Screening of the documentary titled "Carmen and María. Two paths, but one gaze" at the 18th Lisbon Flamenco Festival

The documentary titled Carmen and Maria. Two paths, but one gaze, produced by the Princess of Asturias Foundation and inspired by the figures of flamenco singer Carmen Linares and flamenco dancer and choreographer María Pagés, is to be screened within the programmed activities of the 18th Lisbon Flamenco Festival.

The screening will take place at 7:00pm on 5th June at the UCI Cinemas in El Corte Inglés, Lisbon. The event will be attended by Director of the Princess of Asturias Foundation Teresa Sanjurjo and will include a performance by artists Ángel Bocanegra (violin) and Álvaro Martinete (guitar).

Following its premiere on 8th March 2024 at the 27th Malaga Film Festival, the documentary has been screened at the 73rd Santander International Film Festival, the 1st Granada Flamenco Film Festival, the 23rd Seville Flamenco Biennial, the 8th Mediterranean Flamenco Festival and the 21st Ellas Crean Festival (featuring creations by women). It was presented in Asturias on 12th October last as the opening event of Awards Week and was shown in November in a special screening at the 62nd edition of the Gijón International Film Festival (FICX). It has also been included in the official sections of the online Cal Film Festival (Los Angeles) and Avignon International Film Festival, respectively.

Carmen and Maria. Two paths, but one gaze.

To mark the conferral of the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for the Arts, in the summer of that same year –twenty-five years after they had last worked together– Carmen Linares and María Pagés embarked on a creative process that was to subsequently give rise to the documentary titled Carmen and Maria. Two paths, but one gaze. This intimate flamenco piece was conceived to pay tribute through singing and dance to some of the most representative voices of Spanish poetry. Filmed during the rehearsals prior to the premiere of the show, this work is the starting point of the documentary and also reflects the experiences of the Laureates at the cultural and official events organized on the occasion of the Princess of Asturias Awards Ceremony. This audiovisual piece is the first documentary produced by the Princess of Asturias Foundation, which seeks to disseminate the work of its Laureates via different formats.

Lisbon Flamenco Festival

The Lisbon Flamenco Festival came into being in 2008 with the aim of promoting both traditional and contemporary flamenco, disseminating knowledge of flamenco creators and artists, as well as their works and productions, through annual programmes. Throughout the years, the festival has featured the participation of more than sixty major figures and more than four hundred accompanying artists, including fourteen winners of national and international awards, such as Rafel Riqueni, Miguel Poveda, Javier Barón, Juan Manuel Cañizares, Enrique Morente, Estrella Morente, Carmen Linares, Jorge Pardo, Gerardo Núñez, Matilde Coral, Rocío Molina, Sara Baras and Eduardo Guerrero, among others.