Walls Can Talk
Acclaimed director Carlos Saura portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas, travelling from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most avant-garde urban expressions.
A thrilling and personal journey in the company of figures including Miquel Barceló (the first contemporary artist still alive to expose his work at the Louvre) or Suso 33 (a reference within the Graffiti and Muralism worlds) among many.
Carlos Saura (b. 1932) was a professional photographer before turning to filmmaking in the mid-fifties. In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film "La tarde del domingo" (1957). Generally acknowledged as Spain’s leading director of the last four decades, many of his films have won numerous major prizes at international film festivals since the sixties. On January 4th 2022 the director is celebrating his 90th birthday. Carlos Saura is this year’s laureate of PÖFF Lifetime Achievement Award.
Selected: Llanto por un bandido (Weeping for a Bandit, 1964), Le Jardin de las delicias (The Garden of Delights, 1970), Ana y los lobos (Anna and the Wolves, 1973), Dulces horas (Sweet Hours, 1982), Antonieta (1982), Carmen (1983), Ay, Carmela! (1990), Sevillanas (1992), Tango (1998), Goya (Goya in Bordeaux, 1999), Bunuel y la mess del rey Salomon (Bunuel ja kuningas Saalomoni laud, PÖFF 2001), Salomé (2002), Fados (2007, PÖFF 2008), Io, Don Giovanni (Mina, Don Giovanni, PÖFF 2009), Flamenco Flamenco (2010), Jota de Saura (2016), El rey de todo el mundo (The King of All the World 2021)