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FILM SET is a European project managed by a partnership of Spanish, French, Italian, Belgian and English organizations coordinated by the University of Zaragoza. The objective of the FILM-SET project is to promote a thematic tourist route, with the subject of European cinema. In this context, the project "The Road of Film" starts from experience tourism, which represents an enormous value for both the film industry and the European cultural heritage.
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DIRECTORS
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Alberto Sironi
Alberto Sironi
- Si forma alla scuola d'arte drammatica del Piccolo Teatro di Milano, guidata da Giorgio Strehler e Paolo Grassi. Dopo diverse esperienze teatrali al Piccolo, negli anni settanta...
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
- Hitchcock pioneered many elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He worked in silent films and the talkies and became renowed as England's best Director....
Anne Fontaine
Anne Fontaine
- Anne Fontaine is a film director, screenwriter, and former actress. Fontaine's first project as solo director, Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général (Love...
Bigas Luna
Bigas Luna
- Josep Joan Bigas i Luna was a Spanish film director, designer and artist. His films are typically characterised by a strong emphasis on the erotic, often related to food,...
Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson
- Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter novelist and actor.He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic film 'Withnail and I'. As an...
Claude Berri
Claude Berri
- Claude Berri was born on July 1, 1934 in Paris, France as Claude Berel Langmann. He was a producer and actor, known forJuntos, nada más(2007),El manantial de las colinas(1986)...
Dany Boon
Dany Boon
- Dany Boon, born to an Franco-Berber (Kabyle), first started his career dubbing cartoons and performing as a mime in the street. In 1992, he was given his first break as a...
David Lean
David Lean
- Sir David Lean was an English Film Director known especially for his Oscar-adorned spectacles 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) 'Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and 'Dr Zhivago'...
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore
- Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. He is considered as one of the directors who brought critical acclaim back to Italian...
Jaco Van Dormael
Jaco Van Dormael
- Jaco Van Dormael (born 9 February 1957) is a Belgian film director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied filmmaking at the INSAS in Brussels, where he wrote and directed...
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Jean-Pierre Jeunet is a self-taught director. He started directing TV commercials and video clips (such as Julien Clerc in 1984). At the same time he met designer/drawer...
Julien Duvivier
Julien Duvivier
- It was as an actor, in 1916 at the Théâtre de l'Odéon under the direction of André Antoine, that Duvivier's career began.[8] In 1918 he moved on...
Ken Loach
Ken Loach
- Loach studied law at St Peter's Hall, Oxford. After a brief spell in the theatre, he was recruited by the BBC in 1963 as a television director. This lauched a long career...
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel
- The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of cinema, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the...
Luis García Berlanga
Luis García Berlanga
- This magnificent filmmaker is, along with Antonio Bardem, the personification of the renewal of the film in Spain. He was born into a bourgeois family. He decided to study...
Martin McDonagh
Martin McDonagh
- Born in England to Irish parents, Martin McDonagh was forced to leave his studies and to seek his life from the age of 16, when his parents returned to Ireland and left him...
Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh
- Mike Leigh is a director of film and theatre.He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) before honing his directing skills at the East 15 Acting School and the...
Mike Newell
Mike Newell
- Mike Newell was the son of amateur actors. Having graduated from Magdalene College, Oxford he attended a three-year training course with Granda Television with the intention...
Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven
- Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making...
Paula Ortiz
Paula Ortiz
- Paula Ortiz, PhD in Theory script (PhD), director and screenwriter, graduated in 2002 in Hispanic Studies from the University of Zaragoza. He completed the Master of Writing...
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar
- The most internationally acclaimed Spanish filmmaker since Luis Buñuel was born in a small town (Calzada de Calatrava) in the impoverished Spanish region of La Mancha....
Philippe De Chauvron
Philippe De Chauvron
- Philippe de Chauveron is a French film director, and writer. He is best known for his 2014 film Serial (Bad) Weddings
Remy Belvaux
Remy Belvaux
- Rémy Belvaux was born on November 10, 1966 in Namur, Wallonia, Belgium as Rémy Nicolas Lucien Belvaux. He was an actor and writer, known for Man bites dog (1992),...
Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott
- Ridley Scott. Director de cine y productor. Estudió Arte y Cinematografía en el West Hartlepool College of Art y en el Royal College of Art, en esta ayudó...
