Matadero Madrid center for contemporary creation
SUMMER CINEPLAZA
Programme (August 22 to 25)
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 22
Volcano (Вулкан)
Roman Bondarchuk, Ukraine-Germanya, 2018, 106’ DCP (+18)
After several strange coincidences, Lukas, a translator who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is confronted with a totally new universe, in which life seems to be completely detached from any kind of structure. Despite his initial animosity, Lukas gets more and more fascinated by Vova as well as by his daughter Marushka - and finally starts his own quest for a long ago lost happiness.
Seminci 2018 – Valladolid International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Golden Apricot 2018 – Ereván International Film Festival (Best Film)
São Paulo International Film Festival 2018
FRIDAY 23 DE AGOSTO
Atrás hay relámpagos
Julio Hernández Cordón, Costa Rica-México, 2017, 82’ DCP (+18)
A brightly shot carefree movie where problems and reality are kept just on the fringe of the storyline. Two best friends are having fun riding their bikes in San Jose. When they can pick out an old car from one of the friends family lot they are in for a nasty surprise. However as adolescents do they deal with the situation by having more fun with their friends. Meanwhile they turn one of the old cars into an Uber taxi.
BAFICI 2017 – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
SATURDAY, 24 AUGUST
Sollers Point
Matthew Porterfield, US, 2017, 101’ DCP (+18)
Keith is a 24 years old small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father (Belushi) in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
IndieLisboa 2018 – International Film Festival
D’A Film Festival Barcelona 2018
BAFICI 2018 – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
DOMINGO 25 DE AGOSTO
The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek kotorij udivil vseh)
Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, Rusia-Estonia-Francia, 2018, 105’ DCP (+18)
When a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
Zinegoak 2019, Zinegoak, Bilbao International LGBT Film and Performing Arts Festival
(Best Film, Best Supporting Act)
Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia 2018 – Orizzonti (Best Actress)
Busan International Film Festival 2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Not recommended for children under 18.
All sesions in original version with Spanish subtitles.
Check all the programme
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22
Volcano (Вулкан)
Roman Bondarchuk, Ukraine-Germanya, 2018, 106’ DCP (+18)
After several strange coincidences, Lukas, a translator who works for OSCE, strands in the southern Ukrainian town of Beryslaw. As involuntary guest of his strange host Vova, Lukas is confronted with a totally new universe, in which life seems to be completely detached from any kind of structure. Despite his initial animosity, Lukas gets more and more fascinated by Vova as well as by his daughter Marushka - and finally starts his own quest for a long ago lost happiness.
Seminci 2018 – Valladolid International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2018
Golden Apricot 2018 – Ereván International Film Festival (Best Film)
São Paulo International Film Festival 2018
FRIDAY 23 DE AGOSTO
Atrás hay relámpagos
Julio Hernández Cordón, Costa Rica-México, 2017, 82’ DCP (+18)
A brightly shot carefree movie where problems and reality are kept just on the fringe of the storyline. Two best friends are having fun riding their bikes in San Jose. When they can pick out an old car from one of the friends family lot they are in for a nasty surprise. However as adolescents do they deal with the situation by having more fun with their friends. Meanwhile they turn one of the old cars into an Uber taxi.
BAFICI 2017 – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
SATURDAY, 24 AUGUST
Sollers Point
Matthew Porterfield, US, 2017, 101’ DCP (+18)
Keith is a 24 years old small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father (Belushi) in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.
IndieLisboa 2018 – International Film Festival
D’A Film Festival Barcelona 2018
BAFICI 2018 – Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2017
DOMINGO 25 DE AGOSTO
The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek kotorij udivil vseh)
Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov, Rusia-Estonia-Francia, 2018, 105’ DCP (+18)
When a Siberian state forest guard discovers he has cancer and only two months left to live he chooses to take the identity of a woman as a way of fighting the disease.
Zinegoak 2019, Zinegoak, Bilbao International LGBT Film and Performing Arts Festival
(Best Film, Best Supporting Act)
Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia 2018 – Orizzonti (Best Actress)
Busan International Film Festival 2018
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018.
Not recommended for children under 18.
All sesions in original version with Spanish subtitles.
Check all the programme
