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Splash into Spanish is a set of language activities created by the Spanish in Motion Team linked to cultural events (cinema, exhibitions, concerts etc.). Our aim is to provide learners of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) with engaging and meaningful tasks in order to enhance their understanding of these events.
Together with the Activities document, you will find a User´ s Guide offering suggestions and the answer key to the different exercises, which are grouped in two levels (A2-B1 and B2-C1) following the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages|.
The resources for each event are mainly intended for classroom use although they can also be used for self-study. All of them can be downloaded for free from this web page.
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5th London Spanish Film Festival
18 September-3 October 2009, Ciné Lumière at the Institut Français|
The London Spanish Film Festival| is delighted to present, once again, a selection of some of the best Spanish films from last year. The line-up includes Fesser's controversial Camino, the big winner at the last Goya Awards and the last film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes, Sólo quiero caminar, a director who we know, and welcome back for his successful feature Alatriste. As usual, the London Spanish Film Festival| have also paid special attention to films by emerging talents (Un novio para Yasmina, Myna se va, La noche que dejó de llover). Vampir cuadecuc, an avant-garde film made in 1970 by producer and experimental filmmaker Pere Portabella, also features exceptionally in the selection as this film was in fact first shown on Spanish screens in 2008.
There are also films from Galicia and the Basque Country, and a small "Catalan Focus" that will culminate with a round table focusing on the theme of "collective memory", something that has haunted Spanish cinema for many years but, more prominently, during the last few years.
This year's special feature will be dedicated to one of the most fascinating Spanish actresses, Angela Molina, focusing on a small selection of her long and remarkable career, which spans over 100 films. We have included a special screening of Almodóvar's latest film Los abrazos rotos preceded by his short La concejala antropófaga.
And finally, to celebrate the festival's fifth year and Spanish cinema as a whole, Pedro Almodóvar has personally selected five films that, in some way, he has found particularly inspirational. (Joana Granero, Director of the London Spanish Film Festival|)
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Cinema and the Spanish Civil War
Video-interview with the historian Pr. Paul Preston|
1-30 June 2009, BFI Southbank (London): Cinema and the Spanish Civil War|
A season of films and documentaries from the last 70 years reflecting on the conflict and its consequences.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was not just a Spanish affair. Around the world film-makers of the time, and many others since then, found it impossible not to engage with this terrible period. In their many different ways, artists like Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Luis Buñuel, Alain Resnais, André Malraux, Picasso, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Éluard or George Orwell all reacted to what was happening in Spain, drawing attention to it through their work.
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