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Cervantes Film Series: Volavérunt

February 6

12:00 pm MST (available for 96 hours)
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

This blockbuster, Volavérunt, directed by Bigas Luna with an international cast and crew, stars Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, who plays the Duchess of Alba. Doña Cayetana was a key woman in the court of King Carlos IV with a personality based on intrigue, passion, and desire.

The film’s title evokes an ambiguity that can be traced back to Goya’s Caprichos engraving no. 61, which shares the title of this film. The film’s grandious photography and costumes bring the lavish world of the late 18th century to life.

Synopsis: One morning in the summer of 1802, Cayetana, the Duchess of Alba, is found dead. A few hours before, at the inauguration party at her palace, many of her admirers and detractors were present: Goya, Godoy, Prince Ferdinand, Pepita Tudó and Pignatelli, among them. Although it is admitted as official version that the beautiful duchess died of natural causes, later confessions and revealed secrets invite to think that Cayetana could have been poisoned. [Source: Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) database].

Screening: Volavérunt |  Director: Bigas Luna | Year: 1999 | Format: Digital | Running time: Largometraje – 118 min | Genre: Fiction/Ficción | Country: France and Spain | Original version: Spahish/español | Subtitles: English/inglés, French/francés, Italian/italiano, Portuguese/portugués de Brasil y español | Rated PG13/Calificacion: 13+

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

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February 6
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