After the holidays, we return to our usual Tuesday film event, and we want to do so by giving our own space to one of the great genres of cinema, suspense, thrillers, the thrillerWe have had samples of it throughout our trajectory, but now we are dedicating a specific cycle to it.
Thriller productions are not the most common in the Middle Eastern cinema that usually reaches the screen of Three Cultures, which is more inclined towards drama. However, despite the scarcity of production of this genre in the region, some directors have shown an effective expertise in the making of this type of cinema, managing - within their own socio-cultural contexts, and even taking advantage of them - to generate in the spectator that sensation of pleasurable fascination and emotion mixed with apprehension.
That's exactly what the Iranian film achieves About Ellywhere a constant sense of doom sets the tone; the same feeling, but seen through a complex historical-political prism spiced with feelings of guilt, is achieved by Israel's Walking on water. The psychological element comes to the fore in the multi-award winning Turkish film Once upon a time in Anatoliawhile the Egyptian Cairo 678 -inspired by real events - can be seen as more of a thriller social.
Tuesday, 15 September.
Once upon a time in Anatolia (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da)
Dirigida por Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turquía, 2011, 157 min.).
Synopsis
En el corazón de las estepas de Anatolia, en la Turquía profunda, un asesino intenta guiar a un equipo de policías hasta el lugar donde enterró al cuerpo de su víctima. En el curso de este viaje una serie de pistas sacarán la verdad a la superficie…
Gran Premio del Jurado en Cannes 2011.
Premio de la Crítica en el Festival Intnal. de Sao Paulo 2011.
Mención especial en el Festival de Filadelfia de 2011.
Premio especial del Jurado y a la Mejor fotografía en el Festival de Dubai 2011.
The film will be shown in the original version with Spanish subtitles, from 20.30 onwards. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
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