CASAL JOVE DEL PORT. Wind of Marinade, s/n (Port of Sagunto)
Despite the difficulties imposed by the current health emergency situation caused by the incidence of the Covid-19 virus, film screenings and festivals do not stop in our community. In bad weather, good face… and more cinema! This is undoubtedly what the organizers of the seventh edition of the .DOC festival have concluded., exhibition dedicated to the documentary that, throughout the month of October, offers us a selection with the best national and international harvest in this format.
.DOC addresses all kinds of proposals and topics. Thus, The contest starts with the sports documentary, One more step by the Catalan filmmaker and climber Sílvia Vidal. In this work, Vidal tells us in first person about his solo adventure to conquer the west face of Xanadu, not Alaska. Sílvia Vidal herself will attend the screening of this work in an inaugural session in which she will narrate the images live..
This film is followed by the multi-award-winning and Oscar-nominated Honeyland, by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov, a beautiful portrait that transports us to the lands of Macedonia, in the heart of Europe, to meet one of the last bee collectors who still practice this profession. Returning to our country we find If the wind erased what I sing by David Trueba, curious story about the work of the singer-songwriter Chicho Sánchez Ferlosio. In 1963, in the middle of the Franco dictatorship, two Swedish students arrive in Spain with the intention of supporting pro-democracy movements. Here you will meet Sánchez Ferlosio, with which they will secretly record an album with their songs that would later be released under a pseudonym in Sweden with the title Songs of the Spanish resistance. Trueba's work is perfectly related to Auteratrato from Gaizka Urresti, film that addresses the figure of the recently deceased Luis Eduardo Aute, one of the key figures of our country's culture since the Transition. Urresti's work addresses all the artistic facets of Aute, that were not only limited to music and that addressed areas such as cinema, the sculpture, painting and poetry. A work that has the participation of personalities such as the also deceased vignette artist Forges, Ana Belen, Sabina, Silvio Rodriguez, Joan Manuel Serrat, Jorge Drexler or Dani Martín.
Continuing with the program and in order of screening dates, We found several related jobs, both with historical memory, as with different social and current political aspects. So, in The bitter defeat of the Republic, The journalist Rosa Brines brings us closer to the last days of the Civil War. They follow him Our defeats by Jean-Gabriel Périot, portrait of an educational experiment to involve adolescents in the debate on different political and social issues, o Stranded by Helena Taberna, film that brings us closer to the difficulties of all those who, spread across different refugee camps, They hope to be welcomed in our Europe.
The program continues with the winner of a Goya, Buñuel in the turtle labyrinths by Salvador Simó, animated film that tells us about Buñuel's trip to Las Hurdes, one of the most impoverished areas of Spain where he would film his famous documentary of the same title. With the company of his friend and camera operator Ramón Acín, Buñuel would give a voice to the forgotten people of our land at the beginning of the last century. This work is followed by proposals such as caught: the oportunity by Marlen Viñayo, that addresses the situation of street vendors in El Salvador, o The man who designed Spain by Andrea Bermejo and Miguel Larraya, about the figure of José María Cruz Novillo, designer of logos as emblematic as Correos, Renfe, PSOE, the flag of the Community of Madrid, Repsol, the newspaper the world, Antenna 3 or the posters for movies like the south o Breeding Crows.
But there is more. In The writer in a country without bookstores by Marc Serena, We will know the story of Juan Tomás Ávila Llorer, one of the best-known and most translated writers of Equatorial Guinea, exiled in Spain due to the dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang. It will be the director himself who, in a special session, will tell us the dramatic circumstances of a country that, despite being one of those with the highest income in Africa, suffers one of the most devastating dictatorships. To finish, you will be a man by Isabel de Ocampo, will bring us closer to the problem of gender violence, while balance by Batiste Miguel will address the work of the artist Okuda and, specifically, the fault that he designed in the 2018 for the Town Hall square. Finish programming with Ara Malikian: a life between the ropes, film that will review the life and work of the famous Lebanese violinist while we accompany him on one of his world tours. G. LEÓN
