Abbreviations MOCHA obey Online Museum of Autobiographical Cinema, a private Galician initiative (La Cinematográfica y Cafés Candelas) conceived as a “space for meeting, creation and research around works by Documentary film that start from autobiographical writing and the exploration of memory, relations with the family, the search for individual identity and the investigation of the family archive ”. If your website hosts some collections of home cinema in the manner of #Projectoflife promoted by Filmoteca de Andalucía with the recovery of materials in super8 from family archives, MOCA also program this spring-summer an exciting online cycle dedicated to autobiographical cinema made in Belgium, possibly the European country that concentrates some of the best proposals and authors of the genre.
Exquisitely programmed by Guillermo G. Peydró, who has followed the poet Henri michaux (“I was a word that tried to advance at the speed of thought”) to trace its particular itinerary, the cycle started last week with the wonderful Letter from a filmmaker to his daughter (2000), from Éric Pauwels, nodal work that concentrates the character essayistic, epistolary, diaristic, confessional and experimental of a cinematographic model intimate, whispered, free, handmade and lonely, “In the manner of the painter’s work”, in the words of Pauwels, who may also be seen Dream movies (2010), The second night (2015) or the most recent September diary (2019).
Fourteen more titles make up this exciting free cycle (museomoca.com) that runs at the rhythm of a movie per week until the 4th of August, including masterpieces such as Babel (1991), from Boris Lehman, and others to discover how Behind the shutters (2018, Melissande Raverdy), When he was dictator (2013, Yäel André), Death at Vignole (1998, Olivier Smolders) o Con Dieric Bouts (1975), from André Delvaux.
XX International Festival of Las Palmas in Filmin
We arrived a bit late but still in time to enjoy some of the always excellent movies Las Palmas International Film Festival of Gran Canaria, which can be seen until this next sunday April 18 at Of the movie.
From official section you can still watch the Bulgarian documentary Exemplary behaviour, an inquiry into the consequences of the loss of a murdered brother, Laos fiction Goodbye Mr. Wong, by Kiyé Luang, a romantic drama in the landscapes of what was once Indochina, and the two parts of The real thing, the new film by the Japanese Koji Fukada, about a man’s relationship with the young woman whose life he saves.
Until the 18th, some of the winning pearls from past editions What Extraordinary stories, from the Argentine Llinás, the Chinese The World, by Zhangke, and Kaili Blues, de Bi Gan, Syndromes and a century, from Weerasethakul, the Greek Attenberg, by Athina R. Tsangari, la hitchcokiana The green fog, de Guy Madin, A perfect couple, de Suwa, Woman on the beach, de Sangsoo, o A lakeby Grandrieux. From the section ‘Banda Apart’ do not miss the beautiful short Point in line to plane, by Sofia Bohdanowicz, and from ‘Special Sessions’, the documentary by José Manuel Mouriño about José Ángel Valente, Write place.
Czech New Wave, Animation and Literature
The Kitty and Filmoteca de Andalucía continue with the cycle dedicated to the czech new wave with the projection, the Monday 19th at 7pm., from The Corpse Incinerator (1969), by Juraj Herz, a tragicomic story starring the manager of a funeral home in Prague in the 1930s during the rise of Nazism, obsessed with cremation as a method to liberate the spirit of the dead.
In the Three Cultures Foundation, the April cycle dedicated to the relations between cinema and literature offers, the Tuesday the 13th at 7:30 p.m.., the French film by Laurent Cantet The writing workshop (2017); and in Caixaforum, the cycle ‘Cartoon Saloon’ programs one of the great European animation films of this century, the extraordinary The song of the sea (2014), by Tomm Moore, a fascinating new plastic journey through the traditional tales and legends of the traditional irish folklore. The Saturday 17 at 4:30 p.m..
The premiere of the week: ‘A promising young woman’
‘A promising young woman’, the actress’s first film Emerald Fennell, arrives in full wave of the #metoo willing to win followers for her cause with a strategy as attractive as it is manipulative. The woman who interprets Carey Mulligan, candidate for Oscar (the film and its director are too), he plans his own revenge against all the men who, properly caricatured, hide a potential rapist. Be careful, you could also be one of them.
