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Until 18 Jul 08

At Casa Asia, Sala Samarcanda (Av. Diagonal, 373) Free admission

After six year of success in Madrid, this selection of the best of the ImagineIndia Festival could be seen in Casa Asia. This year the festival is dedicated to the women’s role in the cinema; their view as movie directors and and their influence in order to change the Indian society.

Program

Mon 14 Jul

7:30pm - Dharm
103 min. Color. 2007. India Bhavna Talwar. Winner of the best director prize and to the best actor in ImagineIndia 2008 Madrid.

Tue 15 Jul

19 h. - Honeymoon Travels
120 min. Color. 2007. India. Reema Kagti. Winner of the best music prize en ImagineIndia 2008 Madrid.

Wed 16 Jul

7pm - Paradeshi
128 min. Color. 2007. India. P.T.K. Muhammad.

9:15 - Dansh
103 min. Color. 2006. India. Kamika Verma.

Thue 17 Jul

7pm - India Documental: Black Pamphlets
84 min. Color. 2007. India. Nitin K.

8.45pm - Indian Clasics: Sujata
161 min. B/N. 1959. India. Bimal Roy.

Fri, 18 Jul

7pm - No Smoking
128 min. 2006. India. Anurag Kashyap.

(Taken from www.casaasia.es)

Until Sat 2 Aug

Mon 14 Jul on the Grec

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July and August

Wed until 11pm / Tue until 10pm at Caixa Forum (Av. Marques de Comillas, 6-8)

Concerts, Scenic Arts and Poetic Recitals, Cinema, Multimedia Performances

Tríada (Bulgarian Voices: Valya Petrova, Boryanka Dimitrova, Elena Aleksieva; Pulshar, La muerte y la primavera (Teather), EEDL (electronic music), Branquicefalias mistéricas, Ni Romeo ni Julieta, Barco de arena (Scenic Art), Sitjazz Band, Digital China (Audiovisual Thematic Concert), Los libros arden mal (tango novel), Zaharregia, txikiegia agian / Una manera de mirar (poetry and music), Binomis (Down-tempo experimental electronic + Balago Dance & Erre que Erre, Asíkides (greek music), Divine Gospel Reunion, A paso de Rosalía de Castro (poetry), Carta de una mujer desconocida (Letter from an unknown women Xu Jinglei, China, 2004, 94 min, Movie in VOSE), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, Sforzinda (Flute concert), Flamenco (Mercedes Cortés/voice, Jordi Flores/guitarra; Jesús Flores & “el Nano”/palms), Institut FATIMA (Multimedia Spectacle), December Quintet, Sunflower Zhang Yang, China, 2005, 131 min, VOSE (Movie), The Baghdad Ensemble (Classic Music from the Middle East), Fernando Lagreca (electronic pop), Vida (Poetic Recital), Ping-pong mongol Hao Ning, China, 2005, 107 min, VOSE (movie), Barbad (Classic Music from form Persia, tradicional Armenia and popular Magreb), A paso de Charles Baudelaire (Scenic art), Micro Music BCN (multimedia concert), La boda de Tuya Wang Quanan, China, 2006, 95 min, VOSE (movie), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, The Orient Express Orkestra (sefardi and klezmer music), edukando.org (electronic music), Pere Arquillué dice a Gabriel Ferrater (Scenic art).

(Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

See Program (just in Spanish language)

July and August

Wed until 11pm / Tue until 10pm at Caixa Forum (Av. Marques de Comillas, 6-8)

Concerts, Scenic Arts and Poetic Recitals, Cinema, Multimedia Performances

Tríada (Bulgarian Voices: Valya Petrova, Boryanka Dimitrova, Elena Aleksieva; Pulshar, La muerte y la primavera (Teather), EEDL (electronic music), Branquicefalias mistéricas, Ni Romeo ni Julieta, Barco de arena (Scenic Art), Sitjazz Band, Digital China (Audiovisual Thematic Concert), Los libros arden mal (tango novel), Zaharregia, txikiegia agian / Una manera de mirar (poetry and music), Binomis (Down-tempo experimental electronic + Balago Dance & Erre que Erre, Asíkides (greek music), Divine Gospel Reunion, A paso de Rosalía de Castro (poetry), Carta de una mujer desconocida (Letter from an unknown women Xu Jinglei, China, 2004, 94 min, Movie in VOSE), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, Sforzinda (Flute concert), Flamenco (Mercedes Cortés/voice, Jordi Flores/guitarra; Jesús Flores & “el Nano”/palms), Institut FATIMA (Multimedia Spectacle), December Quintet, Sunflower Zhang Yang, China, 2005, 131 min, VOSE (Movie), The Baghdad Ensemble (Classic Music from the Middle East), Fernando Lagreca (electronic pop), Vida (Poetic Recital), Ping-pong mongol Hao Ning, China, 2005, 107 min, VOSE (movie), Barbad (Classic Music from form Persia, tradicional Armenia and popular Magreb), A paso de Charles Baudelaire (Scenic art), Micro Music BCN (multimedia concert), La boda de Tuya Wang Quanan, China, 2006, 95 min, VOSE (movie), One Woman Blues & Swing Show, The Orient Express Orkestra (sefardi and klezmer music), edukando.org (electronic music), Pere Arquillué dice a Gabriel Ferrater (Scenic art).

