MOVIE “Distances” and “Frontier Diaries” and “The Diary of Hunger” in Spanish with English subtitles at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP) > 4:30pm on 3rd September 2017

Time : 4:30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Venue : Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place (CP), New Delhi - 110001
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Metro : Nearest Metro Station - 'Rajiv Chowk' (Yellow Line and Blue Line)
Area : Connaught Place (CP)

Event Description : MOVIE “Distances” and “Frontier Diaries” and “The Diary of Hunger” in Spanish with English subtitles as part of Imaginary Geography Series

Distances

“Distances” Spanish Film Still

Synopsis: A group of refugees from the Congo are stuck in Rabat. The Spanish borderline stops them from entering Europe. In a room on the outskirts of the city they rehearse a theatrical piece based on their own experiences. An imperfect, unfinished staging. Real life and the stage are all mixed together. Apollinaire tells us, face to face, about the never-ending journey with an uncertain ending. Television images show us how many
emigrants are expelled into the desert, forced to start their journey once more. Faces whose names are lost. Behind them, the empty spaces of what has already happened. Silent tracks tell a story which is the same as ours.
Trailer : youtu.be/vTTNDqrgiLc
Direction: Piar Monsell
Script: Xavier Artigas, Xapo Ortega y Marc Serra
Photography: Piar Monsell
Duration : 28 mins. 
Year: 2008
Festivals:
49 Festival dei Popoli (Florencia). Premios del público
Transeuropa Festival (Barcelona 2012)
Cine Migrante (Colombia 2011)
Migrant’Scène (Toulouse 2010)
Migrant’Scène (Burdeos 2010)
Cine Migrante (Buenos Aires 2010)
Selección de OVNI para el Festival Sinima (Soria 2010)
MedFilm Festival (Roma 2009)
14 Festival internacional de cine de Ourense (2009)
VI Festival de Cine y Derechos Humanos de Nuremberg (2009)
VI Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa (2009)

Frontier Diaries

"Frontier Diaries" Spanish Film Still

Synopsis: The present migration of people from Africa, a particular situation, has become one of the major challenges of the states. Irene Gutiérrez places her eyes on the closest, her birth city, Ceuta, her childhood and in Nuel Papy, an immigrant who gave her his mobile full of videos. Irene Gutiérrez Torres shows the intimate stories of a common situation in many different cities, countries and people throughout the world through her narration, the
voices of immigrants and the various sources of image (the current mobile phone, Father in Super8 in addition to different rites today).
Direction: Irene Gutiérrez 
Script: Irene Gutiérrez 
Photography: Irene Gutiérrez
Duration : 81 mins. 
Year: 2015
Festivals:
Indie Lisboa International Film Festival (Portugal 2012)
Arusha Afrikan Film Festival (Tanzania 2013)
NAFA European Ethnographical Film Festival (Spain 2013)
Glasgow Human Rights Film Festival (UK 2013)
Cinemigrante (Argentina 2012, Colombia 2013, Chile 2013)
Manya Human Rights Film Festival (Uganda 2013)
San Francisco Inmigrant Film Festival (EEUU 2014)
Contra el Silencio Todas las Voces (México)
Parte de la semana del Refugiado /Glasgow Refugee Week (2014)

The Diary of Hunger

“The Diary of Hunger” Spanish Film Still

Synopsis: Requests for asylum throughout the European Union have increased, while in the three southern border countries, Italy, Spain and Greece, they have significantly decreased. However, it is in these countries where “border externalization policies”, promoted by the European Union as a whole, are being implemented with most force. These policies prioritize the obsession with border security and control over humanitarian issues or matters
related to the rights of migrants and refugees. We watch the daily news, we are updated nowadays about every scandal thanks to social media, we learn about world’s most terrifying truth behind closed doors, doors that may never open until someone has the courage to showcase what human beings really go through. But how does it feel to perceive this information? Do we really get it “stuck” in our head or do we just receive the information
“meaninglessly”? A “Diary of Hunger” is a true story. An everyday true story. Now, what do we want to do about it?
Are we going to accept this tragedy?
Direction: Mireia Pujol 
Photography: Borja López
Duration : 16 mins. 
Year: 2014
Festivals:
Premiere Festival OFFF Barcelona (2014)
IDFA 2014
Cine independiente de Elche (2014)
Miradas.Doc (2014)
Curtocircuito. Festival internacional de curtametraxes de
Santiago de Compostela (2014)
El Ojo de Iberoamérica (2014). Premio Bronce a la Mejor Dirección. Nuevos formatos.
Festival de Málaga (2015)
Festival de cine documental Alcances (2015). Mención especial

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