Cinema in Madrid.
Film screenings at Madrid's independent cinemas and cultural centres.
49 events currently running
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Estrenos Cineteca
Film premieres and recent releases at Cineteca Madrid curated for cinema enthusiasts, featuring independent productions and works by emerging filmmakers.
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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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Yoga and Menopause Workshop
Yoga workshop for women over 40 addressing menopause through breathing techniques and body awareness at Centro Cultural el Torito.
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Cinefórum: Unwanted Solitude
Film screening of Soledad No Deseada at Biblioteca Iván de Vargas followed by group discussion exploring the film's themes and artistic elements through collective dialogue.
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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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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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Cinefórum IVÁNdVARGAS
Film screenings with facilitated discussions at Biblioteca Iván de Vargas create space for cinema enthusiasts to analyze and debate selected works across diverse genres.
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Creative Writing Workshop: Imagination on Paper
Led by Felícitas Jiménez Chamorro at Centro Cultural el Torito, participants craft short stories and poems, then share them with the group.
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Qui som
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid showcasing documentaries and narrative films exploring identity and social issues, with screenings, discussions, and Q&A sessions with independent filmmakers.
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Muestra de cine rumano 2026
Romanian film festival at Cineteca Madrid presenting recent feature films, documentaries, and shorts from contemporary Romanian cinema directors.
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Forgetting Vietnam
Lyrical essay film by Trinh T. Minh-ha marking 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, weaving Vietnamese myth, water imagery, and contemporary scenes at Cineteca Madrid.
CLASSIC
Liberated Energies: Claudine Eizykman
Retrospective of Claudine Eizykman, founder of Paris Films Coop and French structural cinema pioneer, screening her radical experimental films at Sala Plató.
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Wolfgang (extraordinario)
Wolfgang, a brilliant 10-year-old with autism and an IQ of 152, must move in with his disorganized father after his mother's death. Director Javier Ruiz Caldera's comedy explores their clashing personalities at Centro Cultural Orcasur.
INTERNATIONAL
Far from Manhattan
French film about painter René Dimanche screening at Cineteca Madrid, following an art critic's investigation into an eight-year gap in the artist's output.
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Fermín Jiménez Landa, ida y vuelta
Video and installation work questioning language and social conventions through repetitive movement and linguistic play at Sala Borau.
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Caso archivado
Independent journalist investigates a corporate coverup of an employee's death, uncovering toxic workplace practices and an AI content moderation system at the centre of the case.
SHORT FILMS
Cinefórum
Short film 'Imposible decirte adiós' directed by Yolanda Centeno screened at Casa de Vacas, followed by discussion on mediation and family conflict resolution with philosophy expert María Luisa Marquina.
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A Visit of Resentment
German film directed by Bernhard Wicki (1964) follows a wealthy widow returning to her hometown seeking revenge on those who wronged her, followed by discussion with Guillermo Balmori.
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The Executioner
Luis García Berlanga's 1963 dark comedy follows a funeral worker pressured into marrying his boss's daughter and inheriting his job as a state executioner, followed by panel discussion.
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La risa y la navaja
Sergio travels to West Africa as an environmental engineer building a desert-to-jungle highway, befriending locals while investigating a missing Italian engineer's disappearance. Portuguese director Pedro Pinho presents the film.
INTERNATIONAL
A Salto de Mata
Film adaptation of José Luis Zerón's poetry diary explores the Vega Baja landscape and interior world of the Orihuela poet through day and night imagery at Sala Plató.
KIDS
Children's Cinema: Policán
Animated film about a police officer and his dog who merge into one crime-fighting creature called Policán to stop the villain cat Perico at Biblioteca María Lejárraga.
CLASSIC
The Wind
Silent film by Swedish director Víctor Sjöström about isolation and emotional fragility set against unforgiving natural landscapes, accompanied by live piano by Juan Camilo Vásquez.
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Film screening following Iranian teacher Azar Nafisi who leads clandestine literary discussions with seven female students reading prohibited Western authors in Tehran.
FESTIVAL
Who Saw the Temples Fall
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid screening documentaries and features about cultural destruction, heritage loss, and rebuilding after conflict, featuring archival footage and personal testimonies.
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Cinefórum Isabel Sánchez: To Kill a Mockingbird
Robert Mulligan's 1964 film with Gregory Peck, followed by moderated discussion led by Isabel Sánchez at Biblioteca Pública Municipal Mario Vargas Llosa.
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Sorella di Clausura
Stela pursues a famous Balkan musician after obsessing over him on television, following a promise from Vera, an emerging music star, to help her meet him in Bucharest.
KIDS
Paddington, aventura en la selva
Paddington and the Brown family travel to Peru to visit Aunt Lucy, then venture into the Amazon jungle and Peruvian mountains to solve a mystery at Centro Cultural Buenavista.
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Fernando Trueba Cycle: The Girl of Your Eyes
Spanish Civil War film where artists travel to Nazi UFA studios in Germany to make a folkloric movie, creating tension between the republican protagonist and Goebbels at Centro Sociocultural Francisco Fatou.
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Witness for the Prosecution
Screening of Billy Wilder's 1957 film with introduction and post-film discussion at Centro Cultural La Vaguada, marking fifty years since Agatha Christie's death.
INTERNATIONAL
The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son
Romanian film set in 1954 following Niculae Moromete through a forbidden love affair and political doubts that push him to write the novel Morometii at Sala Azcona.
KIDS
Photophobia + Dreamscape
Double feature at Sala Plató pairing Photophobia, a Slovak-Czech-Ukrainian film about childhood trauma and violence, with Dreamscape, exploring fear and uncertainty through memory and dreams.
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Birdman
Screening of Birdman, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, at Teatro Municipal de Vallecas. Rated 16 and over, 118 minutes.
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Nouvelle vague
Richard Linklater's film follows the making of Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless" in 1959, the pivotal work that launched the French New Wave cinema movement.
DOCUMENTARY
The Government of Children II
Documentary following 19 Romanian children aged 7 to 12 who imagine ideal societies, with their visions realised by artists and architects at Sala Azcona.
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Puck cinema en Villaverde
Short and feature film screenings at Auditorio Municipal el Espinillo showcase independent and experimental cinema from emerging and established filmmakers, including documentaries, animations, and narrative works.
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Las niñas
Retrato íntimo de la adolescencia de Celia, once años, en la Zaragoza de 1992, marcado por la amistad, dudas y descubrimientos en el tránsito entre la infancia y la adolescencia. Dirigida por Pilar Palomero, 2020.
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Gone with the Wind
Screening of the 1939 Civil War epic at Sala Azcona. Follows Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler through the American South during wartime.
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The Radical Cinema of Gus Van Sant
Retrospective at Cineteca Madrid exploring Gus Van Sant's experimental cinema from early independent productions to feature films challenging narrative conventions.
SHORT FILMS
When Destiny Reaches Us
Screening of Soylent Green (1973) at Cineteca Madrid, followed by the short film Fiat Homo by Jimina Sabadú, set in a dystopian New York.
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Cinema in Company: 21 Grams
Screening of the 2003 film 21 Grams directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu at Biblioteca Pública Municipal San Fermín. The drama follows three characters whose paths converge after a fatal car accident, exploring themes of loss and redemption through non-linear narrative.
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A Crazy Funeral
Comedy film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira at Centro Cultural Orcasur. A family funeral unravels when a dark secret about the deceased comes to light.
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Elephant
Gus Van Sant's Elephant screens at Sala Plató, a fictional dramatisation of the Columbine High School massacre following students through an ordinary day.
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Han matado a un hombre blanco
Screening of Intruder in the Dust (1949, Clarence Brown) about a Black man falsely accused of murder, followed by a talk with Guillermo Balmori.
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Nacional III
Screening of Luis García Berlanga's 1982 Spanish comedy Nacional III, following the Leguineche family through inheritance schemes and misadventures in Extremadura.
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Last Days
Film screening of Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a fictional portrait of a rock musician's final hours loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain, at Cineteca Madrid.
CLASSIC
The Crowd, with Live Piano
King Vidor's 1928 silent film with live piano by Juan Camilo Vásquez, preceded by an introduction from José Manuel Tenorio at Centro Dotacional Integrado Arganzuela Ángel del Río.
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Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant's film follows a teenage skater in Portland who accidentally kills a security guard and spirals into guilt and cover-up at Cineteca Madrid.
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Blade Runner Live
Screening of Blade Runner with the film's soundtrack by Vangelis performed live by The Avex Ensemble at IFEMA Madrid.