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365filmsbyauroranocte · 1 year

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Carta a mi madre para mi hijo (Carla Simón, 2022)

#Carta a mi madre para mi hijo #Letter to My Mother for My Son #2022 #Carla Simón #Carla Simon #short film #summer #lights #hands #mother #tea #pregnant #books #literature #sun

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useless-catalanfacts · 2 years

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Spain’s Ministry of Defence caught deleting information from Wikipedia

This 2022, the Catalan film Alcarràs has been selected to go to the Oscars nominations for foreign films. The film is named after the town where it takes place, the little Alcarràs in the rural West of Catalonia.

In the same day that the nomination was made public, the Wikipedia page for the town of Alcarràs was altered to eliminate the reference to the Spanish police’s violent attacks on voters on the day of the referendum on Catalonia’s independence from Spain (October 1st, 2017).

Since Wikipedia is an open encyclopedia, everyone can edit it, but the editor’s IP address is recorded. Thanks to this, we can know that this was edited from the seat of Spain’s Ministry of Defence.

In fact, this IP first went to edit the Spanish-language Wikipedia page for Alcarràs, but since it already didn’t have any reference to the Spanish police’s brutality, it only changed one comma. Then, it went to the Catalan language version of Wikipedia, which did have that reference, and deleted it. It also added that the referendum was “illegal”.

For those who don’t know what happened, Catalonia has been trying to get independence from Spain for a long time. After many years of trying to reach an agreement with the government of Spain to win a bigger amount of autonomy inside of Spain or an independence referendum, Spain always refused any concessions. In 2017, an independence referendum was organized, but Spain declared it illegal and sent the military police to steal the ballot boxes and voting papers before the day of the referendum. Catalonia became the most militarized place in Europe because of all the Spanish military police sent here. The materials had to be sneaked in in secret and distributed to all the towns and cities without being discovered. Printing places, newspapers, businesses and even people’s houses were searched by the police, but all the country was organized and managed to have the ballot boxes and papers in every voting centre.

On the day of the referendum (October 1st 2017), the Spanish police showed up to the voting centres, violently attacked the schools, beat up the voters, and stole the ballot boxes full of votes when they could. People protected the votes with their bodies, and more than 1,000 people had to be attended by emergency healthcare services as a result of the injuries caused by the brutality of the Spanish police. Still, there wasn’t enough police for the whole country, and most places could vote.

At the end of the day, slightly more than half of the population elegible to vote in Catalonia had voted, but since some of the votes were stolen by the Spanish police, the votes that could be counted amounted to the 43% of the population. 90.18% of the votes were “yes to independence”, 7.89% were “no”, 1.98% were blank, and 0.86% were null (source).

Alcarràs is a small town, where about 5,000 people were elegible to vote. More than 80 military policemen arrived to Alcarràs to stop the voting from taking place. They reached the voting centre, where they found over 500 people peacefully protecting it with their bodies, stopping the police from entering it. Then, the police brutally attacked them, leaving 20 people injured.

But at this moment, I want to remember the people of Alcarràs with a video of the people protecting the voting centre against the police. You can see how people are pressed together and don’t let the police push forward, while they shout “no passareu” (you shall not pass), “fora” (out!), and “votarem” (we will vote).

Full clip (11 minutes) here. October 1st 2017, Alcarràs.

Don’t let them erase it. Remember what happened and the power that an organized people have.

(Sources in English: CatalanNews, Vilaweb)

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a-fnan · 8 months

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Alcarràs (2022) dir: Carla Simón

#alcarràs #2022 #carla simón #movie #films #women directors #spain #Andrea Koch #cinemetography #فيلم اليوم

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cinematicjourney · 2 years

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Summer 1993 (2017) | dir. Carla Simón

#summer 1993 #estiu 1993 #carla simón #laia artigas #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

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genevieveetguy · 1 year

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- No one loves me here. - I love you.

