The Walking Cinematheque will project between the months of January and March a total of seven non-fiction feature films made by certain directors of the Principality of Asturias, like Carlos Navarro, Tito Montero, Marcos M. Merino or Ramón Lluís Bande. In addition, the award-winning films ‘Josep’ and ‘Beginning’ complete this quarter’s program.
There are 17 municipalities that collaborate in this edition of the itinerant cinema cycle of Laboral Cinemateca that starts on Tuesday, January 26 at the House of Culture of Cangas de Onís with the screening of ‘Work or who owns the world ‘, by Elisa Cepedal. In addition, La Cinemateca Ambulante will also call this season in Vegadeo, Cabrales, Cangas del Narcea, Castrillón, Colunga, Lena, Langreo, Llanera, Nava, Navia, Noreña, Piloña, Ribadesella, Siero, Tineo and Villaviciosa.
After receiving the special award from the Jury at the Gijón / Xixón International Film Festival and touring festivals around the world with great success, ‘El trabajo or who owns the world’ arrives at La Cinemateca Ambulante ‘, a film for which the filmmaker Asturian Elisa Cepedal received in 2017 a production grant from Laboral Cinemateca. In this ‘film’, Cepedal is situated in the years between the last general strike of 2012 and 2018, the year scheduled for the closing of the last mining wells.
Precisely Tito Montero includes the filming of Elisa Cepedal’s film in ‘The past present‘, produced by RTPA and premiered worldwide at FICX, which is part of the transmedia project Return to the Lost Village where, through this film, two chapters for television and the fourteen that make up the first web series in the history of Asturian public television , analyzes different social and economic realities of Asturies in the second decade of the 21st century.
Also part of the program of La Cinemateca Ambulante is Marcos M. Merino’s latest feature film, ‘In memoriam (defeat should be forgotten) ‘, a work that received the Deluxe Special Mention from the New Waves Non-Fiction section of the Seville Festival and with which the filmmaker from Gijón portrays four parallel stories about the preservation of the memory of workers and the cultural legacy of the territory they inhabit.
Very different is’Cuca (portrait of a woman)‘, directed by Carlos Navarro from Oviedo, a funny and moving portrait of this 87-year-old woman who the viewer accompanies through museums, cuisine and stages that have left their mark not only in Cuca, but also in Asturias in recent decades . Cuca (portrait of a woman) was awarded the RTPA Award for Best Asturian Feature Film at the last edition of the Gijón / Xixón Film Festival.
Three films that were presented at the last FICX are added to the billboard. It is the last feature film by the filmmaker Ramón Lluís Bande ‘Yield brutebeasts among ruins‘, which in 2019 received a production aid from Laboral Cinemateca and in which it focuses on the Sovereign Council of Asturias and León during the last phase of the Civil War. The new film by Manuel García Postigo from Gijón has also been programmed, ‘Siberia‘, in which he approaches the massacre and its rituals that break the monotony of life in Allande (Asturian Siberia), and Vicente García Riestra, Guardian of Memory. ‘A history of Buchenwald‘, by Alberto Vázquez García, a documentary about the figure of this Asturian survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp.
In addition, the program for the quarter is completed with two award-winning films at major festivals: the animation tape ‘Josep‘-the story Josep Bartolí, a Spanish cartoonist in exile who fights against the Franco dictatorship-, who won the Prize for the Best European Animated Film 2020, and’Beginning‘, by the Georgian Dea Kulumbegashvili, who swept the last San Sebastian Festival by winning the Golden Shell, in addition to the director, script and actress awards.
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