L'Alternativa Takes a Trip

Screening of Apple Cider Vinegar (Sofie Benoot, 2024), followed by online conversation with the director, and screening of Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes, 2024), presented by the group of Joves Programadors Moving Cinema.

L’Alternativa was invited to curate a programme for Les Rencontres cinématographiques des Belvédères. We presented As the Tide Comes In (Juan Palacios, 2023).

Screening of And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine (Axel Danielson, Maximilien Van Aertryck, 2023), as part of the "Imagining Futures" series at the 13th edition of Pantalla BDC. 

Screening of Între revoluții (Vlad Petri, 2023), followed by post-screening debate; screening of Un volcán habitado (David Pantaleón, José Víctor Fuentes, 2023), followed by post-screening talk with the director; and screening of La chimera (Alice Rohrwacher, 2023), presented by the group of Joves Programadors Moving Cinema.

Screening of Un volcán habitado (David Pantaleón, José Víctor Fuentes, 2023), winner of the DOCMA Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official, in collaboration with DOCMA, followed by a Q&A session with José Víctor Fuentes.

Screening of Bjergene (Christian Einshøj, 2023), winner of the Don Quixote International Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official, as part of the Setmana del cineclubisme català.

L’Alternativa was invited to curate a programme for Les Rencontres cinématographiques internationales de Cerbère-Collioure. We presented Zinzindurrunkarratz (Oskar Alegria, 2023), winner of a Special Mention in the Spanish Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official.

Screening of Une vie comme une autre (Faustine Cros, 2022), winner of Special Mentions in the International Feature Film Prize and the Don Quixote International Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official, as part of the Setmana del cineclubisme català.

L’Alternativa was invited to curate a programme for Les Rencontres cinématographiques internationales de Cerbère-Collioure. We presented La visita y un jardín secreto (Irene M. Borrego, 2022), joint winner of the Spanish Film Prize in l’Alternativa Oficial.

Screening of A los libros y a las mujeres canto (María Elorza, 2022), winner of the DOCMA Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official.

Screening of Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills, 2022), winner of the International Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official as part of the Els millors films de l'any 2022season.

Screening of Une vie comme une autre (Faustine Cros, 2022), winner of Special Mentions in the International Feature Film Prize and the Don Quixote International Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official, followed by post-screening debate.

Screening of the feature film Geographies of Solitude (Jacqueline Mills, 2022), winner of the International Feature Film Prize in l’Alternativa Official.

Screening of the shorts Terminal norte (2022), Pescados (2010), Nueva Argirópolis (2010) and Leguas (2015), by Lucrecia Martel, organised in collaboration with the CCCB as part of the Barcelona Biennal de Pensament.

Screening of Retour à Reims [Fragments] (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2021) as part of the Setmana del cineclubisme català.

Screening of Del otro lado (Iván Guarnizo, 2021) and screening of Stop Filming Us (Joris Postema, 2020), both followed by a Q&A session.

A programme of ten films touring the Kommunale Kinos network of German cinemas in cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Bremen, organised within the framework of the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair. An initiative by Acción Cultural Española and the Instituto Cervantes programmed by Ana Domínguez, Rocío Cabrera, Javier Miranda and Garbiñe Ortega, as well as Tess Renaudo on behalf of l’Alternativa. Five films in the programme had been were screened at l’Alternativa: El año del descubrimiento (Luis López Carrasco, 2020), Oscuro y Lucientes (Samuel Alarcón, 2018), Zumiriki (Oskar Alegria, 2019), Video Blues (Emma Tusell, 2019) and Las letras de Jordi (Maider Fernández Iriarte, 2019).

L’Alternativa was invited to curate a programme for Les Rencontres cinématographiques internationales de Cerbère-Collioure. We presented Telenovela en gris y multicolor (Filip Martinovic, 2021) and Esquirlas (Natalia Garayalde, 2021), accompanied by both filmmakers, who took part in Q&A sessions after the screenings.