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Upcoming events at Matadero Madrid, Arganzuela, Madrid.
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CINEMA
Estrenos Cineteca
Film premieres and recent releases at Cineteca Madrid curated for cinema enthusiasts, featuring independent productions and works by emerging filmmakers.
FAMILY
Explora y juega Matadero Madrid en Familia
Family exploration game at Matadero Madrid using an interactive map to navigate 100 years of architectural history through games, walks, and bike routes that engage the senses.
THEATRE
DecirSioNo
Interactive theatre show at Cineteca Madrid where audiences choose the endings of four teenage characters' stories involving social, verbal, psychological, and physical aggression.
TALKS
Travelling with Ash Through the Pokémon Universe
Guided tour at Cineteca Madrid exploring Pokémon comics and illustrated stories tied to the anime series, led by a Movistar Koi esports professional.
WORKSHOPS
Conexiones inesperadas
Video game festival at Cineteca Madrid exploring healthy gaming habits, online safety, and esports with guidance from professional players and Movistar Koi.
CONTEMPORARY
Guided Conversations at Matadero Madrid
Art specialists lead guided conversations at Matadero Madrid exploring current exhibitions through dialogue, encouraging visitors to share interpretations and discuss creative processes.
KIDS
Film Workshops for Children and Primary School Students
Film workshops at Cineteca Madrid for children and primary school students introducing cinema through hands-on activities developing visual literacy.
EXHIBITIONS
Senior Theatre Programme
Senior theatre programme at Matadero's Nave 10 exploring performance and community for 25 people over 65 from Arganzuela and Usera throughout the season.
EXHIBITIONS
The Animals
Photographic exhibition by Estela de Castro at Cineteca Madrid. Images explore fauna and wildlife through visual documentation and artistic perspective.
CONTEMPORARY
Convocatoria Intermediae Distribuido
Open-call exhibition at Cineteca Madrid featuring diverse artistic practices and experimental work displayed across multiple interconnected spaces.
CONTEMPORARY
La Tullida Gallery: A Project by Costa Badía
Art and education collaborative project by Costa Badía at Cineteca Madrid combining contemporary installations with workshops and community participation.
FESTIVAL
Foro CIMA
Festival of independent cinema and experimental audiovisual work from emerging and established filmmakers at Cineteca Madrid.
FESTIVAL
Imprescindibles TVE
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid screening documentaries and dramas from Spanish public television's archives spanning decades of broadcasting history.
EXHIBITIONS
Pulgar
Monica Mays assembles industrial components, domestic fragments, and ritual objects at Nave 0, Matadero Madrid, investigating how affect, violence, and desire move through myth and matter.
LECTURE
Gloria Fuertes (hoy)
Talk at Cineteca Madrid on Spanish poet Gloria Fuertes, examining her accessible verse, social commentary, and influential work in children's literature and 20th-century poetry.
EXHIBITIONS
Books to the Street for Young Readers
Exhibition of over 60 illustrated posters from the Books to the Street campaign celebrating children's and young adult literature at Casa del Lector.
EXHIBITIONS
Lecture Series: A Brief History of the Blockbuster
Lecture series on blockbuster cinema history from silent films to today, led by authors Elisa McCausland and Diego Salgado at Sala Plató, featuring screenings of essential films.
EXHIBITIONS
Sound Fiction Course. Intermediate Level
Intermediate sound fiction course combining voice technique and oral storytelling with instructor Aránzazu San Ginés across weekly sessions at Casa del Lector.
EXHIBITIONS
Bebecuentos with Penguin Kids
Storytelling sessions for babies at Casa del Lector featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Maya and Max, and The Invisible Thread, designed to develop language and bonding.
EXHIBITIONS
Súper Zines 2026
Limited-edition zines and independent publications at Casa del Lector, showcasing underground editorial practices developed outside conventional distribution channels.
FESTIVAL
Muestra de cine rumano 2026
Romanian film festival at Cineteca Madrid presenting recent feature films, documentaries, and shorts from contemporary Romanian cinema directors.
FESTIVAL
Qui som
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid showcasing documentaries and narrative films exploring identity and social issues, with screenings, discussions, and Q&A sessions with independent filmmakers.
STORYTELLING
Travellers Between Stories
Children's reading sessions at Casa del Lector combining shared reading, storytelling, crafts, and creative games exploring mythology, adventure, and mystery tales.
EXHIBITIONS
Book Circle
Interactive storytelling sessions at Casa del Lector using curated picture books to engage babies through sound, imagery, and sensory play adapted to infant development.
SCULPTURE
Play Art as a Family
Families create and play together in an interactive art installation at Casa del Lector using everyday and unfamiliar materials designed for all ages.
EXHIBITIONS
Let's Play Pirates, Explorers and Magicians
Interactive storytelling workshop at Casa del Lector where children play pirates, explorers, and magicians through dramatisation, riddles, crafts, and read-aloud sessions with illustrated books.
EXHIBITIONS
Pin Pan Pun! Little Ones in Concert
Interactive music concert at Casa del Lector where children play instruments, clap, dance, and sing along to classical, jazz, pop, and folk pieces arranged for different instruments.
CINEMA
Forgetting Vietnam
Lyrical essay film by Trinh T. Minh-ha marking 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, weaving Vietnamese myth, water imagery, and contemporary scenes at Cineteca Madrid.
CLASSIC
Liberated Energies: Claudine Eizykman
Retrospective at Cineteca Madrid surveying experimental filmmaker Claudine Eizykman's avant-garde work spanning decades, with visual abstraction and unconventional narrative structures.
DESIGN
La Tullida Gallery: Design of Twisted Architectures
Collaborative design workshop where participants sketch the future layout of La Tullida Gallery with architecture studio Husos and interior designer Clara López at Nave 16.
