The Galician Film Archive opens its 2026 programming with a monthly lineup that includes a retrospective of the work of Galician filmmaker Iván Castiñeiras, a cycle curated by Lebanese director Feyrouz Serhal on cinema from her country, and a retrospective dedicated to the Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer Rudy Burckhardt, along with new offerings from the sections Out of the Ordinary, Off Galicia Filmoteca Jr., and Sharing Cinema.The Xunta de Galicia Film Library resumes its activities tomorrow, the 7th, with a first screening at 6:00 PM, in which Antón Taboada presents his medium-length film The Archaeologist, about the life and creative process of the French sculptor, resident in A Coruña, Emile Gireau. Also tomorrow, at 8:30 PM, the film Christmas at Miller's Point, by American Tyler Taormina, will be screened.Iván Castiñeiras stars in the first of the January cycles, which reviews the creative journey that began in 2012 with the short film A Raia, shot on 16 mm and recognized on the festival circuit for its warm, artisanal look at a rural area in the process of being abandoned.
The director himself will be at the Filmoteca headquarters in A Coruña to present the feature film Deuses de pedra on Thursday, the 8th, produced with one of the Galician government's grants for the promotion of audiovisual talent and premiered a year ago at the Rotterdam festival. The special includes two other sessions on the 9th with the aforementioned A Raia and Où est la jungle and the 10th with Trajectory Drift and Path of Shadows, works in which the filmmaker delves into subtle human portraits and issues such as migration and ethnography, in a phase also linked to his training at the French center Le Fresnoy and his work as a director of photography on European productions.Beirut as a Thread cinema from Lebanon, which from January 13 to February 6 will offer the public a cinematic journey through the country's complexity over the past 50 years. The starting point will be Maroun Returns to Beirut, by Serhal herself, which revisits the figure of filmmaker Maroun Baghdadi and turns his films into an emotional and political map of the Lebanese capital.
The itinerary includes eight feature-length films (four documentaries and four fiction films) and four short films produced between 1975 and 2020, with three works by Baghdadi serving as its backbone: Beirut, Oh Beirut (day 14), We Are All for the Fatherland (day 16), and Little Wars (day 20).
16mm Vanguard
The José Sellier Room will host "Pastoral Cities: The Cinema of Rudy Burckhardt" from January 22 to 24, composed of 27 16mm short films. Distributed across four sessions that will be presented by the program's curators, Francisco Algarín and Carlos Saldaña, these pieces offer a look at the city and the everyday that combines documentation, play, and observation, through a selection that includes collaborations like Night Fantasies, with Yvonne Jacquette, and What Mozart Saw on Mulberry Street, with Joseph Cornell.
In the Out of Series section, in January the Filmoteca will once again host director Lucía Seles for a new screening of Gallega Invernal (on the 9th), in addition to offering films by Tyler Taormina, Emmanuel Mouret, and Boris Lojkine.
Off Galicia Section Screenings
Along with the aforementioned The Archaeologist, the Off Galicia section is programming this month the screenings of the documentary 360 Curves (day 29), by Alejandro Gándara Porteiro and Ariadna Silva Fernández, and the web series Gastón, a Shitty Actor (day 31), with Mateo Franco.
The monthly lineup is completed with a new family program from Filmoteca Jr., which on the 17th will screen Dunia y otros cuentos del mundo, and new installments of the special Compartir el cine. 20 years of 'Cinema in Course,' which includes a screening of The 400 Blows by François Truffaut on the 29th, and Yuki & Nina by Nobuhiro Suwa and Hippolyte Girardot on the 30th, with an online discussion from Tokyo with the Japanese director.The family event for this month will be on the 13th with the screening of Flow, a World to Save.
