Cinema in Madrid.
Film screenings at Madrid's independent cinemas and cultural centres.
68 events currently running
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Estrenos Cineteca
Cineteca Madrid screens recent film premieres and restored classics from world cinema archives.
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Senior Film Appreciation Programme
Senior film appreciation programme at Matadero Medialab combining screenings with educational workshops and guided discussions for older audiences.
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Cinefórum 'Soledad No Deseada' at Biblioteca Iván de Vargas
A film screening at Biblioteca Pública Municipal Iván de Vargas (Centro) in Centro.
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Imprescindibles TVE
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid screening documentaries and dramas from Spanish public television's archives spanning decades of broadcasting history.
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Foro CIMA
Festival of independent cinema and experimental audiovisual work from emerging and established filmmakers at Cineteca Madrid.
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Cinefórum at Biblioteca Iván de Vargas
A film screening at Biblioteca Pública Municipal Iván de Vargas (Centro) in Centro.
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Creative Writing Workshop at Centro Cultural el Torito
Create stories and poems by exploring sensations, feelings, and emotions. Play with language, share your work with the group. Led by Felícitas Jiménez Chamorro.
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Special Screenings
Film programme featuring documentaries and shorts, including works by José Luis de Pablos and Gabriel Veyre, plus book presentation on Nazi aesthetics in Riefenstahl's cinema.
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International Competition
International film competition at Matadero Madrid featuring works from Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, and the United States.
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National Competition
Spanish film competition at Matadero Madrid showcasing new works by directors including Manuel Correa, Xiana do Teixeiro, Xacio Baño, David Varela, and Carlos Casas.
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Limits, Archives and Essays: A Retrospective of Charlie Shackleton
Retrospective of Charlie Shackleton's documentary and essay films spanning 2014-2025, including works from the UK, Spain and the US. Programme includes screening, artist talk and DIY filmmaking workshop on using limitation as creative catalyst.
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Jan Soldat Retrospective: Edges of Intimacy
Retrospective of German filmmaker Jan Soldat's work exploring intimacy, desire and power dynamics. Five films screened across multiple venues in Madrid including masterclass, with films at Goethe Institut, ECAM and Cineteca Madrid.
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Cinemateca Constellation
Selection of recent Spanish short and experimental films including world premieres: Body Crossing, Mind Reading Machines and Long Shadow. Screening programme at Matadero Madrid.
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Corte Final
Film festival at Matadero Madrid featuring four short and feature films from Spain and Latin America, including works by Lili Albornoz, Armin Marcheisini Weihmuler, Manuel Correa, and Nilo Gallego Rodríguez.
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Taking the Pulse: Cinema of the Newsreel Collective (1968-1972)
Matadero Madrid screens four documentary films by the New York-based Newsreel Collective capturing social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Cinema of Marilú Mallet: A Poetics of Portraiture
Retrospective of films by Chilean-Canadian director Marilú Mallet at Matadero Madrid, including three major works from the 1970s-80s exploring exile, subjectivity, and documentary hybridity.
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Perpetual Radiance + After the Cities
Double feature at Sala Azcona: Magdalena Orellana's Super-8 film exploring urban beauty in fragmented Paris scenes, paired with Xacio Baño's longer work on Santiago.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Jean Epstein's 1928 French gothic horror film screened at Centro Dotacional Integrado Arganzuela Ángel del Río with introductory remarks by José Manuel Tenorio and live piano accompaniment.
SHORT FILMS
The Recce + Afterlives
Screening at Sala Plató of Daniel Mann's short about location scouting in Uganda that uncovers colonial logics, paired with a second work.
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Body Crossing Documentary Screening
World premiere of Megane Mercury's documentary at Sala Borau capturing a year-long cultural mediation project with migrants and asylum seekers exploring identity and belonging in Madrid.
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A Hidden Vanguard: Slovenian Experimental Cinema
Screening of Slovenian experimental cinema from 1957-1967, including works by Vinko Rozman, at Matadero Madrid.
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Evidence
Lee Anne Schmitt traces how the Olin family corporation shaped conservative intellectual networks in the US through decades of funding, weaving her own family history into an exhaustive study of how right-wing thought consolidated.
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No Way + General States
Luciana Espinoza Hoempler documents migrant testimonies crossing the Darién Gap between Panama and Colombia through social media videos, creating political estrangement that resists media spectacle.
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Debut, or Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued
Julian Castronovo updates film noir conventions to a digital-physical hybrid present, constructing an unwieldy catalogue where physical documents, internet searches, and found footage coexist as equal evidence without resolution.
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Stella Dallas
A textile factory worker from a small town marries Stephen Dallas, a refined gentleman fallen on hard times. Their conflicting personalities-his love of quiet, her appetite for social life-strain their marriage and threaten their daughter's future.
