Carlos Saura

Carlos Saura was born in 1932 in Huesca, Spain, into a family of artists. After the Civil War, he moved to Madrid and enrolled at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Cinematográfcos. After graduating in 1957, he made his frst medium-length documentary Cuenca, which marked the beginning of a Spanishstyle neo-realism. The thugs (1960) is his frst feature flm. The Hunt (1966, Silver Bear in Berlin) evokes the hidden consequences and psychological weight of the war, one of the main themes of his work. This was followed by La Madriguera (1969) and The Garden of Delights (1970). Cousin Angelica (1974) was selected in competition at the Cannes Film Festival and Cría Cuervos (1975) received the Grand Prix de Jury the following year. Until Franco’s death in 1976, Saura had to play with censorship, orienting his cinema towards a symbolic language. Living Fast (1981) won the Golden Bear in Berlin. From the 1980s, several of his flms explore the question of the representation of dance, music and spectacle: Blood Wedding (1981), Carmen (1983), Flamenco (1995), Goya in Bordeaux (1999, Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Montreal Film Festival), Tango (1998), Fados (2007), Flamenco (2010), Argentina (2015), Jota de Saura (2016) and the fctional flm El rey de todo el mundo (2021). He then directed a feature flm about the architect Renzo Piano, Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander, and a short flm about Goya, Goya 3 de mayo. In 2021, he returned to the Civil War with the animated short Rosa Rosae. La Guerra Civil. His latest flm, The Walls Can Talk (2022), is a refection on art from its origins to the present day