Since its recovery for the city and culture in 2018, The Filmoteca co-organizes with the Mostra de Valencia – Mediterranean Cinema some of its cycles and activities. On this occasion, there are three sections that will take place in the Berlanga room. First of all, a retrospective dedicated to one of the most relevant and original contemporary filmmakers, the Italian Nanni Moretti. In his work, impossible to close in a category, there is autobiography, political reflection, film-essay, comedy, drama i a lot of irony: "It is true that I started from myself, of my anxiety, of my neurosis and my tics, but luckily I managed to reach the others. Explaining to myself, I also counted my peers". But this is not a narcissistic display, but of an attempt to understand the world and the way of being in it. Actor in many of his films, his characters are transmuted of himself: we have seen him as a creator, with the stop, as a husband, as a son and as a citizen. He shared with us the pain of his mother's death, the joy of the arrival of his son, their vulnerability to the disease itself, his bewilderment at the drift of politics, his daughters and his phobias. Faced with the question of whether it is considered subversive, given the strong political and even militant component of much of his cinema, his answer is clear: "I wouldn't define it that way. Subversiva will be the New Wave. I would say that my cinema is personal and non-conformist, and I hope also humanist". With copies restored by the National Cinecion of Ecce bombo, Sweet dreams of the Red Palombella, i for the Cineteca de Bologna of The Son's Room.
Two essential names in our country's cinematographic production will receive individual Palms of Honor: Sol Carnicero and Fernando Bovaira. Butcher Sun (Burgos, 1950), she was the first woman in Spain to exercise the responsibility of production management; it was in Cecilia Bartolomé's first feature film, Let's go, Barbara, considered the first truly feminist Spanish film present in the cycle. It is accompanied by another feminist milestone, Gary Cooper you are in heaven, by Pilar Miró, In addition to bicycles for the summer, by Jaime Chávarri i The national shotgun, by Luis G Berlanga, in a session that will include the presentation of the Mediterrani book, party and carnival in the work of Luis G. Berlanga. Fernando Bovaira (Castellón, 1963), is one of the most important and award-winning active producers in our industry, as evidenced by the films that make up the sample we present: the inoblidable The language of butterflies, by José Luis Rope; two examples of the quality of current cinema such as La buena letra, by Celia Rico Clavellino, i The flashes, by Pilar Palomero; i The others, d'Alejandro Amenábar, in a session that will have the presence of the producer and the journalist Juan Sanguino, creator of the Delirios de España podcast: the incredible story of the filming of The Others.
24.10.25 FRIDAY / 22.30 h
29.10.25 WEDNESDAY / 18.00 h
golden dreams
Sweet dreams
NANNI MORETTI. Italy. 1981. VOS SPANISH. Color. 105′. DCP.
Int. Nanni Moretti, Piera degli Esposti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti, Miranda Campa, Dario Cantarelli.
Michele Apicella (fictional character and alter ego of Moretti, performed by himself) he embodies an obsessive and delusional director, frustrated by misunderstanding, who lives with his mother in a love/hate relationship. In the midst of a creative and existential crisis, he has to promote his latest film and face the filming of his third film, but ends up fighting with everyone.
