To honor Spanish filmmaker Gonzalo Suárez, recipient of the Goya de Honor / Honorary Goya Award 2026, the Instituto Cervantes de Manila will present at its Intramuros branch a special series featuring four films directed by Suárez. Screenings will take place every Tuesday in February at 2:00 PM, and admission is free.
The series opens on February 3, 2026, at 2:00 PM with The Goalkeeper (1999). Set in 1948, the film follows Ramiro Forteza, a former first-division football goalkeeper who now travels from town to town, challenging locals to penalty shootouts, offering a small cash prize to anyone who can beat him.
The second screening, The Detective and Death (1994), will be shown on February 10, 2026, at 2:00 PM. With a running time of 112 minutes, the film is set in a European city shaken by racial unrest. A powerful tycoon must confront the only force he cannot deceive or corrupt—death—while a detective searches for the woman he loves. Meanwhile, an innocent young woman obsessively follows him, driven by the desperate hope of bringing her murdered son back to life.
On February 17, 2026, at 2:00 PM, the series continues with Remando al viento (1988), a 96-minute film portraying English poets Mary Shelley and Lord Byron as they flee England and journey through Europe. Through Mary’s recollections, the film explores her passionate relationship with Percy Shelley, her encounters with Byron in Switzerland, and, above all, a fateful night in November 1816 when, during a gathering of friends exchanging ghost stories, she conceived the legendary monster of Frankenstein.
The series concludes on February 24, 2026, at 2:00 PM with Epílogo (1984), a 91-minute film centered on two writers, Rocabruno and Ditirambo. After years of collaboration and sharing a love for the same woman, the two went their separate ways. A decade later, Ditirambo visits Rocabruno with the intention of writing one final novel together, Epílogo.
The Goya Awards
The film series “Gonzalo Suárez, Goya de Honor” is part of a broader celebration of the Goya Awards, the most prestigious honors in Spanish cinema. From February 20 to 22, the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts (Academia de Cine de España), together with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, in collaboration with AECID, Instituto Cervantes, the Quezon City Film Commission, and the QCinema Film Festival will present a selection of recent Goya Award–winning films: Mariposas negras (2024), La virgen roja (2024), Marco (2024), and Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door (2024).
Screenings will take place at Gateway Cinemaplex 18, Quezon City.
The film series “Gonzalo Suárez, Goya de Honor” is presented by the Instituto Cervantes and the Academia de Cine de España, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain in the Philippines, AECID, the Quezon City Film Commission, the QCinema Film Festival, and the Intramuros Administration. All films will be screened in Spanish with English subtitles and advance registration is recommended. Interested viewers may reserve their seats through the audience registration form.
The Instituto Cervantes de Manila (Intramuros branch) is located at 385 Calle Real, Plaza San Luis Complex, Intramuros.
For more information, visit the Instituto Cervantes website or Facebook page.
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