Pere Portabella & La Escuela de Barcelona
Overview of films
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Fata morgana
Vicente Aranda | 84' | Spain | None
A serial killer on the loose. A professor studying the characteristics of victims in order to cure them from their malaise. A beautiful model facing… -
Informe general II. El nuevo rapto de Europa
Pere Portabella | 126' | Spain | World premiere
A cinematographic symposium on the current political crisis of parliamentary democracy and the nation-state, how neoliberalist capitalism thrives on t -
Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de interés para una proyección pública
Pere Portabella | 154' | Spain | None
On 20 November 1975, Francisco Franco dies. On 15 June 1977, Spain holds free elections for the first time in decades. What happens in this… -
Lejos de los árboles
Jacinto Esteva Grewe | 100' | Spain | None
A sometimes sober but more often almost delirious documentary about a rural Spain that seems utterly backward and unenlightened by reason – but for al -
Maria Aurèlia capmany parla d’un lloc entre els morts
Joaquim Jordà | 50' | Spain | None
A famous Catalan writer/feminist/anti-fascist activist talks in the 1960s about her latest novel – which says a lot about the times as such. Looks sim -
Miró l’altre
Pere Portabella | 18' | Spain | None
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 before -
Noche de vino tinto
José María Nunes | 98' | Spain | None
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… -
Notes sur l’émigration. Espagne 1960
Jacinto Esteva Grewe, Paolo Brunatto | 12' | Spain | None
Why Spaniards left their home for Switzerland, among other places, and what this home looks like. A watershed in the history of Spanish documentary ci -
Pont de Varsòvia
Pere Portabella | 85' | Spain | None
How did that dead scuba diver get into the treetop? Why is it so difficult for the author to explain what is happening in his… -
El sopar
Pere Portabella | 50' | Spain | None
Five political activists discuss their experiences in and outside prison – clandestinely. A key masterpiece of cinematic activism. Screens together wi -
La tempesta
Pere Portabella | 6' | Spain | None
Bodies, water, the music of Gioachino Rossini: a hearty cinematic symphony of spectacular beauty and sensuality. -
Umbracle
Pere Portabella | 85' | Spain | None
Christopher Lee walks through an almost unbearably sunny, yet for the most part curiously empty, Barcelona. Critics discuss censorship. A long excerpt