VÍNCULO, LA LLAMADA DEL PINGÜINO
Batiste Miguel / España / 2024 / 64′
Sunday 17 Nov | 17:00 | Free admission
C.C. Antiguo Instituto (Assembly hall)
As a child, after being brutally attacked by the outside world, he learned to live encapsulated in a glass bell. His only companion: Pondus, a book starring a penguin.
Fifty years later, writer Alejandro Palomas meets Josabel Belliure, a biologist who has been studying penguin behaviour for more than twenty years. Together they decide to embark on a journey to the end of the world. Perhaps discovering the link with nature will set him free. The last answer at the End of the World.
Q&A: After the screening, the director Batiste Miguel and the actor Alejandro Palomaswilll share their experiences and reflections on the documentary with the audience.
ESTAMOS DE CINE – CISLAN
Mon Nov 18 | 19:30 | Entrada libre
Escuela de Comercio (Assembly hall)
The students of the CIFP of Communication, Image and Sound of Langreo will present
within the framework of FICX, their latest audiovisual pieces, produced and carried out
as part of their academic activity. The screening will be organised and presented by the
students themselves, with the assistance of all the educational community, where they
will also participate in a Q&A with the audience after the screening. For many of them,
it will be their debut at a professional festival, a trial by fire with their own work on the
big screen.
HOSPITAL CABUEÑES
Mon Nov 18 | 17:30
The Cabueñes Hospital seeks to link the health system and the city, thus integrating its activity to actively participate in the hospital. This collaboration with the FICX aims that patients who are admitted, to the extent of their possibilities, as well as professionals and their families, can participate in the three screenings that the festival decided to locate at the hospital. The films will be shown in original version with subtitles and admission is free until full capacity is reached.
Projection
¡LINDA QUIERE POLLO!
Chiara Malta, Sébastien Laudenbach / Francia, Italia / 2023 / 73′ / Spanish dubbed version
25 ANIVERSARIO DEL MUSEO DEL FERROCARRIL DE ASTURIAS
Marcos M. Merino / España / 2023 / 69′
Wednesday 20 Nov | 18:30 | Free admission
C.C. Antiguo Instituto (Assembly hall)
We celebrate the 25 th anniversary of the Asturias Railway Museum, located in the
historic Estación del Norte in Gijón. This documentary traces the challenges that made
the museum possible and its impact on the transformation of the western part of
Gijón. With unpublished images and testimonies of more than thirty protagonists, we
explore its evolution and its recognition as a benchmark in the conservation of
European railway heritage. In the words of its director, Javier Fernández: ‘This is a
museum of people: made by and for people’.
Q&A: After the screening, the director Marcos Merino will share his experiences and
reflections on the documentary with the audience.
NOS TOCA A TODAS. VIOLENCIA CONTRA LA MUJER EN LA INDUSTRIA AUDIOVISUAL
Wednesday 20 Nov | 19:00 | Free admission
Escuela de Comercio (Assembly hall)
The CIMA Delegation in Asturias, in collaboration with the Asturian Women’s Institute, is organising the round table discussion entitled Nos toca a todas. Violence against women in the audiovisual industry. The round table will feature Almudena Carracedo, film director; Emma González, expert in gender violence; Sofía Castañón, film director and former Member of Parliament for Asturias; and Victoria Carbajal, coordinator of the Crisis Centre for victims of sexual aggression. The moderator will be Marián Moreno, writer and teacher and expert in coeducation.
Projection: NO ESTÁS SOLA | Almudena Carracedo | España | 2024 | 101 min
At the end of the debate, there will be a screening of the film by Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar, which deals with the case of sexual assault in the Sanfermines of 2016, offering an in-depth view of the issue.
DOCUMENTAR LA REALIDAD
Thursday 21 Nov | 19:30 | Free admission
Escuela de Comercio (assembly hall)
We live immersed in a mirage of over-information. Blogs, podcasts, Twitter and Instagram bombard us with news that devour each other. In the face of the ephemeral, can a film open up spaces for reflection that last over time? What role does film play in documenting reality? What is the contribution of writing a screenplay that gives a voice to the voiceless? We will analyse documentaries that have followed the path of social movements, such as the women’s associations in their struggle for the right to decide, the Kellys’ (hotel cleaners) struggle for decent work and the movements for the right to housing.
Projection: DÓNDE VAMOS A VIVIR. MUJERES CONTRA EL DESAHUCIO | Georgina Cisquella | España | 2024 | 61′
After the roundtable, there will be a screening of this documentary that follows women activists at the forefront of the struggle for housing in Madrid. Filmed over three years, it shows the essential role of these women in the mobilisations against the eviction crisis, the disproportionate increase in the price of rent and the lack of adequate public housing.
