Critical Cinema will screen Gorillas in the Mist on Tuesday, October 21.

A new academic year has begun in the classrooms of the Torrevieja University of Education (UNED), and with that comes the Critical Cinema screening series. Eight films will be viewed and discussed by the audience at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, one per month, always on Tuesdays. Specifically, in October, the screening will be next Tuesday, October 21st, at 6:30 p.m. María Luisa Molina Gallego, PhD in biology and researcher, will be in charge of presenting the film and moderating the post-screening discussion.

The film selected to inaugurate this new film series is Gorillas in the Mist. It was directed by Michael Apted in 1988 and stars a splendid Sigourney Weaver. The actress plays Dian Fossey, who arrives in Africa to conduct a census of an endangered species: the mountain gorilla. Accompanied by a native tracker, she begins her work and becomes fascinated by the lives of these animals, which she is not afraid to approach to study their behavior. A strange emotional relationship develops between Dian and the gorillas. In her eagerness to protect the species, Dr. Fossey will encounter serious problems with the authorities and poachers, who sell the babies to zoos and kill the adults to make souvenirs.

Reverend and ecclesiologist José Antonio Gea will lead the discussion on Roland Joffé's The Mission on November 18. In December, on Tuesday the 16th, Jesucristo Riquelme and Carlos R. Talamás will present and discuss a documentary about Miguel Hernández.

Between January and May of 2026, Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep will appear on the Cultural Center's projection screens in The Post, and Robert Downey Jr. will appear in The Judge. In between will be directors Stanley Kubrick, Sam Mendes, and Paul Greengrass.