lunes, 27 de noviembre de 2006

Cine español en Ankara







Semana de cine español del 30 de Noviembre al 03 diciembre 2006 con el patrocinio de la Embajada de España en Ankara



Tüze Movie Theatre
(Kızılırmak Sok. No:14, Kızılay / Tel:419 39 59)

30 NOVEMBER THURSDAY
19.30 Inauguration and coctail
20.30 TAPAS

1 DECEMBER FRIDAY
19.30 IBERIA

2 DECEMBER SATURDAY
14.30 THINGSTHAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING
17.00 THE METHOD
19.30 HABANA BLUES

3 DECEMBER SUNDAY
14.30 7 VIRGINS
17.00 FERPECT CRIME
19.30 CAMARÓN

OPENING FILM:TAPAS
Spain-Argentina-Mexico, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:1.85, 2005, 87’

Director: José Corbacho, Juan Cruz
Screenplay: José Corbacho, Juan Cruz
Cinematography: Guillermo Granillo
Editing: David Gallart
Music: Pablo Sala
Cast: Ángel de Andrés, María Galiana, Elvira Mínguez, Rubén Ochandiano, Alberto de Mendoza, Darío Paso, Alberto Jo Lee, Amparo Moreno, Ana Barachina, Blanca Apilanez, Pilar Arcas

2006 Goya Awards: Best New Director and Best Supporting Actress (Elvira Mínguez)
2006 Sant Jordi Awards: Best First Work
2006 Spain Cinema Writers Circle Awards: Best Supporting Actress (Elvira Mínguez)
2005 Málaga FF Best Feature Film, Best Actress (Elvira Mínguez) and Audience Award
2005 Montréal FF Best Screenplay

Five stories intertwine in a big city neighbourhood. They are five worlds linked by their daily routine, with the bar, the shops and the market as the key places. These people show us their concerns, fears, hopes and dreams.The fear of illness or loneliness felt by Mariano and Conchi, two retired people living in the neighbourhood, the hope and sadness felt by Raquel, a middle-aged woman who experiences love over the Internet, the uncertain future of Cesar and Opo, two young people who work in the local supermarket and who are organizing their holiday, or Lolo's discovery that there is another world beyond his bar, thanks to his relationship with Mao, his new cook...

IBERYA
Spain-France, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:1.85, 2005, 120’

Director: Carlos Saura
Screenplay: Carlos Saura
Cinematography: José Luis López-Linares
Editing: Julia Juaniz
Music: Roque Baños
Cast: Sara Baras, Antonio Canales, Marta Carrasco, Aída Gómez, Enrique Morente, Estrella Morente, Gerardo Nóñez, José Antonio Ruiz, Manolo Sanlúcar, Rosa Torres Pardo
2006 Goya AwardsBest Cinematography (José Luis López-Linares)
“Iberia” is an intense journey and a celebration which brings the passionate heart of flamenco, in its most intense form and with the highest display of skills, together with classical music, ballet and contemporary dance. Carlos Saura has decided to work with the greatest living talents in Spain combining them as never before and getting each of them to give their utmost. Inspired by the work of the Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), “Iberia” is a film which integrates all the components of a musical in a unique way. Saura presents us with a dramatic, moving universe, a passionate, creative world in which the musicians and dancers are the central characters.

THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING
Spain, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:2.35, 2004, 90’

Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira
Screenplay: Yolanda García Serrano, Carlos Molinero, Joaquín Oristrell, Luis Piedrahita
Cinematography: Juan Amorós
Editing: José Salcedo
Music: Antonio Martínez Ares, Bingen Mendizábal, Jerry Leiber, Antonio Ríos Clapes, Joaquín Sabina, Joaquín Sabina, Mike Stoller, Consuelo Velázquez
Cast: Ana Belén, Eduard Fernández, María Pujalte, José Sacristán, Rosario Pardo, Zoe Berriatúa, Carlos Wu, Julen Kaniowsky, Patricia Gómez, Carlos Kaniowsky

2004 Monte-Carlo Comedy FF Best Actor (Eduard Fernández), Best Actress (Ana Belén) and Best Music Awards
2004 Málaga Spanish Film Festival Best Feature Film (Audience) Award

