NEWS

This summer the l'Alternativa Exchanges are working harder than ever! In July, l'Alternativa presents a programme of short films at Festivalito, the Canaries International Short Film Festival.

2 or 3 Things I Knew About Her (Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo)
Yo y mi terraza (Ana Rodriguez Rosell)
Georg wächst (Martin Schmidt)
...nästan som en i familjen (Astrid Göransson)
For a Better World (Barbara Hlali)
Pequeños ataques al corazón (Daniel Cuberta Touzón)
¿Qué hago yo aquí? (Daniel Cuberta Touzón)
Violeta, la pescadora del mar negro (Marc Riba & Anna Solanas)
Weiß (Florian Grolig)
One Another. Three hundred degrees of separation (Michael Roseth)
Video 3000 (Marc Schleiss)

12-19 July 2008
Festivalito

This July, l'Alternativa presents a programme of short films as part of the Exchanges project in Tofifest, Torún International Film Festival.

2 or 3 Things I Knew About Her (Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo)
Yo y mi terraza (Ana Rodriguez Rosell)
Georg wächst (Martin Schmidt)
...nästan som en i familjen (Astrid Göransson)
For a Better World (Barbara Hlali)
Trotzdem Danke (Mischa Leinkauf)
Pequeños ataques al corazón (Daniel Cuberta Touzón)

5-11 July 2008
Tofifest

L'Alternativa's Itinerant and Exchange programmes are now fully consultable online.

If you have a project dedicated to giving visibility to independent film and are interested in screening our curated programmes, composed of films from the last edition of the Festival, please check.

If you are interested in proposing and hosting programmes please check.

L'Alternativa takes a trip & Exchanges

La Osa Mayor Menos Dos (The Great Bear Minus Two) by David Reznak will be released in cinemas in Madrid and Barcelona on Friday 9 May. The film won best Documentary Award at l'Alternativa 2006, and was shot over the course of a year, portraying the natural cycle of events in a mental hospital in Madrid.

La Osa Mayor Menos Dos

L'Alternativa presents a programme of short films at FilmFest Dresden.

Lo que trae la lluvia (Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
Under Construction (Zhenchen Liu)
Birdcalls (Malcolm Sutherland)
L'escale (Shalimar Preuss)
Le printemps de Sant Ponç (David Epiney / Eugenia Mumemthaler)
Nijuman no borei (Jean Gabriel Periot)

15-20th April 2008
Filmtheater Metropolis & Club Dagmar (Waldschlösschenareal - Am Brauhaus 8)
FilmFest Dresden

L'Alternativa presents Vladimir Perovic's film Koraci (The Steps) at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, Barcelona), the screening is an activity programmed in collaboration with the Media department.

March 8th 2008
Auditorium Campus Bellaterra

Screenings of films from the last edition of l'Alternativa continue throughout the month of February and March at La Enana Marrón in Madrid. The programme includes the films Le cahier froid, Under Construction y Raghs haye talai, all awarded prizes at l'Alternativa in November.

A Map With Gaps
Birdcalls
Under Construction
Benidorm
Le cahier froid
Immortal Stories
Raghs Haye Talai
Help is Coming
Energie!
L'escale
The Last Song of my Neighbour Before They Burn All Her Dreams
Puertas adentro
Un dimanche a Pripyat

From 7th February to 2nd March 2008
Travesía de San Mateo 8, 28004 Madrid
La Enana Marrón

Missed l'Alternativa? Here's your opportunity. Throughout the month of January the independent cinema La Enana Marrón, located in central Madrid, will screen an international selection of films from the official sections. The programme includes shorts, animation, feature films and the documentary prize winner at l'Alternativa 2007 Nijuman No Borei.

Escalator (Björn Kämmerer)
Primera nieve (Pablo Agüero)
Je suis une voix (Rousset & Paturie)
La piscine de maman (Yann Chayia)
Le remords (Yann Sinic)
Uku Ukai (Audrius Stonys)
Startle Pattern (Eric Patrick)
Dad (Daniel Mulloy)
Minutite sled tova (Nikolay Todorov)
Nijuman No Borei (Jean-Gabriel Périot)
La parabólica (Xavi Sala)
Benidorm (Carolin Schmitz)
¿Dónde están sus historias? (Nicolás Pereda)
Pic-nic (Eloy Enciso)

From 10th January to 3rd February 2008
Travesía de San Mateo 8, 28004 Madrid
La Enana Marrón

We'll be screening an international selection of films from last year's edition of the Festival.

Les profondeurs (Marina Déak)
Nasiona (Wojciech Kasperski)
La martienne (Jean-Claude Taki)
La guerra sin fin (I'm Very Happy) (Zigmunt Cedinsky)
Electryczka (Maciej Cusk)

27th October, 8pm (Free Entry)
Avinguda Marquès De Comillas 6-8, Barcelona
CaixaForum

L'Alternativa returns to Le Belvédère du Rayon-Vert in Cerbère, unique venue of the annual Rencontres Cinématographiques. We present 2 films from the last edition of the Festival, La martienne by Jean-Claude Taki and Voyage en sol majeur by Georgi Lazarevski. Both filmmakers will be present to introduce their films.

5-7th October 2007
Les Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cerbère
Route de Banyuls, Cerbère, Francia

L'Alternativa presents a film programme at Love and Anarchy in Helsinki, dedicated to Spanish short films. In November Love and Anarchy will present a programme of Finish short films in the Pantalla Hall section of l'Alternativa.

