The Foundation will dedicate its Martes Cine cycle to exploring the relationship between cinema, memory and identity through the feature film ‘Una quinta portuguesa’, a film starring Manolo Solo alongside Maria de Medeiros, and three documentaries that retell stories, voices and legacies that form part of our shared heritage.
Under the title ‘Cinema and Memory’, the programming proposes four very different approaches to that construction of memory: a beloved and close actor and musician who leaves us his legacy; the recent history of Spanish cinema through the extraordinary memory of Fernando Méndez-Leite; the search for the traces that explain the historical identity of Andalusia; and the recovery of the African presence and of black slavery in Spain and Portugal.
Four projections and four ways to ask ourselves what we retain, what we forget and how we transmit our memory to the next generations.
📅 Tuesday, October 27 – 19:30h
🎬 ‘GURUMBÉ. SONGS FROM YOUR BLACK MEMORY’
Miguel Ángel Rosales · Spain · 2016 · 72 min.
For centuries, thousands of Africans were transported to Spain and Portugal as a result of the slave trade. Many remained in the cities of the Iberian Peninsula and actively participated in the construction of their societies and cultures, although their presence has since been relegated from the historical narrative.
Gurumbé. Songs from your black memory It recovers that history and returns prominence to a population whose cultural imprint continues to be present among us.
The documentary closes the cycle by broadening our perspective on the shared memory between Europe and Africa and reminding us that understanding who we are also requires looking at what has remained outside the narrative for too long.
🎟️ Tickets available on Tuesday, October 20 here
This activity is subsidized by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the grant awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
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