Hortensia is a bored office worker in the INEM (National Employment Office). She’s divorced and hasn’t had a relationship since her husband left her for a younger woman. She spends all her time looking after her son or at work and doesn’t pay any attention to the advice from América, her best friend, who tries to get her to live in the present. Jorge, an ordinary guy, separated and optimistic is going to be the person in charge of changing her life. Convinced fate has decided to give him another chance he thinks Hortensia is the key to finding happiness. The relationships and affairs among Jorge, Hortensia, her best friend, Hortensia’s ex-husband, the new Chinese boyfriend of Jorge’s ex-wife, Jorge’s father and Hortensia’s son bring a acid, humoristic touch to this story.

THE METHOD
Spain, Argentina, Italy, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:2.35, 2005, 121’

Director: Marcelo Piñeyro
Screenplay: Jordi Galcerán, Mateo Gil, Marcelo Piñeyro
Cinematography: Alfredo F. Mayo
Editing: Iván Aledo
Music: Frédéric Bégin, Phil Electric
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Najwa Nimri, Eduard Fernández, Pablo Echarri, Ernesto Alterio, Natalia Verbeke, Adriana Ozores, Carmelo Gómez

2006 Goya Awards: Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Carmelo Gómez)
2006 Spain Cinema Writers Circle Awards: Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Carmelo Gómez)

Madrid. Seven hopeful applicants for a top executive job attend a selection procedure for staff for a multinational company in the Paseo de la Castellana. The seven participants find themselves together in a cold room where the secretary has taken them to wait for the selection procedure to begin. After warily introducing themselves to each other they wonder if they are being observed by cameras and why the company has infiltrated a psychologist among them who is already examining them. One of the applicants mentions a method of tests, similar to the one they suggested, to decide which of them has the profile which fits in the best with the requirements of the fierce business world.

HABANA BLUES
Spain, Cuba, France, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:1.85, 2005, 115’

Director: Benito Zambrano Tejero
Screenplay: Benito Zambrano, Ernesto Chao
Cinematography: Jean-Claude Larrieu
Editing: Fernando Pardo
Music: Dayan Abad, Equis Alfonso, Descemer Bueno, Kiki Ferrer, Magda Rosa Galván, José Luis Garrido, Juan Antonio Leyva, Kelvis Ochoa
Cast: Alberto Yoel, Roberto Sanmartín, Yailene Sierra, Tomás Cao, Zenia Marabal, Marta Calvó, Roger Pera, Julie Ladagnous

2006 Goya Awards: Best Editing and Best Music
2006 Spain Cinema Writers Circle Awards: Best Music

Cuban musicians Ruy and Tito have been orchestrating the traditional Cuba melodies combining with rap music. They both run after a common dream: become famous musicians and leave the country. When Ruy and Tito learn that two Spanish producers are looking for new talents, they consider this as a chance for an international breakthrough. But for this, they have to restrict themselves to criticism of the Cuban utopia, because that sells better in the US and Spain.

7 VIRGINS
Spain, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:2.35, 2005, 86’

Director: Alberto Rodríguez
Screenplay: Rafael Cobos, Alberto Rodríguez
Cinematography: Alex Catalán
Editing: J. Manuel G. Moyano
Music: J. Manuel G. Moyano, Miguel Ángel Hernando Trillo
Cast: Juan José Ballesta, Jesús Carroza, Antonio Dechent, Loles León, Paz Padilla, Alba Rodríguez, Vicente Romero, Maite Sandoval, Manolo Solo, Julián Villagrán, Ana Wagener

2006 Goya Awards: Best New Actor (Jesús Carroza)
2005 San Sebastián FF Best Actor Award (Juan José Ballesta)

It is summertime in a blue-collar, marginal district of a city in the South of Spain. Tano, a teenager currently serving a sentence in a juvenile reform center, is given a 48-hour leave. Together with his best friend Richi, Tano plans to enjoy his 48-hour pass to the limit, doing all the things he is normally prohibited from doing. He gets drunk, takes drugs, steals, has sex and hangs out with his buddies. He feels free and exerts that freedom with all the force and audacity of a teenager. By the end of his 48-hour pass, Tano has also witnessed the collapse of all the things he takes for granted in his life: the neighborhood, his family, friends and loved-ones - everything is somehow different for him.

