Indie cinema and documentary take over on the second day of Wofest

The Wofest program at the Gran Teatro will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a new commitment to local filmmakers thanks to the premiere in Spain of the documentary ‘Generación Jarcha’, co-directed by Huelva-born Inés Romero and Pablo Coca. The tape reviews the trajectory of what was one of the most important musical groups in Spain in the 1970s, with well-known songs such as ‘Libertad sin ira’. Now, half a century later, the current formation summons its former members in a concert (Jarcha 5.0), a meeting that serves as the basis for this documentary. After the screening, the directors of the film will hold a meeting with the audience.

At 8:00 p.m. at Wofest, the film ‘Ramona’, Andrea Bagney’s debut feature, will be screened, and in which the singer Lourdes Hernández (Russian Red) makes her film debut with this comedy in which she gives life to Ramona, a young Actress who is ready to focus on her career and being a mother, but meeting Bruno makes her doubt all her decisions. The film has won several awards, such as the Málaga Work in Progress, the Young Jury Award – Abycine Indie or the jury’s special mention for Best Comedy at the Roma Cinema Film Fest.

At 10:00 p.m. at Wofest it is the turn of the acclaimed first feature film by British director Charlotte Wells, which is obtaining great critical and public success. This is the film ‘Aftersun’, with which the director has won awards such as the Bafta for the best debut of a director Briton/a or seven awards at the British Independent Film Awards, among many others.

At a decaying holiday resort in the late 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie treasures scarce time with her doting and idealistic father, Calum. As Sophie’s adolescence blossoms, Calum’s desire for a life outside of parenthood grows. Twenty years later, memories of Sophie’s last vacation become a powerful and heartbreaking portrait of her relationship as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she never knew.

Tickets to see these Wofest projections are priced at 2.50 euros and are available online on the web https://entradas.huelva.es/ and in person at the ticket office of the Gran Teatro from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the morning and in the afternoon one hour before the start of the session.

Wofest screenings at the UHU and in secondary schools in the province

The award-winning documentary ‘A las mujeres de España. María Lejárraga’, by Laura Hojman, which has just won the Silver Biznaga for Best Women on Stage Documentary at the Malaga Film Festival, will be screened at 10:00 a.m. at the University of Huelva, where attendees will then have a meeting with the director. The film focuses on the figure of María Lejárraga, writer and pioneer of feminism in Spain during the 20s of the last century, and whose works saw the light under the name of her husband, the theater manager Gregorio Martínez Sierra.

This documentary, which is especially recommended for the promotion of gender equality, will also reach -thanks to the collaboration of the Diputación de Huelva- five secondary schools in the province. These are the IES Puerta de Andalucía in Santa Olalla del Cala, the IES Vázquez Díaz de Nerva, the IES Saltés in Punta Umbría, the IES La Palma in La Palma del Condado and the IES Andévalo in Puebla de Guzmán.