The Lanzarote Film Festival once again brings the best cinema to the island's seven municipalities. Next Saturday, November 7, the Playa Honda Civic Center will be transformed into a cinema hall to present Montxo Armendariz's Secretos del corazón and Robert Altman's unforgettable western, The Long Goodbye, on Sunday, November 8. The tour will continue on Tuesday the 10th at the Casa Benito Pérez Armas in Yaiza with another western: Tombstone, and on Thursday the 12th with Guarapo, the feature film with which the Ríos brothers will analyze the cruelty of village chieftains in the Canary Islands. Two days later, on Saturday the 14th, the mythical horror film Children of the Corn will arrive at the Tinajo Theater, while on November 15, El camino can be seen. All sessions will begin at 7:00 PM.
The 16th Lanzarote Film Festival, dedicated to the theme "Villages", proposes to share films and converse with people who know their stories up close. Directors, specialists, and filmmakers' relatives will accompany many of the films to open new ways of looking at them with the public.
In Playa Honda, Montxo Armendáriz's Secretos del corazón will bring Javi, a boy who begins to understand the silences surrounding his father's death, closer to the audience. The next day, Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye will show the cruel and violent birth of a mining community in the American West and the dreams of those who try to prosper in it. This second session will feature David Río Raigadas, Professor of North American Literature at the University of the Basque Country and a specialist in Western American literature and culture. His participation will allow for a deeper understanding of the stories and conflicts that the western has told about these territories.
David Río will also accompany the screening of George P. Cosmatos' Tombstone in Yaiza. The film follows the Earp brothers in a town where promises of fortune coexist with the dominance of an armed gang.
The second event in Yaiza will feature Guarapo along with its directors, Teodoro and Santiago Ríos, responsible for a fundamental film in the history of Canarian cinema. The brothers will share with the public a work that approaches emigration through Benito, a day laborer who dreams of traveling to Venezuela, torn between the need to leave and the affections that bind him to his village.
In Tinajo, Children of the Corn, by Fritz Kiersch, will turn a town surrounded by crops into a terrifying setting. The screening will feature Luis Pérez Ochando, a professor at the University of Valencia and a researcher specializing in horror films, whose insights will help explore the fears that run through the film.
For its part, The Road, by Ana Mariscal, will feature David García, the director's son and involved in the recovery and dissemination of her work. Based on the novel by Miguel Delibes, the film tells the story of a boy who must leave his village to study in the city. His presence will also allow us to approach the legacy of one of the pioneering women of Spanish cinema.
This year the screenings will be offered in Spanish to facilitate access to a wider audience with free admission until full capacity is reached.
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