Summer 1993 (Estiu 1993), Carla Simón (2017)

#Carla Simón #Laia Artigas #Paula Robles #Bruna Cusí #David Verdaguer #Fermí Reixach #Montse Sanz #Isabel Rocatti #Berta Pipó #Santiago Racaj #Pau Boïgues #Ernest Pipó #Didac Palou #Ana Pfaff #2017 #woman director

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filmap · 8 months

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Alcarràs Carla Simón. 2022

Club Cam. Sotet, 2, 22520 Fraga, Huesca, Spain See in map

See in imdb

#carla simón #alcarràs #club #florida 135 #mural #albert bosch #teddy bear #movie #cinema #fraga #huesca #spain #film #location #google maps #street view #2022

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petxina · 2 years

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Alcarràs by Carla Simón (2022) / pictures by lluistudela

#these are so pretty <3 #alcarràs #carla simón #coses de la terra

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cristalconnors · 1 month

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BEST FILMS of 2023, pt. 1

Honorable Mentions: Asteroid City, dir. Wes Anderson / Evil Dead Rise, dir. Lee Cronin / Kokomo City, dir. D. Smith / M3GAN, dir. Gerard Johnstone / Monica, dir. Andrea Pallaoro / Queens of the Qing Dynasty, dir. Ashley McKenzie / R.M.N., dir. Cristian Mungiu / Rye Lane, dir. Raine Allen-Miller / Showing Up, dir. Kelly Reichardt / War Pony, dir. Gina Gammell and Riley Keough

Also: pt. 2 / pt. 3 / pt. 4

30. A THOUSAND AND ONE, dir. A.V. Rockwell

29. THE BOY AND THE HERON, dir. Hayao Miyazaki

28. ALL OF US STRANGERS, dir. Andrew Haigh

27. ALCARRÁS, dir. Carla Simón

26. INFINITY POOL, dir. Brandon Cronenberg

25. PAST LIVES, dir. Celine Song

24. OCCUPIED CITY, dir. Steve McQueen

23. FULL TIME, dir. Éric Gravel

22. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, dir. Mstyslav Chernov

21. STONEWALLING, dir. Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka

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moviemosaics · 11 months

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Alcarràs

directed by Carla Simón, 2022

#Alcarràs #Carla Simón #movie mosaics #Jordi Pujol Dolcet #Ainet Jounou #Albert Bosch #Josep Abad #Xènia Roset #Berta Pipó #Anna Otin

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scenesandscreens · 10 months

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Alcarràs (2022)

Director - Carla Simón, Cinematography - Daniela Cajías

"We're too close to the sun!"

#scenesandscreens #alcarràs #Carla Simón #Jordi Pujol Dolcet #Anna Otin #Xènia Roset #Albert Bosch #Ainet Jounou #Josep Abad #Montse Oró #Carles Cabós #Berta Pipó

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nuovocparadiso · 2 years

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Alcarràs (2022).

— dir. Carla Simón • dop: Daniela Cajías.

#Alcarràs (2022)#Carla Simón #Daniela Cajías #cinematography #spanish cinema

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 1 year

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Carta a mi madre para mi hijo (Carla Simón, 2022)

#Carta a mi madre para mi hijo #Carla Simón #Carla Simon #short film #quote #film #cinema #invention #Letter to My Mother for My Son #2022 #death

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useless-catalanfacts · 2 years

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Sorry if you've been asked this before, but I couldn't find any posts about it. What are Catalan movies you'd recommend? Not matter if there is a translation or not

Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006), dir. Manuel Huerga. (In Catalan and Spanish). A real story about the events that led to the execution of Salvador Puig Antich, a young Catalan anarchist who was the last political prisoner sentenced to death by the Francoist dictatorship, in 1974. (Available on Filmin).

Herois [Heroes] (2010), dir. Pau Freixas. The protagonist remembers the best summer of his childhood, with a plot that runs parallel to her present. A beautiful and nostalgic film about friendship, adventure, first love, and memories that can move you to affect the present. (Available on Prime Video and Filmin).

