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Terra Restaurant Lisbon

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in Lisbon, Lisboeta, Only-Be

Vegetarian restaurant located in the Principie Real area. Internal and external atmospheres. They serve a daily “all you can eat” buffet which is one of the best of its

Open Air Cinema in Barcelona, Sala Montjuïc

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be, Things to do in Barcelona

It´s one of the best summer activities for all cinema lovers, promoted by the Barcelona Council: open air cinema screenings, where you´ll be able to enjoy a selection of the best films of all time and short films, with a picnic and plenty of people! The films begin at 10.15pm sharp and are preceded by the screening of a short film at 10pm. In the next few dates two films were selected and another one, which will coincide with the closing of the festival, will be a surprise. On August 1st the short film ´Todo queda en família´ (It all stays in the family) by Lluís Fabra will be screened, as well as the film ´Still Walking´ (2008) by the Japanese director Hikorazu Koreeda. This film tells the story of a son and a daughter that, after a long time, go back to their parent´s house with their own families. The reason behind this reunion is the commemoration of the tragic death of the eldest son in an accident fifteen years before. Like in all families, love and ill-feeling reign here too. Apparently nothing has changed, they know each other like nobody else does and it all seems to be the same. However, it isn´t. Each one presents small changes that will create peculiar situations. ´Still Walking´ is a very subtle and delicate family drama, which takes place on a summer´s day. For the Oriental film fans, this will be a great surprise. Also, this film was given various awards in different film festivals in Asia and Japan. The screening on August 3rd will be dedicated to the short... read more

Santu Mofokeng in Paris

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian

Until the 25th of September the National Gallery Jeu de Paume exhibits Shadow Hunter, a retrospective of the photographic work of Santu Mofokeng. The exhibition of the most important photographer in South Africa corresponds to the work that took place at the end of the Apartheid in Johannesburg and the beginning of the political transition. The retrospective, commissioned by Corine Diserens, is organized around close to 200 photographs and slides, as well as texts and documents which refer to his work and others that are part of his writings. Santu Mofokeng was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1951. Without any academical formation, he began in photographic informality of the streets of Soweto, making it into a job that would allow him to capture the political process that the country was going through in the 1980s in a privileged way. Soweto is located 24km away from Johannesburg and was built to transport the people of black race that lived in white race areas during Apartheid. The overcrowding and oppression exerted by the State against Soweto were the basic ingredients of the rebellion of 1976, when the Government announced that the education would be in Afrikaans and not in English, knowing that it was a language that the population didn´t know. The revolt was a product of the indignation for the abuse and condemnation of a miserable life that the white state imposed to the black race majority. This episode which finished with 575 dead and hundreds of arrested people who were tortured and an uncountable amount of injured, was captured by the lense of Mofokeng. Belonging to the collective... read more