Monday 02/07/07 · 22.00 h.

C.R.A.Z.Y. (Jean-Marc Vallée), Canada, 2005, 127 minutes

Zac is born in a working-class family in the 1960s. His childhood is fairly happy. He lives with his four brothers a succession of family gatherings with Aznavour's music playing in the background. Zac shares a special link with his father. Trying to avoid breaking this link, he will try to deny his homosexuality dating one of his old girlfriends.
Surprising and well-awarded comedy produced by a cinematographically dynamic country.

21.00 h · Kaulakau, fusion jazz

Wednesday 04/07/07 · 22.15 h.

El abrazo partido (Daniel Burman), Argentina, 2004, 99 minutes

Ariel lives in Argentina, a country ruined after decades of corruption and criminal organizations. Many of his friends start migrating to Europe but Ariel stays in his homeland. His father, a hero, has just returned after leaving his family to fight for his ideals.
Argentinean film that tackles how the personality is build through little details and gatherings.

21.00 h · Quarteto Sur, jazz-fusion
22.00 h · Casa (Manuel Sánchez Muñoz, 2006)

Friday 06/07/07 · 22.15 h.

Singin’ in the rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly), USA, 1952, 103 minutes

Don Lockwood, a silent movie star, has everything: talent, fortune and the love of the audience. Don meets Kathy and falls in love with her desperately. It's the end of the silent era and the beginning of the sound films and Don wants to film his musicals with Kathy, but Lina Lamont will try to stop them.
A film about the birth of sound films with legendary choreographies and an iconic scene under the rain.

21.00 h · Las Migas, flamenco
22.00 h · Cirugía (Alberto Gonzàlez Vàzquez, 2006)

Monday 09/07/07 · 22.00 h.

Racing Bull (Martin Scorsese), USA, 1980, 129 minutes

The rise and fall of the legendary boxer Jake la Motta. The movie portrays his early escape from misery, becoming the middleweight world champion and his decline, turned into his own caricature.
Scorsese's masterpiece, recorded in an astonishing black and white, and mute witness of the Academy's disdain to him not awarding it with a more than deserved award. Best Actor Oscar for Robert de Niro.

21.00 h · Tazzuff, traditional music

Wednesday 11/07/07 · 22.15 h.

Walk on water (Eytan Fox), Israel, 2004, 103 minutes

Eyal is a Mossad agent with license to kill. His mission is to locate a nazi officer that might be alive. In order to achieve his objectives he becomes friends with Axel (the nazi officer's grandson), a liberal young man that arrives to Israel to meet his sister Pia.
A merciless movie that portrays the relationship between two young men with different origins and mentalities, and denounces the ways of the ideological dogmatisms at the service of the state.

21:00 h · Jazz Montjuïc
22.00 h · FOR(r)EST IN THE DES(s)ERT (Luiso Berdejo, 2006)

Friday 13/07/07 · 22.00 h.

Phantom of the Opera (Rupert Julian), USA, 1925, 90-95 minutes

Eric is in love with Christine, a girl with a beautiful voice, whom he promises to make the Prima Donna of Paris Opera. But Eric is a strange person, halfway between legend and reality, who hides in the catacombs like a phantasmagorical presence that terrifies the theatre and its employees.
MHistorical adaptation to silent cinema of the Gaston Leroux novel, featuring Lon Chaney, the man of a thousand faces.
The screening at Sala Montjuïc will feature the Liceu Orchestra playing during the movie.

21:00 h · Quartet Catalonia, soundtracks

Monday 16/07/07 · 22.15 h.

Leonard does not know who his friends are; he even ignores who he is himself. But he has a goal to achieve: find his wife's murderer and avenge her. But to do so he has to overcome the obstacles of amnesia, which makes him forget his immediate memories. In order to remember essential facts he documents himself with Polaroid and tattoos.
Film narrated with inverse chronology through a series of flashbacks. Awarded many prizes, the movie gave impulse to the career of Christopher Nolan, one of the most interesting filmmakers in the USA.

