Screening of Land and Fredoom

Instituto Cervantes in London is collaborating with the Garden Cinema to screen Ken Loach's film ‘Land and Freedom’. After the screening, there will be a conversation between Professor Paul Preston and historian and writer Richard Baxell. Synopsis of ‘Land and Freedom’ David is an unemployed communist who arrives in Spain in 1937, during the civil war, to enlist in the Republican ranks and defend democracy against the fascists. He befriends the soldiers. Although set during the Spanish Civil War, Land and Freedom has much to say about Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. Ken Loach, a committed socialist director, draws parallels between the triumph of fascism in Spain and the rise of the far right amid widespread unemployment at the time the film was made. The film won two awards at the Cannes Film Festival and remains one of his most acclaimed. - BFI iPlayer Land and Freedom won the César Award for Best Foreign Film (1995). This screening is part of our series SPAIN: 50 YEARS FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY.