Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

Welcome to the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2023 programme, to be held from 26 to 29 January. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Joven activities tor university audiences, Hay Comunitario sessions which will take place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

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Event 1

Fernando León de Aranoa in conversation with Andrés Mompotes

El Tiempo event

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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Fernando León de Aranoa, renowned screenplay writer and director from Spain, will talk about his career in general, and in particular about his most recent work, presenting Sintiéndolo mucho, a documentary about the last decade of Joaquín Sabina. León de Aranoa wrote and directed the movie Barrio, telling the story of the life of a group of teenagers in a marginal neighbourhood, and won the Goya awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, and the Concha de Plata for Best Director at the San Sebastián Film Festival. Mondays in the Sun, starring Javier Bardem, which he directed in 2002, won five Goya Awards and the Concha de Oro for Best Film at the San Sebastián Film Festival. In 2021, his movie The Good Boss, starring Javier Bardem, won the Goya Awards for Best Film and Best Director, and was selected by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain as the Spanish representant at the 94th edition of the Oscars, in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. He will talk to the director of El Tiempo, Andrés Mompotes.

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Event 1B

Screening of the documentary film Sintiéndolo mucho, presented by Fernando León de Aranoa

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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Sintiéndolo mucho is a portrait of the living musical legend Joaquín Sabina (Spain), made not far from his skin, with nocturnality and premeditation, by his friend, the filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa. A tale that is like his voice, rough and unequalized, which tells the story of the artist's intimacy, behind the scenes, his other side, without mitigation; the story that starts when he leaves the stage, and accompanies him in his daily life, and in the unexpected: laughter and drama. Sintiéndolo mucho is the result of thirteen years of filming together, and tours all stages, public and private, luminous and hidden, of Joaquín Sabina. A promenade through the key points of his life and his work: what moves him, what inspires him, what hurts him, developed through live, shared situations as a musician and a filmmaker.
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Screening of the documentary film Sintiéndolo mucho, presented by Fernando León de Aranoa

Event HJ4

Indhira Serrano in conversation with Laura Romero

 Universidad de Cartagena, Aula Máxima de Derecho (Claustro de San Agustín)
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Based on their experiences of racism and inequality, our two guests will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Indhira Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa. In conversation with journalist Laura Romero.
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Event HC5

Indhira Serrano

 Institución Educativa Puerto Rey
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Based on her experience of racism and inequality, Indhira Serrano will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa.
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Indhira Serrano

Event 40

Andrea Díaz Cardona, Jitomakury and Ñek+na Zafiango in conversation with Daniel Pardo

El holocausto del caucho

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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Screening of the BBC Mundo documentary Los sobrevivientes del “holocausto del caucho” en Colombia, which portrays a moment of our recent history that is often ignored. This is the history of how slavery and extermination reduced the population of La Chorrera (Colombia) from a hundred thousand people to just 64. In this conversation, the documentary maker, Andrea Díaz, the Uitoto filmmaker Jitomakury, and the Uitoto elder Ñek+na Zafiango, sabedora Uitoto, will talk about the investigation that went into the documentary, in conversation with Daniel Pardo.
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Event HC13

Indhira Serrano

 Casa Comunitaria Tierra Baja
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Based on her experience of racism and inequality, Indhira Serrano will talk about the mindsets that hinder the realization of racialized individuals, launching a message of self-acceptance, respect for differences and pride in the Afro-Colombian heritage. Serrano began her career as a model, which gave her a very clear view of the media’s influence on people’s perceptions of themselves. Since 2015 she has been running a series of talks and workshops called Reconstruyendo Imaginarios (“Rebuilding Mindsets”), which reflects on the relationships we have with money, education, our partners and power. She has just published her first book, Rosa la crespa.

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Indhira Serrano

Event 54

Alonso Sánchez Baute and Rafael Noguera in conversation with Silvia Hoyos

Leandro Díaz forever

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
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The figure of the mythical vallenato composer Leandro Díaz (Colombia) has been brought to life in the recent biographical series of the same name produced by RCN. The writer Alonso Sánchez Baute and the screenwriter Rafael Noguera talk to Silvia Hoyos about the task of adapting for television the life and experiences of this personality, so loved by the Colombian public.

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Event 72

Laura Mora in conversation with Ricardo Chica

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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The film director and screenplay writer Laura Mora (Colombia), a Cinema Director graduate from RMIT University in Melbourne (Australia), has receltly released Los reyes del mundo, Concha de Oro for best film winner in the San Sebastian Film Festival 2022, where it was also warded the Sgnis award and the Feroz prize given by the press, and has also been awarded the prize for best film at Biarritz Festival and at Zurich Festival. The film tells the story of some young, underprivileged boys from Antioquía and their relation with their origins and the land, that becomes an extraordinary narration that reflecto n many of the problems that affect Colombia. Her previous film, Matar a Jesús, was premiered at Toronto International Film F and the the San Sebastian Film Festival in 2017. The film was selected for more thann 30 festivals and won more tan 20 prizes worldwide. Mora has also directed the tv series Frontera verde and El Robo del Siglo. Ricardo Chica speaks with mora about her work as a director and about the stories that she choses for her films.

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RCN
Bancolombia