2020

CULTURAL AGENDA

October, November, December

ESPAÑOL

Cultural Department

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INDEX

CV´S CENL 2020

SPINOZA

CONFERENCE:

LUIS LANDERO

AMSTERDAM SPANISH

FILM FESTIVAL

HUMAN RIGHTS

FILM FESTIVAL 04

01 Science and Life Experiences of Spanish Scientists in the Netherlands

October 16th, 2020, webinar

The Embassy of Spain once again collaborates with “CV’s CENL”, which will be organized on October 16, 2020, by the

Association of Spanish Scientists in the Netherlands (CENL). The second edition of this event on Spanish science in the

Netherlands will take place online via Zoom. It is aimed at Spanish students and scientists living and working in the

Netherlands, or with an interest in establishing themselves here.

Four Spanish scientists working in this country will talk about their personal and professional journey since their arrival, in a

professional and enjoyable context. This event will help to connect Spanish scientists in the Netherlands, to give visibility to

their work and generate personal references to newcomers or people with new professional objectives in this country.

On this occasion the speakers are: Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez (Wageningen University & Research), María Bruquetas-

Callejo (Radboud University Nijmegen), María Ángeles Fernández Ibáñez (University of Amsterdam, UvA) and Daniel

Blanco Ania (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Membership of CENL is not required to attend this event. Any person interested in this event can participate, regardless of

nationality or profession.

For more information please check the website of CENL.

CV´S CENL

2020

02 AMSTERDAM SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL

02 28 October to 1 November 2020

The sixth edition of the Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival (ASFF), organized by audio visual platform Sin Fin Cinema, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in The Hague

and other Spanish institutions and companies, will take place from 28 October to 1 November. This year the ASFF, that had to be postponed in May due to the outbreak of

COVID-19, will be held in the Pathé Tuschinski and Eye Filmmuseum cinemas in Amsterdam, taking into account all the necessary new health measures. It will then travel,

between November 4 and 8, 2020, to the Lantarenvenster and Pathé Schouwburgplein cinemas in Rotterdam, and, for the first time, also to the Pathé Buitenhof cinema in The

Hague. The festival aims to connect Dutch audiences to Spanish cinema, showing a great selection of recently released films from different genres: thrillers, comedies, dramas,

shorts, documentaries, etc.

“The innocence”, first film by Spanish director Lucía Alemany, will open the ASFF on Wednesday, October 28. Starring Carmen Arrufat, Laia Marull and Sergi López, it explains

the summer of a teenager who becomes pregnant in a small town near Castellón. This movie has received seven nominations for the Gaudí Awards and two for the Goya

Awards. The ASFF will close with "The island of lies" by Paula Cons, a story about three young people who risked their lives to save the survivors of steamboat Santa Isabel’s

shipwreck on the island of Sálvora (Galicia) in 1921.

In the section “Spanish cinema without fear”, that focuses on Spanish and Dutch co-productions, the films by Isabel Lamberti and Vanesa Abajo are worth highlighting. Both

directors grew up in the Netherlands and are based here. Lamberti’s “Last Days of Spring” portrays the Spanish Gabarre-Mendoza family in Cañada Real, a neighborhood with

numerous slums in the outskirts of Madrid. This movie premiered at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival, being one of the 5 films nominated for the VI Spanish

Cooperation Award. Abajo’s "Life is Dream" is an intimate and surrealist story of self-discovery questioning the value of family ties. The film has been selected for the Golden Kalf

Competition (category: large documentaries) of the 40th Dutch Film Festival, which was held from September 25 to October 3, 2020 in the city of Utrecht.

For more information and ticket sales, check the website of the Amsterdam Spanish Film Festival.

AMSTERDAM SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL

03 15th anniversary of the Spinoza Conference: Luis Landero

November 4th, 2020, webinar

The Spinoza Conference is a joint initiative of the Embassy of Spain to The Hague, the Instituto Cervantes in

Utrecht and the University of Amsterdam. Since 2005 it has been a great opportunity to meet renowned

Spanish-speaking writers and thinkers from Spain and Latin America, who lecture about any subject of their

choice.

This year, which also marks the conference’s 15th anniversary, the speaker is the Spanish writer Luis Landero

Durán (Alburquerque, Badajoz, 1948). His lecture entitled “Reader, writer, professor” will guide us along the

path of his literary life. Due to Covid-19, the event this time will not take place at the University of Amsterdam; it

will be livestreamed from the Instituto Cervantes headquarters in Madrid, including the presentation of the book

“15 years of the Spinoza Conference in Amsterdam”. This publication, co-edited by the Embassy of Spain and

the Instituto Cervantes, will collect the lectures delivered to date -including 2020- in a bilingual Spanish-Dutch

version.

Luis Landero studied Hispanic Philology at the Complutense University (Madrid). The success of "Games of

the late age" (Tusquets Editores, 1989), his first novel published when he was over forty years old, allowed him

to devote himself to writing. Landero’s oeuvre has been hailed by critics who mention the influence of

Cervantes and the use of a careful and dense language behind an apparent simplicity. His most recent work is

"Fine Rain" (Tusquets Editores, 2019), considered by many the best Spanish novel of 2019.

For more information please visit the website of the Instituto Cervantes.

SPINOZA

CONFERENCE:

LUIS LANDERO

04 HUMAN RIGHTS FILM

FESTIVAL

Human Rights Film Festival

Barcelona (19-29 November 2020), Madrid (2-8 December 2020) and online

The Human Rights Film Festival will take place this year in two sessions, from November 19 to 29 and from

December 2 to 8. The Festival, which usually has its two venues in Madrid and Barcelona, this time, due to

the circumstances, can also be followed online through its Vimeo channel.

