PARALLEL SECTION
OUR CURRENT CINEMA. CURRENT FILMS SHOT IN THE BIERZO OR BY BERCIAN AUTHORS
Thursday, October 3 / 7:00 p.m.
Valentín García Yebra Municipal Library / Ovidio Lucio Blanco Assembly Hall (Ponferrada).
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INAUGURATION 22FICP
Dirección/Director: Santi Rodríguez (Molinaseca, 1999).
Producción/Production: Remedios Pastor Molines.
Intérpretes/Cast: Beatriz Fenez and Javier Cerezuela.
6´40´´ (Spain)
“In a working-class neighborhood in Madrid, Jony, a young mechanic who lives comfortably in the Carabanchel neighborhood, flees from the police after a demonstration against evictions. Days before, he meets his friend Marta, pregnant and committed to the cause, who tries to convince him to join the next protest to prevent the eviction of a neighbor.”
Dirección/Director: Alberto Peláez Valtuille (Ponferrada, 1987)
Producción/Production: The Second Films & La Oca.
Intérpretes/Cast: Omar Martí, Melchor López Valle, Iván Arés Montero, Agustín Sierra, Tatyana Galán, Josefa Núñez Correa, Javier Campos, Gonzalo García Pérez, José Manuel Barrios González, Luís Álvarez and Donato Peláez Nicolás.
24´ (Spain (Locations: Mining town of Peña del Seo, Villafranca, Camponaraya, Toral de Merayo and Ponferrada))
“Manos negras is an intimate story that talks about family ties, the loss of loved ones and characters who are unable to live in the present, either because they long to return to the past, like Donato, or because they continually fantasize about the future, like Pedro.”
Dirección/Director: Luisje Moyano (Barcelona, 1978).
Producción/Production: Tane Producciones and Fortune Films Productions.
Intérpretes/Cast: Javier Rodríguez Sotuela, Rosa María Alonso, Ofelia Gancedo, Rosario Giráldez, María Luisa Picado Silva, Cristina Carro Álvarez, Cristina Monteiro Gómez, Ana María Teixeira Saavedra, Ernestina Rodríguez, Carmen Ramón López, Olimpia Otero and Hortensia Riesco.
52´30´´ (Spain (Locations: Toreno, Fabero, Matarrosa del Sil, Páramo del Sil, Villablino and León))
“This documentary tells the story, in first person, of several women who worked in the mines and who gave their health and almost their lives for a job that has almost always been associated with men. To do so, it goes into El Bierzo to trace its history, from the first mountain formations, to the present day with the total closure of the mines, causing strikes, and later unemployment and oblivion.”