The document outlines plans for an annual European Film Week to be held at a university. The goals are to make European film heritage better known to students, provoke debate about European cinema, and provide information about it. Each event involves professors, students, and institutional partners selecting films and topics. Past events focused on New Waves, writers and film, and a dreamed Europe within the EU. The events included films, lectures, and attracted hundreds of attendees each time with support from embassies and cultural organizations.

1. European Film Week
Another way of presenting Europe
Eva Ramón Reyero
European Documentation Centre at the UFV1

2. Our Goals:
Make European Film Heritage better known among
the youth.
Provoke a debate about European Cinema.
Convey more information about European Cinema
to our students of Visual Communication and
Journalism.
Methodology:
Information
Education
Development:
Organisation of weeks devoted to European Cinema
Collaboration among professors and students
Seek of institutional support
ActivityPlan
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3. Core Participants
Engagement of Professors in the project:
Cinema, History, Social Sciences or other areas
List of topics and selection of films
Support of students of
last year degree (ECTs)
Institutional Support
Embassies, Cinema Museums,
Cinema Archives
Areas of Culture & Education
at the Town Halls
Distributors
They are essential to find copies.
And to shown a film in public
Contact with the Press
Local Press, Specialised Media, University Press 3

4. Cinema produced by Member States at
present
Films shown at the UFV’s Assembly Hall,
mainly for students
Most films available at UFV’s Library Archive
Professors gave conferences about the films
I European Film Week (2002)
Support of GD of Education and Culture of the European Commission.
Letter from Viviane Reding: “These conferences will help people, specially
the youth to discover the treasures of European cinematography heritage”4

5. 22 films 719
attendees
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7. New waves in European cinema: their
influence on experimental cinema
Working group: 7 Professors of Cinema
Selection of topics / films, conferences
Preparation of film fact sheets
Outstanding Institutional Support
Goethe Institut
Town Halls of Boadilla del Monte, Pozuelo
Alarcón
European Commission Cined@ys programme
French Embassy Cultural Service
II European Film Week (2003)
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8. II European Film Week (2003)
25 films, 12 short
films,15
conferences,
1,240 attendees

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10. • Working group: 5 professors
and 5 students
• Participation of critics and film experts
• Outstanding institutional support
• Publication of conferences and articles
Writers and European Cinema
III European Film Week (2005)
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11. Projections at ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’ (Fine Arts Club)
‘Cinema Doré’ (Spanish Film Archive) and ‘MIRA Cultural
Space’
III European Film Week (2005)
Media: Temptations ‘El País’, ‘El Mundo’, ‘Universities
Newspapers’, ‘Radio Círculo’, ‘City FM’, ‘Radio 3’,
‘Telemadrid Radio’, ‘Guía del ocio’ (outdoor activities)
3 areas: Cinephile, Spanish Cinema
and Black Cinema
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12. 27films,
23 conferences
/debates,
2 round tables,
2,811
attendees
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14. Dreamed Europe
Specific Goals:
Explain EU’s historical development
Show hardships and inequality
of immigration inside the EU
(European Year)
Working Group (Professors of Cinema)
Institutional Support:
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Goethe Institut, French
Embassy Cultural Area, Belgian Embassy Cultural
Service, GD of Education and Culture of the European
Commission. EQUAL PROFIS Project
IV European Film Week (2007)
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15. Projections at ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’
(Fine Arts Club) and at the University
Media: interviews in ‘Radio Círculo’ and
Prensa Universitaria.
Conferences / debates:
At the origin of the Union: The cinema as European remembrance
of the present
Europe inside Europe:
mapping exclusion
Journey to Europe: the desire
for EU citizenship
IV European Film Week (2007)
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16. 20 films, 2 documentaries, 4 presentations /debates, 1
conference, 870 attendees
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17. Summary: Core Participants
1- Engagement of Professors in the project:
Cinema, History, Social Sciences or other areas
List of topics and selection of films
Support of students of last year degree
2- Institutional Support
Embassies, Cinema Museums, Cinema Archives
Areas of Culture & Education at the Town Halls
3- Distributors
They are essential to find copies
4- Contact with the Press
Local Press, Specialised Media, University Press
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I Film week

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II Film week

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III Film week

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IV Film week

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31. Technical direction of the Film weeks
Eva Ramón Reyero
Susana Sánchez Sánchez
cde@ufv.es
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