Event

Thursday 21 August, 22:00

Gandules'14 - Gas Natural Fenosa

The Immigrant + Illégal (Ilˇlegal)

Double session + short:

The Immigrant
Charles Chaplin
1917, USA, 16 mm, 25’, silent

Illégal
 (Il·legal)
Olivier Masset-Depasse
2010, Belgium/Luxemburg/France, 35 mm, 90’, Catalan subtitles
Warsaw Festival – Official Section: Best Director

After an unexpected police check, Tania, a Russian mother living without documentation in France, is arrested and held in an immigrant detention centre. Thus starts Tania’s struggle not to lose heart when she is separated from her son Ivan and threatened with expulsion. In an increasingly hostile environment, she has to fight with all her strength to retain her identity and meet up again with her son. Premiere in Spain.

Imágenes secretas
Diana Toucedo Crespo

2013, Spain, video, 15’, VO (es)
Finalist of the Short Film Competition Gandules'14

"My father is a ship’s captain. He’s been away all his life, fishing and sailing the world’s biggest fishing grounds. In Imágenes secretas, I travel to Argentina to discover what life is like for a captain and father who has always been absent."

See the
 complete programme of Gandules'14 - Gas Natural Fenosa. This August you will also find in Filmin’s website a great selection of films based on the topic Away from Home.

Credits

Organizer
Centre de Cultura Contemporŕnia de Barcelona
With the collaboration of
Filmin
Sponsors
Gas Natural Fenosa