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The Forgotten We Are
Colombian physician and human rights activist Héctor Abad Gómez fights for justice in 1970s Medellín while raising his family with values of tolerance and love amid urban violence and polarisation.
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Atlas of Disappearance
Manuel Correa follows families searching for the disappeared through archives, cartographies, and forensic investigation, showing how ancient violence persists and how memory work restores names and places to the erased.
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Remake
Ross McElwee reverses his usual method, exploring how filming compulsion has shaped his life and those around him. His son's death, subject of many works, brings elegiac tension: filming no longer preserves but exposes fragility.
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A Hidden Vanguard: Slovenian Experimental Cinema I, Vinko Rozman
Vinko Rozman created over twenty meticulous shorts between 1963-1971 within Ljubljana's experimental cinema scene, blending sociopolitical reflection, sports films, and intimate conceptual meditations with literary citations.
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A Dog's Way Home
Bella, a dog, embarks on a 400-mile journey home after being separated from her owner. Directed by Charles Martin Smith, 2019, 95 minutes.
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The Prince of Nanawa
Clarisa Navas follows Ángel from childhood to adulthood in a small border town between Argentina and Paraguay across ten years, documenting his psychological and social evolution without sentiment or judgment as he is consumed by experience.
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We Stayed Alone
Adrián Canoura builds a multifaceted film about paternal love and the sea through his father's thirty-year fishing career, layering archival material, photographs, childhood postcards, and found images into an intimate material space.
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Artistic Residencies Centre: Long Shadow
Film screening at Sala Borau examining work from the Artistic Residencies Centre at Matadero Madrid, which supports artists and researchers exploring climate emergency, resource extraction, sustainability, interspecies relations, rural life, and food systems.
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The Miracle
Journey as self-discovery unfolds through doubt and temporal ambiguity. A couple, daughter, and filmmaker navigate retrospection and superimposed images, where reopening one's eyes becomes the quiet miracle at the heart of cinema.
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The Secret Agent
Director Kleber Mendonça Filho. 1977 Brazil: a fugitive teacher returns to Recife seeking refuge but finds the city under military dictatorship, pursued by government forces and death threats. Oscar nominee for Best International Film, Cannes winner for Best Direction.
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The Bribed, by Fritz Lang
1953 film screening and discussion led by Guillermo Balmori, part of a season on director Fritz Lang.
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Dead Language + Sauf le Passé
Double bill: Dead Language follows an isolated man surrounded by dogs in a violent landscape where wind and silence guard what cannot be fully said; Sauf le Passé explores how museums preserve and present contested histories.
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Fetish and Power
Programme exploring fetishism as a practice where desire fixes on objects, gestures, or roles. Examines how pleasure constructs itself through role-play, embodied limits, and surrender, making desire a visible axis of identity.
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Obscure Avant-garde: Slovenian Experimental Cinema II - Various Artists
Slovenian experimental films made outside Yugoslav industry, restored by the Slovenian Film Archive. Selection spans existential post-war reflection, atomic-era anxieties, and 1970s countercultural spirit, including Fantastična Balada.
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Discovering José Luis de Pablos
Photojournalism during Spain's Transition through the archive of José Luis de Pablos, chief photographer at Cambio 16. Over 70,000 negatives, slides, and film materials document political and social transformation.
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The Family
Film screening at Centro Cultural Casa de Vacas as part of Cine Foros 2026. Tickets distributed one hour before screening from Casa Club Venezuela. Maximum two tickets per person until capacity.
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Closing Session
World premiere of A mitad del mar, a collective work by Cine-Ojo latino-madrileño filmed on the back steps of the Cineteca in Legazpi. Young voices dismantle prejudice by redefining the word "panchito" across Latin American contexts.
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Perhaps
1968: as circus star Pinito del Oro prepares her final performance, she enlists Canarian poet Natalia Sosa to write her memoirs. Their deep connection sparks decades of correspondence navigating era-specific obstacles until their story finally comes to light.
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Second Round
Documentary portrait of transgender men across different ages, sexualities, professions, and temperaments, capturing diverse lived experiences.
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Blind Love
Sensitive teen Han questions her family's perfect facade, detecting her mother Shu-yi's unhappiness. Drawn to enigmatic woman Xue-jin, Han's rebellion uncovers a profound connection that redefines her fragile home.
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This Body of Mine
Actress Carolina Yuste documents the transition process of her friend Afioco Gnecco with candor and unflinching honesty. The film weaves friendship with reflection on identity and gender, resulting in an inquisitive yet entertaining portrait that reads like a comedy based on…
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Cinema Forum: Captain Fantastic
Discussion of Captain Fantastic at Biblioteca Pública Municipal Francisco Ayala examining the film's themes and visual storytelling.
