The Fundación Tres Culturas is once again collaborating with ASECAN, an organisation that brings together the majority of Andalusian writers and film critics, to organise its February film season, coinciding with the celebration of Andalusia Day on February 28th.
At the 36th edition of the Asecan Andalusian Film Awards, the traditional awards that annually recognise the work and works of Andalusian filmmakers were presented. From the Fundación Tres Culturas we would like to show our support to Andalusian filmmaking by screening the films awarded in 2023 in the different categories of this event.
Tuesday, 20 February, 20.30 h.
Drying rooms. Rocío Mesa. Spain, 2022, 95 min.
A small rural town is the paradise of a city girl and the cage of a local teenager. Two parallel stories that take place between tobacco drying sheds during a summer tinged with magical realism.
The feature film Dryershas been selected for some of the most prestigious screenwriting workshops such as Sundance Faliro House 2017 or Sources2 Norway 2018.
We will have the actress Tamara Arias for the presentation of the film.
Free admission with prior registration at THIS LINK.
About its director, Rocío Mesa
Named by Variety as "one of the 10 most promising women in the Spanish film industry", Rocío Mesa practices experimental analogue cinema and her pieces, among which are Tobacco barns light studies o Vegahave been selected for top-level exhibitions and festivals, such as the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, Cámara Lúcida, Festival de Cine Experimental de Bogotá and L'Alternativa.
Since 2015, Mesa has been the director of LA OLA - Independent Films from Spain, an organisation focused on promoting cutting-edge Spanish cinema in North America. She is also the founder of the production company My Deer Films and has produced feature films such as Mabh Jhiwo / Elderly soulby Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2021 and selected for prominent festivals such as Viennale and Documenta Madrid.
Rocío Mesa works as a freelance film programmer, collaborating with the LA Film Festival and independent cinemas and is the co-programmer of Art House Theater Day, a worldwide activity organised by Art House Convergence in the USA.
This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa (Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification).
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