• Nov 11
• Festival of New Spanish Cinema coming to Chicago
• Posted by Adgy - 11/11/09 at 07:54 PM

Quick heads up for any readers located in or around Chicago. The Facets Cinémathèque on Fullerton Ave is hosting The Festival of New Spanish Cinema starting this Friday. The festival runs Nov. 13th through Nov. 19th. Here's the press release:

The Facets Cinémathèque is very proud to present The Festival of New Spanish Cinema in collaboration with Pragda. This event will showcase an excellent menu of offbeat, independent and artistically-inspired Spanish films from all genres: experimental, documentary, animation and narrative. With films by such veteran filmmakers as Juan Luis Iborra, Javier Fesser and Gabriel Velázquez shown side-by-side with cutting edge debut productions from the newest generation including Albert Arizza, Irene Cardona, David Planell, Santiago Zannou, and Miguelanxo Prado, there is much to celebrate in this year's festival. There will be new and outrageous interpretations of classic genres including melodrama, thriller and animation, and the styles range from superb examples of Spain's offbeat thrillers like Ramirez and the brutal, wrenching fairy tales Camino and De Profundis, to socially engaged cinema like A Fiancé for Yasmina or One-Armed Trick. Additionally, short films will be available online at www.pragda.com and, last but not least, as a new offering this year and to precede each feature, we present Teaserland: an entertaining initiative featuring fake movie trailers by well-known directors such as Isabel Coixet, so have a look we will share our Spanish extravaganza with you!

Be sure to check out the festival webpage for information and trailers for the films showing and if you're in the area, check out some of these movies!