‘Romería’ by Carla Simón will close the new edition of Mirades
Inheriting memory is listening, revising, reimagining, also repairing; is to accept that memory is a living matter that crosses us and transforms us. This is what we will try to discover in Inheritance of memorythe new edition of the Documentary and auteur Cinema series glances.
through six projections (two of them short films) we will see how memory filters into our way of understanding the world. Because the past often comes to us in fragments—incomplete images, vague accounts, lingering silences—and for this reason memory is also a place of transmission and disputewhere the meaning of what has been is negotiated and what we are is outlined.
For this Mirades de primavera we have the collaboration of the historian and cultural popularizer Marta Sells. At all sessions there will be a presentation and discussion!
Bucharest, the lost memory
Tuesday, April 28 at 7 p.m
Albert Solé
Spain | 2008 | 80 min VO Catalan
A documentary about memory. It narrates the personal search of Albert, a journalist born in exile in 1962, to recover his roots, framed between a double exile. His father, the Spanish politician Jordi Solé Tura, who would eventually become a key figure during the Spanish Transition, was forced into exile for his anti-Franco militancy at the end of the fifties. After a life full of political experiences and exciting characters, Jordi begins a new inner exile, this time with no possibility of return: the fight against Alzheimer’s.
Colloquium by the director.
What is known
Tuesday, May 5 at 7 p.m
Amaia Merino and Ander Iriarte
Spain | 2024 | 59 min YOU
Tamara Muruetagoiena explains in detail the revolutionary tax, the kidnapping by ETA, the State’s harassment and political pressure, the arrest of her father and mother, the torture, the murder… A serene look at the Basque conflict awarded at the San Sebastian Film and Human Rights Festival.
Colloquium given by Rosa Lluch Bramon, professor of history at the University of Barcelona.
Short film session: ‘Aitana’ and ‘Els buits’
Tuesday, May 12 at 7 p.m
Atana
Marina Alberti
Spain | 2023 | 19 min | VO Spanish
Marina is obsessed with losing her memory. It happened to his grandmother and now he senses that it is happening to his mother, Aitana, daughter of the writer María Teresa León and the poet Rafael Alberti. Locked in the room from which her mother has not left for a long time, she insists on reviewing the memories. In the silence of the night, the ghosts of the family past return, the history of a country and an entire century.
the gaps
Sofia Esteve, Isa Luengo and Marina Freixa Roca
Spain | 2024 | 20 min VO Catalan
Nominated for the Goya 2025. An exercise in historical memory in which Mariona reflects with her daughter, and filmmaker, on her time with Franco’s Patronato de Protección a la Mujer. At the age of 17, Mariona was arrested and interned in a correctional facility of the Patronato de Protección a la Mujer, an institution dedicated to “regenerating fallen women” during the Franco regime and the first years of democracy. In the year 2023, she and her daughter try to piece together the pieces and gaps of this story.
Colloquium by Marina Freixa Roca, director and editor specialized in documentary film.
without sun
Tuesday, June 2 at 7 p.m
Chris Marker
France | 1983 | 100 min YOU
An account of an unknown woman who reads the letters sent by a camera operator, Sandor Krasna, who, through the recording of the images of his travels, questions memory and the function of memory. A fascinating experimental documentary that, like a travelogue, reflects on image and memory.
Colloquium by Carlos Losilla, essayist and film critic.
Pilgrimage
Tuesday, June 9 at 7 p.m
Carla Simon
Spain | 2025 | 115 min VO Spanish
Nominated for the Palme d’Or in Cannes. At 18, Marina, adopted from a very young age, travels to Vigo to meet her biological father’s family for the first time. His arrival brings back a past already buried. Guided by her mother’s diary and through a special connection with her new cousin, Marina will uncover family wounds and be able to finally relive the fragmented memory of a mother and father, of whom she barely remembers.
Colloquium pending confirmation.
