

The Year of the Discovery
In 1992 – 500 years after the beginning of Spain's global empire with the discovery of America – Spain proudly presented itself to the international community as a modern, developed, dynamic country through the Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Expo in Seville. But for filmmaker Luis López Carrasco (1981, Murcia), 1992 was also the year in which the regional parliament building in Cartagena was razed during furious protests against the threatened closure of various local industries. El año del descubrimiento revives this almost forgotten history in a typical Spanish bar in Cartagena, where different generations come together to drink, eat, smoke and talk. Stories from witnesses, demonstrators and strikers from back then and discussions among younger café visitors on themes such as class consciousness, the economic crisis and the role of unions percolate to the surface amidst talk of other life issues.
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- Spanish
- street riots
- labor strike
- economic crisis
- 1990s
- cartagena, spain
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United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival7 Oct 2020
FranceFR
- PremiereCinéma du Réel13 Mar 2020
GermanyDE
- PremiereHamburg Film Festival27 Sept 2020
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki Documentary Festival28 May 2020
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereALInternational Film Festival Rotterdam25 Jan 2020
PortugalPT
- PremiereIndieLisboa International Film Festival28 Aug 2020
South KoreaKR
- PremiereJeonju International Film Festival28 May 2020
SpainES
- PremiereSeville European Film Festival7 Nov 2020
- Theatrical1213 Nov 2020
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