Spanish Film Day: Tasio

Once again this year, we celebrate Spanish Film Day by turning to our cinematic heritage as an essential resource to explore and learn about our 20th-century visual culture.

In the fifth edition of this celebration, we will be screening Tasio, a film directed by Montxo Armendáriz, which portrays the decline of the tradition of charcoal burners using vegetable fuel in the mountains of Navarre (Spain).

It is undoubtedly one of the most memorable films for Spanish cinema lovers. It takes an exquisite and naturalistic look at a world that seems to be fading away, abandoned, but in which its protagonist and his family resist the onset of modernity and its various forms of coercion.