21.00h. · Anahata, hindu-fusion
22.00h. · Amar (Esteban Crespo, 2006)

Wednesday 18/07/06 · 22.15 h.

Dance of the Vampires, (Roman Polanski), USA-UK, 1967, 108 minutes

The eccentric professor Abronsius and his young assistant Fred depart to Transylvania to prove right the theories of the scientist, that claim the existence of vampires. The region's inhabitants ignore the existence of vampires, although they are neighbours of the sinister Count Von Krolock.
Polanski pays homage to the vampire sub-genre with humorous tone, with a worrying atmosphere, memorable music and outstanding interpretation of Sharon Tate.

21:00 h ·Jazz Montjuïc
22:00 h ·Violeta, la pescadora del Mar Negro (Anna Solanas and Marc Riba, 2006)

Friday 20/07/07 · 22.15 h.

The Corpse Bride (Tim Burton), USA, 2005, 76 minutes

A little village in Victorian England. Victor falls in hell where he marries a mysterious corpse bride, while his fiancée awaits him on earth. The existence in the world of the dead is more stimulating and exciting than the sad world of those who are alive, but nothing can stop Victor from reuniting again with his fiancée.
New work of Burton in the field of animation, with an environment and characters that explore the filmmaker's singular universe.

21.00h. · Mystère Trio, zingar swing, afrojazz and flamenco.
22.00h. · El Viaje de Saïd (Coke Riobóo, 2006)

Monday 23/07/07 · 22.00 h.

Head-On (Fatih Akin), Germany, 2004, 121 minutes

Cahit, a Turkish-German in his forties, leads a destructive life with hard drugs and alcohol. After attempting to commit suicide he ends up in a hospital, where he meets Sibel, also a Turkish-German who attempted to commit suicide to escape from a concerted marriage. Sibel asks Cahit to marry her to solve her situation.
Strong and passionate first work about the lack of roots in one's own country. Awarded with the golden bear in the 2004 Berlinale..

21.00h. · Vilnetz, klezmer music

Wednesday 25/07/07 · 22.15 h.

Hong Kong 1962. Chow and his wife settle in a building inhabited by ordinary people from Shanghai. There, Chow finds Li Chun, an attractive young woman that has just settled down there. The absence, for long periods, of their respective partners will turn the casual encounters in more than just a friendship.
Cult film, of suggestive sensuality, that made the director's fame transcend all over the world, turning him in an icon of the diverse and refreshing cinema that comes from the Asia.

21.00h. · Jazz Montjuïc
22.00h. · Náufragos (Claudi Lichtenstein, 2006)

Friday 27/07/07 · 22.15 h.

The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry), France, 2006, 105 minutes

Stéphane, a young artist, arrives in Paris with his head full of dreams. His mother finds him a boring job in a publishing company. Disappointed with his situation Stéphane takes shelter in his immense imagination and dreams, until he meets Stéphanie, a young neighbour that will share his fantasy world.
This new work of Michel Gondry proves him very able to narrate and film a very particular dream world and romanticism, out of social conventions.

21.00h. · Marcelo Mercadante, tango
22.00h. · La Tierra Yerma (Alfred Vera, 2006)

Friday 03/08/07 · 22.15 h.

The most voted film: Old boy (Chan-wook Park, 2005)

21.00h. · Adriana López, chill-out music
22.00h. · DIAPORAMA by the photographers' network Picturetank

24.00h. · Closure party with IOIO

Alter the film, photographers of the Picturetank network invite you to experience the landing of IOIO (www.ioio.fr), a vehicle for images. IOIO is a mobile device for projecting images, a molecular structure used as a source and a support for a wide array of visual and sound experiences. With photographs taken directly during the festival and a sound spatialisation by Adriana López and RMSonce.