Continuing Cines del Sur’s Open Screenings shows, today Friday June 19th at 22:30 in the Plaza de las Pasiegas, the Indian director Sooni Taraporevala will present her film debut, Little Zizou as part of the Itineraries Section.
was born in Mumbai – then known as Bombay (India) in 1957. In 1979, she completed her studies in English Literature, Film and Photography at Harvard University. After post-graduate work in Film Studies at the University of New York, she returned to India to work as a freelance photographer. She has had exhibits in India, the United States, France and Great Britain. Her first film screenplay, written for the film Salaam Bombay!, was enormously successful, and allowed her to devote herself to writing screenplays for a long time in which she collaborated with directors and producers until she returned to India in 1993. In 2000, she published a compilation of her photographic works entitled, Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India – A Photographic Journey.
The film Little Zizou follows the steps of Xerxes, who is known as ‘little Zizou’, an 11-year-old Parsi boy who is mad about football and fervently dreams that his idol Zinedine Zidane will visit Mumbai. His older brother is a gifted artist, full of fantasies that he brings to reality in the most surprising way imaginable. His father, Khodaiji, is a self-proclaimed protector of the faith, moved by a desire for power, who enjoys the attention (and donations) of hopeful believers. Art is crazy in (unrequited) love for the daughter of Khodaiji’s archrival, Pressvala, a free-thinking journalist. Conflict breaks out when Pressvala writes a biting criticism of the aspiring prophet Khodaiji and the public reacts en masse.
Continuing Cines del Sur’s Open Screenings shows, on Thursday June 18th at 22:00 in the Palacio de los Córdova (Cuesta del Chapiz), the singer and director Fermín Muguruza and the diector Javier Corcuera will present their latest film, Checkpoint Rock: Songs from Palestine.
The film takes us on a journey to a territory which is the object of the whole world’s attention, but about which almost nothing is known.
What music gives a voice and melody to this mythic place? Who are its most representative performers and how do they live? What do they think about the unique fate that they are destined to live and how do they address it in their lyrics and tunes?
The film ranges from the advertisements and neon of Tel Aviv to the poverty and despair of the occupied territories on the West Bank, to the large concentration camp that the Gaza Strip has become. With Checkpoint Rock: Songs from Palestine, Fermín Muguruza and Javier Corcuera present a journey that will change our view of this people in conflict.
Un año más diferentes espacios de la ciudad se convierten en grandes salas de cine al aire libre.
Desde hoy y hasta el viernes 19 a partir de las 22:30 horas, la Plaza de las Pasiegas, el Corral del Carbón y el Palacio de los Córdova se iluminarán por la magia del cine.
Hoy lunes 15 en la Plaza de las Pasiegas se proyectará la película Dada’s Dance. En principio se anunció la presencia de su director, Zhang Yuan, para introducir la película, pero finalmente no ha podido viajar a Granada por motivos profesionales.
La Alhambra será esta noche el telón de fondo de la pantalla abierta del Palacio de los Córdova,
que se inaugura con la película india Ghajini.
En el Corral del Carbón comenzarán las proyecciones de la sección a competición Mediterráneos, que también se podrán ver en el Pabellón de Al-Ándalus y la Ciencia (Parque de las Ciencias). Esta noche, la película palestina South.
