Program 2022

Director: Cesc Gay
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Cast: Javier Cámara, Griselda Siciliani, Belén Cuesta, Alberto San Juan

Ana (Griselda Siciliani) and Julio (Javier Cámara) are a seemingly perfect middle-aged couple, but behind that nice facade they hide daily arguments. One day Ana invites some neighbors, who also seem friendly, to a dinner, and in company these conflicts come to the surface. The neighbors aren’t as nice as they seem either, which becomes evident after a wine drinking that brings out the common concerns, most of which are related to sexual life. Nominated for the European Film Award (2021) in the comedy category.

Director: Antonio Hens
Co-production España, Venezuela y Alemania
Duartion: 1h 35 min
Cast: Carmen Maura, Ramón Barea, María Pujalte, María José Alfonso, Itziar Aizpuru, Antonio Molero, Phil Trim

A comedy about Laura (Carmen Maura), a legendary Spanish rock singer whose career went downhill and now lives in a quiet nursing home. However, the joy of life has not left Laura, and in order to lift the mood of her companions, she decides to set up a rock band with elderly people in the nursing home. However, this is outrageous for the head of the nursing home and she decides to keep Laura strictly in check. Unexpectedly appears Laura’s grandson Jaime (Milton García), whom Laura had no idea about. The grandchild also wants to become a rock musician and now the grandmother’s advice becomes very helpful.

As a part of Literary Wednesdays by the Estonian Writers’ Union the translators of Julio Cortázar – Ruth Sepp and Klaarika Kaldjärv – with an admirer of his work, the writer P.I Filimonov are having a talk dedicated to the publication of Cortázar’s short story collection “Cronopios and Famas” in Estonian.

“Cronopios and Famas” is one of the author’s most legendary and widely read works, this year marks the 60th anniversary of its original publication. “Cronopio is a drawing outside of frames, a poem without a rhyme,” as the author has defined in one of his interviews. The short fiction of the collection – like the works of Cortázar in general – are full of playfulness, absurdity, fantasy and genius. As well as practical tips, like instructions for crying or going up the stairs. Cortázar does not only play with reality but also with language and structure, certainly with the reader and the poor translator. Because of this the translation of his work is more demanding and maddening, sometimes also more intriguing, than usual.

“Cronopios and Famas” is published by Toledo publishing house and translated by Ruth Sepp with the illustrations of Allan Kukk. The talk will be held in Estonian.

Ticket: 1-2 euros
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Director: Claudia Huaiquimilla
Country: Chile
Duration: 1h 25 min.
Cast: Iván Cáceres, Paly García, César Herrera, Andrew Bargsted, Julia Lübbert, Sebastián Ayala, René Miranda, Belén Herrera, Ariel Mateluna, Claudio Arredondo y Luz Jiménez.

Real-life-inspired Chilean drama about young people assigned to the margins of society. Ángel (Iván Cáceres) and his younger brother Franco (César Herrera) have been in juvenile detention for about a year. The brothers support each other, try to cope with difficult conditions and dream of freedom. Their routine is being broken by a new inmate, the rebellious Jaime (Andrew Bargsted). There is a rumor that Jaime is going to escape, and Franco and Ángel see it as an opportunity.
The film has participated in a competition program at the Locarno Film Festival.

The screening of the film is supported by the Embassy of Chile in Finland.

Director: César Díaz
Coproduction Guatemala, Belgium and France
Duration: 1h 18 min
Cast: Armando Espitia, Emma Dib, Aurelia Caal, Julio Serrano Echeverría, Victor Moreira

Guatemala, 2018. There are extensive trials going on against the military for crimes committed during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), and testimonies from victims are being added one after another. Ernesto (Armando Espitia), a young forensic scientist, is tasked with identifying unknown victims. Hearing the testimony of an old woman, Ernesto thinks that it will lead him in the footsteps of his father, who was lost in the civil war. Ernesto opposes his mother’s will to investigate her father’s fate and decides to pursue the truth.

Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

On May 4, an outdoor exhibition of the Prado Art Museum “Prado on the Streets of Tallinn” will be opened in Kadriorg Park.

The project began in 2011 thanks to an agreement between the Prado Museum and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). In collaboration with several cultural centres, the exhibition has travelled to four continents: America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

The exhibition in Tallinn will show many of the main masterpieces of the Prado Museum: from “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez, to “The Naked Maja” by Francisco de Goya, through “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico and works from the Spanish, Flemish and Italian painting collections. The exhibition aims to bring the Estonian public closer to the cultural identity of the Spanish artistic heritage, in a didactic way, and as close as possible to reality, as the paintings are reproduced on a 1:1 scale from high-definition images.

The exhibition is organized by the Embassy of Spain in Estonia, in collaboration with the Prado Museum, the Cultural Department of Tallinn City Council, the Estonian Art Museum, Kadriorg Park and the Department of Tourism of the Embassy in Helsinki.

The exhibition is placed in front of the Kadrorg Palace. It is free of charge and open all day. Visitors will be able to see the Prado paintings until 12 June.

What do the Alhambra of Granada, the Teide National Park and the Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) have in common? Not only they are three of the most known and visited places in the country, but they have also been recognized by the UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. Spain has about fifty sites that fulfill the tough criteria stablished by the UNESCO to become part of this list. In addition, about twenty cultural manifestations have been considered as Intangible Cultural World Heritage and more than ten documents have been inscribed to the documental heritage list, Memory of the World. Getting to know them all is a very interesting way to approach the history, culture, nature and traditions of Spain. For this reason, in this activity we will come closer to them from a historical perspective, but also from the point of view of a tourist who visits Spain to know all sides of the country.

Sign-up for the event: send an email to info@hispaaniaklubi.ee or just show up!

Event language:  English

Tickets: 5 eur. The ticket price includes a glass of wine and snacks. The guests are asked to pay before the event in the event location.

A two-day cycle of conferences and workshops in which professionals teachers of Spanish as a foreign language from inside and outside Estonia meet to exchange experiences and knowledge about Linguistics and Education, with the aim of creating links and establishing networks of support.

Registration fee is 20 euros. The payment will be made by bank transfer to the following account: EE071010002006943007. Indicate “Tallinn University” in the addressee field and “MAR21174” in the concept field. Registration is open until April 30, 2022 by filling out the form at: https://forms.gle/6oMSiokPKD6xqxTk7

Program: https://www.tlu.ee/sites/default/files/TÜHI/Conference’s%20program.pdf

IG: @tallinnele

Description of the course:

In this course all the participant guitarists will get the experience of accompanying a Flamenco dancer together with a Flamenco percussionist. The masterclass is aimed at beginner and intermediate guitarists who want to have their first experience accompanying Flamenco dance, as well as to those guitarists who want to improve their rhythmical and communicational skills when playing together with Flamenco dancers and percussionists.

The participant will receive in advance several materials that he/she will work on individually to be able to perform them during the Masterclass together with the dancer and the percussionist. During the session there will be moments of group accompanying and also moments of individual accompanying. The tempo will be adapted to the preference of each participant in his/her turn, and the guitar assistant Jorge Arena will be ready to support and help out those who are more hesitant about playing individually.

Materials for the course:

1. Escobilla por soleá (beginner’s level)
2. Escobilla por soleá (intermediate level)
3. Silencio and escobilla por alegrías (beginner’s level)
4. Silencio and escobilla por alegrías (intermediate level)

Each participant will receive after his/her registration the listed materials on music notation + TABS together with video recordings with the guitar performance of each piece of material by way of example. The participant should work on those materials in the weeks and months prior to the course to be able to perform them fluently during the Masterclass. If not all, he/she should be able to perform at least one of the materials, even if at a very slow tempo. Dancer, percussionist and guitar assistant will completely adapt to the needs of each participant in his/her turn. All interested guitarists, please mind that the earlier you register, the more time you will have to get properly ready. In case any participant knows any other arrangement for the dance structures proposed, he/she will be welcome to try it out during his/her turn additionally to the proposed arrangements.

