Join us for a new season of community screenings at Morningside Library. We’ve put together an amazing programme of films that blend imagination, comedy and family stories.

• Where: Morningside Library (184 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4PU)
• When:The first Tuesday of every month at 14:00
• FREE ENTRY

Accessibility:

• SDH captions
• English subtitles
• Wheelchair accessible

Next event will be on the 14th of January

Memoria Afectiva is a season of short films showcasing explorations into memory and the archive by emerging Spanish filmmakers. Spanning experimental documentary to fiction, the programme traces intertwining personal, familial, and political histories. Tracing the manifestation of memories we would like to forget, to ones that must be preserved, these films explore the past, and the ways in which it never leaves us.

Programme:

Aitana

Marina Alberti | 2023 | Spain | 19’ |  Spanish with English subtitles

Marina is haunted by the idea of losing her memory. Her grandmother suffered memory loss and now her mother Aitana, daughter of the writer Maria Teresa Leon and the poet Rafael Alberti, seems to be as well. Locked in a room which her mother has not left for some time, she insists on reliving her memories. In the silence of the night, her family’s past returns, it is the history of a country and an entire century.

Vuelta a Riaño / Back to Riaño

Miriam Martín | 2023 | Spain | 15’ | Spanish with English subtitles

Moving images shot from the ground against moving images shot from the sky. The words of women, men and children against official speeches. People who don’t want to move, “just like the pine tree by the riverbank”. A valley turned into a reservoir. Class struggle lies underground… and underwater.

Naturaleza muerta 

Carolina Astudillo | 2020 | Spain | 5’ | German with English subtitles

Freud described the sinister (unheimlich) as a contradictory experience where the strange is presented to us as known and the known becomes strange. A granddaughter discovers that her grandmother’s past was very different from what she had been told. Could it be that in times of war, morality is subordinated to survival?

Orbayu

Miguel Ariza | 2022 | Spain | 20’ | Spanish with English subtitles

A random card reading awakens buried memories in José, whose destiny, the tarot reader Tesa says, will be to face them.