamaica to create another polyphonic portrait, this time exploring his roots and the immortality of the mother figure. His approach, in which the poetic rawness of photography is mixed with a hypnotic rhythm and a purely cinematographic sonority, brings us closer to a world between dream and reality. 

The festival's directors have valued the novelties of the programme: "We are very happy to announce such a heterogeneous group of retrospectives, whose protagonists have a work that is so relevant in today's society. Besides, we're excited that the night is the main theme of this year's festival.” 

About FILMADRID 2018

The 2018 edition of FILMADRID will be held between 7 and 16 June in Madrid. For the moment, the organization has announced the 'FILMADRID Seminar', given by Nicole Brenez (the first time by this lecturer in Film Studies at La Sorbonne and programmer at the Cinémathèque Française in Madrid, more information here: https://goo.gl/forms/WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3.

Nicole Brenez's seminar is an activity organized by Pasajes de Cine, GECA and the Universidad Complutense, with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) thanks to its Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the form of Visitors, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine and the French Institute.

Eugène Green’s course, devoted to actors and directors, has also been announced (more information here: https://goo.gl/forms/WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3 ).

This workshop is organized by Pasajes de Cine and ECAM with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) thanks to its Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the form of Visitors, and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.

The rest of the news will be announced soon. 

More information and interviews:
comunicacion@filmadrid.com
0034 678249767 /0034 646518457 

About FILMADRID:

FILMADRID, Madrid International Film Festival promoted by the Pasajes de Cine Cultural Association. This is a space to bring film culture closer to the public of the capital, which will also serve to feed film-making in the city. It is an annual festival of vocation held in June.

Madrid, April 2018 - FILMADRID, International Film Festival is delighted to announce that once again will held its section dedicated to the art of the video essay in collaboration with the prestigious global film website and curated video-on-demand platform MUBI (https://mubi.com).

Last year MUBI and FILMADRID created this section which great success. 7 works participated in THE VIDEO ESSAY (https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/filmadrid-mubi-present-the-video-essay), with Hannah Leiss’ reflecting on Italian cinema, Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas on Yasujiro Ozu, Sonsoles Company on Chantal Akerman, Rafael Guilhem on Edward Yang, Antonio Valenzuela Valdivia on Jim Jarmusch, and Tope Ogundare on Antonioni and Coppola.

Once again, this will be a non-competitive section. The selected works will be shown during the dates of FILMADRID (7^th till 16^th of June, 2018) for online audiences on MUBI’s cinema publication, the Notebook. Additionally, there will be a free public screening of the selected works during the festival. The selection will be made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.

Submissions are now open for this section. The deadline is 1^st of May, 2018. Registration to participate is open for video essays that have never been exhibited online or in theatres. There is not extension limit per work. Authors can include a text to accompany their video essay. All works may be submitted to programacion@filmadrid.com indicating “Video Essay” as subject.

 “Last year’s debut of the Video Essay section was a great success,” says Daniel Kasman, Director of Content at MUBI. “We are thrilled to continue our collaboration with FILMADRID—one pointedly taking place both online and offline—highlighting exciting new works of film criticism.

Nuria Cubas and Fernando Vílchez, directors of FILMADRID, are enthusiastic about the consolidation of this collaboration: "Fo us it has been essential to integrate in our festival such a fascinating format as the Video Essay is. It opens new paths in the analysis of the image and the history of cinema, which is one of our obsessions. To create and develop this project along with MUBI makes us extremely proud."

The 2018 edition of FILMADRID will be held between the 7^th and the 16^th of June. At the moment the organization has announced the 'FILMADRID Seminar', given by Nicole Brenez. It will be the first time this professor of Film Studies in La Sorbonne and programmer of the Cinémathèque Française will give a course in Spain. More information here: https://goo.gl/ forms / WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3.

The course with the filmmaker Eugène Green, aimed at actors and directors has also been publicly announced (more information here: https://goo.gl/forms/WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3).

More news will be announced in the following weeks.

The rest of the news will be announced soon.

