EL OJO COJO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

Organized by the Cultural Association El Ojo Cojo, this festival created to encourage cultural dialogue and integration for disadvantaged groups has been put on in Madrid since 2005, promoting quality film work that would otherwise be difficult to see in Spain.

Thursday, October 11

>7pm - Ngutu, 2012, documentary. Directed by Felipe Del Olmo and Daniel Valledor. Spain, 4 min.  In Spanish. 

Ngutu is a traveling newspaper salesman who barely sells a paper.  Fed up, he decides to begin carefully observing passersby in order to get ahead in his business.

 >7:10pm - De las calles al terreno de juego/From the Streets to the Playing Field, 2012, documentary.  Directed by Carlos Sánchez-Llibre and Josep María Badell. Spain, 80 min.  In Spanish, English, Afrikaans and Xhosa.

"Sports have the power to inspire people and bring them together".  While the Spanish national football team was making history at the first World Cup celebration on the African continent, a parallel championship for children was taking place, in which three participants got the chance to meet their football heroes.  This is the reflection of the dream of social cohesion that inspired Nelson Mandela's words.

 >8:30pm - La cosa en la esquina, 2011, fiction–animation. Directed by Zoe Berriatúa. Spain, 10 min.  In Spanish.

Oh God!