This Saturday the Palmares of the Malaga Festival is delivered. His films are already arriving at the rooms and starting to populate the plans for this rainy weekend. But it should be stopped in this edition, in which for the first time there are more women than men in the official section to competition. 13 of 22. It is historical, yes, but it cannot be an exception. If this year it has been possible, it could have been done before. And, of course, that it must continue to occur. Not only in Malaga, but in all other festivals.
The other reflection comes after watching the films of the directors who have passed through Malaga. I wish those ‘lords’ who say all women make the same film. To those ‘lords’ who speak of the ‘Empordà cinema’ as a derogatory term to refer to Catalan filmmakers. What has been seen in Malaga is that they are the ones that are bringing fresh air and other looks. Looks that are political and poetic.
And be careful, because here comes something very important. The change they have brought also affects them. Ten years ago it would have been impossible to find films led by men who talk about conciliation and rethink paternity. Last week he arrived Wolfgang (Extraordinary). This does The aitas “That has also gone through Malaga. Changes in Spanish cinema have to go through us all. While those changes arrive, I leave you with this week’s plans for those who want to protect themselves from time watching movies, exhibitions, or at home reading books or listening to songs.
Three books, by Francisco Gámiz
‘Select Tales’ by Irène Némirovsky (Edhasa). Despite his murder in Auschwitz, Irène Némirovsky’s literature has resisted time and has found decades later the recognition he deserved. The French language writer born in kyiv, in a Jewish bourgeois family, returns to Spanish bookstores with Selected storiesa collection of stories that reflects the evolution of its pen and its ability to portray the nuances of human nature. The work, with the prologue of the Argentine writer and journalist Pola Oloixarac, brings together from her first publications in magazines to the written texts under pseudonym to avoid anti -Semitic censorship. In bookstores since March 20.
‘The wind’ by Guillermo Saccomanno (Alfaguara) will burn. “What is a fascist? A bourgeois scared,” said the writer Saccomanno at the press conference of the Alfaguara 2025 prize failure, which awarded the Argentine for his work The wind will burn. In times when the international political situation is not hopeful, Saccomanno has been highlighted by the jury for a novel in which he shows his “need to honor the word” and “recover the coastal people”, serving the literature of help against restlessness. The Argentine author tells a community that “works and operates” as a metaphor for the “human condition” and the “world in which we live”, and thus claim the value of “listening to the street.” In this way, the novel walks around prejudices, hidden desires, superstitions, fears and violence. In bookstores since March 20.
‘The Atelier on Lagasca Street’ by Lucía Chacón (Editions B). Lucía Chacón closes her trilogy Seven sewing needles with a novel that claims the importance of female ties and shared spaces. The saga has been characterized by its ability to convert a sewing workshop into a symbol of sorority and resistance, as well as in a place where the protagonists find support, strength and second opportunities. In this last installment, the author maintains that essence, exploring the lives of women who are sustained and accompanied in the most difficult moments. In bookstores since March 20.
Three films, by Javier Zurro
‘Los Aitas’. Borja Cobeaga is one of our best screenwriters. Here bets on a tone closer to Alexander Payne to tell the story of a whole generation of men who, of course, were not good parents. A reflection on paternity and male roles full of tenderness and with a wonderful cast with Juan Diego Botto in front.
‘Mercy’. A crime in a town is all that the French director Alain Guiraudie needs to nail his scalpel in the false morals of the Church and of the whole society. A thriller that could be a rural version of the Theorem from Pasolini and who drinks the best chabrol. Ojito that Albert Serra produces.
‘The needle girl’. Magnus von Horn is one of the directors to take into account in European cinema. He demonstrated it with his previous film, Sweata look at the influencers, and with this film he competed in the official section of Cannes. Maybe sometimes passes from cruel and truculent, but its aesthetic bet is worth it.
Three songs, by Francisco Gámiz
‘Mega Circuit’ by Japanese Breakfast. The most pleasant surprise of this first quarter of the year is starred by Japanese Breakfast, who has just taken out his fourth studio album, For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women). The album, which proceeds to the fabulous album nominated for the Grammy Jubilee (2021), is the new wonder of the Pop Indie project of the American Michelle Zauner. One of the great songs of work is Mega Circuitthat the artist describes as “a kind of examination of contemporary masculinity”, thus exploring “the conflicting desire to embrace a generation that, in the absence of positive references, has found refuge in violence and fanaticism.” Listen to it.
