The University of Guadalajara, through a project created by the Environmental Sciences Museum as part of the University’s Cultural Center, and with the support of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, has established the José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award. The prize, which will be given for the first time this year, will be dedicated to poetry. The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will be given a purse of US $10,000. The award is dedicated to poet José Emilio Pacheco, whose work explores the duality between cities and nature.
Created by the University of Guadalajara, and with the collaboration of the National Institute for Indigenous Languages, the Culture Ministry, the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Cultures and Jalisco’s Department of Education, the American Indigenous Literature Award is granted to enrich, protect and promote the legacy and richness of Mexico’s indigenous peoples through literature in all its forms, and to and acknowledge and further develop the careers and works of indigenous authors. The award, which carries a purse of US $25,000, will be given for the fourth time at the 2016 FIL Guadalajara.
The SM Ibero-American Award for Literature for Children and Young People was implemented in 2005, the year of Ibero-American literature, with the goal of promoting literature for children and young people throughout Ibero-America. The award is given out each year during the Guadalajara International Book Fair to recognize writers of literature for children and young people and carries a purse of US $30,000.
Juan Carlos Quezadas
Karime Cardona Cury
With the goal of creating a network that helps to encourage the work of illustrators of books for children and young people in Ibero-America, the SM Foundation and the FIL Guadalajara invites illustrators to submit their work to be included in the Annual Ibero-American Illustration Catalog. The 45 works selected will be displayed in an exposition at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In addition, illustrators will have the opportunity to work on an illustrated book with Ediciones SM and the winner will be given US $5,000. You can find more information at: www.iberoamericailustra.com
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Visual Arts
Foodscapes
Spain, Guest of Honor
Visual Arts
Foodscapes
Every time we eat, we connect our palate to a multitude of remote places: supermarkets, greenhouses, farms, warehouses, logistics networks, cold chains, landfills... Despite their immense importance, these uninspiring architectures rarely receive the attention they deserve. But in a world where the molecular becomes tectonic and where every bite reverberates throughout the planet, now more than ever we need to rethink our food systems and their implications on the ecosystem.
When we eat, we digest territories. FOODSCAPES proposes a journey to architectures that feed the world: from the home laboratory that is our kitchen to the vast operational landscapes that feed our cities. At a time when debates on energy are more relevant than ever, food remains in the background, and yet the way we produce, distribute and consume it moves our societies, molds out our metropolises and terraforms our landscapes more radically than any other source of energy.
Through an audiovisual project consisting of five short films and a documentary archive that doubles as a recipe book, FOODSCAPES explores the agro-architectural context of Spain – the food engine of Europe – to analyze the present state of our food systems and the architectures that shape them. By doing so, we look to the future and wonder about other possible models that can feed the world without devouring the planet.
Commissioners: Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa and Manuel Ocaña
Spain, Guest of Honor
Visual Arts
Between whispers. Fictions and narratives in contemporary art
Spain, Guest of Honor
Visual Arts
Between whispers. Fictions and narratives in contemporary art
Between whispers. Fictions and narratives in contemporary art explores the ability of art to tell stories, and the way in which these stories are created, transmitted and received. Presented within the framework of the FIL, a unique place to engage with book enthusiasts, the exhibition allows us to explore the relationship between the visual arts and literature, discovering how they reflect each other, complement each other, overlap, and merge.
The works of the exhibition artists tell stories that are not completely true or completely untrue. They take place in an intermediate space, where doubt and the acceptance of doubt are essential. An imprecise place, but one which we all know exists. From here, they develop different strategies. Some focus on the words themselves, squeezing out every drop of meaning or phonetic concept. Others follow the lines marked by narrative structure and the events they relate, the construction of discourse, the reception by the viewer / reader, as well as their emotional involvement and the persuasive effects of the whole process.
The reflection on our perception and the construction of reality passes through many of the works on display. At a time when we find ourselves in eco chambers, where sophisticated computer algorithms decide a good part of the information we receive, we should ask ourselves how we combine this data, which is both multiple and questionable, to construe a story about the world we live in, and how we should try to put in order all the information we receive.
Commissioner: Ferran Barenblit
Spain, Guest of Honor
Visual Arts
Lectura por contacto. Poetic experimentation in Spain. 1962 – 1972
Spain, Guest of Honor
Visual Arts
Lectura por contacto. Poetic experimentation in Spain. 1962 – 1972
Spain in the sixties was characterized by a fertile paradox: the incipient political transformation resulting from the country's economic growth gave way to increased resistance to the Franco regime, which would end up shaking the foundations of the dictatorship in the following decade. In the heat of this climate of increasing opposition to the regime, an intense era of artistic experimentation flourished, starting in 1962 and continuing for ten years, arising from an expanded notion of writing and the desire to tie art to life and to the social sphere.
