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CENTREPIECE
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Screen International
CENTREPIECE: WHILE AT WAR
MIENTRAS DURE LA GUERRA
The first Spanish-language production in nearly 17 years from Oscar-winning writer/director Alejandro Amenábar (The Sea Inside, The Others, Agora), While at War is a powerful and hugely resonant historical drama set in the first months of the Spanish Civil War, depicting how the country inexorably slid into nearly four decades of fascism under dictator Francisco Franco.
It’s July, 1936. Nationalist forces take to the streets of Salamanca, challenging the authority of the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic. But the esteemed professor Miguel de Unamuno (Karra Elejalde, Operation GoldenshellSFF18, Spanish AffairSFF15) pays the uprising little mind: for all his wisdom and experience, he doesn’t believe his country is under imminent threat. It’s not until his colleagues are rounded up that Miguel begins to reconsider his principles, hoping he can exert his influence to bring reason before it’s too late…
Deeply intelligent and spectacularly mounted, While at Wardepicts a nation split between those compelled by egalitarianism, and others driven by reactionary visions of how to make Spain ‘great again’.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
DIRECTOR Alejandro Amenábar CAST Karra Elejalde, Nathalie Poza, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego 2019 | 107 MIN | SPAIN DRAMA, HISTORY, WAR Spanish with English subs FESTIVALS & AWARDS WINNER: 6 including Best Supporting Actor, Goya Awards 2020 NOMINATED: 17 times including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director, Goya Awards 2020 WINNER: Audience Award for Best Spanish Film, Fotogramas de Plata 2020 WINNER: Best Male Lead, Gaudí Awards 2020
CANBERRA EVENT
SPOTLIGHT ON GOYA AWARD-WINNING FILMS
SUPPORTED BY THE EMBASSY OF SPAIN IN AUSTRALIA
The festival is celebrating the talent within the Spanish film industry with a selection of six Goya Award winning films. WHILE AT WAR
WINNER: Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Song, Goya Awards 2021 CROSS THE LINE
WINNER: Best Actor, Goya Awards 2021
SCHOOLGIRLS
WINNER: Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Goya Awards 2021 OUT IN THE OPEN
WINNER: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song, Goya Awards 2020 A THIEF’S DAUGHTER
WINNER: Best New Director, Goya Awards 2020
SPECIAL EVENT
Join us for the Canberra premiere of While at War.
TUESDAY 27 APRIL
7.00pm drinks and tapas courtesy of the Embassy of Spain in Australia. 7.30pm film Tickets: General Admission $35 Palace Movie Club Members $30
