Argentine Film Days: November 28-30, 2024

The Embassy of the Republic of Argentina in Romania, in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute in Bucharest, is organizing the Argentine Film Days from November 28-30, 2024. The program brings together five films by well-known directors, such as Adolfo Aristarain, Eliseo Subiela, Marcos Carnevale or Alejandro Doria. They will be screened for three consecutive evenings in the Auditorium of the Cervantes Institute (Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta 38), in their original version, with English subtitles.

“The series aims to offer a selection of films from the Clásicos Recuperados archive – an initiative of the Association of Argentine Film Directors. It is a selection of emblematic films of Argentine cinema from the last 40 years, in digital format, which allows the country’s audiovisual heritage to be saved and exploited”, said His Excellency Mr. Alejandro Poffo, Ambassador of the Republic of Argentina to Romania.

The film series debuts on Thursday, November 28, at 7:00 p.m., with the screening of the feature film Elsa and Fred, directed by Marcos Carnevale, a 2005 romantic comedy that, with great humor but also depth, deals with love in old age, as well as the relationship between a woman from Río de la Plata, funny and modern, and a conventional Spanish widower. The film was nominated for the Goya Awards in 2005 and for the Golden Spike at the Valladolid International Film Festival.

The screening will be preceded by a short speech by H.E. Mr. Alejandro Poffo, Ambassador of Argentina to Bucharest. The screening schedule continues on Friday and Saturday evenings, starting at the same time. Thus, on Friday, November 29, at 5:30 p.m., the feature-length fiction film Un lugar en el mundo (1992), directed by Adolfo Aristarain, will be shown.

The film, awarded the Goya Award for Best Foreign Film in Spanish (1993) and the Concha de Oro at the San Sebastian Festival (1992), tells the story of an Argentine professor who returns from exile in Spain, travels to a remote village in Argentina, where he spent his childhood, and remembers the events that marked his life. A Spanish geologist, hired to search for oil, appears in the village and threatens the villagers’ way of life. The film was a success with audiences in Argentina and Spain.

Also on Friday, November 29, at 8:00 p.m., the film Roma (2004), directed by Adolfo Aristarain, will be screened. It is a moving drama about the friendship, with its ups and downs, between an Argentine writer living in Spain and a young literary proofreader, whom he hires to help him proofread his autobiography, while recalling his experiences as a youth in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s. The film was nominated for the Goya Awards (2005) and the Concha de Oro at the San Sebastian Festival (2004).

On Saturday, November 30, at 5:00 p.m., the film Últimas imágenes del naufragio (1989), directed by Eliseo Subiela, will be screened. The film was awarded the Best Screenplay Award at the Montreal Festival (1990) and the Coral Award for Best Film at the Festival del Nuevo Cine Iberoamericano de La Habana (1990) and Condor de Plata (1991). A remarkable drama, starring Lorenzo Quinteros, Noemí Frenkel and Hugo Soto, which tells the story of Roberto, an insurance salesman who has always had the idea of ​​writing a novel, and a young woman, Estela, with a dysfunctional family. In the plot, there are several parallel shipwrecks that come together.

The last film in the program, Esperando la carroza (1985), directed by Alejandro Doria, a delicious comedy, awarded the Argentores Award and the Asociación de Cronistas Cinematográficos de la Argentina (Condor Award for Best Adaptation), will be shown on Saturday, November 30, at 8:00 p.m. A very funny film about difficult family relationships, with beloved characters and performances that are part of the Argentine popular imagination.

Public access is free, subject to availability – for reservations: cultbuc@cervantes.es.