AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE / TARDES DE SOLEDAD / ВЕЧОРИ САМОТИ

Leonid Nefedovich
Sep 25
2 min read

2024 / 126' / documentary / Spain, France, Portugal

Portrait of an active bullfighting star, Andrés Roca Rey, which allows us to reflect on the intimate experience of the bullfighter who assumes the risk of facing the bull as a personal duty out of respect for tradition and as an aesthetic challenge. This challenge creates a form of ephemeral beauty through the material and violent confrontation between human rationality and the brutality of the wild animal.

Screenings schedule:

September 26, 2025 at 10:30 a.m. at the Zhovten Cinema, Hegemon Hall

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DIRECTOR - ALBERT SERRA

Biography

Born 9th October 1975 in Banyoles, Spain. PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Universitat de Barcelona.

In 2006, Serra wrote, directed and produced his debut feature Honour of the Knights, premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2006. Since then, all his films have premiered at Cannes except Story of My Death that won the Golden Leopard in Locarno in 2013.

He created the 101 hours film Three Little Pigs for Documenta in 2013. In 2022, he directed Pacifiction, premiered at the Official Selection in Competition at Cannes Film Festival. He received the Louis Delluc Prize and two César awards for this film. In 2024, he completed Afternoons of Solitude, a documentary about a bullfighting star in Spain.

He has given lectures at numerous museums, universities and cultural centers, and many retrospectives of his work have been held around the world.

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