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All the films can be seen in the link below:
https://vimeo.com/showcase/aitana-sanchez-gijon-goya-honor
Instituto Cervantes Film Series Celebrating Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, winner of the 2025 Honorary Goya Award from the Spanish Film Academy
After many years of trying to make the film Celos, the great Spanish filmmaker Vicente Aranda delves into the complicated territory of jealousy to narrate an agonizing and fatal story. This production incorporates the director’s obsessions with the limits of love and sexual desire, between which there is always violence.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón’s interpretation of the main character displays a range of sophisticated nuances that contribute to the development of a narrative arc full of surprises.
Synopsis: Antonio and Carmen are happy and about to get married. On the eve of the wedding, Antonio finds an old photograph of his future wife with another man. From that moment on, jealousy assaults Antonio and begins to transform his character and behavior. To save their relationship, Carmen must confront her murky past.
Screening: Celos | Director: Vicente Aranda | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 110 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/España | Original version: Spanish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated R/Calificacion: 18+
The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a series dedicated to actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who will receive the Goya Honorary Award 2025 on February 8 in Granada.
As expressed by the president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, she is “an actress much loved and respected by her peers and recognized by the public and critics since her beginnings. A complete actress: serious, responsible, competent, approachable and who knows how to give truth, sincerity and depth to all her work”.
The titles in the series have been selected by the artist herself: in addition to Volavérunt, a film by Bigas Luna for which she was awarded Best Actress at the San Sebastian Festival, her proposal includes essential films from the end of the 20th century directed by outstanding directors of Spanish cinema, such as Vicente Aranda, Bigas Luna, Jaime Chávarri and Fernando Colomo.
Program
*February 6: Volavérunt (1999), by Bigas Luna
*February 13: Celos (1999), by Vicente Aranda
*February 20: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando (1996), by Jaime Chávarri
*February 27: Bajarse al moro (1988), by Fernando Colomo