New Ibero-American cinema. Uncomfortable realities

The Instituto Cervantes resumes its collaboration with the Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, hand in hand with the Huelva City Council, with a program that presents the diversity and forcefulness of cinema made on the continent Ibero-America. Production in Spanish in this extensive region has a resounding reach in international festivals and fills auteur cinemas around the world. This sample, in addition, stops at Ibero-American cinematographies less known by the general public, such as the Peruvian or the Dominican, and also integrates works from Argentina and Colombia, whose national cinemas have had an enormous preponderance since the end of the last century.

The four films that make up this series put their finger on the sore spot to force us to see how difficult it is to live and fulfill the dreams and ideals that we forge for ourselves, even if these are only being able to tackle the day to day activities. The tension and pain suffered by the protagonists of Miriam Lies or Song Without a Name reveal how women are the first victims of social imbalances and new ways of relating, in the first case, but also of the violence and horror of the stolen children, in the second. The work environment and its conflicts in the management of human resources is one of the themes of The Lunchroom, a film that shows how labor conflicts have turned towards more invisible spaces, but no less unfair. Finally, in Pizarro, an approximation to Colombian historical memory is elaborated from the shared role of the protagonist and her father, a commander assassinated after the signing of the peace accords.

In short, the exhibition is a window open to stories that come from overseas, but that elaborate discourses and questions that are so universal that, as spectators, we cannot stop thinking about them from our own culture and our own identity.