“Through the eyes of Dalva” and “Real truths” in the new City Hall – 2024-07-31 11:10:03

The section of the Municipal Mobile Cinema “closes” its cycle of screenings for the month of July with the presentation of two excellent films. Reference point for both, the courtyard of the new City Hall where at 9.30 in the evening on Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 July the films “Through the eyes of Dalva” and “Real truths, the life of Estella” will be shown respectively.

“Through the eyes of Dalva”

Friends of the Municipal Mobile Cinema on the evening of Tuesday 30 July will watch a shocking film which highlights a case of child sexual abuse. The film has won the Critics Award at the Cannes Film Festival as a robust coming-of-age and identity-searching drama that sensitively handles topical psychological and social issues.

Award-winning director Emmanuel Nico (Cannes Awards), in her daring feature film debut, turns tough and sensitive at the same time, in a “reversed” coming-of-age story, illuminated by the strong performances of the protagonists.

Usually in cinema the story “talks” about children who come of age through unpleasant experiences. Here in the foreground comes a child who lived for years an uninterrupted traumatic experience, forced to behave as an adult and now, with the help of the new environment, is called upon to recover his childhood and become a child again.
The protagonist is twelve-year-old Dalva who lives with her father, who is arrested by the police for chronic sexual abuse. She ends up in a special juvenile facility, stubbornly refusing to accept the charges against him…

Starring: Alexis Manedi, Zelda Samson, Fada Girassi

The film will be re-screened on Thursday, August 1st at the Educational Activities Park in Municipal Plaz and on Sunday, August 4th in Psathopyrgos.

“Real truths, the life of Estella”.

“Real truths the life of Estela de Carlotto”, the iconic and award-winning Valladolid – Seminci Festival (Official Selection) film by Nicolá Gil Lavedra, will be screened at 9.30 pm on Wednesday 31 July in the atrium of the new Town Hall Patras.

The film tells the life of the human rights activist, president of the “Grandmothers of May Square” in Argentina and is dedicated to the missing persons of the dictatorship in the country and their children.

It refers to the military coup that replaced the country’s constitutional government.

It also describes the policies of terrorism and violation of human rights that they implemented every day, while within a few years thousands of citizens, mainly dissidents, of different ages and social classes mysteriously disappeared, while others were murdered.

Among the victims of the regime were young women, young children and unborn babies. Women who were pregnant during their arrest gave birth in prisons and their babies after they were kidnapped were given for adoption to soldiers and people friendly to the regime.

Estella was a middle-class lady who divided her time between her family and her job as a school principal and lived completely removed from any political activity. However, after the kidnapping and murder of her daughter, Laura, between 1977 and 1978, and the disappearance of her grandson Guido, who was being held by his captors, her life changed completely.

Awards: 2011 : Festival Valladolid – Seminci : Official Selection of the film competition.

Screenplay: María Laura Gargarella, Jorge Maestro.
Starring: Susu Pecoraro, Alejandro Awada, Laura Novoa.

The screening is done in collaboration with the Cervantes Institute

The… butterfly “flew” to Arachovitika

On the evening of Sunday July 28, the friends of the Municipal Mobile Cinema watched in the Arachovitika district “Butterfly’s Language”, a film that is a classic example of modern Spanish Cinema, masterfully given by the excellent José Luis Cuerda.

“The Butterfly’s Tongue” told the story of Moncho, an eight-year-old boy who at the end of ’36 goes to school beginning his term of learning and life, guided by his eccentric teacher.

The young student’s world in the summer of the same year collapses when the Spanish Civil War breaks out and the values ​​and principles that his teacher has instilled in him are overturned….