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Short Film Show: Marvin&Wayne session I

There was a time when Spanish films were all about flamenco dancers and macho bar regulars surrounding the young lolitas and saritas. A time when the cutting-edge attraction was to see how many fried eggs could the film start eat at once. A time when, unlike Fellini’s, the films were …

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Pablo’s winter (2012) by Chico Pereira, MIT Edinburgh Premiere

M.I.T. (Tuesdays Invade Earth in its Spanish initials) is an initiative aiming to bring independent European cinema outside generic cinemas. MIT Spain has recently partnered with CinemaAttic to exhibit some of these precious titles at Summerhall Edinburgh -where else could you better be? MIT Edinburgh Premiere is an extraordinary good …

Festival Closing Night

The festival will close at the venue that has lately best represented our ethos -unique selection of films to plural audiences in unusual pop-up cinemas-. For the night at the unique basement of La Tasca Charlotte Square we will curate a selection of the best of the festival plus three …

1st Catalan Films Festival Scotland, Nov-Dec 2012

CinemaAttic, in collaboration with Scotland’s Catalan Centre presents its first focus season on Catalan cinema in Edinburgh. The festival will be offering, in five different venues throughout Edinburgh, 9 nights of feature films, documentaries, the best of Catalan short films and a conference by an Edinburgh-based Scottish author. Starting on …

Baltasar Garzón has been cleared over his investigation into Franco-era crimes

Listening to judge Garzón by Isabel Coixet, Catalan Film Festival Opening

The Catalan Film Festival CinemaAttic 2012 begins with a powerful document. The celebrated Spanish Human Rights investigator Baltasar Garzón was convicted in February 2012 by Spanish supreme court for his enquiries over the systematic repression of Franco’s iron-fisted regime alongside his will to uncover the biggest corruption case in modern …

Bycicle, spoon, apple: Alzheimer. Catalan Film Festival day 2

A very special night of cinema, hope and life with another documentary that will focus this time on popular leader for the people of Spain Pasqual Maragall -once former mayor of Barcelona and president of Catalunya- in his actual struggle to fight Alzheimer’s disease. ‘Bicycle’, ‘spoon’, ‘apple’ are the three …

The Best of Catalan Short Films: Marvin&Wayne, Catalan Film Festival day 3

When cinema is made, promoted and distributed by people with a passion for the medium the results can not be other than the excellence. Marvin&Wayne is a distribution company established in Barcelona since 2009 that nonetheless work with film directors worldwide. We will pay tribute to the diversity of Catalan …

The Best of Catalan Short Films: Gaudí Awards I, Catalan Film Festival day 4

Established in 2009 by Catalan Academy of Cinema, Gaudí Awards are Catalonia´s national film awards -a reunion of the best of Catalan cinema. Granted with international recognition, some of the films that will conform the Gaudí Awards sessions have only be seen before at festivals of the like of Biennale …

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