The objectives of this festival are to promote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a declaration

proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris, on December 10, 1948.

Some 50 films in competition will be screened, made by socially engaged filmmakers: productions that stir the

debate about a fair and just world.

The Embassy of Spain in the Netherlands will provide up a link to a new film on its website every Monday and

Friday of the weeks to come.

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FILM FESTIVAL

The films selected are:

- Atroz, by Andrés Orozco (Colombia, 2018)

- Contramaré, by Daniel Marenco (Brazil, 2018)

- Croquetas, by Aitor González Iturbe (Spain, 2018)

- Cuilli & Macuilli, los hijos del jaguar, by Arturo Sánchez del Villar (Mexico, 2019)

- Derechos y humanos, by Ignacio Ibarra (Argentina, 2019)

- Eduardo Galeano Vagamundo, by Felipe Nepomuceno (Brazil, 2018)

- El pozo, by Veysi Altay (Turkey, 2018)

- Espero tu (re) vuelta, by Eliza Capai (Brazil, 2019)

- Los cocineros de la paz en el río Napo, by Esther Petsche y Samuel Schlaefli (Switzerland, 2019)

- Ongietorri, by Fermín Aio (Spain, 2018)

- Oyentes, by Patricio Centorbi (Argentina, 2019)

- Spears from all sides, by Christopher Walker (UEA, 2018)

- Thuis, Home, Heimat, by Miloushka Bokma (Netherlands, 2018)

- Zapatos de Tacón cubano, by Julio Más Alcaráz (Spain, 2019)

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RECOMMENDATIONS

EXHIBITION “PALPABLE SURFACES”

EXHIBITION BY LITA CABELLUT

ONLINE FILM SERIES AT THE INSTITUTO CERVANTES

05 Online Film Series continues at Instituto Cervantes

October to December 2020

This autumn, in collaboration with the Film Library of the Spanish Agency for International Development

Cooperation (AECID), the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht continues the online projection of 3 film series on its

VIMEO channel.

October is about the cycle of short films and documentaries "LGTBI", with cinematographic works from

Spain, Colombia and a documentary in Mexican-American co-production, which record the different

expressions and representations of this group.

In November, the "New cinephilias" series shows a more avant-garde Spanish cinematographic aspect, the

result of experimentation in the digital revolution, as well as the exploration of new narrative models at the

beginning of the 2000s.

To close the year, in December, there will be the cycle "Female shorts", based on the selection of the

winning short films from the different editions of the contest of the same name.

For more information visit the website of the Instituto Cervantes.

ONLINE FILM SERIES

AT INSTITUTO

CERVANTES

06 Modern painting on the Dutch Golden Age, exhibition by Lita Cabellut

3 October 2020 to 31 January 2021, Museum De Zwarte Tulp, Lisse

The Black Tulip Museum (Museum De Zwarte Tulp) in Lisse will present from October 3rd, 2020, to January 31st, 2021,

a series of works by Spanish artist Lita Cabellut. The paintings, drawn from private collections and based on the "black

tulip" theme and the great masters and thinkers of the Dutch Golden Age, combine traditional portrait techniques and

modern applications of oil painting.

Cabellut (1961, Huesca) has received international acclaim for her large-scale canvases. The different figures portrayed

come to life: prostitutes, religious people, historical figures, fictional characters or influential people. Beyond her defining

monumental portraits, Lita Cabellut is also a multi-disciplinary artist whose works include video art, visual poetry,

scenography, drawings, installations and sculptures. Her art has been exhibited all over the world: Barcelona, Seoul,

Seattle, Mumbai, Delhi, Tokyo and Berlin, among others.

In the Netherlands, where she lives and works, exhibitions on her work have been organized in the cities of Den Bosch

(Noord-Brabants Museum, 2013) and Amstelveen (Museum Jan, 2018), among others. Now it is Lisse's turn, where the

"black tulip" theme matches beautifully with the name of the museum and its collection that is dedicated to the cultivation

of flower bulbs, source of inspiration for many artists.

For more information please check the website of Museum De Zwarte Tulp and the artist herself.

EXHIBITION BY

LITA CABELLUT

07 Spanish artist Nora Aurrekoetxea in group exhibition “Palpable Surfaces”

9 to 25 October 2020, Trixie Gallery, The Hague

From October 9 to 25, the exhibition “Palpable Surfaces” will take place, organized by the contemporary art space

Tilde in Amsterdam and Trixie, a gallery in The Hague managed directly by the artists. The exhibition will feature

works by the Spanish artist Nora Aurrekoetxea, as well as other international artists such as Laura Jatkowsky,

Bronwen Jones and Matchteld Rullens.

"Palpable Surfaces" plays with the idea of materiality of artworks, the diversity of materials used and their interaction

with the viewer. The relationship between the material and immaterial make these experiences leave a mark or other

on us.

Nora Aurrekoetxea was born in the Basque Country (Bilbao, 1989), but currently living and working in the

Netherlands.

She was one of the artists that received the ARCO/Community of Madrid Award for Young Artists during this year’s

edition of this contemporary art fair. Nora Aurrekoetxea is interested in philosophical, psychological and sociological

issues related to the emotional aspects of human interactions in intimacy. She uses her own experiences to explore

both the personal and the collective.

For more information please check the website of Trixie and the artist herself.

EXHIBITION

“PALPABLE

SURFACES”