On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, the work of the Polish filmmaker Wojciech Jerzy Has, author of the legendary Manuscript found in Zaragoza (1964), will be screened between April and November 2025 in seven Spanish cities, in which it will be the first complete cycle dedicated to its filmography in our country.
Organized by the AVA Arts Foundation, this retrospective, the first in Spain entirely dedicated to the director, will visit Madrid, Oviedo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santander, Valencia, Zaragoza and Seville, combining screenings, round tables, seminars and cinema-basedconcerts in collaboration with local cultural institutions and international festivals.
This complete cycle begins this afternoon at 7.30 pm in the Cine Doré of Madrid (calle Santa Isabel, 3), headquarters of the Spanish Film Library, with the restored screening of El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza, presented by Tomasz Kolankiewicz, Director of the Polish National Film Library. During April and May, the 14 feature films of the author will be screened there, all digitally restored and subtitled in Spanish, with tickets available for 3 euros.
In addition to Madrid, the cycle will pass through Oviedo (Teatro Filarmónica), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (TEA Espacio de las Artes), Santander (Filmoteca de Cantabria), Valencia (Institut Valencià de Cultura), Zaragoza (Filmoteca de Zaragoza) and culminate at the Seville European Film Festival, where El sanatorio de la clepsidra and El manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza will be projected.
The exhibition seeks to bring to the Spanish public the filmography of one of the great names of Polish cinema and European film surrealism, admired by figures such as Luis Buñuel, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. The cycle includes emblematic titles such as Los adioses, How to be loved, El sanatorio de la clepsidra or La muñeca, and will be complemented by special events such as the cinema-concert of the Polish flamenco guitarist Kamil Urbanski, inspired by the work of Has.
The cycle is supported by institutions such as the Spanish Film Library, FINA, the Instituto Polaco de Cultura, the Instituto Adam Mickiewicz, and is made possible by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland and the Polish Film Arts Institute, under the honorary patronage of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
More information, full schedule and ticket sales available at this link and on the social networks of Polish Cinema and AVA Arts Foundation. Tickets for the screenings can be purchased at this link and at Cine Doré can be from three days before each session.
