Spanish Film Festival

5 great films shown over 3 nights. Festival tickets available for sale here, or individual movie tickets available on the door. 

 

Hosted by SCU School of Arts and Social Sciences, and the Star Court Theatre: 

 

In collaboration with Mixed Up Reels, SCUM SCU Media Student Club, LEXSA Lismore Student Union. The Spanish Film Club series was made possible with the support of Pragda, SPAIN arts and culture, and the Secretary of State for the Culture of Spain. 

 

FRIDAY 21st August

- 6pm: 7 Boxes

- 8pm: I Thought it was a Party 

 

SATURDAY 22nd August

- 6pm: Father’s Chair 

- 8pm: The Return 

 

SUNDAY 23rd August

- 4pm: From the Land to Your Table 

- This screening will be followed by a panel discussion run by the Regional Food Network, featuring local food producers and distributors 

 

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FRIDAY, August 21 2015

 

6:00 pm: 7 BOXES (7 Cajas)

Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori / Paraguay / 105 min / 2014 / In Spanish, Guaraní, and Korean with English subtitles

It’s Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay, and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a fancy TV set in the infamous Mercado 4. He’s offered a chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for a quick one hundred US dollars. But what sounds like an easy job soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted and Víctor and his pursuers quickly find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about. Reminiscent of Slumdog Millionaire, 7 Boxes was declared of Cultural Interest by the National Secretary of Culture of Paraguay.

 

 

8:00pm: I THOUGHT IT WAS A PARTY (Pensé que Iba a Haber Fiesta)

Victoria Galardi / Argentina, Spain / 84 min / 2014 / Spanish with English subtitles 

Divorced and living with her teenage daughter, Lucía asks her close friend Ana to house-sit and look after her daugh¬ter while she goes away with her new partner. Ana spends her days lazing by the pool, afflicted by a deep loneliness until Ricki, Lucía’s ex-husband comes to pick up his daughter, and an affair that will have profound implications on her friendship with Lucía begins. Ana and Ricki throw themselves into an intense romance that lasts until the day Lucía comes back… An honest and poignant commen¬tary on friendship, I Thought it was a Party is also a film about the search for love, loneliness, fear, guilt, and the world of women.

 

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SATURDAY, August 22nd 2015

 

6:00pm: FATHER’S CHAIR (A Busca)

Luciano Moura / Brazil / 95 min / 2013 / Portuguese with English subtitles

Theo is a successful doctor in the wealthy suburbs of São Paulo. Having always placed his job before his family, he is a failure as both a father and husband. But when his 15-year-old son disappears, selling all of his belongings and leaving town on a newly acquired black stallion, Theo goes to great lengths not only to find his son, but to rediscover himself. Rambling through the São Paulo nightscape, from shiny new suburbs to shantytown slums, first-time director Luciano Moura makes every peregrination and random encounter a fresh adventure in this quirky crowd pleaser produced by City of God director Fernando Meirelles and headlined by Brazilian screen superstar Wagner Moura. 

 

 

8:00pm: THE RETURN (El Regreso)

Hernán Jiménez / Costa Rica / 95 min / 2011 / Spanish with English subtitles

The Return is the story of a delightful and life-changing journey back to Costa Rica. After living 10 years in New York, 30 year-old Antonio returns to San José where he is forced to deal with the realities he ran away from. He is welcomed by his intense sister, Amanda--whose husband recently abandoned her--and their young son Inti--who is apprehensive about Antonio’s presence. When things take an unexpected turn, Antonio is forced to remain home far longer than he had anticipated. 

 

 

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SUNDAY, August 23rd 2015

 

4:00pm: FROM THE LAND TO YOUR TABLE (¿Qué Culpa Tiene el Tomate?) 

Alejo Hoijman, Marcos Loayza, Josué Méndez, Carolina Navas, Paola Vieira, Alejandra Szeplaki, Jorge Coira / Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, Spain / 107 min / 2009 / Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Aymara with English Subtitles 

What do you get when you take seven directors from seven different countries with seven different cultures and points of view? From the Land to Your Table is the first documentary of its kind in that it shows the perspectives of seven majorly talented filmmakers and directors from all over Latin America as they capture the conditions and cultural diversity of popular produce markets in their individual countries.

 

This screening will be followed by a panel discussion run by the Regional Food Network, featuring local food producers and distributors