Cinema in Azkuna Zentroa

At Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao we tackle film and the audiovisual media in a broad context via stable programmes, premieres, festivals, thematic cycles, etc., in dialogue with the rest of the Centre programme and in conjunction with different agents and bodies.

ZINEMATEKA

For a decade, Zinemateka has maintained a stable programme that serves both classical cinema and more contemporary creations. This is an audio-visual programme environment that furthers the knowledge of the cinematographic and audio-visual language from works which are outside the commercial genre and market. Throughout the years, and carrying on with the work started three decades ago in the city, the Zinemateka has gone through the filmography of prominent film directors such as John Ford, Pedro Almodóvar, Dorothy Arzner, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joan Fontaine, Buster Keaton, Roberto Rosellini, Christine Vachon or Richard Fleischer. Following the 50 gems in the history of cinema cycle, a transversal review of the best creations of recent years, the Zinemateka brings the focus onto auteur creations by means of a selection of the filmography of eminent directors in the history of film. And it does so with the cycle Poetry Made Film dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini (Bologna, 1922 - Ostia, 1975), one of the most relevant film directors and poets of the second half of the twentieth century. And with the retrospective on a key figure in Spanish cinema, Luis García Berlanga (Valencia, 1921 - Madrid, 2010), coinciding with the centenary of his birth.

ATTENDING OTHER AUDIO-VISUAL NARRATIVES

BIdeOtik, the video creation programme, focuses on creations with a differentiation factor in relation to other ways of recording and representing audio-visual vocabulary. The aim of this programme is to provide visibility for artistic audio-visual creation as a cultural social creation, reflection and transformation tool, fostering the use of new languages through moving images and digital art.

FESTIVAL VENUE

The Alhóndiga is the venue for the main city festivals. Standing out among these events are Zinebi, the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Film; Zinemakumeak Gara!, the Film Festival of Films directed by women; the Bilbao International Festival of Invisible Films; Zinegoak, the Bilbao International Gaylesbitrans Film and Performing Arts Festival; and FANT, the Bilbao Fantasy Film Festival. In this programme we have the complicity of other cultural agents, such as the San Sebastian International Film Festival, with which we have strengthened our collaboration to screen each year a selection of films presented in Zinemaldia.