Short film “LA CHARI SE CASA” by Emma Cohen. Spain. 17′.
Short film “¡Y YO QUÉ SE!” by Emma Cohen. Spain. fifteen’
Documentary feature film “VIAJE A ALGUNA PARTE” by Helena de Llanos. Spain. 104’

With the presence of the director and subsequent discussion.

La Chari se casa
Chari is Getting Married
España. 1977. 17’. Documental

Dirección: Emma Cohen. Guion: Emma Cohen. Producción ejecutiva:  Ismael González. Edición: José Salcedo. Fotografía: Roberto Gómez

Probably the most unusual work in Emma Cohen’s brief filmography; even more if we try to place it in the history of Spanish cinema. The camera takes us into a gypsy wedding celebrated in a Madrid town. According to Emma, she was able to shoot it because the production manager was the lover of a gypsy man, and they were allowed to participate. To accompany the images we have the voiceover of Chari, the bride.

IN COLLABORATION WITH:

Emma Cohen

Barcelona, 1946 – Madrid, 2016. Known as an actress, she was also a writer, collagist and film director. Close to the most restless minds of the Barcelona underground, as shown by her omnipresence in the film Hortensia, by Antonio Maenza, and her friendship with the director Joaquim Jordà, she began directing films with Primera historia de Bartio (1969), produced by Films 59. After moving to Madrid, she continued to make short films based on formal and narrative experimentation. Her work is influenced by surrealism, an interest in the telluric, playful and magic, as well as disobedience to morality. She was married to Fernando Fernán Gómez. She died in July 2016 in Madrid.

¡Y yo qué sé!
España. 1980. 15’. Ficción

Dirección: Emma Cohen. Guion: Emma Cohen. Producción: Cinema X. Producción ejecutiva: Augusto M. Torres, Emma Cohen. Fotografía: Porfirio Enríquez. Reparto: Julieta Serrano, José Luis Aguirre, Pedro Beltrán, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Marta Fernández Muro

A woman receives a series of bizarre visits that intrude and invade her desired solitude.

Emma Cohen

Barcelona, 1946 – Madrid, 2016. Known as an actress, she was also a writer, collagist and film director. Close to the most restless minds of the Barcelona underground, as shown by her omnipresence in the film Hortensia, by Antonio Maenza, and her friendship with the director Joaquim Jordà, she began directing films with Primera historia de Bartio (1969), produced by Films 59. After moving to Madrid, she continued to make short films based on formal and narrative experimentation. Her work is influenced by surrealism, an interest in the telluric, playful and magic, as well as disobedience to morality. She was married to Fernando Fernán Gómez. She died in July 2016 in Madrid.

Viaje a alguna parte
España. 2021. 107’. Documental

Dirección: Helena de Llanos. Guión: Helena de Llanos. Producción: Alguna Parte, Estela Films, Estela PC, Enrique Cereco PC, Pólvora Films, La Coproductora, A Contracorriente Films. Producción ejecutiva: Félix Tussel, Carmela Martínez Oliart, Enrique Cerezo, Arturo Valls, Jorge Pezzi, Adolfo Blanco. Fotografía: Almudena Sánchez. Montaje: Helena de Llanos, Emma Tusell, Adrián Viador

A young woman inherits a huge house from her grandparents and, with it, a series of responsibilities and surprises. She has not, however, inherited the talents of the previous denizens. Fortunately, they are still around, and will soon show up. Their names are Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen. Helena de Llanos, granddaughter of the iconic actor, director, novelist and writer Fernando Fernán Gómez, immerses herself in this documentary on the professional and vital career of two fundamental and unique figures in Spanish culture.

Helena de Llanos

Filmmaker and researcher. She studied Hispanic Philology, she worked as a teacher of Spanish, literature and film history in various centers and universities; and she holds a doctorate in literature and film in the United States. Her audiovisual works oscillate between documentary and fiction. On occasions she has focused her work on giving a new meaning audiovisual archives, creating pieces such as Diario de Cuarentona (2020), in which she worked with a large amount of archive material to create a story about the months of lockdown during the pandemic. Her approach, to date, is a junction between cinema with art, memory and citizen participation in cultural creation. Since 2016, she has been researching and organizing the written, theatrical and cinematographic work of Fernando Fernán Gómez and Emma Cohen through a multidisciplinary project that includes, in addition to several books, the short film ¿Nos hablan los muertos? (2019) and the feature film Viaje a alguna Parte (2021).