Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation

SUMMER CINEPLAZA

Programme (August 15 to 18)
Start date
End date
Timetable
22:30 h
Price
Free access
Venue
Plaza Matadero
Institution
Plaza Matadero becomes the best outdoor screen in the city with the best selection of independent film titles. Programme from August 15 to 18.
For the second year running, Plaza Matadero becomes the best open-air screen in the city, with the best selection of completely unreleased independent films in Madrid. Twenty films, coming from the best festivals -Locarno, Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and San Sebastián-, all preceded by their critical and public success and still unreleased on Madrid's screens. 

 
PROGRAMME


THURSDAY, AUGUST 15

Les météorites
Romain Laguna, France, 2018, 85’ DCP (+18) 

Nina, a 16-year-old girl, dreams of adventure. Meanwhile, she spends the summer between her village in the south of France and the theme park where she works. Just before meeting Morad, a teenage boy from an Algerian family living in the nearby council houses, Nina sees a meteorite falling from the sky which it seems only she can see... like an omen.

TIFF 2019 – Toronto International Film Festival 
Gaztefilm 2019 – Children's and Youth Film Festival (Young Best Feature Film Award)
San Sebastián Film Festival 2018 – New Directors
Cinemed 2018 – Montpellier Festival of Mediterranean Cinema


FRIDAY, 16 DE AGOSTO

Yara
Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon-Iraq-France, 2018, 101’ DCP (+18) 

Yara lives alone with her grandmother in an isolated valley, most of whose inhabitants have died or emigrated abroad. One day,Yara meets a young stranger.

Locarno Film Festival 2018
FICX 2018 – Gijón International Film Festival 
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2018


SATURDAY, AUGUST 17O

The Disappearance of My Mother (Storia di B. - La scomparsa di mia madre)
Beniamino Barrese, Italia, 2019, 94’ DCP (+18) 

A filmmaker documents his mother's life, a former fashion model.

Sundance Film Festival 2019
FICCI 2019 – Cartagena de Indias Cartagena International Film Festival
CPH:DOX 2019 – Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival


SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 

Chained for Life
Aaron Schimberg, USA, 2018, 91’ DCP (+18) 

This film-within-a-film is set behind the scenes of a wacky horror film where a romance blooms between characters Rosenthal, who suffers from neurofibromatosis, and a beautiful blind woman, Mabel; who, upon miraculously regaining her eyesight, is unable to cope with the appearance of her lover.

Fantastic Fest 2019, Austin, Texas
BFI London Film Festival 2019
Mar del Plata International Film Festival 2018
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2018

Not recommended for children under 18.

All sesions in original version with Spanish subtitles.

Check all the programme
Chained for Life
The Disappearance of My Mother
Yara
Les meteorites