The First Look

In a country destroyed by a civil war and in the midst of a dictatorship, a film school was created. Against any intention by the regime, it became a space of freedom. The dream only lasted fifteen years, but it changed forever the history of Spanish cinema giving some of its greatest directors: Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga, Carlos Saura, Víctor Erice, Basilio Martín Patino, José Luis Borau… The practice exercises of the students are still in the archives of the school. Luis E. Parés makes a formidable exercise himself with the archival material helping understand the greatness of the dreams of those filmmaking students observing the modernisation process of a country ravaged by many traumas.