The Museo Universidad de Navarra has inaugurated this month its new film program, which brings together 15 films, 11 of which are premieres in Pamplona. As Manuel Asín, responsible for programming, explains, it is a commitment to "contemporary cinema, awarded at festivals, of cultural interest and especially focused on films that otherwise would not reach Pamplona at the time of their national premiere". In this sense, he values the "good public response" to the proposals made to date, which has encouraged the Museum to give them more space. Most of the films are screened on Saturdays at 7 p.m. and general admission costs 3 euros.

The season was opened on January 25 by the Icelandic movie A White, White Dayby Hlynur Pálmason, and this Saturday will be the screening of Santiago, Italyby Italian director Nanni Moretti, both premieres in the Navarrese capital. "The latter is a very interesting documentary film by a key European filmmaker," said Asín. The film weaves a link between Italy and the recent history of Chile and reconstructs the role of the Italian Embassy in Santiago in the months following the 1973 coup d'état, specifically as an asylum for hundreds of refugees opposed to the Pinochet dictatorship.

Also in February, the U.S. film Fourteenby Dan Sallitt, the French film Zombi childby Bertrand Bonello; and Longa noiteby Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso. The latter film won the Golden Boccalino for Best Director at the Locarno Festival, among other awards.

Throughout the season, the animated film The Famous Invasion of the Bears in Sicilyby Lorenzo Mattotti, inspired by the novel of the same name by Dino Buzzati; the Canadian film Ghost town anthologyby Dênis Côte, which participated in the Berlin and San Sebastian film festivals; the French film My Life with Amandaby Mikhäel Hers, Grand Prize winner at the Tokyo International Film Festival; the Brazilian film Bacurauby Kleber Mendoça Filho and Juliano Dornelles, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival; the French film Synonymsby Nadav Lapid, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival; and the Algerian film Abou Leilaby Amin Sidi-Boumédiène.

In addition, the French film Petit à petitby Jean Rouch, which deals with the filmmaker's relationship with Africa, in a long version that is the one the author wanted and could not be premiered in this way. This proposal has been made in collaboration with the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) and the Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe (CGAI).

MEETINGS WITH FILMMAKERS

The Museum will continue to offer colloquiums with filmmakers in which the public can watch their latest films and talk with them about their work and their work. The first meeting, with directors Isidoro Valcárcel Medina and Luis Deltell, will be held on February 14, at 7 p.m., in Room 2 of the Museum. Their new short film will be screened, A Circumstantial Dialoguewhich will be preceded by a film they themselves have chosen for the session, Banda aparte, by Jean-Luc Godard, as a tribute to the recently deceased director and actress Anna Karina.

Also, on March 24, at 7:30 p.m., the director from Navarre, Óskar Alegría, will present at the Museo Zumirikiaccompanied by Efrén Cuevas, professor at the School of Communication of the University of Navarra. The film, a reflection on memory and memories, participated in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.