More information and interviews:
comunicacion@filmadrid.com
0034 678249767 /0034 646518457

The theorist Nicole Brenez and the filmmaker Eugène Green will teach the courses of FILMADRID 2018

• Nicole Brenez, one of the most prestigious theorists in Europe will lead the “FILMADRID Seminar” in which she will address the political implication of the use and reuse of images in different moments of the History of Cinema. 

• Brenez’s course, “Stories of images, political issues”, will take place from 13th to 15th June in   La Casa Encendida.

• The award-winning filmmaker Eugène Green will host the workshop “The actor in cinema” where the participants will shoot different scenes that will allow to make visible the spiritual energy hidden in people and places.  

• Green’s workshop will take place in the ECAM from 8th to 15th June.
• Registrations for both courses are already open.

Madrid, March 27th, 2018.- FILMADRID. International Film Festival is preparing its fourth edition full of news and continuing its commitment to bring cinema to all citizens of Madrid. The 2018 edition will be held from 7th June to 16th in Madrid. Three months before the festival starts, the organization announces the details of the training activities that take place during the development of the festival.

The ‘FILMADRID Seminar’ of 2018 will be taugh by Nicole Brenez. That will be the first time that Brenez, Professor of Cinematographic Studies at La Sorbonne and programmer of the Cinémathèque Française, teaches a course in Madrid, taking over from Jonathan Rosenbaum and Laura Mulvey, protagonists of the seminars in the two previous editions. Brenez will address the political implication of the use and reuse of images in different moments of the History of Cinema.

FILMADRID also offers this year the opportunity to attend a course with the filmmaker Eugène Green, intended for actors and directors, in which the process of character building will be worked through a specifically cinematographic role aimed at raising the deepest emotions of person

‘FILMADRID Seminar’ with Nicole Brenez 

Nicole Brenez will visit Madrid to teach the course named “Stories of images, political issues”. Throughout three days, the theorist will seek to make a cartography and put into perspective the practices, forms and issues according to which an image becomes a matter of representation. "In the history of art, such work is called 'reuse'", Brenez explains in the description of her course, "the cinematographic practices of reuse allow to deepen and question the structural questions linked to the symbolic. Starting from the films themselves - and observing specific cases - we will redraw the history, the formal diversity and the political issues linked to this reuse ". Key moments such as May 1968 will have a prominent place in the course.

Nicole Brenez is the author of several books. Among her publications are "De la Figuer en général et du Corps en particulier. L'invention figurative au cinéma "(1998)," Abel Ferrara "(2007)," Traitement du Lumpenproletariat par le cinéma d'avant-garde "(2007) and" Jean-Luc Godard théoricien des images "(2014), among others. She is also the co-editor of the writings of Masao Adachi and Jean Epstein and has organized numerous retrospectives such as "Jeune, dure et pure. A history of French avant-garde cinema" for the Cinémathèque Française (2000).

The course will be held at the La Casa Encendida  from Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th June, from 10 am to 2 pm each day (a total of 12 hours). The course will be in French, with simultaneous translation for attendees.

The seminar of Nicole Brenez is an activity organized by Pasajes de Cine with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC / E) thanks to the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the modality of Visitors, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine,  French Institute and La Casa Encendida.

For more information and registrations, the interested people could visit https://goo.gl/forms/WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3 or cursos@filmadrid.com

Eugène Green’s workshop in ECAM

The prestigious filmmaker Eugène Green, habitual in the most important festivals in the world such as Cannes or Locarno, will arrive to Madrid to give a workshop for the first time within the framework of FILMADRID 2018. Through sequences that will be filmed over eight days, Green will provide the participants, both actors and directors, with the means to create a specifically cinematographic role oriented to bring out the deepest emotions of the person, which will ultimately be those of the character. And, according to the way of framing and editing, each filmmaker will obtain clues to capture and make visible the spiritual energy hidden in people and places. "This course, developed as a request of Filmadrid, does not pretend to outline universal principles of cinematographic art -which do not exist anyway-. However, as an artist, I will focus on transmitting to the participants my own conception of cinema, especially with regard to the role of the actors " explained Green about his workshop.

