Instituto Cervantes de Manila invites you to their...
Free Movie Screenings
All Saturdays of August 2011
6:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes' Salon de Actos
855 T.M. Kalaw St.
1000 Ermita
Manila, Filipinas
August 6, 2011 (Saturday) - "Invisibles"
The 'invisibles' are all those we refuse to see - people who seldom garner the attention of the West's media - as well as those who nevertheless refuse to stop caring for them. This film is dedicated to all those whose support makes it possible for the international aid agency "Médecins Sans Fron tières" to work in a wide range of crisis-hit areas and war zones all over the world. This collection of short documentaries was made to commemorate the founding of the Spanish section of "Médecins Sans Frontières" twenty years ago. Five film directors visited the places where the organisation works. In her cinematic "Letter to Nora", Isabel Coixet provides an account of some of the victims of sleeping sickness - a disease which currently affects 18 million people in Latin America. In his contribution, Fernando León de Aranoa portrays the plight of children in Uganda. Mariano Barroso describes two different ways of using the active pharmaceutical ingredient eflornithine - one in Africa, and the other in the world's fashion capital, Paris. In his short film, Javier Corcuera examines the long-term effects of post-war trauma. Wim Wenders travelled to Congo, where he made a film about mass rape during the civil war.
August 13, 2011 (Saturday) - "The Iguazu Effect"
Winner of the Goya for Best Documentary, the film narrates the developments in the conflict of the Sintel workers and the construction of the famous Camp of Hope right in the middle of Madrid. It is a documentary on striking workers who set up Camp of Hope for four months in 2001. Details sketched in via testimony from strikers.
August 20, 2011 (Saturday) - "Night Flowers"
A look at the transformation of the Spanish city, Pozo del Tio Raimundo. From a shantytown of Madrid built vertiginously in the fifties that grew as the night flowers at night time, the “red” priest Father Llanos gave to immigrants his Utopian dream seeking for justice and freedom. Days and years of solidarity passed, of rebelliousness and of forging a new identity, aspiring with a belief that, starting from the shantytown, the world could be changed. How did these people take awareness of their situation and with sheer force and cohesion as a humane group they undertook the transformation?
August 27, 2011 (Saturday) - "The Back of the World"
This documentary looks at "the back of the world": small children working as quarrymen in Peru, Kurdish political refugees from Turkey, and families and inmates awaiting the end on Mississippi's Death Row.
Admission to all the screenings is FREE on a FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED basis.
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Tlf: (63 2) 526 14 82 - 85
Fax: (63 2) 526 14 49
Email: cenmni@cervantes.es
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