The Year of the Discovery Public Screening

Join us for a screening of The Year of the Discovery by Luis López Carrasco.

Spain, 1992. The Barcelona Olympic Games and the Seville Universal Expo, together with the celebration of the fifth centenary of the discovery of America that same year, presented Spain to the international community as a modern, developed, and dynamic country. Meanwhile in Cartagena, an industrial city in the southwest region of Murcia, protests against the closing of several factories and deindustrialization policies were becoming increasingly violent, finally resulting in a mass uprising that culminated with the burning of the regional parliament.

With extremely original narrative methods, Carrasco approaches this forgotten episode of contemporary Spanish history by opening a space for intergenerational conversation. Older participants in the 1992 protests share their memories and experiences, alongside younger people who discuss their hopes and fears. The Year of the Discovery is a moving testimony and a powerful reflection on the history of the working class, the effects of globalization, the deterioration of democracy, the everyday impositions of precarity, and the role of memory as a bridge between past and present.