Artists such as Julio Campal, Ignacio Gómez de Liaño, Elena Asins, and Julio Plaza, among others, and art associations (Problemática 63, Grupo N. O., Zaj), created works that experimented with the plasticity of language, by pouring it over any plot of experience (space, time, body, objects, the city), with the intention of provoking unconstrained concepts of reading, surrounding poetry with all forms of the arts and, above all, bringing author and spectator closer together.
Marked by historic events leading to increasing tension between civil society and the government, this exhibition also shows the political slant starting to appear in this experimental writing and other art forms in the last days of the Franco dictatorship. In short, the exhibition follows a decade in which writing in Spain acted as an axis for play, meeting, urban journey, music, the generation of new forms and, especially, public, poetic and political activity.
Commissioner: Manuel Borja-Villel
Curatorial staff: Lluís Alexandre Casanovas, Nieves y Mario Berenguer and Irene Valle Corpas.
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Los mundos sutiles
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Los mundos sutiles
A young student at the dance conservatory has to prepare a final exam on Antonio Machado. To do so, she will delve into the poet's life and work, starring in a hybrid cinematographic journey somewhere between documentary and fiction. Apparently far removed from any connection to the poet, she will experience a profound impact upon discovering him, both by living in the current-day fields of Castilla, and by feeling the same quality of dreaming and sharing his longing. Her challenge will be to try to translate the written word into the language of the body. Her success or failure will depend on learning that they in fact depend on the ability to feel life.
Director Eduardo Chapero-Jackson will be in attendance
Spain 2012
Director: Eduardo Chapero-Jackson
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Snow White
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Snow White
Pablo Berger's film is a unique and fascinating reinterpretation of the classic Brothers Grimm tale "Snow White," set in Spain in the 20s. In this version, the protagonist, Snow White, is Carmen (played by Macarena García), an extraordinarily beautiful young woman whose childhood has been marred by the cruelty and scorn of her merciless stepmother, Encarna (played by Maribel Verdú), a powerful and manipulative woman who not only envies Carmen's beauty, but who also wants to eliminate any trace of her existence. With a rich combination of fantasy, adventure, excitement and a touch of dark humor, it offers a completely new take on the story we all thought we knew.
Spanish-Mexican actor Daniel Giménez Cacho will be in attendance
Spain 2012
Director: Pablo Berger
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Un amor
Spain, Guest of Honor
From the Page to the Screen. Spain at the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Un amor
The film by Isabel Coixet, based on the novel of the same name by Sara Mesa, tells the story of Nat (played by Laia Costa), a thirtysomething who flees her overwhelming life in the city. Nat finds shelter in the small village of La Escapa, located deep in the heart of rural Spain. She moves into a rustic, dilapidated house, accompanied by a rough, wild dog, where she tries to rebuild her life from scratch. However, after facing down the hostility of her landlord and the mistrust of the town's inhabitants, Nat accepts a disturbing sexual proposal from her neighbor, Andreas (played by Hovik Keuchkerian). This strange and confusing encounter releases an all-consuming and obsessive passion that engulfs Nat completely, leading her to question what type of woman she really is.
The writer and screenwriter Laura Ferrero will be in attendance.
Spain 2023
Director: Isabel Coixet
FIL Forum Shows
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FIL Forum Shows
Rodrigo Cuevas
Rodrigo Cuevas
Nominated for four candidatures for the 2024Music Awards, including Best Tour, Rodrigo Cuevas (Oviedo, 1985) is the brand new winner of the National Prize for Current Music of 2023 presented by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, and of the 2022 Arcoíris (Rainbow) Prize from the Ministry of Equality, the Critical Eye Prize of RNE 2021 for Modern Music, 2020 MIN Award for Breakthrough Artist and Best Fusion and Music Album in the World, 2020 Camaretá Award for Best Song for his composition and hymn "Rambalín ."
Rodrigo Cuevas is a phenomenon of the performing arts as well as of communication in its broadest sense, a total artist in the process of constant sustainable growth. In recent years, Rodrigo Cuevas has matured in a very significant way as an artist and as a person, with a tour like "Trópico de Covadonga" that has allowed him to tour countless cities in Europe, almost 20 performances in France, and also visit America and the Middle East, having sold out most of the gigs, many of them spectacular, such as those at the Grec in Barcelona or the Price Circus in Madrid, to name just two.
"La Romería" is nourished by the songs that make up the "Manual de Romería", although his repertoire includes some great tunes from his previous work, such as "Como arboleda bien plantada" (Like a well-planted grove) or "Rambalín", an authentic anthem that does poetic justice to LGTBIQ where real justice was absent.