20th-30th September 2007
Love and Anarchy
Helsinki International Film Festival

L'Alternativa presents 4 films from the Film School section at The Short Film Festival of Sant Cugat.

Frequentie
Al final del surco
En suspens
Yo tuve un cerdo llamado Rubiel

9-12 July 2007
Plaça de l'Om, Sant Cugat
St. Cugat Short Film Festival

L'Alternativa presents a programme at the Festival Signes de Nuit in Paris. The selection includes shorts, animation and documentaries screened at previous editions of l'Alternativa.

Texas Sunrise (Lluís Escartín)
God save the queen (Matt Hulse)
Topeka (Asier Altuna)
Ich sah es (Hanna Nordholt, Fritz Steingrobe)
La peur petit chasseur (Laurent Achard)
Da janela do meu cuarto (Cao Guimares)
La Guerra (Luis Berdejo, Jorge C. Dorado)

17th-18th June 2007
Festival de Signes de Nuit de Paris (Paris, France)

L'Alternativa presents 3 programmes at Documenta Madrid. The 7 films which make up the programmes will be included in a parallel section of the Festival.

Prog 1

Nasiona (Wojciech Kasperski)
Soledad al fin del mundo (Carlos Casas & Fernando Zuber)

Prog 2

Animal Zone (Noriko Inoue)
On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo (Jan Verbeek)
Quid Esperanza (Stéphane Manzone)
Electryczka (Maciej Cuske)

Prog 3

Voorland (Albert Elings & Eugenie Jansen)

4-13th May
Documenta Madrid

Screenings at
La Enana Marrón
Travesía de San Mateo 8, 28004 Madrid

L'Alternativa presents 2 film programmes at Indielisboa. The programmes curated by l'Alternativa include short films screened at the Festival in the last 2 years and which explore the themes of utopia / dystopia.

Prog 1

El patio (Milagros Mumenthaler)
La Guerra sin fin (I'm Very Happy) (Zigmunt Cedinsky)
Las partes de mi que te aman son seres vacíos (Mercedes Gaspar)
The Future is Behind You (Abigail Child)

Prog 2

La martienne (Jean-Claude Taki)
Les profondeurs (Marina Déak)
Untitled # 1 (Masha Godovannaya)
What I'm Looking For (Shelly Silver)
Casa Paco (Ignacio Nacho)

19-29th April 2007
IndieLisboa

From January to March 2007 a huge selection of films from the 2006 edition of the Festival will be screened in the Enana Marrón, Madrid's only independent cinema.

The selection - which includes shorts, animation, documentaries and feature films - forms part of a long-running collaboration between l'Alternativa and la Enana Marrón to screen films from the Festival for the first time in Madrid. The programme includes various films awarded prizes in November at l'Alternativa: Monobloc, Un pont sur le Drina, Antonio's Breakfast, Bonsoir M. Chu and Historia trágica con final feliz.

MEANDER (Joke Liberge)
BONSOIR MONSIEUR CHU (François Leroy & Stéphane Lansaque)
EL CERCO Nacho Martín & Ricardo Íscar)
ELEMENTS (Dariusz Kowalski)
SISTER (Daniel Mulloy)
OBRERAS SALIENDO DE LA FÁBRICA (José Luis Torres Leiva)
LA GUERRA (Luiso Berdejo & Jorge C Dorado)
HISTORIA TRÁGICA CON FINAL FELIZ (Regina Pessoa)
LE LAC-LA PLAGE (Matthieu Salmon)
MONOBLOC (Luis Ortega)
CHAMBRE 616 (Frédéric Pelle)
LA LETRA CON SANGRE ENTRA (Víctor Orozco Ramírez)
LLUVIA DE OTOÑO (Maní Martínez & Joaquín Lara)
ALL PEOPLE IS PLASTIC (Harald Hunt)
INICIO DO FIM (Gustavo Spolidoro)
YELLOW BOX (Huang Ting Fu)
ANTONIO'S BREAKFAST (Daniel Mulloy)
DREAMS & DESIRES - FAMILY TIES (Joanna Quin)
FROZEN SOULS (Juana Macías)
UN PONT SUR LE DRINA (Xavier Lukomski)
CECI M'EST ÉGAL SI DEMAIN N'ARRIVE PAS (Guillaume Malandrin)

From 11th January to March 2007
La Enana Marrón
Travesía de San Mateo 8 . Chueca, Madrid

L'Alternativa will present 2 documentaries form the 2006 edition of the Festival in the Rencontres Cinématographiques au Belvedère du Rayon Vert.

The Rencontres take place from 8th to 10th December in Cerbère (France) and offer a platform for Festival programmers to screen a short and feature length documentary.

L'Alternativa presents Mañana al mar by Ines Thomsen and El cerco by Nacho Martín and Ricard Íscar. The filmmakers will be there to present their films.

8-10th December . Belvédère du Rayon-Vert, Cerbère (France)

L'Alternativa presents a series of Spanish short independent films in Shanghai throughout the month of December in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Spanish Consulate in Shanghai.

Made in (s)pain

Saturday Morning by Santi Truenque
Las partes de mi que te aman son seres vacíos by Mercedes Gaspar
Texas Sunrise by Lluís Escartin
Haragia by Begoña Vicaria
Casa Paco by Ignacio Nacho