The 10th edition of the (S8) came to an end, and we are still recovering from these days of emotions, inside and outside cinemas. This Mostra was intense and beautiful, we lived unforgettable moments, and during these days, we were a community of people moving like...

Even though it might be a weary thing to say, programming is more than bringing films together and showing them. Over the ten years of life of this festival, one of the things that has left a mark on us is the close link that we develop with the filmmakers. For...

In 2018, Reunion by Ilan Serruya was among the projects selected to participate in INPUT, our program for tutoring and coaching for emergent filmmakers. Reunion is the result of a thorough research process with the aim to find formal devices that allow to express...

Here we reproduce a fragment of Jonas Mekas’s Film Diaries on the fundamental Marie Menken, in the occasion of the special tribute we dedicate to Mekas: a selection of films by the artists he supported through his writing and programming. January 4, 1962 I shall begin...

If there’s something that has characterized the (S8) since its first edition, it is the presence of expanded cinema and film performances. Back in the days of our first edition in the Old Prison of A Coruña, Bruce McClure visited us: one of the most fabulous (and...

Malcolm Le Grice is coming this year to the festival, and to realize how important occasion this is, we only need to read these words written by Jonas Mekas in The Village Voice. Two film programs, a master class and a unique performance and multi-projection evening,...

Though it may seem that a job as film preservation and restoration comes from a certain nostalgia for the past, it has in fact its glance fixed in the future. The work of preserving films has to do with making valuable things endure for the times to come. This year we...

Today we want to share with you a text by James Edmonds part of the book Jeannette Muñoz. El paisaje como un mar, published by Asociación Lumière (the book will be available for purchasing during the festival), courtesy of its editor, Francisco Algarín Navarro. A...