Spanish Film Festival 2022
From 5 to 16 October, 2022, PELíCULA>PELIKULA Spanish Film Festival will be back in 3 countries: Philippines, Malaysia & Australia. And after 2 editions online, we’re going back to onsite screenings at Instituto Cervantes (Intramuros branch) and select venues in Metro Manila. ‘Cause we want to see you face to face! 🙂 PELíCULA, 21 Years advocating Quality films —now back on the Big Screen.
Film Schedule
In-person screenings at Metro Manila. FREE ENTRANCE!
Shangri-La Plaza Red Carpet Cinema, Mandaluyong
Instituto Cervantes Intramuros
UPFI Film Center, Diliman Quezon City
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Featured Films
Something Blue (Algo Azul)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 90 min
COUNTRY Panama
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Mariel Garcia Spooner
CAST Elizabeth Grimaldo, Carlos Torres, Andrea Pérez Meana, Robin Duran, Andrés Morale, Fabiola Sánchez, Ash Olivera, Mike Martinez, Samuel Ibarra, Juanxo Villaverde, Claudia Lamboglia, Mike Pérez
LANGUAGE Spanish
RATING R-12
AWARDS Nominada a Mejor Comedia, Bucharest Film Festival (2021)
By accident, Ana loses her wedding dress a week before the wedding. In a room of the hotel where she works she finds the dress of her dreams. Tempted, she decides to try it on, but the owner of the dress discovers her. Ana runs away from the hotel dressed as a bride and decides that she must get married that same day. She will now start a race against the clock to convince her fiancé and manage to put everything together before she is caught, while becoming a media phenomenon.
Carpoolers (Con quien viajas)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 86 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Martín Cuervo
CAST Salva Reina, Ana Polvorosa, Pol Monen, Andrea Duro
AWARDS 2021: Festival de Málaga: Sección oficial
Four strangers meet in Madrid’s city center to go by car to Cieza, Murcia, through a share-ride app. During the journey, passengers chat about aspects of their lives to break the ice. Everything flows normally, but the driver seems to be hiding something and is behaving strangely. The trip will turn out to be very surreal and more fun than they expected.
The Century of Galdós (El Siglo de Galdós)
YEAR 2020
DURATION 94 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Documentary
DIRECTOR Miguel Ángel Calvo Buttini
LANGUAGE Spanish
This documentary is about Benito Pérez Galdós, an extraordinary narrator of his era and a man committed to his time, which spans from the second half of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th. He is a prestigious writer and a politician, yet very little is known as far as his private life is concerned. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize, but never received the award. Through his letters, his illustrations, interviews with personalities, along with archival material which has never been published, and exploring the places where he spent his life, the documentary narrates the existence, the work and the century that Galdós lived. A century, the century of Galdós, fierce and interesting.
The Test (El Test)
YEAR 2022
DURATION 105 min
COUNTRY Spain and Canada
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Dani de la Orden
CAST Alberto San Juan, Miren Ibarguren, Blanca Suárez, Carlos Santos, Antonio Resines, Luna Fulgencio
LANGUAGE Spanish
RATING R-16
What would you choose, one hundred thousand euros now or one million in ten years’ time? Héctor and Paula, overwhelmed by serious economic problems that threaten their own marriage, face a dilemma proposed by their rich friend, Toni, to help them. Héctor wants €100,000 to try to turn his unprofitable bar into a successful business, but Paula prefers to wait for the grand prize.
Spain: The First Globalization (España: La Primera Globalizacion)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 110 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Documental
DIRECTOR José Luis López-Linares
CAST Antonio Valero, Rubén García Benito, Alicia Relinque, Abigail Horro Rodríguez, Lou Hiling, Carlos Martinez-Shaw, Marcelo Gullo
The “black legend” has caused that much of the history of Spain, America and the Philippines is poorly known, especially in its commercial and scientific aspects. This documentary focuses on correcting certain stories of that “black legend”, a propaganda operation so persistent and effective that it has managed to firmly establish itself in the collective imagination. With the intervention of thirty-nine historians from around the world, the documentary offers new readings on the exciting historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, the discovery of America and its future, dismantling the black legend and spreading a more balanced picture of those times.
Rosa’s Wedding (La boda de Rosa)
YEAR 2020
DURATION 97 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Iciar Bo llain
CAST Candela Peña, Sergi López, Nathalie Poza, Ramón Barea, Paula Usero, Xavo Giménez, Paloma Vidal
LANGUAGE Spanish
AWARDS La película estuvo nominada a ocho premios Goya y nueve premios Feroz. / The film was nominated for eight Goya Awards and nine Feroz Awards.
About to turn 45, Rosa comes to realize that her full life has always been devoted to please others and decides to shake things up and grab hold of the reins of her life. But first, she wants to get married to herself. But Rosa will soon discover that changing her life is going to be anything but easy. Getting married, even with herself, is going to be the hardest thing she’s ever done.
