This event is free but it is still necessary to book.

Recommended age guidance – 15+ – contains sexist and homophobic language, a scene of cockfighting and brief natural nudity

El Cine Soy Yo / The Moving-Picture Man (newly restored 4k)

Luis Armando Roche | 1977 | 94min

After practicing various professions, Jacinto (Asdrúbal Melendez) decides to become a movie projectionist. This versatile man converts his truck into a travelling cinema shaped like a whale in order to bring films across Venezuela, sharing films with people in rural villages. El cine soy yo is one of the most representative films of Venezuelan cinema and a celebration of the power of cinema in the most unimaginable circumstances.

“El Cine Soy Yo is a very evocative film, universal to those free-spirited souls who love a journey and the cinema experience. It’s explored at different levels, including fragments of Mexican movies and previous short films by Roche, with even a crew in the middle of production appearing inside the film with a cameo of Luis Armando Roche.

For Venezuelans, this film can offer a connection with childhood memories, with those family holidays around the country exploring our warm salty beaches, the areas of the rainforest, and the Andean paramos. How much have we changed?” – Cinema Rediscovered film curator Lorena Pino Montilla

This event is wheelchair accessible and the film will be shown with descriptive subtitles, transcribing both dialogue and key sounds from the film such as [kettle whistling] or [door slamming]

Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, awarding funding on behalf of Screen Scotland and the BFI National Lottery.