Special screenings

VELINTONIA 3

Javier Vila | Spain | 2024 | 112 min. | O.V. in Spanish
Velintonia 3

No.3 Velintonia Street, Madrid holds within its cracked walls the echoes of Lorca at the piano, Pablo Neruda's impassioned voice, Carmen Conde’s thirst for freedom, and Miguel Hernández’s rugged embraces. Following four decades of neglect, the home of Nobel Prize winner Vicente Aleixandre reopens its doors to welcome the poets—now in their eighties—who frequented No.3 in its final days of grandeur. This evocative documentary embarks on a journey from oblivion to shared memory, from the stirrings of Spain’s Generation of '27 to the Novísimos poets of the late 1960s. Along the way, writers and friends of the author including Vicente Molina Foix, Guillermo Carnero, Antonio Colinas, and Jaime Siles are joined by actors Antonio de la Torre, Ana Fernández, Mona Martínez, and Manolo Solo, together with a host of sound artists, musicians, and young poets. Velintonia, utopian and chimerical, is reborn in this poignant revival.

Director: Javier Vila

Screenwriter: Javier Vila y Leticia Salvago

Production:  José Antonio Hergueta, Virginia Moriche

Cinematography: Juanma Carmona

Editor: Javier Vila

Sound: Juan Cantón

Music: Isabel Royán

Producer: Surnames Narradores Transmedia, MLK Producciones en coproducción con TVE

Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Ana Fernández, Mona Martínez, Manolo Solo

Friends of Alexander and writer: Vicente Molina Foix, Guillermo Carnero, Antonio Colinas, Jaime Siles, Marcos Ricardo Barnatán, Javier Lostalé, Rosa Pereda, Dionisio Cañas 

Musicians: Llorenç Barber, Montserrat Palacios, Isabel Royán, Miguel Rivera 

Collaboration: Alejandro Sanz (presidente de AAVA)

Young poets: Raquel Lanseros, Juan Gallego Benot, María Alcantarilla, Marina Casado, Izara Batres, Andrés París, Laura Rodríguez, Diego Serradilla