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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
With the soul of a late-night tango in this film, Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando, the songs and the emotion of the world revolve around the music that dominated leisure in the early 20th century: tango. The film is in conversation with another classic from director Jaime Chávarri, best known for his series Las cosas del querer.
Synopsis: In 1930s Buenos Aires, a Spanish immigrant meets a tango singer, considered the best Gardel imitator. Juanita tries to make Renzo look more and more like her idol, until one day the tango singer is given a delicate mission: to imitate the real Gardel. [Source: Flixolé].
Screening: Sus ojos se cerraron y el mundo sigue andando | Director: Jaime Chávarri | Year: 1998 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 93 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: Spain/Argentina/España y Argentina | Original version: Spain/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG/Calificacion: +7
The annual programming on the Cervantes Institute’s Vimeo channel begins with a cycle 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