El desencanto. 50 años
Felipe Cabrerizo, Santiago Aguilar y Carlos F. Heredero
Fifty years after its controversial withdrawal from the San Sebastian Film Festival and its no less controversial premiere, the decisive film by Jaime Chávarri continues to question our conception of parent-child and sibling relationships, mental health, political militancy and even its very genre. The film turned the notion of documentary as it had been conceived until then on its head and became the seed of 'cinema of the real' in the post-Franco period and the early days of the Transition.
Such insolence meant an uphill battle against the dying censorship and an angry response from conservative media. Counter-cultural press, on the other hand, revealed the autopsy of the 'poet of the regime', Leopoldo Panero, as a metaphor for the death of the dictator, even of an entire country.
The genesis of the project, its filming and consequences, and its revisitation by Ricardo Franco in Después de tantos años, is the subject of the first part of this book. The second is an extensive and enlightening interview with Jaime Chávarri about everything surrounding the creation of an exceptional film.
On the 50th anniversary of El desencanto (1976-2026), the Festival de Cine Español de Málaga, Filmoteca Española and DAMA (Audiovisual Media Authors' Rights), together with Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, are publishing this book that sheds light on the gestation, itinerary and repercussions of a work of enormous significance for the conception and paths of the creative documentary in Spain.
Monday 9 March / 17:30 p.m.
Auditorio Museo Picasso
Film screening and book presentation.
La película de mi vida
Esteve Riambau
These delightful memoirs begin when Esteve Riambau organised arthouse film clubs in the 1970s and culminate with his effective management at the helm of the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Between these two periods, readers of this work will enjoy this dazzling tribute to the great stars of the silver screen, from the creators of the Barcelona School to the glamour of Hollywood, including the masters of the best European cinema, portrayed in some cases from a position of close friendship.
Throughout his life, Esteve Riambau has worked in almost every field related to the seventh art: he has been a film critic and historian, a chronicler of the most important festivals, a jury member at various competitions, a university professor, and also a screenwriter and director. This rich professional career has given him the opportunity to meet and interview great filmmakers, as well as international actors and actresses, who appear in these pages with all their humanity and weaknesses, always portrayed with irony, tenderness and huge doses of humour.
Speakers: Juan Antonio Vigar and Carlos Heredero.
Saturday 7 March / 6.30 p.m.
Ateneo de Málaga
Free admission until full capacity is reached
Madonna no nació en Wisconsin
Natalia Moreno
This is the story of a woman who remembers her past in order to have a present. Of a girl who changes her name to move the world a millimetre in her favour and stay alive. Of a village in the nineties full of goats and screaming silences, a pelota court where you can get your hands dirty, a summer cinema with chairs from home, a sardine sandwich, a grandmother alone against the world, a cousin with a Walkman, j'haybers and the smell of aftersun. And, above all, it is the story of someone who only has a bicycle to escape from such a dunghill.
Natalia Moreno is a director, screenwriter and producer. Trained in dramatic arts, she began her career in theatre and studied dramaturgy with authors such as Juan Mayorga and José Sanchis Sinisterra. She then founded Kokoro Films, where she develops film projects that have been recognised with awards such as the Goya and the Forqué. With “Madonna no nació en Wisconsin”, she makes her debut in written narrative with a story that opens cracks into worlds that hurt and dream. A story woven with memories, wounds and rebirth.
Saturday 7 March / 13:00 p.m.
Ateneo de Málaga
Free admission until capacity is completed
Ava
Mabel Lozano
María, a university professor and freelancer, embarks on a journey to Colombia after a desperate call from her childhood friend, Carmen, an Oblate nun who dedicates her life to supporting women in prostitution. Through Carmen she will meet Ava, a girl with a history marked by violence, abandonment and vulnerability. Moved by love and hope, María decides to adopt her, and they return to Spain together.
Their relationship is filled with tenderness, devotion, and a desire to build a different future. However, Ava's childhood wounds resurface with force in adolescence, a particularly delicate stage in which sexual predators prey more intensely on vulnerable young people.
Ava falls into the hands of a new kind of pimp: an exploiter far removed from the classic stereotype, who subtly infiltrates the lives of girls, disguised as affection, understanding, and promises of a better future, only to then exploit them mercilessly in an insatiable market.
This is the story of how Ava was lured and trapped, and it is also the story of love and resilience of María, a mother willing to fight to the very end to save her daughter.
More than a story, Ava is a necessary testimony. A work that combines the emotion of a personal story with the power of social commentary. In it, Mabel Lozano invites us to reflect on the new recruitment methods used by pimps in the 21st century and, while paying tribute to all the mothers and families who do not surrender to pain or injustice, opens a window to hope. Because, sometimes, the only answer, the only way out, lies in love.
Tuesday 10 March / 19:30 p.m.
Ateneo de Málaga
Free admission until capacity is completed.
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