Tuesday Cinema in May: 'Rebuilding' and 'Reborn', by Rocío Reyes

In May, on the occasion of World Day for Cultural Diversity, we dedicate our film season to this theme, celebrating cinema as one of the richest artistic expressions and a tool of extraordinary value to promote respect and appreciation of diversity.

Through film, we talk about social, cultural, religious, political and environmental issues that in one way or another expose realities different from our own, present new patterns of behaviour, bring knowledge and cultures closer together and are essential for showing different forms of conflict resolution.

Tuesday, 7 May, 20.30 h.

Rebuilding. Rocío Reyes. Spain, 2022, 5 min.

Ruins that symbolise the destruction of society's values. The music of Eustaquio Álvarez that moves us. The dance of Ornella Vitale and Miguel Ángel Aragonés that makes us travel through a world of conflicting sensations. Rebuilding invites us to reflect on diversity, vulnerability and paths to integration. It opens a window of sensitivities to raise awareness.

Reborn. Rocío Reyes. Spain, 2023, 45 min.

It continues the trajectory of "raising awareness through the arts" started in 2022 with Rebuildingseeks to raise awareness of a reality that we cannot turn our backs on. And it does so through the confidences and sensitivity of dance and with an exceptional soundtrack composed by the Sevillian composer and arranger Eustaquio Álvarez that promises to thrill from the first moment to the last.

Any of us may be forced to emigrate, to leave or flee our city, our country, to leave behind family and friends, culture, customs, to face a new reality that, in most cases, is very hard. Uprooting, pain, borders, obstacles are part of these lives, but also hope, resilience, dreams and future. Reborn is a constant back and forth between pain and hope, and a dance of emotions enveloped in music.

Colloquium:

Rocío Reyes, director of the documentary; Sandra Olivero, PhD in American History from the University of Seville; Isabel Barreto, dean of the Universidad del Noreste in Uruguay; and Carmen Laura Paz Reverol, PhD in Anthropology and co-star of the documentary.