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FESTIVALS UK

First Spanish Festival in London

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The first London Spanish Film Festival is currently taking place until Thursday September 29 at the Cine Lumiere. The event organised by Tristana Media in collaboration with the Spanish Embassy in London, the French Institute (that houses the Cine Lumiere) and the Instituto Cervantes, showcases a dozen recent Spanish films including four UK premieres: La Flaqueza del Bolchevique (The Weakness Of The Bolchevik) by Manuel Martin Cuenca, La vida que te espera (The Life That Awaits You) introduced by its director Manuel Gutierrez Aragón, Jovenes (Youth) by Carles Torras and Ramon Termens, and Síndrome screening tomorrow with a Q&A session with the director Liberto Rabal and actress Adriana Davidova.

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After the top Spanish actors Eduardo Noriega who attended the preview of Miguel Courtois’ El Lobo (The Wolf) last Saturday -a film to be released later this year by Dogwoof Pictures- and Alex Brendemuhl who was on stage yesterday to discuss Las horas del día (The Hours of the Day) by Jaime Rosales, filmmaker Felipe Vega will present his new film Nubes de verano (Summer Clouds) this Wednesday, and on Thursday, one of the stars of European cinema, Victoria Abril will give an exceptional interview for the closing night of the festival. And to please the many fans of the iconic Spanish actress, three of her films are screening at the festival: Carlos Saura’s El Séptimo día (The Seventh Day), Pedro Almodovar’s cult film Atame! (Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down), and Miguel Bardem’s thriller and closing night film Incautos (Swindled), a Spanish/French co-production.

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