The workshop will be held on a special set of the ECAM, School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid, from Friday 8th to Friday 15th June, from 10am to 2pm each day (a total of 32 hours). The workshop will be in French, with translation into Spanish. The number of places is limited and the selection of participants will be carried out assessing the experience and motivation of the candidates, who must send their CV when requesting registration for the course.

With this workshop a new stage in the collaborations between ECAM and FILMADRID International Film Festival is developed.

This workshop is organized by Pasajes de Cine and ECAM with the support of Acción Cultural Española (AC / E) thanks to the Program for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture (PICE) in the modality of Visitors,  and Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.

For more information and registrations, the interested people could visit https://goo.gl/forms/WAtxqHh6JawvklTG3 or cursos@filmadrid.com

More information and interviews:
comunicacion@filmadrid.com
678249767 / 646518457
About FILMADRID: 

FILMADRID, International Film Festival of Madrid, promoted by the Cultural Association Pasajes de Cine. It is a space to bring the film culture to the public of the capital, which will also serve to feed cinephilia in the city. It is a festival of annual vocation that is celebrated in June.

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española Hall 1

20:00 PE –OPENING Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt, 2016) 107’.

FRIDAY  9 ^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 FILMADRID recommends. Meeting with programming team.

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

19:00 CO The Last of Us (Ala Eddine Slim, 2016) Tunisia. 94’

21:30 CO The Dust Channel (Roee Rosen, 2016) Israel 23’ + Vendredi 13 (Nicolas Klotz, 2016) France 48’ + Colloquium with Nicolas Klotz

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

Hall 2 20:00 JPR O Fantasma (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2000) Portugal 90’ + Colloquium with João Pedro Rodrigues

Hall 1 21:30 JPR O Ornitólogo (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2016) Portugal/France/Brasil, 118’ + Colloquium with João Pedro Rodrigues

SATURDAY 10 ^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet Nicolas Klotz

13.15 Meet and greet João Pedro Rodrigues

Cineteca Matadero

11:30 a 14:00 Special Session Master LAV

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

18:00 CO A Minha Juventude (Rita Quelhas, 2016) Portugal 26’ + The Impossible Picture (Sandra Wollner, 2016) Germany/Austria 70’ + Colloquium with Rita Quelhas and Sandra Wollner

20:15 FCI Atomic Heart (Ali Ahmadzadeh, 2015) 97’

22:00 CO Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2016) Turkey 115’

La Casa Encendida

18:00 ME METRAJES ENCONTRADOS: 100 min.

People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose (John Torres, 2016) Philippines 89’ + My Tears Are Dry (Laida Lertxundi, 2009) Unites States/Spain 4’   + Linear Song for L (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2017) Spain 7’ + Colloquium with Alberto Cabrera Bernal

20:00 CV VANGUARDIAS 1: 73 min.

AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN (Manuela de Laborde, 2016) Mexico, 24’ + Ride Like Lightning, Crash Like Thunder (Fern Silva, 2017) United States 9’ + Montañas ardientes que vomitan fuego (Delgado, Girón, 2016) Spain, 14’ + On Generation and Corruption (Takashi Makino, 2017) Japan 26’ + Colloquium with Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

19:30 Hall 1 PE The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz, 2016) Philippines, 226’ + Colloquium with Lav Diaz

20:00 Hall 2 JPR Odete (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2005) Portugal, 104’ + Colloquium with João Pedro Rodrigues

SUNDAY 11^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30h Meet and greet Rita Quelhas.

13.15h Meet and greet Sandra Wollner.

Cineteca Matadero Sala Azcona

12:00 VE THE VIDEO ESSAY (in collaboration with MUBI). Round Table (20 min) + Screening (53 min) + Colloquium. Total: 100 min

L’eclisse lines (Hannah Leiß, 2016) Germany 3’ + News From D’est (Sonsoles Company, 2017) Spain 2’ + Silencer (Tope Ogundare, 2017) Australia 5’ + Taiwan As A Window. The Cinema of Edward Yang (Rafael Guilhem, 2017) Mexico 5’ + Telefoni neri (Hannah Leiß, 2017) Germany 10’ + 永遠の処女 - The Eternal Virgin (Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas, 2017) Spain 15’ + The Way of Jim Jarmusch (Antonio Valenzuela, 2017) Peru 3’ + Colloquium with Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas and Hannah Leiß

17:00 PDC Pasajes de Cine 1: 89 min.

