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Spanish and Latin American Film Festival
Aberdeen’s Spanish and Latin American Film Festival returns to the City, with an exciting, and expanded, programme of films from some of the leading writers and directors in Spanish language cinema. This collaborative venture between the Belmont Picturehouse and the University of Aberdeen, supported by Aberdeen City and Shire, celebrates the interest in the cultures of Spain and Latin America in the North East of Scotland.
Friday 12 March 6:30pm
Sin Nombre Cary Fukunaga, Mexico/USA
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra, joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with a teenaged Mexican gang member, El Casper, who is manoeuvring to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates. Together they must rely on faith, trust and street-smarts if they are to survive their increasingly perilous journey towards the hope of new lives.
Saturday 13 March 4:00pm
La Habitación de Fermat (Fermat's Room) Luis Piedrahita / Rodrigo Sopeña, Spain
Four strangers, who are all mathematicians, are invited to spend a weekend together where they will be challenged to solve a great enigma. Their mysterious host is only known to them by a pseudonym: Fermat. But the room in which they find themselves turns out to be a death-trap that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.
Sunday 14 March 4:00pm
El Espíritu de la Colmena (Spirit of the Beehive) Victor Erice, Spain
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a travelling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own. A beautiful classic of Spanish cinema.
Tuesday 16 March 6:30pm
La Noche de las Girasoles (Night of the Sunflowers) Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo, Spain
Rated by The Guardian one of the best 50 films of the noughties, this is a further demonstration of the wealth of film-making talent that is coming out of the Spanish-speaking world. The movie objectively presents six views of the same day's events. The effect is like different plates of an etching being placed over each other, interesting in themselves, but creating an image deeper and denser than any of them taken individually. An exciting crime thriller, it effortlessly creates a portrait of a community and its place within the national consciousness.
Wednesday 17 March 2:00-3:00pm
His Excellency Eduardo Medina Mora, Mexico's Ambassador to the UK
King's College Conference Centre
We are delighted to advise you that the new Mexican Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Eduardo Medina Mora, will visit Aberdeen on Wednesday 17 March 2010.
This visit is in part to follow up from the visit of President Calderon last year, but also to cement contacts with the Mexican embassy in London in terms of research and education at the University of Aberdeen, and business and trade promotion through Aberdeen City Council.
As part of the visit, we are pleased to invite all staff and students with an interest in Mexico and UK-Mexican relations to attend this presentation by His Excellency in the King's College Conference Centre, which will be followed by opportunity for questions and discussion.
All are welcome, and please confirm your attendance with Lynne Stabler at NSRI by email to lynne.stabler@abdn.ac.uk
Wednesday 17 March 6:30pm
Whisky Juan Pablo Rebella / Pablo Stoll, Uruguay
This Uruguayan film is winner of 20 awards. When his long-lost brother resurfaces, Jacobo is desperate to prove his life has added up to something, and tries to find a wife. He turns to Marta, an employee at his sock factory, with whom he has a prickly relationship. Jacobo and Marta realize that their estranged relationship needs to change when Jacobo's brother asks them to pose as a married couple.
Thursday 18 March 6:30pm
Voy a Explotar (I'm going to explode), Gerardo Naranjo, Mexico
Produced by actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, and with a debt of gratitude to French New Wave, this is an involved tale of two young lovers on the run, planning an escape from a world they can make little sense of. A film with energy, dark humour and a personal style, and a spontaneity that contributes to a deeply moving experience.
These films will be screened at the Belmont Picturehouse, 49 Belmont Street, Aberdeen. To book your place visit the Belmont Picturehouse www.picturehouses.co.uk or telephone 01224 34 35 34
The University of Aberdeen will also be showing special screenings of some interesting films throughout the week. Please visit the website for more details www.abdn.ac.uk/spanish/filmfestival
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