Do you like film? Do you want to brush up your English and have fun in the process? If so, don’t miss Let’s go to the Movies, a season of the latest British short films and documentaries at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao held on the last Wednesday of every month. Each screening will be followed by a conversation with the other members of the audience facilitated by teachers from the British Council of Bilbao.
Upcoming screenings:
January 25: Camelot (from The Uncertain Kingdom). A reimagining of the Welsh legend of King Arthur, told by boys growing up in the Welsh Valleys with the quest of their own lives ahead of them.
February 22: Eve (from Climate Stories). Eve is the intimate story of a nine-year- old girl living in one of the oldest off grid communities in the UK. Following her journey returning to school and becoming a young climate activist, her story encapsulates the human complexity of navigating the environmental crisis and what moving to live off grid really means for a UK family.
March 29: The Palace (BAFTA shorts 2022). Every day, on the top floor of an iconic 1960’s shopping centre, hundreds of regulars take up their usual spots in the London Palace Bingo Club. Some come for the cheap dinners and the free tea and coffee, but many stay to relax, socialise, play bingo, dominoes, gossip, and party together. As the area’s billion-pound redevelopment nears its finish, the club finds itself the last piece of the old neighbourhood now sitting within a drastically altered picture.
April 26: Blackthorn (from Climate Stories). Sam Robinson plies the thousand-year-old craft of dry-stone walling in Cumbria, in the north of England. Working in all weathers to make and maintain the lie of the land, his philosophy is one of protest, pride and authenticity – a counter-vision to a Britain bound in consumerism, the people removed from the work that once grounded their communities. For Sam, resistance is the honesty of work and words.
May 31: Samaritan (from Climate Stories). An immigrant doctor, fearing deportation and living off the grid, stumbles upon the body of recently kidnapped politician. He takes the stranger back to his cabin to nurse him, and when the stranger awakes, their conversation reveals their opposing political ideals.