PARALLEL SECTIONS



LA TARDE DEL DOMINGO / SUNDAY AFTERNOON
CARLOS SAURA – 1957 / SPAIN
An ordinary Sunday in September. Clara is a young maid who can barely read, a sort of Cinderella who is mercilessly exploited. Clara makes plans to spend Sunday afternoon in the company of other girls. They go to El Retiro for a stroll and then go to a dance with some friends, they flirt, but Clara feels anguished, she feels isolated in the midst of the people.



EL VIEJECITO / THE OLD MAN
MANUEL SUMMERS – 1960 / SPAIN
This is the story of an old man who didn’t want to die.



EN EL RÍO / IN THE RIVER
JOSE LUIS BORAU – 1960 / SPAIN
A young man spies on the bathers in the river and falls in love with a tourist.



LA LÁGRIMA DEL DIABLO / DEVIL’S TEAR
JULIO DIAMANTE – 1961 / SPAIN
The devil bets with Saint Anthony that he is capable of corrupting a young devotee full of virtue.



TARDE DE DOMINGO / SUNDAY AFTERNOON
BASILIO MARTÍN PATINO – 1960 / SPAIN
A young woman is left alone in her Madrid home for a whole Sunday afternoon. Oblivious to the noisy requests of her neighbours, she watches the time go by, observing the daily events that take place in the events that take place in the small square in front of her balcony.



EL BORRACHO / THE DRUNK
MARIO CAMUS – 1962 / SPAIN
A couple takes an alcoholic into their suburban home. He is tormented by his republican past.



SOR ANGELINA, VIRGEN / SISTER ANGELINA, VIRGIN
FRANCISCO REGUEIRO – 1962 / SPAIN
Sister Angelina returns home only for twenty-four hours. It is a reunion with her parents, her sisters, her old friends and some of her experiences she prefers not to remember.



EL NIÑO DE VALLECAS / THE BOY FROM VALLECAS
JOSÉ LUIS EGEA – 1964 / SPAIN
The trainer of a neighbourhood kid makes him give up everything in order to succeed in professional boxing. El Niño de Vallecas gives up his job, girlfriend and social class in order to achieve success.



LOS DÍAS PERDIDOS / THE LOST DAYS
VÍCTOR ERICE – 1963 / SPAIN
A Spanish emigrant woman working in Paris returns to Spain after the death of her father. The events make her aware of the uprooting of her whole sentimental life.



ÁGATA
IVÁN ZULUETA – 1966 / SPAIN
The abusive professional relationship between Luis, a painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him.



LA CAZA DE BRUJAS / THE WITCH HUNT
ANTONIO DROVE – 1967 / SPAIN
The witch hunt tells the story of what happens in a religious school when a priest catches some students in the bathroom.



SOY LEYENDA / I AM LEGEND
MARIO GÓMEZ MARTÍN – 1967 / SPAIN
The story of Robert Neville, the sole survivor of a virus that has wiped out part of the human race and turned the rest into vampires.



PATRICIO GUZMÁN – 1968 / SPAIN



APUNTES SOBRE LA TORTURA Y OTRAS FORMAS DE DIÁLOGO / NOTES ON TORTURE AND OTHER FORMS OF DIALOGUE
PATRICIO GUZMÁN – 1968 / SPAIN
Notes on torture and other forms of dialogue shows the torture of a prisoner by a group of Latin American soldiers, as well as the response of the intelligentsia to these tortures and other satirical and absurd images.



MARGARITA Y EL LOBO / MARGARITA AND THE WOLF
CECILIA BARTOLOMÉ – 1969 / SPAIN
In the marriage separation trial Margarita is facing, an ecclesiastical judge establishes that there will only be a separation of bodies and property.; the marriage is for life. Throughout this hectic day, we see what her past life has been, through fragmentary memories that are strung together by means of numbers.