"MORLAIX" BY JAIME ROSALES. Film Preview
In collaboration with the company Fresdeval Films, the CGAC will host in its auditorium the Galician preview of the film Morlaix (Jaime Rosales, 2025), which has already been shown in other museums and universities in Spain. After the screening of the film, a debate will be held with the participation of its director, Jaime Rosales, as well as Margarita Ledo, professor of Audiovisual Communication, writer, researcher and filmmaker and Santiago Olmo, director of the CGAC.
The company Fresdeval Films produces fiction films and documentaries with a vocation focusing on projects of high artistic quality, based on an original perspective on issues of social, human and cultural interest. Since its creation in 2000, it has developed a unique trajectory within the Spanish film scene and has positioned itself as a young production company, composed of filmmakers with new ideas, a solid background and proven experience and talent.
PROGRAMME
5.00 p.m. • Screening of the film Morlaix
Dir.: Jaime Rosales | Year: 2025 | Country: France, Spain | 124 min | Original version in French with Spanish subtitles | Not recommended for children under the age of 12 | Synopsis: Morlaix is about a group of teenagers in their final year of secondary school in a village in Brittany, France. This group of friends find their ecosystem disturbed by the arrival of an attractive and sincere Parisian boy, Jean-Luc, with true poetic interests.
7:00 p.m. • Intermission
7:10 p.m. • Debate with the participation of Jaime Rosales, Margarita Ledo and Santiago Olmo
JAIME ROSALES (Barcelona, 1970). Among the awards for his film work, the most noteworthy are the Directors’ Fortnight Critics’ Award at the Cannes Film Festival (Las horas del día, 2003), the Goya for Best Film and Best Director (La soledad, 2007), the Critics' Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival (Tiro en cabeza, 2008) and the Ecumenical Jury Award in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival (Beautiful Youth, 2014). He has given courses, talks and lectures at a large number of universities, film schools and art centres.
His collaborations and participations include: Prado Museum, Caixa Forum, Fundación Picasso de Málaga, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centre Georges Pompidou, Artium Museoa de Vitoria, CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Complutense University of Madrid, Carlos III University , University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, ECAM, EICTV, ESADE, University of New York, University of Lyon and IBAFF.
In March 2014, the Centre Georges Pompidou held a retrospective of his work. He is a Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and winner of the National Culture Prize awarded by the Catalan Regional Government (2015). In 2018, he published El lápiz y la cámara, a book reflecting on film and artistic creation, and he presented his film, Petra, as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. His latest film, Girasoles silvestres, premiered in autumn 2022 after screening at the San Sebastian Film Festival.