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 13 – 19:30h
🎬 ‘THE MEMORY OF CINEMA: A FILM ABOUT FERNANDO MÉNDEZ-LEITE’
Moisés Salama · Spain · 2023 · 89 min.
Fernando Méndez-Leite is a fundamental figure in the recent history of Spanish cinema. His career spans more than half a century of cinematography and, with it, the profound cultural, political, and social transformations experienced by Spain.
Through the writing of his memoirs and a novel with autobiographical resonances, Moisés Salama constructs a journey through his biography and transforms his extraordinary personal memory into a gateway to the collective memory of cinema and Spanish culture.
🎟️ Tickets available on Tuesday, October 6 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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