12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Begoña Vicario’s Jane, Tarzán nez zen horren guay (Jane, Tarzan Wasn’t So Cool) was created by a collective of 20 young Basque artists, coordinated by the director. It reinterprets the famous scene from Cedric Gibbons’ 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate in […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Basque artist Izibene Oñederra’s powerful, cutting-edge works have continued to delve deeply into uncomfortable themes. Her animated film Lursaguak (Scenes of Life) is a dark, grotesque commentary on the human condition, in which millions of voles of an unknown species are undermining […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Patchwork, created as part of María Manero’s work toward a Master of Animation at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the director tells the story of her mother’s courage while facing a liver transplant, as well as the interconnection among human beings […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here In Yo, based on a story by Arthur Schnitzler, Begoña Arostegui confronts the perplexity we encounter when we realize how we encode the world through language. For the protagonist, all days seem monotonously alike, until a simple parking sign changes everything. 2020; […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here María Trénor’s ¿Dónde estabas tú? challenges the viewer to reflect on the universal reality of violence against women, whether subtle or brutal. The interviews resulting in the three stories that make up this film were conducted in Mozambique and the Philippines. 2020; […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Esfinge urbana, the most experimental work in María Lorenzo’s extensive filmography, is a composition based on Valencian urban art, as documented in various neighborhoods between 2018 and 2019 and connected through animation like the frames of a film. 2020; Spanish with English […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here F.F.G. Un retrato is a short film dedicated to Fernán-Gómez by critic and filmmaker Jesús García de Dueñas. Through a montage of diverse images, the renowned actor and director reveals his motivations, his reflections on his work, and his philosophy of life. […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Manicomio, Fernán-Gómez’ directorial debut, reworks several stories from different sources about the world of inmates in psychiatric institutions. When the protagonist, Carlos, visits his girlfriend at the hospital where she works, the director of the facility introduces him to his niece, who […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here Based on an actual event known as “the crime of Mazarrón,” El extraño viaje is a dark drama whose bizarre events entangle three siblings in a small provincial town near Madrid, as well as members of a band who come in from […]
12 pm (available for 48 hours) On the Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here A timid young boy growing up in a small Spanish town starts school for the first time, and with the nurturing and guidance of a kind teacher, a world of possibilities begins to open up for him. As the school year comes […]
