“Cinema in Course” is a film pedagogy program in public schools and institutes that has become an international benchmark., which includes many of the most relevant authors of recent years.. The project, that each course manages to awaken the love for cinema in children and young people by introducing them to their creative processes, turned twenty years old 2025. The Valencian Film Archive, along with the Catalan and Galician, has been celebrating it since last October with a series in which several filmmakers linked to “Cinema in progress” share with the viewers of La Filmoteca reflections on films and authors that transformed them and on their own creation processes. Isaki Lacuesta has accompanied us so far, Celia Rico, Jonas Trueba, Jaume Claret Muxart and José Luis Guerin.
The cycle ends on Thursday 26 March with two sessions starring Mercedes Álvarez. Filmmaker and pedagogue, Author of The sky turns (2004) y Futures market (2011), at 18 hours, will reflect on cinema as a space for meeting and creating links based on the dialogue between a short film made by Cinema students in courses at IES La Encantá de Rojales and two short films by Vittorio De Seta, a true reference for Mercedes Álvarez and Cinema en curs. At 19.30 hours, will present his feature film The sky turns, essential work of Spanish creative documentary, and will hold a subsequent discussion with the public.
26.03.26 THURSDAY / 19.30 h Presentació i col·loqui amb Mercedes Álvarez..
The sky turns
MERCEDES ÁLVAREZ. Spain. 2004. Color. 115′. DCP.
with: Elías Álvarez, Peio Azketa, Hicham Chate, Cirilo Fernández, José Fernández..
Aldealseñor es el pueblo donde nació la cineasta. Cuando se rueda la película, quedan catorce habitantes que conviven con capas otros tiempos. La misma tierra donde los operarios instalan gigantes molinos de viento contiene las trazas de dinosaurios, wars, stars, castillos, siglos de trashumancia, escombros, historias pequeñas y grandes, memorias individuales y colectivas.
