Elisabeth Anglarill

Colita was the eye of her time. Her photographs capture the society taking shape in Spain from the 1960s through the Transition and into the 1980s and 1990s, when a country long repressed and silenced began to awaken. “I want to be there,” she said, and devoted herself to photojournalism. She brought the same vision to her many passions: flamenco, portraiture, film stills, Barcelona, her beloved city, and animals. *Colita Without Filters* centres on the making of the exhibition *Antifémina* at Madrid’s Círculo de Bellas Artes. It was the last exhibition she saw in progress, but she died on 31 December 2023, before its opening. Her close friend and confidant Francesc Polop, director of the Colita Photography Archive, carried the project forward with her team. The exhibition offers a powerful thread through portraits of women too often overlooked: elderly women and girls, Roma women and models.

In Ricardo Bofill: The Blank Page, his works take centre stage. Scattered across the world, they reflect his self-constructed philosophy: from the freedom embodied by Walden 7 to the high-tech design of Barcelona Airport, passing through the postmodernism of the Antigone district in Montpellier and the genius loci of Shiseido’s headquarters in Tokyo. Above all, however, the film gives Bofill himself a voice, as he left behind another, little-explored legacy in the archives of television: interviews and recordings spanning several decades. Bofill seen through Bofill’s own eyes: he tells us about his evolution, what changes and what endures, what shapes him and what weighs him down. His account is confirmed — or challenged — by those who knew him, from his immediate family to his extended family: the friends and collaborators who formed part of his Taller de Arquitectura.

Juan Goytisolo, the most recent recipient of the Cervantes Prize at the time, is one of the great figures of Spanish literature. This documentary traces his journey south, first through Spain and then Morocco, exploring the emotional and intellectual experiences that shaped his life and work. Through successive ruptures and reinventions, it reveals how Goytisolo became an essential figure in Spanish and world culture.