Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
SUMMER CINEPLAZA
Programme (August 15 to 18)
Start date
End date
Price
Free access
Venue
Plaza Matadero
Institution
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
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