‘The Path on the Big Screen’ is a film series that will take place every Thursday in August in the Samugueiros recreational area, in the center of A Pobra do Brollón. The series begins on Thursday 1 with The Apostle, an animated film stop-motiondirected by Fernando Cotizo, winner of 6 Mestre Mateo awards and a dozen awards in international competitions.
The cycle is part of the ‘O Teu Xacobeo’ plan, a government aid program to boost Xacobeo 2021 in a participatory way. Thus, three of the five films to be screened are related to the Camino de Santiago.
In addition to the film that opens the cycle, one of the Jacobean-themed films isPilgrimages (Thursday 15). Directed by the Italian Simone Saibene, it mixes documentary and fiction to recreate the journey that Otero Pedrayo, Vicente Risco and Ben-Cho-Shey made between Ourense and Santo André de Teixido in 1927. It stars the actress from Lugo, Carmen Méndez, who plays Luzía, an Audiovisual Communication researcher.
The Way (‘The Way’) – directed by Emilio Estévez and starring his father, Martin Sheen – popularized the Camino de Santiago in the United States. This is the last film in the series, on Thursday the 29th.
The other two films in the series are Champions–a dramatic comedy directed by Javier Fesser and winner of the 2019 Goya Award for Best Film – and Ralph Breaks the Internet, 3D animated children's film produced in 2018.
All films will be screened at 10:00 p.m. in the Samugueiros recreational area.
The cycle is part of a wide cultural offer this summer in A Pobra do Brollón. The complete calendar can be consulted here: https://www.concellodapobradobrollon.gal/gl/nova/verán-cultural-para-todos-os-públicos-na-pobra-do-brollón