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
- Steven Allan Spielberg gained notoriety as an uncredited assistant editor on the classic western Caravana (1957). Among his early directing efforts were Battle Squad (1961)....
Valerio Zurlini
Valerio Zurlini
- During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party.[1] He...
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica
- Vittorio De Sica (Italian pronunciation: [vit't??rjo de 'si?ka]; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italiandirector and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist...
FILMS
List of project films
1492, Conquest of Paradise
Ridley Scott
1992
1492, Conquest of Paradise
- Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.
A Very Long Engagement
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2004
A Very Long Engagement
- Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Brief Encounter
David Lean
1945
Brief Encounter
- Brief Encounter is a 1945 British Romantic Drama Film directed by David Lean. It focuses on suburban life, and in particular the story of Laura, a married woman with children...
C’est arrivé près de chez vous
Remy Belvaux
1992
C’est arrivé près de chez vous
- A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random...
Coco before Chanel
Anne Fontaine
2009
Coco before Chanel
- The story of Coco Chanel's rise from obscure beginnings to the heights of the fashion world.
Don camillo
Julien Duvivier
1952
Don camillo
- In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community.
Flesh & Blood
Paul Verhoeven
1985
Flesh & Blood
- In 1501, in the Western Europe, in a period when the black plague is jeopardizing the populations, an army of mercenary peasants leaded by Martin fights side-by-side with...
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Mike Newell
1994
Four Weddings and a Funeral
- The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found 'Miss Right' in Carrie an...
From Your Window to Mine
Paula Ortiz
2011
From Your Window to Mine
- Interwoven emotions and struggles of three women of different generations aiming to build the lives they desire, their own future, love and dreams. All of them lose the love...
Germinal
Claude Berri
1993
Germinal
- In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress...
Great Expectations
David Lean
1946
Great Expectations
- This film is based on the novel by Charles Dickens. A young orphan Pip is given the chance to rise from his humble beginnings to beome a gentleman thanks to a mysterious...
Heaven's Kingdom
Ridley Scott
2005
Heaven's Kingdom
- Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
Il comissario Montalbano
Alberto Sironi
1999
Il comissario Montalbano
- TV Series. Inspector Montalbano solves crimes in Sicily.
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
Vittorio De Sica
1970
Il giardino dei Finzi Contini
- In the late 1930s in Ferrara, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading aristocratic families, they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a circle...
In Bruges
Martin McDonagh
2008
In Bruges
- London based hit men Ray and Ken are told by their boss Harry Waters to lie low in Bruges, Belgium for up to two weeks following their latest hit, which resulted in the death...
Jamón, Jamón
Bigas Luna
1992
Jamón, Jamón
- Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor.When Sylvia falls pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he...
Kes
Ken Loach
1969
Kes
- Billy Casper, a 15 year old working class Yorkshire boy who is bullied at school and has an unhappy home life, tames and trains a kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. He...
La ragazza con la valigia
Valerio Zurlini
1961
La ragazza con la valigia
- Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated.
La vaquilla (The Heifer)
Luis García Berlanga
1985
La vaquilla (The Heifer)
- We are in the front trenches during the Spanish Civil War. It has been two years since the war began. Weapons are no longer used. The soldiers doze, write letters or play....
Land and Freedom
Ken Loach
1995
Land and Freedom
- Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men...
Las Hurdes, Land Without Bread
Luis Buñuel
1933
Las Hurdes, Land Without Bread
- A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive...
Le tout nouveau testament
Jaco Van Dormael
2015
Le tout nouveau testament
- God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides...
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore
1988
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
- A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Raiders of the lost Ark
Steven Spielberg
1981
Raiders of the lost Ark
- Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis.
Secrets and Lies
Mike Leigh
1996
Secrets and Lies
- The film tells the story of Hortense Cumberbatch, a successful black middle class optometrist in London, who is adopted and chooses to trace her family history after the...
Serial bad Weddings
Philippe De Chauvron
2014
Serial bad Weddings
- A Catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
The 39 Steps
Alfred Hitchcock
1935
The 39 Steps
- Richard Hannay uncovers a plot to steal vital British Military Information, the 39 Steps, masterminded by a man with the top joint missing from one of his fingers....
Tie me up! Tie me down!
Pedro Almodóvar
1990
Tie me up! Tie me down!
- Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to...
Welcome to the Sticks
Dany Boon
2008
Withnail and I
Bruce Robinson
1987
Withnail and I
- Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. The story is based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960's. The plot...
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