More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
BALLET
Classical and Spanish Dance Festival
Escuela Municipal de Música y Danza María Dolores Pradera showcases classical ballet and Spanish dance through student choreography. The programme spans styles and eras, blending technical precision with expressive force and musical sensibility.
COMEDY
A Dead Man with Peppercorn Sauce
Dark comedy by Azares Teatro with María Carrera and Salvador Bueso. Daniel, a Hollywood screenwriter in crisis, plans a risky barbecue in his Boston home that spirals into absurd chaos when unexpected guests arrive.
EXHIBITIONS
The Madrid of Olga Ramos
Tribute to Olga Ramos, actress and cupletista, symbol of traditional Madrid. Personal objects showcase her elegant artistry and the legacy of a genre that defined an era.
CINEMA
A Hidden Vanguard: Slovenian Experimental Cinema
Screening of Slovenian experimental cinema from 1957-1967, including works by Vinko Rozman, at Matadero Madrid.
CINEMA
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.
CINEMA
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.
CINEMA
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.
CINEMA
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.