Pa negre [Black Bread] (2010), dir. Agustí Villaronga. Cinema adaptation of best-selling books by Emili Teixidor, it starts with a murder. From there, it's a dark drama and mystery story that focuses on the relations between family members in a village in 1940, the post-war period, through the eyes of a child. (Available on Filmin).

Fènix 11·23 (2012), dir. Joel Joan. This drama movie tells the real story of Èric Bertran, a 14-year-old Catalan boy who was arrested for terrorism for having sent an email in 2004. (Available on Filmin, can be rented on AppleTV).

Barcelona, nit d'estiu [Barcelona, summer night] (2013), dir. Dani de la Orden. Romantic comedy of six love stories that meet on a summer night. It was very successful and has a sequel called Barcelona, nit d'hivern [Barcelona, winter night] (2015). (Available for free on RTVE Play).

El mètode Grönholm [The Grönholm Method] (2015). TV movie adaptation of a comedy theatre play, a group of aspirants meet for a job interview but are asked to do very unconventional things. As time goes on, they see that maybe there were more secrets between the characters than there seemed. It's funny and unexpected. (Available for free on TV3 a la carta).

Incerta Glòria [Uncertain Glory] (2017), dir. Agustí Villaronga. Cinema adaptation of the best-seller book by Joan Sales, it's the story of three friends who fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War and who are in love with the same woman. (Available on Netflix).

Estiu 1993 [Summer 1993] (2017), dir. Carla Simón. A 6-year-old girl has to move in with her aunt, uncle and cousin after her parents die. Even though she is welcomed and treated well, she has difficulty adapting to her new life. This is an artistic film that was even selected for the Oscars, but be aware that it's one of the most "European artsy cinema"-style ones here. (Available for free under the Spanish name "Verano 1993" on RTVE Play).

Jean-François i el sentit de la vida [Jean-François and the Meaning of Life] (2018), dir. Sergi Portabella. A lonely 13-year-old boy finds a copy of The Myth of Sisyphus by the French philosopher Albert Camus and decides to run away to Paris to meet him, not knowing he's dead. On the way, he meets a girl who will accept to run away with him but has her own motives. (Available on Filmin and for free on RTVE Play).

El nom [The Name] (2018), dir. Joel Joan. Movie adaptation of a comedy theatre play, five friends meet for dinner and talk about two of them who will soon have a child. The witty chatter becomes a fight when the father-to-be says the child will be called "Adolf, like that man with the moustache". (Available for free on TV3 a la carta).

La vampira de Barcelona [The Barcelona Vampiress] (2020), dir. Lluís Danés. A dark story once again based on a real one. In the early 20th-century Barcelona, the investigation on a mentally-unstable woman accused of kidnapping children to sell them or harvest their organs will take a journalist through the poorest streets, brothels and secrets of the Raval quarter. (TW for child abuse & sexual assault. Not a happy film but it's worth watching). (Available on Movistar+).

Alcarràs (2022), dir. Carla Simón. Filmed not with professional actors but with the real inhabitants of Alcarràs whose story is being told, this film shows the story of a family of farmers. After generations of working the same fields, they are told they must leave because the land will be confiscated to install solar panels. A realistic rural drama about the loss of agriculture, based on the real experiences of rural people in Western Catalonia. This film has received many international awards and won the Berlinale Film Festival, but once again be aware it's probably the most "European artistic cinema" film of this list. (Can be rented on many services).

I've added what streaming platform they're in for an international audience (though sometimes it changes country to country), but if you have a library card from Catalonia they're available for free on the digital platform ebibliocat.efilm.info.

#cinema #arts #ask #anonymous #català #coses de la terra #cinema català #catalan cinema #european cinema #film recommendations #world cinema #carla simón

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kansassire · 2 years

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