The Fundación Tres Culturas dedicates the month of July to comedies from the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
The different films, in which a sense of humour is the predominant note, will show us their directors' abilities to deal with issues of great transcendence with an ironic and disconcerting look that will make us reflect on the different strategies used to make us smile.
We begin the cycle with the latest clandestine work by the Iranian Jafar Pahani, Tehran Taxi, a clear exponent of resistance cinema. This director was condemned by the Persian authorities not to work as a filmmaker for twenty years, but he used his ingenuity and talent to make this third clandestine film, circumventing his government's ban. One example of this ingenuity was the sending of the film 'This is not a film'.hidden in a cake, on a flash drive to the Cannes Film Festival.
We will continue to Ghadia gentle satire that comes to us from Lebanon in which we will see a parade of lovable and bizarre characters.
We have also included an award-winning short film from Palestine, Hail Maryby young directors Basil Khalil and Daniel Yáñez Khalil. On the same day, we continue with the Turkish film The Internationalby Sırrı Süreyya Önder, which tells the story of a very peculiar music band that causes a major altercation. This film is being screened thanks to the collaboration of Turkish House. The cycle will close with the film, My land by the Algerian director Mohamed HamidiThrough a journey of discovery to the land of his ancestors, a confused young man searches for his identity.
We hope that the public will enjoy this selection.
Martes, 5 de julio, 20:30h.
TAXI TEHERÁN
Jafar Panahi, Irán 2015, 82 min.
Synopsis
Un taxi recorre las vibrantes y coloridas calles de Teherán. Pasajeros muy diversos entran en el taxi y expresan abiertamente su opinión mientras son entrevistados por el conductor que no es otro que el director del film, Jafar Panahi. Su cámara, colocada en el salpicadero del vehículo, captura el espíritu de la sociedad iraní a través de este viaje.
2015: Premios César: Nominada a mejor película extranjera
2015: Festival de Berlín: Oso de Oro (Mejor largometraje) y Premio FIPRESCI
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