Registration fee: 85 eur.

How to register: write to  jorgearenaflamenco@gmail.com including:

– full name

– brief description of your previous experience playing Flamenco guitar

An approach to the work of the Spanish playwright Juan Mayorga through 4 short pieces. Mayorga manages to express a lot through a few intense minutes in which the audience’s imagination completes the message.

Free entry.

Students of Claudia Shevchenko’s flamenco dance studio will perform.

Claudia Shevchenko is the founder of the Estonian flamenco school and her studio has been operating since 1991.

New dances that we have learned this year will be performed at the concert.

The concert is in a nice bar UUs Laine, where flamenco enthusiasts can dance “Sevillana” with us.

Ticket: 15 euros

Tickets on sale 1 hour before the concert on site.

Ticket booking: flamencofestestonia@gmail.com

Table reservations: Merle@laine.bar

From May 10, it is possible to visit the exhibition “Botanical art of the Spanish scientific expeditions” at the Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu. The exhibition presents illustrations of South American flora made during Spanish scientific expeditions in the second half of the 18th century.

In the second half of the 18th century, Spain began a scientific program with the organization of scientific expeditions to study American nature. The impetus given to these expeditions was so important that seven scientific expeditions were organized, with the objective, among others, of “describing, drawing and forming herbaria of the plants that they discovered in those parts of South America”. The Spanish botanists and artists who participated in these expeditions formed outstanding collections of manuscripts, drawings and herbariums that are now preserved in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The collections of drawings made by the artists of the Spanish scientific expeditions constitute a unique botanical heritage, not only for their scientific interest, but also for their artistic, historical and cultural value. In 2010, these collections were recognized by the UNESCO´S Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Embassy of Spain in Estonia and the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The exhibition will be available until 31 July and can be visited with the entrance ticket to the Botanical Garden: https://www.botaanikaaed.ut.ee/et/content/hinnakiri

Ticket 23 euros

Tickets on sale at Fienta.com and 1 hour before the concert start.

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Javier Martos Culebradas (Spain) – dance

Ruber Veliz (Cuba) – song

Grigori Rubanov (Estonia) – guitar

Claudia Shevtshenko Lenaerts (Estonia) – dance

Claudia Shevtšhenko flamenco troupe dancers:

Anni Paves, Heidi Rajang, Sofi Aršas, Kea Kanger, Irma Lääts

The stage design uses the work of glass artist Sofi Aršas

lighting design – Claudia Shevtshenko Lenaerts

Claudia Shevtshenko is the bringer of flamenco dance to Estonia and the founder of the Estonian flamenco school. She graduated from Tallinn University faculty of cultural education – theater specialty and then studied choreography. Since 1991,she has owned a flamenco dance studio and flamenco troupe of her own name. She has been an actress,dancer and choreographer in various theatres and films, and has collaborated with various musicians from Estonia and abroad. For the past 20 years she has been a contract dancer and choreographer at the Estonian National Opera.

The concert will feature new and older dances that have been in the repertoire for many years.

Presentation, degustation and course to learn how to cut a Spanish ham. We will count with Sergio Perez, Spanish professional of cutting ham and Hispatime chef.

Centro Picasso will offer free coffee, tea or a glass of wine.

Price: 18€

Centro Picasso students: 15€

Reserve your place on our website or Facebook and pay at the event (in cash, please)

As a special event of the Iberofest program in Hispaania Maja, we have Hispaania Maja’s students Kristjan Prii, Liivo Niglas and Tanel Rütman sharing their travel experiences. In 2002, six inspiring travelers started with an unusual idea of ​​cycling from Ulaanbaatar to Nepal.

So far, they have already made five trips and they plan to cycle around the globe. Their last trip to South America began three years ago on the Atlantic coast in the small Uruguayan resort town of Punta del Este. Diagonally, across the continent and six countries – Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru – and across the Andes, they reached Lima on the Pacific coast. This summer they will continue as usual from where they left off, with the aim of getting from Peru to Costa Rica.

