08/06/2022 - From 8 to 12 June, this avant-garde and auteurist event will be held in the Spanish capital, opening with David Pantaleón's Rendir los machos

The eighth Filmadrid festival, which will take place from 8 to 12 June at various venues across the Spanish capital, will follow the same model as 2021, where the Official Competition is complemented by mirror sessions that explore the creative processes of the filmmakers. The competing films will be accompanied by previous works by the directors and cinematographic works that have had a key influence on their work. In doing so, this event, directed by Nuria Cubas, aims to be a space to reflect on the past and future of cinema and a forum for exploring the roots of film creation.

For example, the French-Spanish co-production Rendir los machos [+see also:
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The Official Competition, known for its variety and hybridisation of film genres, will close on the 12th with the screening of Yamabuki [+see also:
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Completing the Official Competition are the docufiction about loneliness, with a futuristic setting, Nobody Meets Your Eyes, a film by Jesse Jalonen (Finland); Detours [+see also:
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Filmadrid's programme also incorporates a monographic focus. American Tom Joslin features in the first complete exhibition in Europe devoted to his gay activism work: Architecture of Mountains (1976-2012); Blackstar: Autobiography of a Close Friend (1976); and Silverlake Life: The View From Here (co-directed with Peter Friedman in 1993).

And the new section New Passages, New Visions focuses on contemporary creators who are breaking new ground in cinema. From intimate essays to animation, the boundaries of identity are addressed by selected auteurs (all European), offering personal, heterodox and enlightening perspectives on this complex subject, where short films by Victoria Oliver Farner, Nina Kurtela, Christiana Ioannou, Kristin Johannessen and Diana Cam Van Nguyen will be screened.

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)