What do the films have in common? Gomorrah, The Little Savage, Blade Runner, Invasion of the Ultracorps And Death of a cyclist? All of them reflected the vision of film director Alberto Rodriguez, author 7 Virgins, Minimal Island or, more recently, Model 77among other things.

To capture the imagination of the Sevillians, the Sgae Foundation offers, from Tuesday the 7th to Saturday the 11th, at the Teatro Berlanga in Madrid (S/Andrés Mellado, 53), five films chosen by itself after an intense selection process.

“I’m terrible at making lists, I think I’m a better viewer than I am a director. In fact, when it was offered to me, I have 40 films”, says the director Independent. Finally, he chose the ones that had the most emotional impact on him, as well as those that made him think, and those that represented cinema that he felt should be made more of.

The cycle begins this Tuesday with Gomorrah Matteo Garrone and Little savage Francois Truffaut, but it will be on Wednesday, when Alberto Rodriguez himself will go to the cinema for a presentation and discussion after the film blade runnerfrom Ridley Scott.

“I saw this with terrible quality in an invention that was in it was the eighties public cinema, it was a broadcast that was broadcast among the surrounding area. I chose it because I think it’s a very interesting movie to talk about. I saw it intuitively at the time, but it still seems iconic to me and remains a paradigm for what the future could be. In science fiction, it is a landmark film, as is Metropolisbridging the gaps,” he explains.

Thus, the director recalls his first contacts with cinema, which began when, as a child, he watched films in 10 inch black and white TV, who was at his parents’ house. At that time his greatest interest was literature, especially novels.

In fact, initially I wanted to devote myself to journalism, but a friend of his father’s who worked in the media convinced him to study Image and Sound, and already at university he developed a desire to tell stories through the screen. “I discovered a fascinating world, I began to understand films in a completely different way. And that’s when I started thinking that I wanted to make them,” he adds.

He also lists the first films he saw in the cinema. One of them was Ben Hur. “It was a replay, I had a break and everything. I also remember going on repeat Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Walt Disney and watched the film adaptation with my father Juan Piquer Simon It gave me nightmares for months because I saw it when I was too little,” he says. Returning to the present, the Sevillean explains that he is writing his next film, about which he dares not say anything because “everything “can change” in the blink of an eye. This is the starting point of a feature film. What we do know is that whatever the outcome, he won’t see it in many cases, as he insists that watching his own films is “killing” him. , since he never stops making mistakes about them.

Instead, he celebrates the decentralization that cinema has been experiencing lately. Something non-trivial: more and more location filming is being shown diversity of the Spanish landscapebut also more emphasis, something that many years ago was practically not presented, as it also happened on the radio or in TV series.

“We are a very rich and diverse country and there has been very little representation of that in film.”

“We are a very rich and diverse country and this was very underrepresented. Another thing that starts to change is the accent. It seems stupid, but a few years ago it was unthinkable. The first thing they said actor when he arrived in Madrid was that he had to remove his accent if I wanted to work,” he notes.

Moreover, he compares the situation with the situation in other countries: “In Anglo-Saxon culture the accents have always been constant. On the other hand, in Spain with dubbing this is lost and seems absurd to me. The culture of dubbing may have been one of the reasons that has delayed our understanding of the cultural richness that accents give us.”

The consumer of all types of cinema emphasizes the quality of this year’s films, but chooses 20,000 species of bees from the director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren and one of the last films he watched as one of his favorites.