Síncopa. Performance by Javier Martín with unpublished music by Oleg Karavaichuk (12’) Hall de Cineteca.

Rust (Eloy Domínguez Serén, 2016) Sweden/Spain 14’ + ΕΥΡΩΠΗ (Mario Sanz, 2017) Spain 23’ + Quiasma (Tono Mejuto, 2016) Spain 11’ + El canto de los estorninos (Jaime Puertas, 2016) Spain 29’ + Colloquium with the directors

19:30 PDC Pasajes de Cine 2: 79 min.

Vacío/a (Carmen Rojas Gamarra, 2017) Spain/Peru 5’ + Gure hormek (Maider Fernández Iriarte and María Elorza, 2016) Spain 15’ + Ir e vir (Miguel Mariño, 2016) Spain 10’ + Dos sueños después (Pilar Monsell, 2017) Spain 17’ + Ceiba (Noé Rodríguez, 2016) Spain/Canada 28’ + Música para adultos (Alberto González Vázquez, 2017) Spain 4’ + Colloquium with the directors

21:30 PE Marisa en los bosques (Antonio Morales, 2016) 83’ Spain + Colloquium with Antonio Morales

La Casa Encendida

11:00 PE A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (Lav Diaz, 2016) Philippines 486´ Pausa: 15h - 16h Colloquium with Lav Diaz

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

17:00 CO Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts (Rong Guang Rong, 2017) China, 85’

18:45 FCI Fish and Cat (Shahram Mokri, 2013) 134’

21:15 CO Daydreams (Caroline Deruas, 2016) France 98’ + Colloquium with Caroline Deruas

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

17:30 Hall 1 JPR Morrer como um homem (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2009) Portugal 134’ + Colloquium with João Pedro Rodrigues

20:15 Hall 1 JPR Alvorada Vermelha (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2011) Portugal 27’ + A Última vez que vi Macau (João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, 2012) Portugal/France 82’ + Colloquium with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata

MONDAY 12^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet Caroline Deruas

13.15 Meet and greet Lav Diaz

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

19:30 CO Riddles of the Sphinx (Laura Mulvey, 1977) United Kingdom 93´ + Colloquium with Laura Mulvey

21:30 CO Expo Lio 92’ (María Cañas, 2017) Spain 40’ + Nuevo Altar (Velasco Broca) Spain 23’  + Sakhisona (Prantik Basu, 2017) India 26’ Colloquium  with María Cañas, Velasco Broca and Julián Génisson

Secreto

22:00 VL Ó noite de Santo António JPR Manhã de Santo António (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2012) 25´+ O corpo de Afonso (João Pedro Rodrigues, 2013) Portugal 32´ + Colloquium João Pedro Rodrigues. Upon registration.

TUESDAY 13^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet María Cañas

13:15 Meet and greet Velasco Broca

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

17:30 Hall 1 FCI The Tenants (Dariush Mehrjui, 1986) 109’ Iran
19:45 Hall 1 FK Fate (Fred Kelemen, 1994)  Germany 80’ + Colloquium with Fred Kelemen

La Casa Encendida

18:00 DS 1: 75 min.

Hacked Circuit (Deborah Stratman, 2014) USA 15’ + The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman, 2016) USA 60’ + Colloquium with Deborah Stratman

20:00 CV VANGUARDIAS 2: 87 min.

Rapa das Bestas (Jaione Camborda, 2017) Spain 9’ + Entzungor (Ander Parody, 2017) Spain 78’ + Colloquium  with Jaione Camborda and Ander Parody

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

19:00 CO Afternoon Clouds (Payal Kapadia, 2017) 12’ India + Beduino (Júlio Bressane, 2016) Brasil, 75’ + Colloquium  with Júlio Bressane

21:15 CO Casa Roshell (Camila José Donoso, 2017) Mexico/Chile 71’ + Happy Happy Baby (Jan Soldat, 2017) Germany 20’ + Protokolle (Jan Soldat, 2017) Germany 20’ + Colloquium with Camila José Donoso

WEDNESDAY 14^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30h Meet and greet Camila José Donoso

13.15h Meet and greet Júlio Bressane

La Casa Encendida

18:00 DS 2: 84 min.

