Isaki Lacuesta
2021
Cravan vs. Cravan
Isaki Lacuesta
Eduardo Arroyo, María Luisa Borrás
In 1918, the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan disappears in the Gulf of Mexico without a trace. Today, another boxer and artist, film director Frank Nicotra, begins an investigation that will take you behind the mysterious steps Cravan from Switzerland to Mexico, passing through Paris, London and Barcelona.
Cravan vs. Cravan
El cuaderno de barro
Isaki Lacuesta
Miquel Barceló, Josef Nadj
Isaki Lacuesta documentary conceived in collaboration with painter Miquel Barceló. The artist, who lives long periods in Africa, has learned to paint from termites and scorpions, adapting to the conditions of a wild environment. Lacuesta enters the African workshop and film performance Barceló "Pasodoble" represented in the village of Gogolí (Mali). The arrival of the film crew revolutionize the village and arouse the curiosity of their people.
El cuaderno de barro
Las variaciones Marker
Isaki Lacuesta
"If Isaki Lacuesta wants to use some of my footage, that's ok by me, at the end of the day, I have spent my life copying others" (Chris Marker). An act of cinematic love for the director of La Jetée. "To shoot under the pseudonym Chris Marker, you need to fulfill a few requirements, some very strange. The Markers are a secret sect who meet up only once a year... And cameras are forbidden at the meeting".
The Marker Variations
La noche que no acaba
Isaki Lacuesta
Carlos Abella, Jaime Arias
Like so many other actors, Ava Gardner hated to watch her films. She said that the woman on the screen wasn't her. But all films tell two stories: the plot and the tale of the bodies filmed. This film narrates what happened between two images: a first shot of 'Pandora' and a first shot of 'Harem', the first and last movie filmed by the actress in Spain. Ava must certainly have thought that neither of these two women had anything in common with herself.
All Night Long
Sinergias: Diálogos entre Naomi Kawase y Isaki Lacuesta
Isaki Lacuesta, Naomi Kawase
The exhibition 'The Complete Letters' features epistolary works defined by cinematographic creation. This is an experimental communication format used between pairs of film directors. Although each director is situated in a location geographically distant from that of their partner, they are united by their willingness to share ideas and reflections on all that motivates their work. Within this space of freedom, the directors featured in the exhibition examine their affinities and differences, within an environment of mutual respect and simultaneity of interests and with notable formal variants established in each of the correspondences.
Cinematic Correspondences: Isaki Lacuesta - Naomi Kawase
Entre dos aguas
Isaki Lacuesta
Israel Gómez Romero, Francisco José Gómez Romero
Isra and Cheito are two brothers who have taken very different paths in life. When Isra gets released from prison and Cheito comes home after a long tour with the Marines, they both return to the island of San Fernando. The reunion of the two brothers will bring with it the memory of the violent death their father suffered when they were just boys; the need to get back on track with their lives and finally come to terms with what happened will bring them together again.
Between Two Waters
Un año, una noche
Isaki Lacuesta
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart
Ramón and Céline are a young couple that attended a concert at the Bataclan theatre in Paris on the fateful night of November 13, 2015. They survive the attack, but when they leave the theatre, they are no longer the same. That night leaves a deep scar on both their lives and each tries to cope with the aftermath as best they can. Céline desperately tries to leave the events behind her, clinging to her previous life, while Ramón repeatedly goes back to that night, trying to remember and understand what happened. Nonetheless, they both face the same key question: how to reconnect and move on together?
One Year, One Night
The Next Skin
Isaki Lacuesta, Isa Campo
Emma Suárez, Àlex Monner
A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor.
The Next Skin
Los Condenados
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Bárbara Lennie, Daniel Fanego
Two ex-guerrillas meet again 30 years later in an illegal excavation, where they will search for the body of a third companion who disappeared at the time. The tension and secrets hidden during that time will surface as you approach the unpredictable final solution, where not everything will be what it seemed.
Los Condenados
Los pasos dobles
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Bokar Dembele, Miquel Barceló
Fiction inspired by the novelistic biography of the painter and writer Francois Augiéras. The artist covered with paints a military bunker in the desert, and let it sink into the sand so no one could find it until the XXI century. The search continues to feed the myth bunker ... Who is Augiéras? ¿Legionnaire, painter, writer, gunman, holy, thief, devil or a mixture of all?
The Double Steps
Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades
Isaki Lacuesta
Raúl Arévalo, Imanol Arias
Isaki Lacuesta presents a social satire in which five common or garden citizens, from a country pretty much identical to our own, see their lives ripped apart by the economic crisis. With nothing more to lose, they come up with a crazy plan to save the Spanish and world economy: kidnap the chairman of the Central Bank and demand that he return everything to the way it used to be.
Dying Beyond Their Means