FERPECT CRIME
Spain-Italy, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:2.35, 2004, 105’

Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Screenplay: Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Cinematography: José L. Moreno
Editing: Alejandro Lázaro
Music: Roque Baños
Cast: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Luis Varela, Enrique Villén, Fernando Tejero

Rafael is an ambitious, seductive man. He likes attractive women, elegant clothes and select environments. He works in a big department store. He has turned the Women’s Section into his own domain. He was born to sell, it’s in his blood. Rafael aims to become the new Floor manager. His main rival to hold the post is Don Antonio, the veteran in charge of the men’s section. But fate intervenes and Don Antonio dies accidentally after a heated discussion. The only witness to the crime is Lourdes, a dreadful, naïve and obsessive shop assistant who doesn’t hesitate to blackmail Rafael into becoming her lover, husband and slave. Rafael despairs as he sees his sophisticated world crumbling little by little into a hell of vulgarity. In the grip of madness he thinks up an infallible plan to free himself from Lourdes. This time he can’t even afford to make one mistake. Everything has to be ferpecto.

CLOSING FILM: CAMARÓN
Spain, Colour, 35mm, Görüntü / Aspect Ratio 1:1.85, 2005, 119’

Director: Jaime Chávarri
Screenplay: Álvaro del Amo, Jaime Chávarri
Cinematography: Gonzalo Berridi
Editing: Pablo Blanco
Music: Carles Cases
Cast: Óscar Jaenada, Verónica Sánchez, Merçè Llorens, Jacobo Dicenta, Raúl Rocamora, Martín Bello, Alfonso Begara, Rosa Estévez, Manolo Caro, Chiqui Maya, Pedro Miguel Martínez, Andoni Gracia, María Isasi

2006 Goya Awards: Best Costume Design, Best Lead Actor (Óscar Jaenada) and Best Make-up
2006 Spain Cinema Writers Circle Awards: Best Actor (Óscar Jaenada)
2006 Fotogramas de Plata Best Actor Award (Óscar Jaenada)
Camarón portrays the life story of legendary flamenco singer, Jose Monge Cruz “Camarón de la Isla”. The film provides a close look at the life and work of this virtuoso, an innovator who influenced succeeding generations, breaking both social and artistic barriers. The film is divided into three periods: discovery, confirmation and farewell. In each, Camarón is accompanied by personalities of the flamenco world like Paco de Lucia, Tomatito and Paco Cepero with the beautiful legacy of his songs woven throughout. His most prolific period abounds with both light and shadow, as portrayed through his love affairs, the international recognition that he received, the records that revolutionized flamenco music, his marriage to Dolores “La Chispa”, his flirtations with drugs and his physical decline at a tragically early age. Camarón was a huge success at the box office in Spain and gathered 3 Goya Awards including Best Lead Actor, Oscar Jaenada.
For further information:
Ankara Association for Cinema Culture
Tel: (0312) 467 2002
Fax: (0312) 466 4824
e-mail: info@askfest.org
http://www.askfest.org/

viernes, 24 de noviembre de 2006

Estreno de Volver en Turquía



El próximo 3 de noviembre tuvo lugar el estreno de la última película de Pedro Almodóvar en este país, en versión original en español y con subtítulos en turco. Atrás quedan los tiempos en que filmes de este mismo director como Tacones lejanos llegaban doblados al francés y se proyectaban en cines de arte y ensayo en Estambul. La productora Chantier ha realizado una veintena de copias de Volver que se van a proyectar en todo el país. Según sus estimaciones más de doscientas mil personas conocerán la última película del recientemente galardonado Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las artes. El Instituto Cervantes de Estambul se suma a la promoción de Volver con una gran banderola que decora la fachada del instituto en la céntrica plaza de Taksim con la imagen de Penélope Cruz . No es la primera vez que el Cervantes de Estambul promociona los estrenos de nuestro cine, desde su inauguración en 2001 lo ha hecho con, entre otras, las dos últimas películas de Almodóvar, la oscarizada Mar Adentro, Te doy mis ojos que contó con la presencia de su directora, Iciar Bollain, Salomé de Carlos Saura o En la ciudad sin límites de Antonio Hernández.