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Iván & Hadoum
Iván, a transgender man working as a forklift operator in European greenhouses, falls in love with Hadoum, a Spanish-Moroccan coworker on the canning line. Against family opposition from both sides, they navigate their relationship between greenhouses and beaches.
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Fernando Trueba Cycle: The Girl of Your Dreams
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of Spanish artists travel to Nazi UFA studios in Germany to film a folkloric movie. Ideological clashes between Spanish and German creators lead to conflict, including confrontation between the protagonist, daughter of a Republican prisoner,…
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See You
Best friends Chien-yu and Chih-pang's bond is tested when Chih-pang vanishes on his sixteenth birthday. Upon his return, only Chien-yu can see him. In these strange circumstances, they share long-hidden secrets and embark on a journey of self-discovery.
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No Ghosts on Good Street
Film at Sala Borau. Four siblings approach adulthood while striving to build independent lives without losing the bonds that unite them, navigating family ties and personal ambition.
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What Does This Nature Tell You?
Donghwa, a Seoul poet in his thirties, visits his girlfriend's parents' hillside home. Over one day and night, family bonds emerge through walks, temple visits, and intimate conversations, revealing personal and familial truths.
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The Currents
Film by Milagros Mumenthaler at Sala Azcona. An Argentine stylist's impulsive decision to jump into a Swiss river during a business trip triggers a profound shift. Weaving modernist cinema with critique of contemporary neoliberal society.
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A Scary Film
A documentary filmmaker and his twelve-year-old son spend summer in Lisbon's abandoned hotel, reminiscent of The Shining's eerie atmosphere. Director in attendance Friday 5th.
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Tycoon + Broom Broom Follar
Double feature at Sala Azcona. Broom Broom Follar (Spain, 2026, 8') draws on an urban legend of two teenagers who died while making love on their motorcycle, haunting Vigo as immortal ghosts bound by passion.
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Patty Is Such a Girly Name
An 18-year-old judoka from a remote Greek island moves to Athens to pursue Olympic dreams, facing love, betrayal, and painful truths that may break or strengthen her.
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When You Die You Become a Place
Filmmaker Julián Génisson's work captures immediacy and spontaneity through direct, unmediated cinema. This film bypasses contemporary production logics to present itself raw and urgent, echoing the experimental tropical film sessions pioneered by Iván Cardoso.
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On Duty
Film by Petra Biondina Volpe. Floria is a dedicated surgical nurse in a Swiss hospital, but one hectic night shift tests her professionalism when the emergency ward is overwhelmed and understaffed.
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Memories of Yesterday
A 27-year-old single woman takes a countryside holiday from 1982 Tokyo. The film moves between her present and schoolgirl past with nostalgic reflection and striking landscapes as she contemplates difficult decisions about her future.
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Drinking and Driving
Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank explore nostalgia for an unreachable past and an imagined future. Set during one summer, the film captures a generation facing a bleak present that looks backwards, seeking lost futures.
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Eternal Flame
Love, cinema, and naiveté converge when João and Clara meet by chance. She is a film production assistant; he is unemployed. Recognising each other from film school, she invites him to a film set. Includes post-screening discussion.
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The Idea of a Lake
Milagros Mumenthaler's second feature draws from Guadalupe Gaona's poetry collection Pozo de aire, which merges verse and photography to explore the wound of her father's disappearance during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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Cinefórum: How to survive in a material world (Kajillionaire)
Screening of Kajillionaire (2020) in original language with Spanish subtitles. Professional con artists train their daughter until a planned fraud turns their world upside down.
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Children's Cinema: WALL-E at María Lejárraga Library
Screening of WALL-E at Biblioteca Pública Municipal María Lejárraga. A small waste-collecting robot meets a sleek explorer probe in Earth's distant future, sparking an unexpected adventure across the galaxy.
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Homo Argentum
Film by Lucía Puenzo comprising 16 interconnected stories using humour and satire to explore Argentine cultural identity, customs, and national attitudes. Recommended from age 12.
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Little Miss Sunshine Film Screening
The Hoover family, each with their own struggles and quirks, embarks on a chaotic road trip to California so their youngest daughter Olive can compete in a beauty pageant. A darkly comic portrait of American family life.
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The President's cake
Director Hicham Lasri. A nine-year-old girl in Saddam Hussein's Iraq must gather ingredients for the dictator's birthday cake or face imprisonment. Winner of the Marrakech Film Festival jury prize.
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Wolfgang
Director Javier Ruiz Caldera. Ten-year-old Wolfgang, with an IQ of 152 and autism spectrum disorder, moves in with his estranged father after his mother's death. He devises a secret plan to attend the Grimald music academy in Paris. 105 minutes.