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Identities: Catalan Cinema Now!
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Films
Saturday 28 & Sunday 29 May 2022




The final weekend of Catalan Cinema Now! looks at the identities represented in recent Catalan cinema – of tourist towns, LGBTQ+ communities and cross-cultural writers. 

Sanmao: The Desert Bride (Sanmao: La novia del desierto) is a bibliography of the cult Taiwanese writer Echo Chen Ping, known by her pen name of Sanmao, and offers a mode of examining the intercultural intersections that shaped Sanmao’s publications. In Sediments (Sedimentos), a group of trans women from Barcelona take a road trip to León where kinship prevails and new futures are forged. In the weekend’s final film Magaluf Ghost Town, tourism and the economy in the Balearic Islands offer a way of looking at intersecting lives in a town where many resort towns coexist. 
 
Programme:



Saturday 28 May 2022, 8:40pm
Ana Pérez de la Fuente and Marta Arribas use a wealth of materials to paint their enthralling portrait of the cult Taiwanese writer.




Sunday 29 May 2022, 4:30pm
Six trans women take a birthday road trip from city to country in this empathetic feature – introduced here by director Adrián Silvestre.




Sunday 29 May 2022, 6:30pm
Introduced by producer Bernat Manzano, Miguel Ángel Blanca’s compelling feature shows a very different side of the notorious Spanish resort.