We will be talking about their last trip which was full of challenges but also bright emotions. We will also discuss whether and how it is possible to travel in Latin America without speaking Spanish and what the preparations are for the upcoming trip. Stories of friendship, being on the road, and overcoming yourself.

The event is free, but pre-registration on Hispaania Maja website is required.

The event will be held in Estonian. Before and after the event you can check the wide selection of books and Spanish flavors in Hispaania Maja shop. You can enjoy Spanish wine and different refreshing drinks during the event. Free parking in the backyard.

Country: España

Director: Benito Zambrano

Duration: 103 min.

Cast: Luis Tosar, Luis Callejo, Jaime López, Vicente Romero

A boy who has escaped from his village hears the screaming of men searching for him. What lies before him is an endless, arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively from what has made him flee. His steps will intersect with those of a pastor and, from that moment, nothing will be the same for either of them.

The film is in Spanish with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

Country: Colombia

Director: Juan Camilo Pinzón

Duration: 90 min.

Cast: Daniel Lugo, Zharick León, Walter Luengas, Luis Tamayo, Alberto Barrero. Valentina Lizcano

Four old retired sailors decide to accompany each other’s loneliness. In a convenient pact, they transform an old shipyard into their beloved home and dedicate themselves to facing the realities of old age. One night one of them dies and takes all his secrets to the grave. As the property belong to the dead man, his only daughter returns unannounced to claim what is rightfully hers.

The screening is supported by the Embassy of Colombia in Poland.

The film is in Spanish with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

Country: España

Director: Oliver Laxe

Duration: 89 min.

Cast: Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez

Amador Coro has been convicted of causing a fire. At the end of his sentence, no one is waiting for him at the exit. Amador returns to his village, nestled in the mountains of Galicia, where his mother, Benedicta, lives with her three cows. Time passes slowly, at the quiet pace of life in the countryside. Until the day a fire burns down the region.

The film is in Spanish with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

Country: España

Director: Alberto Rodríguez

Duration: 105 min.

Cast: Raúl Arévalo, Javier Gutiérrez, Nerea Barros, Antonio de la Torre, Jesús Castro, Mercedes León, Manolo Solo, Jesús Carroza, Cecilia Villanueva, Salva Reina, Juan Carlos Villanueva

Spain, in the early 1980s. Two policemen, ideologically opposed, are sent from Madrid to a remote southern village in the Guadalquivir marshes to investigate the disappearance of two teenage girls. In a community anchored in the past, they will have to face not only a cruel murderer, but also their own demons.

The film is in Spanish with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

We will be able to enjoy a unique evening on the 20th May, from 19:30 in the Kuusk Hernesto Restaurant (Herne, 6) with a wide variety of exquisite Spanish tapas offered by the gourmet importer Iberic Tapas, accompanied with cava and a great selection of Spanish wines.

The whole event will be enlivened with live music by the well-known group La Luna (Ruber Veliz and Liina Fidelman), who will offer ambient music (boleros, bossa nova, tangos…) during the dinner, and finish the night with a diverse repertoire of Latin music, encouraging the audience to dance.

Price of the event

Payment in advance: 30 € (On the account of Iberic Tapas Catering OÜ EE887700771005169165 indicating Noche Hispana).

At the venue on the day of the event: 40€.

Limited seating

(Considering the great expectation of previous editions, early booking is recommended).

Country: Guatemala

Director: Kenneth Müller

Duration: 70 min

Cast: Saúl Lisazo, Mario Zaragoza, Costanza Andrade, Camila Müller, Juan Pablo Olyslager

“September” is a drama based on true events that tells the love story of a father and daughter who embark on a journey of struggle for survival in one of the most difficult times of Guatemala’s internal armed conflict. Theresa was deafened at the age of 3 months and lost her mother in the midst of a terrorist attack perpetrated by guerrillas on September 5, 1980.

The screening is supported by the Embassy of Guatemala in Sweden (concurrent for Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway).

