Film diaries, self-portraits, correspondence, family portraits and personal archives are increasingly present in contemporary nonfiction. The secret to their compelling narratives might lie in their emotional power to reveal inner scars, childhood memories or family mysteries that spectators then can piece together as they would with historical events.
We have gathered together a group of filmmakers who use cinema to map out memories and life experiences to transcend the boundaries between private and the public. Oskar Alegría, Xacio Baños, Meritxell Colell and Natalia Garayalde have all explored their own inner worlds from different angles and are keen to share their own perspective on how to write about oneself and weave poetry out of privacy while also inviting spectators on board for the ride. Moderated by Ana Aitana Fernández.
- Friday 17 Novembre, 7 to 8.30 pm
- Sala Raval CCCB
- Places are limited
- Free admission on a first-come, first-served basis
Panellists
Oskar Alegria
Oskar Alegria (Pamplona, 1973) is a filmmaker, programmer and screenwriting teacher. A great number of his films have been screened at l'Alternativa, where he was featured in the Satellites section in 2021, including his first two feature films, Emak Bakia baita (2012) and Zumiriki (2019), and his shorts Aritzakoa (2020), Erleketa (2020), Hotza (2018) and La lengua de los dioses (2018).Emak Bakia baita played at over 70 festivals and won 17 awards, and Zumiriki premiered in the Orizzonti section at the 76th Venice Film Festival and won the New Waves Award for Best Non-Fiction Film at the Seville Film Festival. He also programmes films and was artistic director of Punto de Vista festival from 2013 to 2016. He is also the author of the essays TIME and Oteiza al margen. Zinzindurrunkarratz, his third feature, is competing in the Spanish Films section at l’Alternativa 2023.
Xacio Baño
Xacio Baño (Lugo, 1983) studied film at the Universidad de León. A number of his films have been screened at previous editions of l’Alternativa, including his shorts Ser e voltar (2014), which won a Special Mention, and Eco (2015), and his debut feature, Trote (2018), which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. He currently creates and develops film, theatre and hybrid projects at the cultural production company Rebordelos, inclduing his next feature, Después de las ciudades. Non te vexo can be seen at l’Alternativa 2023.
Meritxell Colell Aparicio
Meritxell Colell Aparicio is a director and editor. In 2015 she was selected for L’Atelier at the Cinéfondation at Cannes Film Festival with her debut, Con el viento, which premiered at the Berlinale. In 2020 Transoceánicas, codirected with Lucía Vassallo, won an award at Gijón Film Festival. In 2022 she released Dúo (Best Director at Málaga Film Festival) and La ciutat a la vora (selected for the City Symphonies programme at the CCCB). In 2023 she codirected Miró íntim with Jordi Morató. She is currently working on Lejos de los árboles, selected for Ikusmira Berriak and Ventana Sur, among others. Con el viento, Transoceánicas and Dúo were all selected to take part in the Mentoring Projects programme at past editions of l’Alternativa.
Natalia Garayalde
Natalia Garayalde is a filmmaker and Master of Film researcher at The Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Her debut feature, Esquirlas (2020), won Best International Feature at l'Alternativa, and has been screened at over twenty festivals worldwide and won prizes at Mar Del Plata, Jeonju Film Festival (Korea) and Visions du Réel, among others. She is currently writing the screenplay for a new film, which won Best Project at Arché at the 19th DocLisboa (RAW Residency) and the BAL-LAB Documentary Prize at the 27th Biarritz Amérique Latine Festival 2021.
Moderator
Ana Aitana Fernández
Ana Aitana Fernández has a PhD in communication from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and wrote her thesis on personal memory, absence and filmed photographs in contemporary documentaries. She lectures at the International University of Catalonia and teaches contemporary documentary trends for the Master's Degree in Film and Screen Studies at ESCAC. She has contributed to several collective books and international academic publications. She was coeditor of the website Transit: cine y otros desvíos and coproduced the film Pasaia bitartean (Irati Gorostidi, 2016).
