SPANISH CINEMA DAY 2025

We present new restorations of Deprisa, deprisa (Carlos Saura, 1981) and Furtivos (José Luis Borau, 1975), two landmarks of cinema from the Spanish Transition—vibrant yet unsettling works that helped redefine the boundaries of social and political representation in our filmography.

This edition also features a special event: the recovery of Tirarse al monte (Alfonso Ungría, 1971), a film banned by Francoist censorship and lost for over half a century. Shot at a time of political upheaval and aesthetic searching, the film was quickly silenced and remained out of circulation for decades. Its recent restoration, carried out by the Film and Audiovisual School of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), finally allows us to discover a work that once seemed condemned to nonexistence.

To rediscover these films is also to rethink what we mean by “national cinema”: not as a closed archive, but as a living body—wounded, shifting, and in transformation. Cinema that returns, that persists, that unsettles, that continues fighting to exist.