In Order Not To Be Here (Deborah Stratman, 2002) 33’ + O’er The Land (Deborah Stratman, 2009) 51’ + Colloquium with Deborah Stratman

20:00 CV VANGUARDIAS 3: 67 min.

Broken Tongue (Mónica Savirón, 2013) USA 3' + Answer Print (Mónica Savirón, 2016) USA 5’ + Highview (Simon Liu, 2017) USA/Hong Kong/United Kingdom 20’ + Untitled, 1925 (Madi Piller, 2016) Peru/USA 9’ + Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2016) Japan 10’ + Shape of a Surface (Nazli Dinçel, 2017) Turkey 9’ + 025 Sunset Red (Laida Lertxundi, 2016) USA/Spain 14’ + Colloquium with Mónica Savirón andLaida Lertxundi

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

18:00 Hall 2 FK Frost (Fred Kelemen, 1997/98) Germany 201’ + Colloquium with Fred Kelemen

21:45 Sala 1 FCI Mum’s Guest (Dariush Mehrjui, 2004) Iran 103’

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

19:00 CO  Stand-by Office (Randa Maroufi, 2017) France/Holand 11’ + The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me (Anka Sasnal, Wilhelm Sasnal, 2016) Poland 74’ + Colloquium with Randa Maroufi

21:00  CO  Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro, 2016) USA/Argentina 86’

Museo CAV La Neomudéjar

22:30 DS: 63 min.

On the Various Nature of Things (Deborah Stratman, 1995) USA 25’ + How Among The Frozen Words (Deborah Stratman, 2005) USA 1’ + It Will Die Out In The Mind (Deborah Stratman, 2006) USA 3’ + The Magician's House (Deborah Stratman, 2007) USA 5’ + …These Blazeing Starrs! (Deborah Stratman, 2011) USA 14’ + Xenoi (Deborah Stratman, 2016) USA 15’ + Colloquium with Deborah Stratman

THURSDAY 15^TH JUNE 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet Randa Maroufi

13:15 Meet and greet Fred Kelemen

Museo CAV La Neomudéjar

16:30 Meet and greet Jonas Mekas and launch of the book Cuaderno de los sesenta

La Casa Encendida

18:00 DS 3: 78 min.

Energy Country (Deborah Stratman, 2003) USA 14’ + The BLVD (Deborah Stratman, 1999) USA 64’ + Colloquium with Deborah Stratman

20:00 CV VANGUARDIAS 4: 74 min.

Rubber Coated Steel (Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2017) Lebanon/Germany 21’ + Rudzienko (Sharon Lockhart, 2016) USA/Poland 53’

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

20:00 Hall 2 PE Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas, 1972) Lithuania/USA 88’ + Colloquium with Jonas Mekas
22:00h Hall 1 FK Nightfall (Fred Kelemen, 1999) Germany/Portugal 141’ + Colloquium with Fred Kelemen

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

22:00h CO Antiporno (Sono Sion, 2016) Japan 78’

Petit Palace Savoy Alfonso XII

22:00h PE Memórias de um Estrangulador de Loiras (Júlio Bressane, 1971) Brasil, 71’ + Colloquium with Bressane

FRIDAY 16^TH JUNIO 2017

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet Deborah Stratman

13.15 Meet and greet Spanish filmmakers Avant-garde Section

Cine Estudio Círculo de Bellas Artes

17:30 FCI Men at Work (Mani Haghighi, 2006) Iran 77’ + Colloquium with Mani Haghighi

19:30 FCI Modest Reception (Mani Haghighi, 2012) Iran 98’ + Colloquium with Mani Haghighi

22:00 CO António Um Dois Tres (Leonardo Mouramateus, 2017) Portugal/Brasil 95’

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española

17:30 Hall 1 FK Fallen/Krisana (Fred Kelemen, 2005) Germany/Leetonia 90’ + Colloquium with Fred Kelemen

19:30 Hall 1 FK Sarajevo Songs of Woe (Fred Kelemen, 2016) Bosnia and Herzegovina 140’ + Colloquium with Fred Kelemen

La Casa Encendida

18:00 DS 4: 75 min.

