Rewinding three of the most popular Catalan films from Cambridge Film Festival
| | This weekend as part of CFF Rewind, a look back at three of the highlights from the popular CAMERA CATALONIA strand. |
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All three films will be available on a Pay What You Can Afford basis, and all will be introduced by our wonderful Catalan film programmer Ramon Lamarca. Head over to the CFF at Home Screening Room now (bookings are open) to check out three very different films each with a unique take on Catalan life and culture. | | |
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Alex, a shy and introverted man, is a film director trying to finish the writing of his last script. He decides to leave his wife and children a few days to go to the Pyrenees in search of calm and inspiration. In the village where he stays, he meets Monica, a musician, who’s staying there with a friend. Love grows between them and they will have to deal with feelings that they have to control and hide. |
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Spain’s submission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar is the first film in the Catalan language to win the Goya for Best Film. In the aftermath of the civil war, and against the backdrop of the beautiful Catalan countryside. A young boy, Andreu, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. When the authorities want to pin the blame on his father, the boy sets out to discover who killed them. |
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| | The Marina Cafe (El Cafe de la Marina) |
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Adaptation of a very popular Catalan play by Josep María Sagarra, El Cafè de la Marina (The Marina Cafe) is set in a fishing village in the early 20th century, where life is tough and monotonous. The impending wedding of Rosa, the village bar-owner's youngest daughter, has seemingly enlivened the parish but behind this joy, the tragedy of Caterina, her elder sister, has tainted and perturbed the "well-meaning" villagers. |
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| The Camera Catalonia season is supported by the Institut Ramon Llull |
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| | | Cambridge Film Festival is presented by Cambridge Film Trust, a registered charity with a mission to foster film culture and education for the benefit of the public, in Cambridge and the Eastern region but also throughout the UK |
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