Official Competition (Competencia Oficial)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 115 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Mariano Cohn y Gastón Duprat
CAST Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez, José Luis Gómez, Manolo Solo, Nagore Aranburu, Irene Escolar
LANGUAGE Spanish
RATING R-16
A billionaire businessman in search of fame and social prestige decides to make a unique, groundbreaking film. To achieve this goal, he hires the best of the best: A stellar team consisting of famous filmmaker Lola Cuevas and two well-known actors who boast not only an enormous talent, but also an even bigger ego: Hollywood star Félix Rivero and aging theater thespian Iván Torres. They’re both legends, but not exactly the best of friends. Through a series of increasingly hilarious tests set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other, but also their own legacies.
The Deer [Oreina (Ciervo)]
YEAR 2018
DURATION 87 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Drama
DIRECTOR Koldo Almandoz
CAST Laulad Ahmed Saleh, Patxi Bisquert, Ramón Agirre, Iraia Elias, Erika Olaizola
LANGUAGE Basque
RATING Not recommended for an audience below 12 years old
AWARDS 2018: Festival de San Sebastián: Premio del cine vasco
Khalil is a displaced young man who lives on the outskirts of the city, where the industrial estates meet the river and the marsh. Khalil makes a living as best he can and spends his days with an old poacher who shares a house on the riverbank with a brother he hasn’t spoken to in years. On the shores of the marsh, the tides mark the time of love and heartbreak, of friendship and revenge.
Our Father (Rendir los machos)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 80 min
COUNTRY Spain and France
GENRE Black comedy
DIRECTOR David Pantaleón
CAST Alejandro Benito, Lili Quintana, José Mentado, Julio César, Lucifer Rodríguez, Lionel Cepa, Aurelio Carnero Hernández, Emilia Cazorla, Carlos Luis Monzón
LANGUAGE Spanish
AWARDS Premio al Mejor Film Nacional en el Festival L’Alternativa; Premio Richard Leacock al Mejor Largometraje Canario del Festival de Cine de Las Palmas / Best National Cinema Award at the L’Alternativa Festival; Richard Leacock Award for Best Canarian Feature Film at the Las Palmas Film Festival
The plot revolves around a more than 100-kilometer journey across barren lands with the seven most reputed male goats in the island of Fuerteventura… and two brothers who hate each other. Alejandro and Julio are the two sons of the Cabreras, the most respected goat raisers and cheese producer family in the North of the island. Don Guillermo, the family patriarch, and his two sons have not talked to each other for many years. After the rift, the burden of taking care of the father and the family business falls on Alicia, the only daughter. When their father dies, he leaves one particular last wish in his will which must be fulfilled before the inheritance can be shared out among his children. Alejandro and Julio must travel with the male goats across the island on foot, which they see as a punishment, and hand them to the historical antagonist family of the Cabreras.
The Good Boss (El Buen Patrón)
YEAR 2021
DURATION 120 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Comedy
DIRECTOR Fernando León de Aranoa
CAST Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor, Óscar de La Fuente, Sonia Almarcha, Fernando Albizu
LANGUAGE Spanish
RATING R-16
AWARDS 2021: 6 Premios Goya: incluyendo Mejor película, director y actor (Javier Bardem); 2021: Festival de San Sebastián: Sección oficial largometrajes a concurso; 2021: Premios Forqué: Mejor película y mejor actor (Bardem); 2021: Premios Feroz: Mejor comedia, actor (Bardem) y guion; 2021: Premios Ariel: Nominada a mejor película iberoamericana; 2022: Premios Platino: Mejor película, dirección, guion y actor (Bardem). 11 nominaciones
Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town awaits the imminent visit from a committee that holds its fate in their hands as to whether they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, the company’s proprietor, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.To win the competiton, the manipulative “good boss” shamelessly meddles in his employees’ private lives and crosses every line imaginable, unknowingly starting an explosive chain reaction with wild consequences.
The People Upstairs (Sentimental)
YEAR 2020
DURATION 82 min
COUNTRY Spain
GENRE Romantic Comedy
DIRECTOR Cesc Gay
CAST Javier Cámara, Belén Cuesta, Alberto San Juan, Griselda Siciliani
Julio and Ana have been together for over fifteen years. They don’t look at each other or touch each other anymore and daily conflicts have become the norm. This evening, Ana has invited the upstairs neighbors over. Salva and Laura are slightly younger than them and welcomed them with open arms when they moved into the building, but the constant moaning and groaning coming from their apartment has become a source of arguments for Julio and Ana… perhaps it’s jealousy, they wish their own sex life was as spicy. This evening, the neighbors will become both the instigators and victims of an emotional tsunami, brought on by an unusual and surprising proposal. The four neighbors can’t help but get caught up in an evening of excess and catharsis.
PELÍCULA 2022 is presented by: Instituto Cervantes de Manila, Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, Instituto Cervantes Kuala Lumpur, Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, AECID Philippines, Embajada de España en Australia y el Film Development Council of the Philippines.
In collaboration with: Intramuros Administration, Edsa Shangri-La Plaza, Acciona, PTC Philippines, Vibal Foundation, Rustan’s, Arthaland, Filmoteca Española, Filmoteca AECID Lola Millás, Acción Cultural Española, Etxepare Euskal Institutua, Euskadiko Filmategia-Filmoteca Vasca, Embajada de Colombia en Filipinas, Embassy of Panama in the Philippines – Embajada de Panamá en Filipinas, UPD Department of European Languages, UP Film Institute Film Center Cine Adarna, La Picara Manila.
