Antonio Machado. Los días azules (The Blue Days)
Antonio Machado died on February 22, 1939 in the French town of Collioure - where he had arrived barely a month before after fleeing the recently turned Franco's Spain in order to seek exile. The 80th anniversary of this event was celebrated in 2019, and the filmmaker Laura Hojman -whose great sensitivity to the subject brought to life the often overlooked period of poet Rubén Darío life in her first time as director for the documentary Tierra solares (Solar Lands, 2018)- paid tribute to the memory and work of the Sevillian poet with her award-winning documentary Antonio Machado. Los días azules (The Blue Days).
The Institutos Cervantes in Manchester and Leeds will show the film through Vimeo for 48 hours that will be open from Friday, September 17, at 6:30 p.m. (British local time GMT +1) until Sunday 19th September at the same time. Firstly, on Thursday 16th September at 6.00 pm, we will host an online meeting with the director Laura Hojman will join us to talk her film, from the birth of the idea to the creative development, the process of filming, the festival tour and the awards it obtained. And we will also pay tribute to the figure of Antonio Machado alongside the Spanish actress María Estévez Serrano, who will carefully recite a selection of poems by the poet.