‘Walk Home’ by Bon Iiver. On April 11 it is published Saber, FableBon Iiver’s new album, which cannot be better painted after the launch of this captivating and absorbing advance. The song, which plays with the distortion of the voice, evokes the magic of taking refuge in someone when the “heart feels strong” and becomes essential to “let the light in.” Together with other songs that we already know of the album as the amusement If only i could waitthe countdown to make the one that can become the great classic of the Bon Iiver’s discography is increasingly closer to getting to an end. Listen to it.
‘Sunset Blvd’ by Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco. After a full year for Selena Gomez for her role in the movie Emilia Pérez and the series Only murders in the buildingthe actress and singer recognized during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival that it would be “very difficult to return to music.” He did it, just a few days later, announce a collaborative album with producer Benny Blanco, his partner. “I always deceive you, guys,” Gomez laughed on social networks. The album, from this Friday in the market, presents interesting songs such as Sunset Blvdwhere Selena Gomez sings “with open arms” in a chorus that is impossible to get out of the head. Listen to it.
Three plans for the weekend (and next days), by Laura G. Higueras
‘Almudena’ (San Sebastián). The same week in which the Malaga Festival has hosted the premiere of Almudena, the documentary that collects the latest images of the writer who died in 2021, reviewing her life and showing her commitment as something inseparable in her life and her work; Tabakalera will host this Saturday the presentation and reading of the poems book that takes its same title, by Luis García Montero. The Granada has collected in this book all the poems he wrote to his partner between 1994 and the year of his death.
Shadow Festival (Murcia). The Regional Film Library and the Mediterranean Foundation are celebrating this week the 14th European Fantastic Film Festival in Murcia, which has 25 films and 22 short films in its programming, along with activities, talks and retrospective. John McTiernan, responsible for classics as Crystal jungle, predator and Red October hunting It is the great star of the edition, which also pays tribute to actor Javier Botet, who presents his latest film, Halloween stories.
Cowboy Bebop Live! (Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas). Fans of the famous anime series are in luck if you are a weekend by the Canary Islands, since the Black Gender Tenerife Noir festival will include in its programming the concerts of the soundtrack of fiction. The recitals, interpreted by the Canarian Big Band formation of the Canary Islands, will have the presence of its Japanese composer Yoko Kanno, on their first visit to Spain.
Three exhibitions, by Jordi Sabaté
Bint a Balad. ‘Bint al Balad ‘in Spanish means “countrywoman.” This is the title that doctors of the world have wanted to give to the exhibition of images of photographer Zaragonaza Maysum, in which the artist recounts the daily life of Palestinian women. The exhibition illustrates the different roles of women in the historical and political context of Palestine from the perspective of “generational trauma for the lost land” and can be seen until next April 20 at the Barjola Museum in Gijón.
Zurbarán (on) natural. The National Museu d’Art de Catalunya, (MNAC), the Musée Des Beaux Arts de Lyon and the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston collaborate in this exhibition that will bring together the three versions of ‘San Francisco de Asís for the first time according to the vision of Pope Nicholas V’, a top work of Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664). The sample is born from the Catalan Museum Volunz to show the version that it has in property after being subject to a deep restoration process that has allowed to recover its original appearance and bring to light details hidden by the passage of time. From March 21 to June 29, 2025.
In situ: Refik anadol. The Guggenheim Center of Bilbao hosts until October 19 an innovative audiovisual installation that reimagines the architectural legacy of Frank Gehry through artificial intelligence (AI) and generative art. It is a development of the study of the Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol, who works with a personalized model of AI, trained for months with a wide number of images, sketches and free access plans in order to translate Gehry’s architectural vocabulary in dynamic forms, colors and movements in constant evolution. Currently at the Batlló house in Barcelona you can also enjoy its installation ‘Gaudi’s Dreams’.
Book Recommendations
In a week full of rain the books have accompanied us. In bookcotea they have been recommending new titles, some classic and slope of all literary news. These are your recommendations:
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