"La Romería" is fueled by humor, social criticism, irony, intelligent condemnation and his trademark sensuality, by the naturalized use of Asturian and Spanish as vehicular languages and seasoned with an elegant and contemporary staging that breaks with the preceding imagery both on the stage and in the costumes.
We therefore leave with "La Romería", a space for celebration and communion, a place to feel free of prejudice, to feel sovereign and loving, libertine and good in the broadest sense of the word good. A show that is extroverted, hot, ambitious, happy, danceable and even epic.
Artist: Rodrigo Cuevas
Rodrigo Cuevas
Invitado de HonorNominado a cuatro candidaturas a los Premios de la Música 2024, entre ellas a mejor gira, Rodrigo Cuevas (Oviedo, 1985) es el flamante premio nacional de las músicas actuales de 2023 que concede el Ministerio de Cultura español, así como premio Arcoíris 2022 del Ministerio de Igualdad; premio Ojo Crítico de RNE de 2021, a las músicas modernas; premio MIN 2020, al artista revelación y al mejor álbum de fusión y músicas del mundo; remiu Camaretá 2020, al meyor cantar por su composición e himno Rambalín. Rodrigo Cuevas es un fenómeno de las artes escénicas, lo mismo que de la comunicación en su más vasto sentido; un artista total, en proceso constante de crecimiento sostenible.
La Romería se nutre de las canciones que conforman Manual de Romería, aunque por su repertorio discurren algunos de los temazos de su trabajo anterior tales como Arboleda bien plantada o Rambalín, auténtico estandarte que hace justicia poética a la LGTBIQ, donde la justicia real quedó ausente.
La Romería está alimentada por el humor, la crítica social, la ironía, la denuncia inteligente y la sensualidad, marca de la casa por el uso naturalizado del asturiano y del español como lenguas vehiculares, y aderezado con una puesta en escena elegante y contemporánea que rompe con la imaginería precedente en el escenario, tanto como en el vestuario.
Nos vamos, por tanto, con La Romería, un espacio para la celebración y para la comunión; un lugar para sentirnos libres de prejuicios, para latir soberanos y amantes, libertinos y buenos en el más amplio sentido de la palabra bueno. Un show que se manifiesta extrovertido, caliente, ambicioso, alegre, bailable e incluso épico.
Spain, Guest of Honor
FIL Forum Shows
Ruper Ordorika
Ruper Ordorika
Ruper Ordorika presents his work: "Amour eta toujours." A very special album that he recorded in a Cuban key with experienced musicians from different backgrounds, both the lyrics and the sound lead us to unknown territory in Ruper's career, but at the same time faithful to his essence.
This album by Ruper Ordorika comes to us by surprise, with unusual songs and atmospheres in one of the most recognized voices in Basque music. Based on his experiences on the Island of Cuba, the album is titled " Amour eta toujours."
Ruper Ordorika's relationship with Havana and the Cuban world has not fallen on deaf ears. Their project makes it clear; they are songs that are in tune with the
Afro-Cuban musical key and inspired by that world.
For its presentation, Ruper will have his band on stage: Arkaitz Miner (guitar, violin and mandolin), Lutxo Neira (double bass), Hasier Oleaga (drums), and also Eduardo Lazaga (percussion) and Nando de La Casa (percussion and keyboards).
Ruper Ordorika is not a musician to be defined with two words... He is an indisputable reference for his songs in the Basque language. In his compositions, he has always struck an equal balance between beauty and emotional depth, which can only be achieved through an incessant search for sounds and texts. The result: songs with timeless personality.
Artist: Ruper Ordorika
Ruper Ordorika
Invitado de HonorPresenta su trabajo Amour eta toujours. Un disco muy especial que grabó en clave cubana con músicos experimentados de distintas procedencias, tanto en sus letras como en el sonido, nos conducen a un territorio desconocido en la carrera de Ruper, pero al mismo tiempo fiel a su esencia.
Este disco nos llega por sorpresa, con canciones y ambientes inusuales en una de las voces más reconocidas de la música vasca. Basado en sus vivencias en la isla de Cuba, el álbum se titula Amour eta toujours.
La relación de Ruper Ordorika con La Habana y el mundo cubano no ha caído en saco roto. Su proyecto lo deja claro, son canciones que están en sintonía con la clave musical afrocubana e inspirada en aquel mundo.
Para su presentación contará en el escenario con su banda: Arkaitz Miner (guitarra, violín y mandolina), Lutxo Neira (contrabajo) Hasier Oleaga (batería), y además Eduardo Lazaga (percusiones) y Nando de La Casa (percusiones y teclados).
Ordorika no es un músico a definir con dos palabras... Es un referente indiscutible de la canción en lengua vasca. En sus composiciones siempre ha logrado a partes iguales belleza y profundidad anímica, lo que sólo se consigue a través de una búsqueda incesante de sonidos y textos. El resultado: canciones de una personalidad atemporal.
