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Event 6
Screening of 'One Step Ahead' and 'Kompromat'
French cinema evening
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Cinemateca Antigua Cárcel de Segovia
The Institut Français in Spain presents in its French cinema evening two recent films that, from two completely different perspectives, coincide in presenting characters facing unexpected, and in some cases extreme, changes in their lives. The two films are directed by two veteran directors with a long career behind them: Jéróme Salle and Cédric Kalpisch. A comedy and a thriller not suitable for all sensibilities.
16:40 - 18:40 h Screening of One Step Ahead
The first screening is a comedy suitable for all audiences. In One Step Ahead, Élise is a great classical dancer who is forced to stop dancing after suffering an injury during a performance. From that moment on, her life is turned upside down and she must learn to rebuild herself... Élise's life is spent between Paris and Brittany, where she has encounters, experiences, disappointments and hopes that lead her to meet a contemporary dance company. This new way of dancing will allow her to give a new impulse to her life by discovering a new way of living. Nominated 9 times at the last César Awards, including Best Film and Best Direction. Directed by Cédric Klapisch and starring Marion Barbeau and Hofesh Shechter. Running time: 117 minutes.
18:55 - 20:55pm Screening of Kompromat
Kompromat. The Russian File is a dark thriller in which Mathieu, a French diplomat and member of the French Institute in Irkutsk (Russia), is arrested and imprisoned by the Russian authorities on charges of sexual abuse of his own daughter. He has been falsely incriminated by the Russian Federal Security Service; a distressing situation with very topical overtones in the European context. Directed by Jéróme Salle and starring Giller Lellouche and Joanna Kulig. Running time: 121 minutes.
The evening will be presented by Geoffroy Gerard, Director of the IE Foundation.
The films will be screened in their original language with Spanish subtitles
Price: €5.00 (EUR)
Organised together with the Institut Français and Ayuntamiento de Segovia
Film screening: 'Ainda estou aqui' / 'I’m Still Here'
Followed by a talk between Patrick de Oliveira, Marcelo Rubens Paiva and Sophia Sampaio
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Cinemateca Antigua Cárcel de Segovia
Rubens Paiva, a Brazilian congressman and staunch opponent of the dictatorship in his country, was arrested and disappeared in 1971. Only 40 years later, thanks to the efforts of his wife, Eunice, was it confirmed that he had been tortured and killed by the military.
Forty-four years after those tragic events, Paiva's son, writer Marcelo Rubens Paiva, wrote Ainda estou aqui ('I'm Still Here'), a memoir of his childhood during those years. The book was made into a film by director Walter Salles, and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2025. Marcelo Rubens Paiva recounts the life of his father and the turbulent and dramatic 1970s in Brazil as a way of trying to ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.
Film screening: Ainda estou aqui / I'm Still Here 16:30 -18:45 Running time: 123 minutes. Directed by Walter Salles
Afterwards the screening, Marcelo Rubens Paiva will talk about his direct experience in the process of creating his book and its adaptation to the big screen with Sophia Sampaio, Director of the Humanities degree at IE University, and Brazilian historian Patrick de Oliveira, PhD from Princeton.
