Viva la muerte

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

Viva la muerte

By Fernando Arrabal et Hassen Daldoul // France - Tunisia // 1971 // 1h30

In the aftermath of Franco's brutal Spanish Civil War, ten-year-old Fando tries to understand why his father has disappeared. He soon discovers that it was his mother, a devout Catholic, who denounced her anti-Fascist husband.

The choice of Gwenaël Morin, director of Le Songe
Projection followed by a discussion with Fernando Arrabal and Gwenaël Morin.
Hosted by Hugues Le Tanneur of Transfuge magazine