Land without Bread (Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan)
Dir: Luis Buñuel
Spain, 1933, French, 28mins, DCP
Fascinated by the graceless mountains and the struggle for survival of its impoverished inhabitants, Buñuel ventured into the remote Las Hurdes region in this parodic manipulation of documentary style. Exposing the squalor of a people ignored by the regime, the director delivers his political statement by rendering a bitter reality via contrived representation in savage imagery – dead babies, deformed midgets, a goat tumbling to its demise, and a mule stung to death by bees. Despite its distortions, this banned film remains a fabulous open text that questions humanity’s notion of progress. Screening with Simon of the Desert.
Screening:
In-theatre Screening
Evolving Beyond Surrealism - The Cinema of Luis Buñuel
Buy Ticket 2023-01-08 (Sun)
20:15Buy Ticket 2023-02-26 (Sun)
14:30
PREMIERE Elements (Venue)
Hong Kong Arts Centre Louis Koo Cinema (Venue)
HK Science Museum Lecture Hall
Hong Kong Film Archive
K11 Art House
The Metroplex
Festival Grand Cinema
the sky
MCL Telford Cinema
Tai Kwun
MOViE MOViE
CINE FAN ONLINE
EMP Cinemas iSQUARE (Venue)
M+ Cinema (Venue)
EMP Cinemas Times Square (Venue)
The Grand Cinema
Broadway Hollywood
Cine Moko
Chinese Subtitles
Category III
Post-screening discussion with the director
Director and/or actor(s) will meet the audience
Post-screening talk
Full House
Introduction