Ray’s Birds (Deborah Stratman, 2010) United Kingdom 7’ + Kings of the Sky (Deborah Stratman, 2004) China/United States 68’ + Bosnia and Herzegovina Deborah Stratman

20:00 CV VANGUARDIAS 5: 65 min.

Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri, 2016) Tunisia-France, 31’ + Fajr (Lois Patiño, 2017) Spain-Morocco 12’ + Calypso (Annalisa D. Quagliata, 2016) Mexico/USA 5' + El Brujo (Louidgi Beltrame, 2016) Peru-France 17’ + Colloquium with Lois Patiño

Casa Árabe

22:30 VL Around the gate Randa Maroufi 30’

SATURDAY 17^TH JUNIO 2017

Librería La Buena Vida

12:00 – Launch of the book Beba la Vanguardia by Javier Rebollo.

Petit Palace Lealtad Plaza

12:30 Meet and greet Mani Haghighi

Casa Árabe

17:30 FCI Abadan (Mani Haghighi, 2004) 83’ + Colloquium with Mani Haghighi

Cine Doré Filmoteca Española Sala 1

20:00 PE  Special Sesion James Benning: 105 min. Fresh Air (James Benning, 2016) USA 45’ + measuring change (James Benning, 2016) USA 60’

22:00 FCI CLAUSURA A Dragon Arrives! (Mani Haghighi, 2016) Iran 107’ + Colloquium with Mani Haghighi

EXHIBITION

LA NEOMUDÉJAR

I sing and I celebrate Jonas Mekas

7 JUN // 7 AUG (Opening hours: from Wednesday to Sunday from 11:00 to 15:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00).

Entrance fee: 4 €. Wednesday free entrance.

TRAINNING LAURA MULVEY Women and film: An approach through representations of the mother in image and narrative / Mujer y cine: Una mirada a las representaciones de la maternidad a través de la imagen y la narrativa

UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID

12 JUN // 15 JUN (10:00 to 14:00)

Previous registration needed

EXHIBITION

FUNDACIÓN FERNANDO DE CASTRO

To ring a bell, to sound familiar - Ana Cubas

Upon previous call in RSS. Free entrance.

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• An extensive exhibition of Jonas Mekas’ work will be held at the Museo C.A.V. La Neomudéjar with pieces never seen before in Spain.

• The exhibition will include unseen graphic and audiovisual works by the great living icon of the North American experimental cinema. 

• FILMADRID has opened a crowdfunding in Verkami that will be available until 7th May. 

Madrid, 8th April 2017- The team of FILMADRID International Film Festival continues with the arrangements for its third edition which will be held from 8th to 17th June in Madrid.

The organization announces now an exhibition around the figure of the artist Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives in New York and great living icon of North American experimental cinema.It will be held at the Museo C.A.V. La Neomudejar and will include graphic and audiovisual works by the author. In addition to the screenings of selected pieces, it will consist in a daily screening of the initiative 365 Day Project. This initiative was conducted by the author in collaboration with Apple, and consists in a daily short film between 1 and 20 minutes of length. Every day of the festival,the audience will watch a whole month of these short films by Jonas Mekas.

This activity is conducted in collaboration with the Argentinean publishing house Caja Negra Editora, which will publish this 2017 the first edition in Spanish of ‘Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954 - 2010’, with known but unpublished texts of Jonas Mekas. This book will be presented during the festival and we will be a talk about the texts in the context of the exhibition.

Crowdfunding for this (the third one) edition of FILMADRID

Despite the festival has nowadays more and more supports and, with the effort of past years, it has gained the recognition and trust of both public and institutions, currently the festival does not have enough resources to face the festival this year. It needs the economic support from anonymous sponsors to make this third edition shine as bright as the last two ones. That is why this crowdfunding has been enabled in Verkami which will cover part of the budget of the festival. Contributions can be made (from 15€ to 1.500€) through the following link http://vkm.is/filmadrid until the 7th of May.

