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El retablo de las maravillas. Apuntes para una película sobre el Quijote

A film made of burning books, windows and calendars. A quarantine film with lies, fictions, post-truths and alterations of the confined memory. A film written in forty days of silence, as notes for another future film, in a city less and less recognizable. Cervantes, connoisseur of confinements and pandemics, presides over a game of mirrors between centuries that connects Madrid and Beijing, while his creatures filter news, gestures and political strategies from the daily press in the spring of 2020, in a sleepwalking and unreal Madrid.

El retablo de las maravillas. Apuntes para una película sobre el Quijote

NR 2021
Una telenovela de guapas

A collective that carries out community projects with LGBTI groups, a documentary filmmaker, theater actors and a group of trans sex workers (known as Las Guapas) come together to settle accounts with the injustices they live by creating a soap opera using friendship and fiction as a form resistance. Between rituals of love, slapping and revenge, this hybrid documentary shows that making community cinema is a valid bet to combat the fetishization of discourses about the struggles of LGBTI people in Colombia.

Una telenovela de guapas

NR 2021
Madrid, Bad Life

Over a hundred years since the publication of the sociological text, La mala vida en Madrid, that coined the term in Spain, what does it mean to be a ‘lowlife’? Eye-catching, almost otherworldy and unashamedly provocative, this commentary on class, sexuality and urban stratification appropriates the pathologising label of ‘Other’ to shine a light on the explosion of ‘lifeforms’ in the Spanish capital today. Featuring the clever use of 8mm to create a surreal, pseudo-documentary look that draws in and distances simultaneously, Madrid, Bad Life is a sophisticated and thought-provoking high-concept work.

Madrid, Bad Life

NR 2021
Transition and Happiness

Rosa María is a transsexual woman and a father who completed her sexual reassignment surgery at the age of 59. Until then her behaviour had been that of a typical macho male. This documentary shows her “transition” or gradual empowerment as a woman, a process that holds a certain promise of fulfilment. Alongside her friend, Fina, also a transsexual woman over 60 years old, they walk this path of light and shadow in their struggle to conquer the desired status of being a woman, as well as a degree of recognition on the part of society.

Transition and Happiness

6.0 2021