Today, 17 April, the Virtual Cinema Room was opened, a platform promoted by the distribution company A Contracorriente Films to showcase the premieres that were to come to the big screen this season. La vie scolaire, based on the directors’ own experiences, tells the story of Samia, a young teacher who takes over as head of studies in a school in the suburbs of Paris where she discovers the discipline problems and social reality that weigh on the neighbourhood.

It has been a pleasure to interview the directors, Mehdi Idir and Grand Corps Malade, in their respective confinements, from where they continue to work on new projects.

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On-line interpreting for Sala Virtual de CineRead More »

Medical webinar given by Professor Magioni to a group of cardiologists in Ecuador and guidelines regarding the level of compliance, as well as implications for patient outcomes.

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On-line interpreting during the Conference on COVID-19 and Heart FailureRead More »

Medical webinar given by Professor Desai to a group of cardiologists in Colombia on the results of different drugs in the treatment of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

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On-line interpreting during the Conference on Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection FractionRead More »

The big screen has no alternative, the seventh art has been forced to cancel spring releases, productions have been stopped and local cinemas are exploring different possibilities to survive. This is the context in which Salavirtualdecine was born, an initiative promoted by A Contracorriente Films and its associated cinemas, the Verdi cinemas, with 70 theatres throughout Spain, so that audiences can enjoy some of these premieres on their mobile devices and televisions connected to the internet.

It is in Salavirtualdecine where we find Vivarium, released on April 8th, which tells the story of a young couple trapped in a house with a child and which takes on very different tones to those it had at its premiere in Cannes.

“It’s all so strange. The film that was seen for the first time in Cannes is the same as the one that is being released now, and yet it is completely different,” says the Irish director on the other side of the Zoom application from Dublin, where he is being held, in a cryptic, almost formal manner. And having said that, and to make it clear, it is the director who lists the rare catalogue of parallels between reality and fiction: “On the one hand, there is the obvious. Yes, Vivarium’ tells the story of a couple trapped in a house with a child. But, if you think about it, it’s so scary: the character Jesse (Eisenberg) plays develops an illness that manifests itself as a mysterious cough. Body bags appear in a somewhat inexplicable way. The couple receives everything they need by courier. And then, and this is already bordering on the paranormal, in the illustrations of the book that Gemma (Imogen Poots) reads to her son, a man, a woman and a child appear under a kind of symbol that reminds us with a sickly fidelity of the very drawing of the coronavirus that we are tired of seeing everywhere”. And at this point, it almost makes you want to ask the director for responsibility for the mess he has got us into. “It’s a bit creepy, to say the least,” he concludes, backing up on the couch and finally laughing.

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On-line interpreting during the interviews to Lorcan Finnegan, Director of VivariumRead More »

Hors normes, with 9 nominations in the César 2020 awards, closed the last edition of the Cannes Film Festival and was given a standing ovation during the San Sebastián Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award.

The preview of the film, which will be released in cinemas on 28 February, took place in the French Institute in Madrid and in the Verdi cinemas in Barcelona, where a charity preview was held, the donations of which went to the Hospital de Campaña Santa Anna.

Directed by the directors of The Intouchables, Samba and C’est la vie, it premiered in France last October and reached 2 million spectators.

It is based on real events and stars Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb, with a stellar performance by Benjamin Lesiur, an actor with autism nominated for the César for best new actor. Sharing for two days Eric and Olivier’s passion for omelettes, padron peppers and croquettes, their jokes and enthusiasm for life, as well as their dedication to the public and the media, has been a true gift of life that will be very difficult to match.

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Conference interpreter during the preview of Hors normes, with Olivier Nakache and Éric ToledanoRead More »

What better place than the beautiful Modernist Building of the Fundació Privada de l’Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau to dwell for two days on prostheses for proximal humerus fractures?

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Conference interpreter during the Barcelona Shoulder CourseRead More »