Site: Cartuja Center CITE, C/ Leonardo Da Vinci, 7-9, 41092, Seville.
Date: Wednesday 12th November.
Time: 16:30 - 19:00 h.
Access: General admission €3.50, student admission €1. Information and group reservations at info@festivalcinesevilla.eu.
Language: Spanish.
The Seville European Film Festival is launching its Conference on Cinema and Geopolitics as a space for analysis and criticism, from a cinematographic perspective, of the major challenges facing the world in general and Europe in particular. Led by experts from various disciplines, especially from universities in Seville, this conference aims to contribute to the major geopolitical debates of today, with screenings of essential cinema classics and films from the program.
16h30: Screening of Stanley Kubrick's film 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (United Kingdom, USA/1964/91 min), which is part of the program for this 22nd edition of the festival, within the European Essentials section.
18h: Discussion on the unstable balance of global geopolitics and the risks to humanity, based on the satire of the nuclear threat and mutual destruction.
Speakers:
Borja Montes Toscano, former Legal Assistant at NATO Headquarters
Gloria Fernández Arribas, Professor of Public International Law and International Relations
Claudio Feijoo González, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
César Villegas, Professor of Public International Law and International Relations.
The session will be moderated by Jorge Quindimil, Professor of Public International Law and International Relations at the University of A Coruña.
Film Synopsis
Convinced that communists are contaminating the United States, a general orders, in a fit of madness, a surprise nuclear air strike against the Soviet Union. His assistant, Captain Mandrake, tries to find a way to prevent the bombing. For his part, the US President contacts Moscow to convince the Soviet government that the attack is nothing more than a stupid mistake. Meanwhile, the President's advisor, a former Nazi scientist, Dr. Strangelove, confirms the existence of the “Doomsday Machine,” a Soviet retaliation device capable of wiping out humanity forever.
