LA FÁBULA CINEMATOGRÁFICA (2026)

Since its origins, cinema has been much more than a narrative art. It has functioned as a thinking machine, a space where ideas are tested, concepts are put to the test, and the major questions that run through human experience are explored. In the same way, many philosophers and thinkers have found in moving images a privileged terrain from which to question identity, truth, desire, time, or happiness. Cineteca Madrid once again becomes a meeting place for cinema and philosophy through a program that brings together fiction and documentary, classics and modern cinema, comedy and speculative thought. In this new edition, we grant carte blanche to Marta Sanz, José Luis Pardo, and Ernesto Castro, three essential voices in contemporary Spanish thought, who propose personal and conceptual journeys through the history of cinema.

CARTA BLANCA A MARTA SANZ: UNA NIÑA ATRAPADA EN UNA GOTA DE ÁMBAR

Is a love of cinema a persistence of childhood? Marta Sanz explores this question through four films that examine the ways in which cinema has constructed and challenged narratives of intimacy, gender, memory, and vulnerability.

CARTA BLANCA A JOSÉ LUIS PARDO: PÁGINAS EN BLANCO

Hegel once said that, in History, happiness has written only blank pages. José Luis Pardo reflects on the representation of happiness in cinema, as promise, social mandate, and philosophical problem.

CARTA BLANCA A ERNESTO CASTRO: NATURALMENTE ARTIFICIAL: ¿CÓMO FERMENTAN LAS IMÁGENES?

Cinema as an ecosystem in which the natural and the artificial blur. Images that are recycled, falsified, spiritualized, or rendered absurd in order to explore how cinema produces meaning, belief, community, and thought.