The film is in Spanish with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

Join us for 60 minutes and enter a world full of joy, good times and lots of fun.

You will take your first steps in our language and you will be able to start speaking a little Spanish. Book your place on our web page or Facebook.

11:30 A1

12:30 A1

13:30 A2

16:00 B1-B2

17:00 A1

18:00 A2

Free event.

Ivan Gallego (Spain) dance
Maria Rääk (Estonia) dance
Ruber Veliz (Cuba) vocals
Indrek Kruusimaa (Estonia) guitar
Adrian Bravo (Spain) violin

Doors open at 18.00, performance starts at 18.30
Pre-sale tickets 20€, at the door 25€
Information and booking: maria@arteflamenco.ee , tel.5146223

TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT AND THERE WILL BE NO ON-SITE TICKET SALES.

Books translated from the Basque language are very rare in our country! But now in the Loomingu Raamatukogu, a short novel “These Heavens” by the most read and translated Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga has been published by Merilin Kotta. In fact, this is only the second book translated from Basque to Estonian.

This is the story of a 37-year-old woman who has just been released from prison and is on her way back to her hometown by bus. However, not all of his fellow passengers are on this bus by chance, and from the past to the future, they cannot be reached as safely on the motorway as from Barcelona to Bilbao. The woman’s past is a struggle within the ETA organization, but now she is trying to find peace and security to move forward by looking for support from books, memories and landscapes behind the window. The reader becomes part of a physical, mental and emotional journey that is also a metaphor for life and is filled with voices, dreams and longings.

The last book club of this spring still takes place in the comfortable rooms of the Spanish House, where the shelves of both the bookstore and the wine shop are at your fingertips. Participation in the book club is free, please announce your arrival on the website of the Spanish House. Both old and new interested are very welcome!

Mari Laan from the Toledo publishing house helps to run the book club, supported by the Spanish Embassy in Estonia. Participation is free, but pre-registration is required at the bottom of the page. The evening will be held in Estonian.

Before and after the event you can get acquainted with a wide selection of books and Spanish flavors in the Spanish House. Free parking in the yard.

Country: Portugal

Director: Miguel Gonçalves Mendes

Duration: 129 min.

A documentary film by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, it follows José Saramago, the Portuguese novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature, and his wife, Pilar del Rio. The film shows their whirlwind life of international travel, his passion for completing his masterpiece, “The Elephant’s Journey” and how their love quietly sustains them throughout. It is a funny and touching portrait on the endurance of the artistic spirit. As Saramago says: “There is always another way to say everything.”

The documentary is in Portuguese with subtitles in English.

The entrance is free.

José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling novelists. He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the region of Alentejo. His first novel, “Nenhum Olhar”, was shortlisted in all major literary awards in Portugal and won the Jose Saramago Literary Award, delivered every two years for the best novel written in all portuguese-speaking countries.

Peixoto’s poetry and short-stories have appeared in a great number of anthologies on dozens of languages. All his novels have been internationally acclaimed and so, far, have been translated various languages.

Would you like to create a poem in Spanish? Sign up to our haiku workshop!  We will use as a source of inspiration Uruguayan writer´s (Mario Benedetti) works and we will end up writing our own haikus in Spanish. By the end of the event the best haiku will be chosen by the teachers of La Tarara school and the winner will receive a price – a set of books in Spanish! Come, you do not want to miss this event!

Sign-up for the event: send an email to info@hispaaniaklubi.ee or just show up!

Event language:  Spanish starting from level A2

Tickets: this event is free of charge

José Luís Peixoto is one of Portugal’s most acclaimed and bestselling novelists. He was born in 1974 in Galveias, in the region of Alentejo. His first novel, “Nenhum Olhar”, was shortlisted in all major literary awards in Portugal and won the Jose Saramago Literary Award, delivered every two years for the best novel written in all portuguese-speaking countries.

Peixoto’s poetry and short-stories have appeared in a great number of anthologies on dozens of languages. All his novels have been internationally acclaimed and so, far, have been translated various languages.

