The Film Festival returns again this October, from this Monday, October 3 to Thursday, October 6, both included, to celebrate a popular event organized by the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Federation of Film Distributors (FEDICINE) and the Federation de Cines de España (FECE) with which you can enjoy all the films that are on the billboard at a very affordable price: 3.50 euros for a ticket in more than 345 cinemas with a total of 3,030 screens.
People interested in participating in this initiative must get their accreditation on the official website www.fiestadelcine.com; while those over 60 and those under 14 are exempt from completing this procedure. From La Vanguardia we propose ten titles of the most varied so as not to miss this essential appointment with the big screen:
American filmmaker Brett Morgen explores the creative and musical work of David Bowie in an immersive documentary that stunned the Cannes Film Festival. Without the need for interviews, Moonage Daydream delves into the figure of the White Duke through interesting archive material and Bowie's own statements.
Before it hits theaters on December 16, Avatar. The sense of water, you can once again enjoy the original film by James Cameron that shook the box office from a distant 2009. The Canadian used an impressive 3D technology that mixed real actors with other computer generated ones to narrate the confrontation between humans, with Jake Sully in the lead, and the Na'vi, three-meter-tall blue beings with deep yellow eyes who live on a distant planet where there is a valuable mineral.
Alberto Rodríguez opened the last San Sebastián Festival with this dramatic thriller that investigates the origin of COPEL, a group of prisoners who during the Transition fought for the rights of common prisoners. The director of La isla minima recounts the helplessness and plight of the inmates following the case of Manuel (Miguel Herrán), a young accountant who is accused of having embezzled his company and faces a sentence ranging from 6 and 8 years in prison.
Oriol Paulo has dared to adapt to the big screen the best seller by Torcuato Luca de Tena, a classic of contemporary Spanish literature published in 1979. In the film, Bárbara Lennie assumes the complex role of Alice Gould, a private investigator who enters in a psychiatric hospital simulating paranoia to gather clues about a patient who died in strange circumstances. The crooked lines of God opens on October 6, coinciding with the Day of Spanish Cinema.
If The Wound dealt with Borderline Personality Disorder and Morir the way in which the terminal cancer that one of them suffers affects a couple, Fernando Franco now succeeds with The Rite of Spring, with which he competed in the official section of the festival of San Sebastián, his "lightest" film describing the friendship between a girl from Mallorca who comes to study in Madrid and a young man with cerebral palsy.
For fans of horror movies, nothing better than this proposal directed by Parker Finn and starring Sosie Bacon that has excited Stephen King himself. The story introduces us to Dr. Rose Cotter, a woman who begins to experience terrifying events after witnessing the suicide of one of her patients. Through a frenetic story, the director plays at subjecting the viewer to not being able to discern between what is happening in reality and what is going on in Rose's mind.
Released in August, Enrique Gato is at the helm of the third blockbuster installment of the adventures of the friendly archaeologist and his partner Sara, who will delight the little ones in the house. This time Tadeo messes it up again by destroying a sarcophagus and unleashing a spell that endangers the lives of his friends.
In this drama inspired by Karin Tuil's novel 'The Human Things', published in 2019, filmmaker Yvan Attal tackles such thorny issues as guilt, innocence and the limits of sexual consent. The Accused stars his son Ben and his wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Chosen by Argentina to represent the country in the next edition of the Oscars, the film directed by Santiago Miter and starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani admirably reconstructs the Juicio de las Juntas, the trial of the nine soldiers who led the dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 and which led to the conviction of Videla and those responsible for the greatest genocide in the history of Argentina.
The debut feature by the Basque filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa is one of the best Spanish films of this year. A real and honest portrait of motherhood starring the magnificent Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez that also explores family relationships and parental care in the event of an illness. Cinco lobitos swept the Malaga festival and was shortlisted by the Film Academy along with Alcarràs and As bestas for the Oscar.
