“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 / 18.00 H Films commented by Mercedes Álvarez, accompanied by Laia Colell, co-director of Cinema in progress, i Daniel Tornero, filmmaker participating in Cinema en curs. Free entrance.
Cinema of links
A day in Barbagia / A day in Barbagia. Vittorio De Seta. Italy. 1958. Color. 11′
Shepherds of Orgosolo / Shepherds of Orgosolo. Vittorio De Seta. Italy. 1958. Color. 11′
Memories of our gardens. Anas Bousfih, Fajer El Atbani, Dzhaner Hasanov, Adam Hrimach, Jack-Dominique Le Limantour, Adrian Moreno, Hugo Murcia, Jessica Pascual, David Antonio Ramos, Carmen Santander, Lexiah Walding-Hall, Toni Hurtado, Magda Marcos, Daniel Tornero. Spain. 2025. Color. 15′
During the decade of 1950 Vittorio De Seta, that Martin Scorsese presented as an anthropologist and poet, portrayed the villages and rural ways of life of Sicily and Sardinia with extraordinary care and affection, and a unique sensitivity to sound and color. Seventy years later, a group of young people from IES La Encantá de Rojales, accompanied by filmmaker Daniel Tornero, they make a film in which, in his own words: "Let's take a trip through the vegetable garden in the Vega Baixa. In our tour we portray the people who live there: to María Dolores i Fulvia, who work in a large plantation; to Anel, who now takes care of his grandfather's fields and cattle. All of them transport us and connect us with our own memories and with our family past in different places in the world.”
