La Mirada - Jewels of Spanish Cinema
Always Blue Days
(Siempre Dias Azules)
Mon 5 Mar 7pm Australian Premiere followed by Question and Answer session
Screened with the short film "The Cradle Of Air"
Cradle Of Air
(En La Cuna Del Aire)
Rodolfo Montero De Palacio, 11 min, Spain 2005, Documentary.
In a foggy and cold village of the north of Spain, four rural children, the only ones that are in the town, speak from their dreams to the camera. The four children like their life in the field; their animals, their families, their freedom. The four yearn to continue being rural of bigger, as their parents, as their grandparents.
Will they be able to carry out their dream? Or, they will see die their town while they go away?
Winner Best Documentary Short Goya Awards 2006
Always Blue Days
(Siempre Dias Azules)
Israel Sanchez Prieto, 75 min, Spain 2005, Documentary.
This deeply moving documentary depicts the story of Isabel and Asuncion, two women opposed in many things but each determined to close an open wound of the past. During the Franco regime they were unable to visit the place where their loved ones had been buried. During the transition, they were entreated silence and patience. Then it was argued that it was time to forgive and forget. In 2002, Isabel and Asunción were able to open the graves where their brothers’ bones had been cast. They had made this promise to their parents, and now in their nineties, they haven’t much time left, nor are they willing to listen to more excuses.
Like Isabel and Asunción, many people continue looking for their loved ones. They lend a human quality to the debate on historical memory which is quite often limited to the political and intellectual sphere.
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