CONFERENCIA: “LA ESPAÑA DE LA SEGUNDA MITAD DEL SIGLO XX Y SU REFLEJO EN EL CINE DE BERLANGA

DATOS PROYECCIÓN / PROJECTION DATA:
Fecha/Day: 02/10/2021
Hora/Hour: 19:00 h.
Lugar/Place: Municipal Library "Valentín García Yebra". Ovidio Lucio Blanco Assembly Hall

Categoría/Category: Centenary Berlanga

FICHA / DATA:
Dirección/Direction: KEPA SOJO
Producción/Production: The screening of A tram is sold (1959), a 29-minute television medium-length film co-directed by Luis García Berlanga and Juan Estelrich is included.
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País/Country: Spain

Activity proposed by the “Valentín García Yebra” Municipal Library in collaboration with the Ponferrada International Film Festival as a promotion of cultural initiatives related to Cinema.

2021 will mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Luis García Berlanga, perhaps the most important director of Spanish cinema with Buñuel’s permission. From 1951, the year he filmed That Happy Couple with Juan Antonio Bardem, until 2002 when he said goodbye to the seventh art with the short-falla The Teacher’s Dream, made with José Luis García Sánchez, Berlanga’s cinema became a witness and chronicler of the history of Spain in the second half of the 20th century.

The screening of A tram is sold (1959), a 29-minute television medium-length film co-directed by Luis García Berlanga and Juan Estelrich is included.

KEPA SOJO

Kepa Sojo (1968). Professor of Film History at the UPV / EHU and film director and scriptwriter. He is a specialist in the cinema of Luis García Berlanga, about whom he has written several books such as El verdugo. Guide to see and analyze (2016), or Americans, we welcome you with joy. An approximation to Welcome Mister Marshall (2011). As a film director, he has made two feature films Little Switzerland (2019) and Svensson’s Syndrome (2006), as well as seven short films and a television series. He was nominated for the Goya Awards in 2015 for Loco con ballesta (2013). He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Spain and of the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country.