Capacity: 158 places
As part of our ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, we will be running two study mornings for Spanish school and college groups.
This GCSE study day will be focused on the film María y el Araña. It will address the themes of family, friendship and the lives of ‘invisible’ kids in the city of Buenos Aires. Carmen Herrero and Ana Valbuena will introduce the film in English with some key Spanish phrases and vocabulary. The screening will include English subtitles and will be followed by a series of Spanish language exercises based on the film and its characters.
Led by Carmen Herrero, Head of Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University and Ana Valbuena, Spanish Language Tutor at the Instituto Cervantes.
Screening: María y el Araña (12A)
(María and Spider)
Dir María Victoria Menis / AR FR EC 2013/ 90 mins / In Spanish with English Subtitles
Florencia Salas, Diego Vegezzi, Mirella Pascual, Luciano Suardi, Lucía Ruiz Ortiz, Pablo Aguirre Andrade
Menis’ award-winning third film is the meticulously crafted, tragic tale of two Argentine teenagers falling between the cracks in a grossly unfair world. While peddling cheap products on the underground, the studious 13-year-old María is drawn out of her shell by the attentions of a young juggler dressed in a Spiderman costume. But as masks slip, an increasingly oppressive atmosphere suggests a dark secret threatening to overshadow young love.
Projector MFL is supported by Routes into Languages North West at Manchester Metropolitan University.
