Andorra Cineclub Launches Winter Season with Auteur Films
Teatre Comunal hosts alternative cinema from 14 January, featuring Cannes nominees, festival winners and socially charged stories far from.
Key Points
- Kicks off 14 Jan with Joachim Trier's *Sentimental Value*, Cannes-nominated family comedy-drama starring Stellan Skarsgård.
- 21 Jan: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's *Los domingos*, San Sebastián Golden Conch winner on teen's convent calling.
- 4 Feb: Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or *Un simple accident*, Iranian parable on oppression amid director's imprisonments.
- Closes 18 Mar with *La voz de Hind Rajab*, reconstructing Gaza child's 2024 death by Israeli forces.
The Cineclub returns to Andorra's Teatre Comunal next Wednesday, launching its winter season with an alternative lineup far removed from mainstream commercial releases.
The programme kicks off on 14 January with the Norwegian film *Sentimental Value*, directed by Joachim Trier. This comedy-drama, nominated at last year's Cannes Film Festival, explores the fraught relationships within a film-loving family, led by Stellan Skarsgård—frequent collaborator with Lars von Trier on films like *Breaking the Waves*, *Dancer in the Dark* and *Dogville*.
The season continues on 21 January with *Los domingos*, directed by Spanish filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (*Cinco lobitos*). The film, which won the Concha de Oro at the latest San Sebastián Festival, follows Blanca, a 17-year-old model student who shocks her family by announcing her intention to join a cloistered convent—a story that echoes broader spiritual currents recently highlighted by figures like Lux and Rosalía.
On 28 January, the Catalan director Jaume Claret's debut *Estrany riu* screens as a family road movie on bicycles. It centres on a stylish household—an architect father, actor mother and teenage son—tracing the boy's sexual awakening amid references to Claudio Magris's *Danube*.
February brings more international highlights. On 4 February, Jafar Panahi's *Un simple accident*—Palme d'Or winner at Cannes—offers a dense parable on political and social oppression in Iran, earning the director repeated imprisonment for his views. Radu Jude's Romanian film *Kontinental ‘25* follows on 25 February.
The season closes in March with *Flores para Antonio* on 11 March, directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Elena Molina. This portrait of musician Antonio Flores is seen through the eyes of his daughter Alba. It precedes *La voz de Hind Rajab* on 18 March, Kaouther Ben Hania's reconstruction of a real event: the January 2024 death of five-year-old Hind Rajab at the hands of Israeli forces during the Gaza invasion.
Focused on auteur cinema, social commitment and diverse perspectives on contemporary issues, the Cineclub fills a gap left by screens dominated this week by youth-oriented blockbusters.
Original Sources
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