Marqués de Murrieta is a legend both in Spain and internationally. His Castillo de Ygay is an emblematic mansion, inspired by a French castle from 1852. The Marquis of Murrieta is one of the oldest winemakers in Rioja, Spain. In this region, Vicente Dalmau Cebrián Sagarriga, Count of Creixell, and a true gentleman from a noble family, has owned and managed the winery for 35 years. His wine has been recognized by critics as the best wine in the world in 2020.

We will have a videoconference conversation with the friends of Marqués de Murrieta. And of course we will taste the wines of these fine winemakers. The five wines that we will try together with Spanish tapas are ALBARIÑO PAZO BARRANTES 2019, PRIMER ROSE 2020, RESERVA 2017, GRAN RESERVA 2015 and DALMAU 2016. 

Participation 35 € (participation fee can be paid in cash before the event). Pre-registration on Hispaania Maja website is required

The event will be held in Estonian. Before and after the event you can check the wide selection of books and Spanish flavors in Hispaania Maja shop. Free parking in the yard.

On May 4, an outdoor exhibition of the Prado Art Museum “Prado on the Streets of Tallinn” will be opened in Kadriorg Park.

The project began in 2011 thanks to an agreement between the Prado Museum and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). In collaboration with several cultural centres, the exhibition has travelled to four continents: America, Africa, Asia and Europe.

The exhibition in Tallinn will show many of the main masterpieces of the Prado Museum: from “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez, to “The Naked Maja” by Francisco de Goya, through “The Annunciation” by Fra Angelico and works from the Spanish, Flemish and Italian painting collections. The exhibition aims to bring the Estonian public closer to the cultural identity of the Spanish artistic heritage, in a didactic way, and as close as possible to reality, as the paintings are reproduced on a 1:1 scale from high-definition images.

The exhibition is organized by the Embassy of Spain in Estonia, in collaboration with the Prado Museum, the Cultural Department of Tallinn City Council, the Estonian Art Museum, Kadriorg Park and the Department of Tourism of the Embassy in Helsinki.

The exhibition is placed in front of the Kadrorg Palace. It is free of charge and open all day. Visitors will be able to see the Prado paintings until 12 June.

From May 10, it is possible to visit the exhibition “Botanical art of the Spanish scientific expeditions” at the Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu. The exhibition presents illustrations of South American flora made during Spanish scientific expeditions in the second half of the 18th century.

In the second half of the 18th century, Spain began a scientific program with the organization of scientific expeditions to study American nature. The impetus given to these expeditions was so important that seven scientific expeditions were organized, with the objective, among others, of “describing, drawing and forming herbaria of the plants that they discovered in those parts of South America”. The Spanish botanists and artists who participated in these expeditions formed outstanding collections of manuscripts, drawings and herbariums that are now preserved in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The collections of drawings made by the artists of the Spanish scientific expeditions constitute a unique botanical heritage, not only for their scientific interest, but also for their artistic, historical and cultural value. In 2010, these collections were recognized by the UNESCO´S Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Embassy of Spain in Estonia and the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

The exhibition will be available until 31 July and can be visited with the entrance ticket to the Botanical Garden: https://www.botaanikaaed.ut.ee/et/content/hinnakiri

The Tallinn International Youth Orchestra (TIYO) is the orchestra for young musicians who want to play in a professional environment. The idea of the orchestra is to make artistic and educational projects.

The presentation concert of TIYO is part of the IBEROFEST.

Concert program:

– “KOIT” by Heino Eller.
– “CANTOS CANARIOS” by Teobaldo Power, arranged by Colin Price.
– “DANZON NO.2” by Arturo Márquez.
– “AMOR BRUJO” by Manuel de Falla.
– “PASODOBLE ISLAS CANARIAS” by Josep Tarridas, arranged by Eduardo Armas.

Conductor: Eladio Aguilar.
Solist: Heljä Viirakivi.

Ticket: 8 euros

Tickets are available here: https://fienta.com/tallinn-international-youth-orchestra-iberofest-2022