Spanish Cinema Day: Tasio

Once again, we celebrate Spanish Cinema Day by turning to our film heritage as an essential source through which to learn about our 20th-century visual culture. In the fifth edition of this celebration, we will screen Tasio, a film directed by Montxo Armendáriz, which portrays the decline of the tradition of charcoal burners in the mountains of Navarra (Spain). It is undoubtedly one of the most memorable films for lovers of Spanish cinema. It takes an exquisite and naturalistic approach to a world that seems to be fading away, abandoned, but in which the protagonist and his family resist the onslaught of modernity and its various forms of coercion.