APRIL 2016 HIGHLIGHTS APRIL MIS Society and Literature

APRIL 2016 HIGHLIGHTS

APRIL MIS: Society and Literature as a source of inspiration In April, we bring you five different social films. An immigrant in a new country, a teenager who is discovering his body, a strong woman who is going through out difficult times, a War Veteran that hides a big secret and a football referee who made a family promise that make him to became a looser. Also we highlight the release of series, “Los misterios de Laura“ and the 5 th season of “Cuéntame cómo pasó". We celebrate the 50 th anniversary of “Historias para no dormir“ and bring you two Spanish literature classics, “El alcalde de Zalamea“ and “Fuenteovejuna", which made the leap to TV with high success.

FLORES DE OTRO MUNDO Director: Icíar Bollaín (1999) Social drama. Romance. Cast: José Sancho, Lissete Mejía, Luis Tosar, Marilín Torres, Chete Lera, Elena Irureta, Amparo Valle, Rubén Ochandiano, Chiqui Fernández, Antonio de la Torre Patricia, a Dominican woman, is in search for a new home and economical security, impossible to find, as an immigrant in Madrid. Milady, a twenty years old Cuban, dreams with travelling around the world. Marirrosi, a Vasque woman with home and a job, lives completely alone. The same situation that Alfonso, Damián and Carmelo, neighbors of Santa Eulalia, a small village without women or future. Due to a party organized by the village bachelors, all of them meet each other and bittersweet stories begin. 1999 Cannes: Best Critics Foreign Film.

MÁS PENA QUE GLORIA Director: Víctor García León (2001) Drama. Comedy. Cast: Biel Durán, Bárbara Lennie, Enrique San Francisco, María Galiana, Manuel Lozano, Alicia Sánchez, Fernando Conde, Asunción Planas, Pilar Duque, Jesús Beltrán, Rubén López, Ángela Cremonte, Alberto Ferreiro, Luis Vallejo David is a sensitive teenager that lives in his own poetry and ilusion world. An introverted boy with a huge inner world who discovers how the reality works. He discovers that his parents are not the best. He starts failling exams. He discovers that sex is not the most romantic thing in the world. And he discovers that, actually, he is more like a loser than a winner. But what he really discovers is Gloria, a girl from his High School and falls in love with her. 2001: Málaga film festival: Best actor (Biel Durán)

MATÍAS JUEZ DE LINEA Director: Santiago Aguilar, Luis Guridi (1995) Comedy. Cast: Carlos de Gabriel, Ramón Barea, Alicia Sánchez, Francisco Algora, Álex Angulo, Manuel Manquiña Matías, a linesman, promised his mother, in her deathbed, that he won’t lie to anyone anymore. When he arbitrates a Spanish National football team match, he indicates a penalty in the last minute against Spain team, to be faithful with his promise. Spain doesn’t qualify to the football World Cup and he has to escape to avoid to be injured by the fans. He runs away to his natal village, where his alcoholic father still lives. Finally, he discovers that all the neighborhood is involved in alcohol contraband. “The film gets the friendly and Berlanga´s look of the Spanish comedy” Alexis López: Cinemanía

SOBREVIVIRÉ Director: Alfonso Albacete, David Menkes (1999) Drama. Homosexuality. Cast: Emma Suárez, Juan Diego Botto, Mirtha Ibarra, Rosana Pastor, Manuel Manquiña, Maite Blasco, Àlex Brendemühl, Javier Martín, Adrià Collado, Elena Irureta, Alberto San Juan, José Manuel Cervino, Duna Jové Marga is a young woman that, that suddenly, loses her job and later husband dies in a car accident. Also, she discovers that is pregnant. In those circunstancies she has to start a new life. On her fight to survive meets the real friendship, maternity pleasure and even love. Besides, she finally understand that life is not perfect. Drama directed by, Alfonso Albacete and David Menkes, . They worked together in other films like 'Mentiras y gordas' or 'Más que amor, frenesí‘ with important success.

LA LUZ PRODIGIOSA Director: Miguel Hermoso (2003) Drama. Cast: Alfredo Landa, Nino Manfredi, Kiti Mánver, José Luis Gómez, Iván Corbacho, Sergio Villanueva, Mariano Peña. August, 1936, Spanish Civil War. A young Andalusian shepherd picks up a man who has been shooted, and who his executioners have given up for dead. He is searching for a place to hide him. The injured man, is in coma due to the injuries. In 1980, the shepherd finds the man again: He is now an old homeless who roams the streets of Granada. The former shepherd is then obstinate to find out the identity of the man. With time, the investigation leads him to glimpse the old man may have been an important person before the war 2003: Moscow Festival: Best Foreign Film Award

EL ALCALDE DE ZALAMEA RTVE (1973) Theatre. Cast: Paco Rabal, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa rabal Director: Mario Camús “El alcalde de Zalamea”, is a Spanish TV movie directed by Mario Camús and released in 1973. It is a version of the same name drama written by D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca. It is part of the tribute that RTVE made to Spanish literature during the 70 s. Films with large budgets and some of the best directors and actors of the time.

FUENTEOVEJUNA RTVE (1972) Theatre. Cast: Eusebio Poncela “Fuenteovejuna” is a Spanish TV movie released in 1972, based on the thatre play of the same name, written by Lope de Vega. Eusebio Poncela, Spanish actor, producer and scripwritter, forged in theater of the last years of Franco, leads the cast. Considered a historical fact, the story takes place in the Cordovan town of Fuente Ovejuna, in times of the Catholic Monarchs (1474 -1535).

LOS MISTERIOS DE LAURA Boomerang TV (2009) Suspense. Policial. Director: Pau Freixas Cast: María Pujalte, Fernando Guillén-Cuervo, Oriol Tarrasón Police series broadcasted by TVE, “The Mysteries of Laura” continues the tradition of shows like “Murder, she Wrote” or "Colombo", and collects elements of Agatha Christie mystery novels, interspersed with personal and sentimental life of the star. The homicide detective, Laura Lebrel, a single mom, prefers to be guided "by their smell and intuition" becoming a dear and close person to the audience, cracking cases after cases while raising his childs and locking horns with her less than helpful police detective ex-husband. M E PR R E I

HISTORIAS PARA NO DORMIR (50 th ANNIVERSARY) RTVE (1966) Terror. Suspense. Creator: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador Original idea of one of the most emblematic minds of Spanish television, Narciso Ibañez Serrador, cretor of the TV show “Un, dos, tres… Responda otra vez“. The series has independent episodes where the terror becomes the main character. Stories of writters like Ray Bradbury o Edgar Allan Poe, and other original scripts written by Ibáñez Serrador, among others.

CUÉNTAME CÓMO PASÓ Grupo Ganga (2004) season 5 Drama comedy. Historical. Director: Miguel Ángel Bernardeau Cast: Imanol Arias, Ana Duato, Ricardo Gómez, Pablo Rivero, Irene Visedo, Juan Echanove, Ana Arias, María Galiana The most important Spanish TV series of all times returns with the fifth season, set in 1971. The Alcántara family, except Toni, meets to celebrate the 1970 New Years Everybody is very serious and Carlitos tries to understand what exactly happen to his family in a day that usually means happiness.