Los caníbales by Liliana Cavani, with a cycle talk, at the Rialto
On Tuesday 17 November 2026 at 18:00 the Filmoteca de València shows Los caníbales, I cannibali, a 1970 film by Liliana Cavani, with a presentation of the film and of the cycle Memoria y utopía by Javier H. Estrada, co-director of the Seminci festival and programmer of the cycle. The listing imagines a totalitarian Milan where collecting the corpses from the streets is forbidden. Britt Ekland plays a contemporary Antigone, determined to bury her brother, killed during a protest, and Tiresias accompanies her in a challenge that makes them beacons for a youth slowly recovering the will to fight. It was shown at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, with music by Ennio Morricone, and moves Sophocles' tragedy to a political dystopia. It is shown in the original version with Spanish subtitles, 95 minutes. A film introduced by its programmer is easy to attend alone. «Presentación de la película y del ciclo «Memoria y utopía» a cargo de Javier H. Estrada.» Starts 18:00, ends about 19:55. Source: Institut Valencià de Cultura, Generalitat Valenciana, open data (CC BY 4.0). The listing gives no end time, so the end shown here is estimated. The listing gives a duration of 95 minutes. The listing gives no ticket price; the Filmoteca's official admission page gives general entry as 2.50 euros.
