The First Look (2024)

Overview : In Spain, a poor country ruined by the recent Civil War (1936-39), and in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, a film school was created in Madrid in 1947, the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas, called Escuela Oficial de Cine since 1961, which became, almost unintentionally, a space of freedom and pure experimentation until its closure in 1976.

Release Date : April 7, 2024

Runtime : 75m

Genre : Documentary, History  

Companies : Pantalla Partida, Malvalanda, TVE, Filmoteca Española

Countries : Spain

Keywords : franco regime (francoism), spanish history, cinema history, film school, film censorship, spanish cinema, experimental spanish cinema, european cinema