The festival invites to donate and spread the crowdfunding to everyone who wants to collaborate.  Also we invite you to see this video to encourage the small sponsors:

https://youtu.be/FNSv9ldY1wQ

These news come now to join others that the festival has been announcing in recent weeks, such as the course by Laura Mulvey, an essential figure in feminist theory in cinema, will be held in collaboration with the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. Other information that has been announced about the III edition of the festival is that the prestigious platform MUBI will be in charge of the online service of FILMADRID, with a new section dedicated to Video Essays. The selected works will be shown throughout the festival as individual posts in NOTEBOOK, the daily publication of MUBI. They will be also exhibited in a free screening during the festival. Only Video Essays that have not been exhibited neither on internet nor in cinemas can participate. The length of the video is free and the call is open until 20^th April. Send your Video Essay to programacion@filmadrid.com

Nuria Cubas and Fernando Vilchez, directors of FILMADRID, declare: “The III edition of FILMADRID comes with new risks to bring cinema in its wide stspectrum to the city of Madrid. The presence of Laura Mulvey or the exhibition of Jonas Mekas in the city are initiatives that we are launching with much effort that comes from whole team of people who are working with tons of illusion. In order to complete the budget for this year and develop all the programming in the best possible way, we ask you for your help in the crowdfunding in Verkami. We encourage all lovers of cinema and culture. We promise that the rewards and having the opportunity to live the activities that we are organizing will make your contribution to FILMADRID worthwhile.”

More info and interviews:

comunicacion@filmadrid.com

678249767 / 646518457

About FILMADRID:

FILMADRID, International Film Festival of Madrid is driven by the Asociación Cultural Pasajes de Cine. The festival is about creating a space to bring film culture to the public of the capital that will serve to increase the cinephilia in the city. It is a festival conceived as a yearly event celebrated in June.

FILMADRID is delighted to announce the creation of a new section for its 3^rd edition dedicated to Video Essay. This section will be organised in collaboration with the prestigious global film website and curated video-on-demand platform MUBI

Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the Video Essay, a relatively recent form that already has its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. Authors such as Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López, Kevin B. Lee and kogonada, among many others, established some of the codes of this rich and heterogeneous discipline. The limits of the Video Essay are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this section both MUBI and FILMADRID will offer the platform and visibility the Video Essay deserves.

This will be a non-competitive section. The selected works will be shown during the dates of FILMADRID (8^th till 17^th of June 2017) as individual posts on MUBI’s cinema publication, the Notebook. Also there will be a free public screening of the selected works during the festival. The selection will be made by the programmers of MUBI and FILMADRID.

Submissions are now open for this section. The deadline is April 20th, 2017. All film submissions must include the Official Entry attached at the beginning of this page.

Registration to participate is open for Video Essays that have never been exhibited online or in theatres. There is not extension limit per work. All works should be in English language or have subtitles in English. Authors can include a text to accompany their Video Essay. All works may be submitted to programacion@filmadrid.com indicating “Video Essay” as subject.

 “We’re thrilled about this new initiative,” says Daniel Kasman, Director of Content at MUBI. “It has long been our mission to not only support the best of film, but to encourage inventive criticism and commentary on the world of cinema. By combining the festival experience with a critical one, FILMADRID’s new section will powerfully underscore the inseparability of great art and great discourse. We are tremendously pleased this partnership will help expand FILMADRID’s audience to a global scale.”

Both Nuria Cubas and Fernando Vílchez, directors of FILMADRID, declared their enthusiasm about the new section: “The Video Essay is a form that we really love and find extremely exciting and necessary. We have notice that every year Video Essays are growing in number and quality. There are so many interesting people making amazing works but at the same time have problems to find festivals and platforms to show what they have done. That’s why we have created the section in collaboration with MUBI, the film website we admire the most. It’s a huge honour for our festival to start this adventure with them”.