Intramuros to host Spanish film fest

FROM Oct. 19-25, Película-Pelikula, the Spanish Film Festival featuring the best of Spanish and Latin American cinema, will continue with with its second leg at Intramuros, Manila.

Presented by Instituto Cervantes, Embassy of Spain-AECID, Film Development Council of the Philippines, Intramuros Administration and National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the second run of the Spanish Film Festival will screen 16 full-length films and five short films.

Included in the festival is the exhibition, “Spanish Cinema in 20 Posters,” a journey through the history of Spanish cinema by means of the posters of some of its most emblematic films, encouraging one to reflect on Spanish film history and to be inspired by the beauty of the advertising graphics, illuminating the visual style of the different cinematic periods.

As a complement to the exhibition, the theater of the NCCAwill be the venue of Iconos del cine español, a film series of six iconic films that made history in Spanish cinema—“Bienvenido Míster Marshall” (1953), “Muerte de un ciclista” (1955), “Viridiana” (1961), “Cría cuervos” (1973), “La colmena” (1982) and “Blancanieves” (2012).

Película is not just a caucus for Spanish cinema, but also offers a look into Latin American cinema and the voices emerging from a continent that mainly expresses itself in Spanish. Colombian cinema is one of the most interesting and dynamic of its kind in Latin America. On Oct. 24, with the collaboration of the Embassy of Colombia in Manila, the festival will dedicate a whole day to recent Colombian productions, showing “Cazando luciérnagas” (2013), the documentary “Gabo: la magia de lo real”(2015) and the multi-awarded feature film “Los hongos” (2014).

Entrance to the exhibit and the screenings is free. For more information, visit www.manila.cervantes.es or follow www.facebook.com/InstitutoCervantesManila.