MadridFilm Calendar
Almost everything you can watch in Madrid. Really.
Film cycles and retrospectives in Madrid
Retrospectives and seasons across the city: a whole run devoted to one director, one country, one obsession. From the Filmoteca to the cultural centres, here's what's on now.
Renoir 40th Anniversary
An anniversary programme of classics and Spanish films screened at a special price.
3rd Mexican Film Week
A contemporary Mexican cinema programme with premieres, retrospectives and special screenings.
Wilder Cinema
An eclectic run of classics, cult cinema, and modern favorites on the big screen, with weekly screenings at Renoir Princesa.
Great Expectations: Postwar British Cinema
A programme of postwar British noir, suspense and melodrama, organized with Locarno Film Festival.
Ken Loach: Chronicles of Conscience
A Ken Loach retrospective focused on his social and political cinema, especially his 1990s work.
Opera and Classical Performances
A summer programme of opera, filmed performances, satellite events, and art documentaries on the big screen.
Past
Anime Day
A recurring Friday-night strand dedicated to subtitled original-version anime.
Manuel Mur Oti: The Aesthetics of Tearing
A retrospective on Manuel Mur Oti's visually ambitious melodramas in postwar Spanish cinema.
Summer Classics 2026
A summer programme of classic films in original version.
Classics in Detail
Morning workshops dedicated to discussing classic films.
The Magnetic Terrace 2026. Cartographies of the Night
A journey through nights of solitude, desire, memory, and transformation via cult cinema, vampires, and nocturnal drift.
Les Nuits en Or
Annual selection of short films awarded by film academies around the world.
Mediterranean Gothic: Eros and Thanatos Under the Sun
A series of gothic thrillers, fantasies, and melodramas shaped by desire, death, and Mediterranean light.
Summer Pop Nights
Comedies, thrillers, and cult favorites for Fescinal’s summer night screenings.
Embajadores Voyage
A special cycle of films linked to travel and discovery.
Binka Zhelyazkova: Allegories of Resistance
A focus on Binka Zhelyazkova's political and allegorical filmmaking.
Leonardo Favio: Bearing Witness to Tears
A retrospective of Leonardo Favio's work and Argentine popular melodrama.
Summer Film Club: From Closeness to Empathy
Four films and discussions explore different ways of understanding other people’s inner worlds.
Blaxploitation Fridays
Friday screenings devoted to 1970s blaxploitation classics and their soul, crime and revenge imagery.
Queer Musical Saturdays
Saturday screenings connecting musical forms, performance and contemporary queer stories.
Yé-yé Cinema Sundays
Sunday screenings of pop and psychedelic 1960s cinema across science fiction, musical comedy and Swinging London.
La Academia preestrena
Preview screenings of national and international films not yet released commercially.
EL PAÍS Film Sessions
A programme of screenings presented and contextualized by editorial and cultural collaborators.
