By a happy coincidence, last Saturday the second number of CINEZiN2 programme won the Goya Award for best documentary. For this reason, I presume, the screening was moved from Museo Castillo de Mata to the bigger venue, that is, Teatro Guiniguada. The film was presented by its creators, Gaizka Urresti and Paula Labordeta de Grandes; the latter insisted on taking a selfie with the audience, mainly (as she explained) because she wanted to send it to her mum. So sweet.
I have to say that until now I had no slightest idea who José Antonio Labordeta was, apart from that he must have something to do with music. Well, he was many things: teacher, writer, poet, TV presenter and regionalist politician, with his now-legendary “a la mierda” discourse in Spanish Congress of Deputies twenty years ago (6 March 2003, to be precise). But first and foremost, he was a cantautor. To Aragon (and, arguably, the rest of Spain), Labordeta is what Serrat is to Catalonia (and the rest of Spain). In a lump-in-throat moment, as the final titles rolled, the audience stood up, applauding and singing Canto a la libertad.
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