(Taken from http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

See Program (just in Spanish language)

Until Tue 6 May

At CCCB (Montalegre, 5) and Renoir Cinema -Florida Blanca ( Floridablanca, 135)

More info (In Spanish language)

The fourth Exhibition of European Cinema arrives at the CCCB and Renoir cinemas, with directors such as Olivier Assayas, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Ferzan Ozpetek, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Erik Bullot, Stephen Dwoskin, Nicolas Klotz, Romuald Karmakar and Barbet Schroeder.

Over nine days you can sit and debate with experts and watch films including the latest from Albert Serra, El cant dels ocells, which premieres in Spain; the retrospective of Arnaud Desplechin and experience the new European cinema formats.  (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es)

Fri 25 Apr - Sun 4 May

At Cines Aribau, Cine Maldà, CCCB, Espacio Movistar, Sala Apolo, Casa Asia. Go to program Single ticket: 6€; 5-Movie Pass: 25€ (Free entrance in some places)

The Barcelona Asian Film Festival (BAFF) is the only festival of its kind anywhere in Spain and is one of the most respected and admired Asian film festivals in Europe. Since its creation in 1999, BAFF has offered the best in Asian independent cinema and boasts one of the city’s most enthusiastic and diverse audiences. Now in its 10th season, the BAFF is also the Barcelona’s fastest-growing film festival: in the course of the nine editions held so far, the number of sections and films screened have both increased, while audience figures have gone up from 2,000 to 22,000.

BAFF 2008 extends the venues of exhibition adding the cinema Maldà and Espacio Movistar, and launches a special section, BAFF 10, with a selection of ten fundamental movies that have been screened at the festival from its first edition in 1999. BAFF keeps the traditiciona sections: Oficial Section, AS (Asian Selection), D-cinema and Espai Anime. The guest cinematography invited in the BAFF 2008 will be Hong Kong. (Taken from http://www.baff-bcn.org).

(View program below) At Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Montalegre 5) One Session 3,6€ Five Sessions 15,5€ Buy tickets

Two of the great cinema producers of upturned politics explore the intimate writing of the city in their maturity: with a small video camera, Marker follows a cat’s tracks painted on some buildings in Paris, and makes a satirical, light-hearted tale of life in the city’s streets; closed in a room in Berlin, before the images on a television set, Kramer reflects on the representation of history and the memory of Nazism and the horrors.

Chat Perchés, Chris Marker. France, 2004, 57 min, video
Berlin 10/90, Robert Kramer. France, 1990, 64 min, video

All projections will be in original version with subtitles in Catalan and in cinema format (16/35 mm), unless otherwise indicated. The CCCB reserves the right to modify the programme due to acts of God. Projections in the auditorium. Places limited. Please be punctual. (Taken from http://www.cccb.org).

PROGRAM

Sun 6 Apr, 18:30h
What is a Woman I, (1971-2003)

Sun 13 Apr, 18:30h
París/Berlín (Marker/Kramer)
Variacions del real

Thu17 Apr, 20:30h
Històries del Cinema
Rescrits

Thu 24 Apr, 20:30h
Cossos de Llum
Cinema invisible

Sun 4 May, 18:30h
Recorreguts per l’art
Rescrits

Thu 15 May, 20:30h
Dies Celestes

Sun 25 May, 18:30h
Després del 68 (II)
Variacions del real

Thu 29 May, 20:30h
What is a Woman II, Su Friedrich i Gunvor Nelson

If you enjoy the alternative cinema, you have several choices:

Cine Maldà - Bollywood & Independent Films

Cine Ambigú

Filmoteca de Catalunya (In Catalan Language)

• Cines Verdi (5 screens) http://www.cines-verdi.com/ C/ Verdi, 43

• Cines Verdi Park (4 screens) http://www.cines-verdi.com/ C/ Torrijos, 49

• Icària Yelmo (15 screens) www.yelmocineplex.es/ C/ Salvador Espriu, 61

• Renoir-Les Corts (6 screens) www.cinesrenoir.com/ C/ Eugeni d’Ors, 12

• IMAX http://www.imaxportvell.com/web_ing/index.htm Moll d’Espanya del Port Vell