Matinee for Seniors: Love in Tangier

This Tuesday, October 13, at 10:00 a.m., as part of the Matinee for Seniors programme, the film Love in Tangier (Calle Málaga, Morocco/France/Spain, 2025, 116 min) will be screened.

Tickets for the screening can be collected at the cinema box office, from the Pensioners’ Union and at the Seniors’ Reading Room.

The charming Moroccan-Spanish drama Love in Tangier tells a touching story about preserving one’s home and independence in later life. The film follows 79-year-old María Ángeles, an independent Spanish woman who has lived peacefully and alone in Tangier for decades. Her quiet routine is disrupted when her daughter Clara arrives from Madrid with plans to sell her mother’s apartment.

Determined not to give up her home and the memories it holds, resourceful María begins a fight to stay and unexpectedly finds new love along the way. Balancing humour and melancholy with subtlety, the film offers a moving reflection on ageing without giving up and reminds us that the human heart knows no age limits.

Kino Valli launched the Matinee for Seniors programme in 2011, with the aim of enriching the lives of this important part of the community and encouraging older people to socialise and enjoy the latest film releases. The programme draws on the cinema’s regular monthly schedule, with the films selected by the seniors themselves.

From autumn through spring, once a month and at a morning time suited to their needs, seniors can enjoy a recent independent film, documentary or popular feature film free of charge upon presentation of their pass.

The programme has proved extremely popular and represents a valuable contribution to including older people in the city’s cultural life. During these screenings, the foyer and auditorium of Kino Valli are filled with the wonderful, lively energy of our older fellow citizens, who are always smiling and deeply grateful that there is a programme, a place and a time created especially for them.

When we talk about education and the importance of building new audiences, we almost always have children and young people in mind. Yet this programme reminds us time and again that an appreciation of quality cinema—and the discovery of new cinematic experiences—has no age limit.