Spain, Guest of Honor
FIL Forum Shows
Sés
Sés
SES is a singer-songwriter with a long career who is an icon in the current Galician scene. Already a classic on the music scene, her prolific work continues to have full presence after 13 years of activity and 8 albums, thanks to her exceptional artistic ability, charisma and strength on stage.
The eclectic aesthetic that characterizes her, which combines her own traditional influences with the multiple and diverse styles that have nourished it (the author's own songs, Latin American folklore, rock & roll...) is subordinated to the literary expressiveness of the songs. Her lyrics codify both vital aspects of the artist and reflections of a social and political nature.
The philosophical charge of her writing is nothing short of a reflection of a restless personality and brilliant mind that acts as a chronicler of her context without shying away from highlighting its most unfair side. If silence prevails, with her powerful voice she destabilizes conformism and generalized indolence, something as necessary as it is scarce, which her audience demands and endorses with their boisterous support and loyalty.
Authenticity and versatility in its purest form, her very personal sound and strong presence make it impossible for the listener to remain indifferent.
Artist: SÉS
SÉS
Invitado de HonorSES es una cantautora de larga trayectoria que constituye todo un icono en el panorama actual gallego. Como clásica ya de la escena musical, su prolífera obra sigue teniendo plena presencia después de trece años de actividad y ocho discos, gracias a su excepcional capacidad artística, a su carisma y fuerza sobre el escenario.
La estética ecléctica que la caracteriza, que combina influencias tradicionales propias con múltiples y diversos estilos de los que se ha ido nutriendo (canción de autora, folclore latinoamericano, rock and roll…) se supedita a la expresividad literaria de las canciones. Sus letras codifican, tanto aspectos vitales de la artista como reflexiones de carácter social y político.
La carga filosófica de su escritura no es ni más ni menos que el reflejo de una personalidad inquieta y mente brillante, que actúa como cronista de su contexto sin huir de evidenciar la cara más injusta de este. Si el silencio impera, con su potente voz desestabiliza el conformismo y la indolencia generalizada, algo tan necesario como escaso, que su público reclama y avala con su numeroso apoyo y fidelidad.
Autenticidad y polivalencia en estado puro, su personalísima sonoridad y fuerte presencia imposibilitan la indiferencia del oyente.
Spain, Guest of Honor
FIL Forum Shows
Javier Ruibal-Saturno Cabaret
Javier Ruibal-Saturno Cabaret
Spain, 1950’s. With the arrival of a certain economic improvement thanks to the agreements between the Franco regime and the United States, a lukewarm and fearful scent of freedom arrives in Spain. The Saturno is a cabaret set in the Barcelona of the time, where the American Sixth Fleet disembarked alongside bourgeois and roughneck scoundrels, all of whom rubbed shoulders with visual and cinematographic artists who gave back the city the cosmopolitanism it had lost with the coup d'état, the civil war and the subsequent and very long reprisal.
And in this —seeming— space of Freedom, the show "Saturno Cabaret" takes place. Conceived, composed and written by Javier Ruibal, it is a portrait of the time through a gallery of characters treated with the humor and the tenderness essential to make this show a mirror in which to look at what we were and how we were able to emerge dignified, though not unscathed, from that time of opprobrium and repression.
This creative musician, different from all those of his culture and generation, boasts a 35-plus-year career. Composer, arranger, guitarist and singer. Self-taught and unorthodox. Frontier musician. He has been a professional musician since 1978, giving numerous concerts both in Spain and in other countries. Due to the particularity of his creation and its plural forms, he is invited to perform in different kinds of festivals such as jazz festivals, world music...
Bordering on flamenco, he always let himself be involved and fascinated by it, but taking the precaution of not passing himself off as what he always wanted to make clear he was not: a flamenco artist, not for lack of affection but out of absolute respect for it. However, a good part of the contemporary flamenco music is directly influenced by this artist who has been discovered as a true innovator of musical and poetic language.
He has composed for other artists such as Martirio, Ana Belén, Pasión Vega, Javier Krahe, and Mónica Molina, and he has participated in several recordings of Pablo Milanés, Joaquín Sabina, Celtas Cortos, Martirio, Carmen París, and others.
Javier Ruibal was awarded the National Prize of Current Music of the Ministry of Culture of Spain in 2017, has won the Goya Award for Best Original Song in 2020, was granted the Gold Medal of Andalusia and named Academician of Fine Arts of Cadiz in 2024.
Artist: Javier Ruibal
Javier Ruibal
Invitado de HonorJavier Ruibal es premio nacional de Músicas Actuales del Ministerio de Cultura de España 2017, ganador del Premio Goya a Mejor Canción Original 2020, Medalla de Oro de Andalucía y Académico de Bellas Artes de Cádiz.