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by Elsa Fernández-Santos

Elsa Fernández-Santos has selected a provocative list of films with which you can enjoy the Festival on the Getxophoto Channel of Filmin, a friendly film platform.

Even if you are far away, you can access Getxophoto contents through the internet. Sign in, search for the Getxophoto channel and give a chance to the films that Elsa Fernández-Santos –journalist and film critic for El País– proposes about some of the ideas that came to her mind when she thought of Play: Childhood and play, Play it again…, Don’t play with me, Premiere night or Let’s play. A list of films as inspiring as eclectic that includes Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks), Opening Night (John Cassavettes), Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella), Spring Breakers (Harmony Korine), Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma) or Compartment No. 6 (Juho Kuosmanen), just to name a few. Press play!

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ELSA FERNÁNDEZ-SANTOS

Born in Madrid in 1968, Elsa Fernández-Santos has been a cultural journalist for the newspaper El País for more than twenty years. She has been a film critic for this newspaper, as well as a columnist for the magazines Icon and Smoda and a contributor to the programme Historia de nuestro cine on the public television channel La2. She has written for El Estado Mental, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and won the Paco Rabal Journalism Award for a report on supporting actors published in El País Semanal. A contributor to the Lafuente Archive, she has curated several exhibitions on counterculture and the 1970s in Spain: Ceesepe. Vicios Modernos, Esto no es Hawai, Ouka Leele. Supernova and Javier Campano. El ojo errante. Elsa has also participated in the publication Jordi Socías. Retratos (Ediciones la Bahía) and has been in charge of the edition of Carlos Saura’s memoirs, De imágenes también se vive (Taurus). She has written two books, the illustrated story La bombilla (Demipage) and Entrevistos. Manolo Blahnik (Rqr), a long conversation with the famous shoe designer, with whom he collaborated in his book Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions (Rizzoli), as well as in a conversation between Blahnik and the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and in Michael Roberts’ documentary The boy who made shoes for lizards.