On the occasion of the presentation of the Goya Award of Honour to Carlos Saura in February 2023, the Cervantes Institute wanted to pay tribute to the Spanish filmmaker with the screening of a selection of his best films at our centre in Utrecht.

This cycle has the support of the Filmoteca of AECID and has been organised in collaboration with Daniel Mourenza, professor of the Department of Hispanic Cultures at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, who will be in charge of introducing the four feature films screened at the beginning of each screening, as well as moderating the subsequent debate.

From Saara Turunen’s website: “The Grapes of Reason is the third and the last part of the stage trilogy by Turunen. It deals with the contradiction between rationality and corporality. The title of the work refers to John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath. While Steinbeck examines the earth, its destruction and what kind of effects capitalism has on people, The Grapes of Reason focuses above all on the difficult coexistence of the body and reason, on what follows from the denial of corporality. What happens if the importance of the body is denied? Where the pleasure then resides or does it reside anywhere?” - Saara Turunen