SPANISH FRIDAY – E PREMTJA SPANJOLLE

With the Embassy of Spain in Albania:

Screening on Friday 4 March 2011 – 7 p.m. – Free Entrance

‘The Secret in their Eyes’ (El Secreto de sus Ojos) by Juan José Campanella

125 min – 2009 Drama – Mystery – Argentina / Spain- (Spanish language with English subtitles)

with Ricardo Darin, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago…

In 1999, retired Argentinian federal justice agent Benjamín Espósito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. That case is the

brutal rape and murder of Liliana Coloto. In addition to seeing the extreme grief of the victim’s husband Ricardo Morales, Benjamín, his assistant Pablo Sandoval, and newly hired department chief Irene Menéndez-Hastings were personally affected by the case as Benjamín and Pablo tracked the killer, hence the reason why the unsatisfactory ending to the case has always bothered him. Despite the department already having two other suspects, Benjamín and Pablo ultimately were certain that a man named Isidoro Gómez is the real killer. Although he is aware that historical accuracy is not paramount for the novel, the process of revisiting the case is more an issue of closure for him. He tries to speak to the key players in the case, most specifically Irene…

The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, making Argentina the first country in Latin America to win it twice (having already won for The Official Story in 1985). This happened just three weeks after being awarded the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film of 2009 (the Goya Awards are the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards).

Filmi i të enjtës – Donnerstagfilms – Thursday Film – Le Film du Jeudi

3 March 2011 – 7 p.m. / 3 Mars 2011 – ora 19:00 – Free Entrance / Hyrja e lirë

‘The Big Sleep’ by Howard Hawks

110 min – 1946 – USA – Film-Noir - (english language with english subtitles)

with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers…

Private detective Philip Marlowe calls on new client General Sternwood at his Los Angeles mansion. The wealthy general wants to resolve gambling debts his daughter, Carmen Sternwood, owes to bookseller, Arthur Gwynn Geiger. As Marlowe is leaving, General Sternwood’s older daughter, Mrs. Vivian Rutledge, stops him. She suspects her father’s true motive for calling in a detective is to find his friend Sean Regan, who had mysteriously disappeared a month earlier…

In 1997, the U.S. Library of Congress deemed this film “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” and added it to the National Film Registry.

SPANISH FRIDAY – E PREMTJA SPANJOLLE

With the Embassy of Spain in Albania:

Screening on Friday 25 February 2011 – 7 p.m. – Free Entrance

‘Gordos‘ (Fat People) by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo

110 min – 2009 – Comedy – Spain - (Spanish language with English subtitles)

with Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Enríquez, Verónica Sánchez…

“GORDOS” is a comedy about life’s excesses and deficiencies; about our insecurities, phobias, obsessions, traumas, mistakes, fears, blame, desires, hopes, challenges, concessions, goals, relationships, love, sex, health, family… about survival in the widest and “largest” sense of the word….

Filmi i të enjtës – Donnerstagfilms – Thursday Film – Le Film du Jeudi

24 February 2011 – 7 p.m. / 24 Shkurt 2011 – ora 19:00 – Free Entrance / Hyrja e lirë

‘Le Notti di Cabiria’ (Nights of Cabiria) by Federico Fellini

110 min – 1957 – Italy – Drama – Romance – (italian language with english subtitles)

with Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi…

Giulietta Masina won Best Actress at Cannes as the title character of one of Fellini’s most haunting films. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Nights of Cabiria (Le Notti di Cabiria) is the tragic story of a naive prostitute searching for true love in the seediest sections of Rome.

Le Mercredi Français – E Mërkura Franceze

With the Embassy of France in Albania and in the frames of the Mercredi Français (French Wednesday):

Screening on the 23rd of February 2011 – 19:00 – Free Entrance

“Le Couperet” (The Ax)

by Costa-Gavras

122 min – 2005 – Crime – Drama – (with English subtitles)

with José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur, Olivier Gourmet…

A business executive, who was fired by his company after it underwent restructuring, is ready to do anything to get his job back – even if it means killing his rivals…

Un cadre supérieur, qui s’est fait licensier de son entreprise à la suite de restructurations, est prêt à tout pour retrouver son poste, même à tuer ses concurrents.

Entrée Libre – Hyrja e Lire – Free Entrance – Eintritt Frei – Entrada Libre