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Film forum session

Marshland has been the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Spanish films in Spain this year. It received ten Goya awards, including best director and film, as well as awards by the Spanish Cinema Writers Circle for best director, film, and leading actor. The Platino Awards for Iberoamerican Cinema distinguished it with the best film award. Marshland is a powerful and relentlessly paced socio-political thriller set up in the mist of the treacherous marshes of the Guadalquivir river, in the south of Spain, where rushed modernity and dark rural traditions intermix in a chaotic environment. Beyond the conventional parameters of its narrative format, the film argues for the reassertion of collective critical memory in a society intent on dismissing the traumas of a repressive past for the sake of consensual amnesia and moral appeasement. The film will be presented in the O.V. in Spanish, with English subtitles.

Discussion panel after the film:

William Carr, Spanish and Portuguese
Diego Fernández, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Gonzalo Navajas, Spanish and Portuguese

Admission is free