INTERNATIONAL
Far from Manhattan
French film about painter René Dimanche screening at Cineteca Madrid, following an art critic's investigation into an eight-year gap in the artist's output.
CINEMA
Fermín Jiménez Landa, ida y vuelta
Video and installation work questioning language and social conventions through repetitive movement and linguistic play at Sala Borau.
CINEMA
Caso archivado
Independent journalist investigates a corporate coverup of an employee's death, uncovering toxic workplace practices and an AI content moderation system at the centre of the case.
EXHIBITIONS
'Meet & Read' Fiesta de la Lectura Compartida
Public reading festival at Plaza Matadero where visitors share favorite book passages and discover new titles in a communal outdoor setting.
EXHIBITIONS
Meet & Read Jr.
Young readers become detectives at Casa del Lector, solving a mystery with characters from the Cazamisterios series through puzzles, creative challenges, and shared reading over 90 minutes.
CINEMA
La risa y la navaja
Sergio travels to West Africa as an environmental engineer building a desert-to-jungle highway, befriending locals while investigating a missing Italian engineer's disappearance. Portuguese director Pedro Pinho presents the film.
INTERNATIONAL
A Salto de Mata
Film adaptation of José Luis Zerón's poetry diary explores the Vega Baja landscape and interior world of the Orihuela poet through day and night imagery at Sala Plató.
READING
Meet & read: Fiesta de la lectura compartida
Shared reading festival at Cineteca Madrid bringing literature enthusiasts together for collaborative reading experiences and group discussion of varied texts and genres.
DANCE
Body Molecule: First Symposium on Mediation in Performing Arts
Research group Cuerpo Molécula convenes performing arts professionals at Nave 16.1 to discuss cultural mediation challenges, share experiences, and identify collaborative opportunities.
THEATRE
RUR. Robots Universales Rossum
Grupo Villanueva Teatro performs Karel Čapek's sci-fi play about robots replacing human labour, directed by Eva Latonda and Maru García Ochoa at Casa del Lector.
FESTIVAL
Who Saw the Temples Fall
Film festival at Cineteca Madrid screening documentaries and features about cultural destruction, heritage loss, and rebuilding after conflict, featuring archival footage and personal testimonies.
MUSICAL
Guayominí
Theatre performance at Naves Matadero following Roi, a singer who freezes during a European song contest final. Laura Garmo's directorial debut explores identity and failure.
CINEMA
Sorella di Clausura
Stela pursues a famous Balkan musician after obsessing over him on television, following a promise from Vera, an emerging music star, to help her meet him in Bucharest.
WORKSHOPS
Toy Factory
Illustrator Emo Díaz leads a toy-making workshop where you sketch and build your own toys from recycled cardboard, paper, and household materials.
INTERNATIONAL
The Moromete Family 3: Father and Son
Romanian film set in 1954 following Niculae Moromete through a forbidden love affair and political doubts that push him to write the novel Morometii at Sala Azcona.
KIDS
Photophobia + Dreamscape
Double feature at Sala Plató pairing Photophobia, a Slovak-Czech-Ukrainian film about childhood trauma and violence, with Dreamscape, exploring fear and uncertainty through memory and dreams.
EXHIBITIONS
When I'm Older or Much Older, I Won't Forget This Song
Workshop at Casa del Lector where children aged 11 to 12 read poems by Gloria Fuertes, illustrate them, and try writing their own poetry.
SCIENCE
Investigactiva Magnets, Dinosaurs and Nature
Interactive science workshop at Casa del Lector for ages 2-8 exploring magnets, dinosaurs, and nature through hands-on experimentation and discovery.
EXHIBITIONS
Comic Book Workshop for Children
Comic book workshop at Casa del Lector teaching character creation, storytelling, and sequential art techniques, no drawing experience required.
DOCUMENTARY
The Government of Children II
Documentary following 19 Romanian children aged 7 to 12 who imagine ideal societies, with their visions realised by artists and architects at Sala Azcona.
EXHIBITIONS
The Laboratory of Investigation Tales
Interactive storytelling workshop for children aged 5 to 8 at Casa del Lector, led by Con Causa, exploring how stories are made using imagination.
EXHIBITIONS
Advanced Comic Drawing Course for Children
Advanced comic drawing course at Casa del Lector covering three-point perspective, extreme camera angles, and dynamic composition for students with prior experience.
CLASSIC
Gone with the Wind
Screening of the 1939 Civil War epic at Sala Azcona. Follows Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler through the American South during wartime.
CLASSIC
The Radical Cinema of Gus Van Sant
Retrospective at Cineteca Madrid exploring Gus Van Sant's experimental cinema from early independent productions to feature films challenging narrative conventions.
SHORT FILMS
When Destiny Reaches Us
Screening of Soylent Green (1973) at Cineteca Madrid, followed by the short film Fiat Homo by Jimina Sabadú, set in a dystopian New York.
CINEMA
Elephant
Gus Van Sant's Elephant screens at Sala Plató, a fictional dramatisation of the Columbine High School massacre following students through an ordinary day.
LECTURE
CIMA Conversa: Clara Roquet
Filmmaker Clara Roquet discusses her directorial approach and creative practice in a CIMA Conversa conversation at Cineteca Madrid.
CINEMA
Last Days
Film screening of Gus Van Sant's Last Days, a fictional portrait of a rock musician's final hours loosely inspired by Kurt Cobain, at Cineteca Madrid.
CINEMA
Paranoid Park
Gus Van Sant's film follows a teenage skater in Portland who accidentally kills a security guard and spirals into guilt and cover-up at Cineteca Madrid.