Pere Portabella & La Escuela de Barcelona
Overview of films
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El sopar
Five political activists discuss their experiences in and outside prison – clandestinely. A key masterpiece of cinematic activism. Screens to
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Autour des salines
Life in a rural area where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of salt mining. A composed, spectacular work of anger ̵
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Dante no es únicamente severo
A beautiful woman tells one story after another, not all of which have an end and few have anything to do with one another – like a Scheheraz
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Miró l’altre
A documentary about a temporary art work by Joan Miró discretely turns into an essay on Catalan anti-Franco activism in the late 1960s. Screens bef
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Ditirambo
One day, a woman comes to Ditirambo with a job: He must search for one of her dead husband’s lovers and deliver her to her – revenge being a
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Vampir – Cuadecuc
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of trash-meister Jess Franco’s enjoyably mediocre El conde Dracula (1970) gives a decidedly different iro
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Noche de vino tinto
A woman, a man, a night of drinking and talking while walking through Barcelona’s Chinatown. A painfully precise yet kind and curious portrait of a
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La tempesta
Bodies, water, the music of Gioachino Rossini: a hearty cinematic symphony of spectacular beauty and sensuality.
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Cada vez que…
A free-wheeling caprice featuring beautiful people in situations from life in a world we call modern and developed. A fascinating and enchanting wo
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Acteón
A modern(ist) take on the story of Actaeon who saw the goddess Diana nude, for which she turned him into a stag that would soon be killed by a pack
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Aoom
An aging actor transfers his soul into a doll to escape the boredom and the triteness of leisure. His assistant soon gets irritated by this uncanny
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Después del diluvio
One woman, two men – and none of the melodrama one might expect. In fact, the film’s true drama is in its colours: how everything begins and