Rosina Prado, filmmaker in exile

Rosina Prado (Cartagena, 1935) was a Spanish filmmaker who lived in exile in the USSR and Cuba following the civil war. On June 9, the EQZE cinema hosts a gathering around her figure and her work, within which the new digitization of Prijodiat y ujodiat poezda (Trains Will Come and Go, 1961) will be screened, the short film she shot during her years at Moscow's VGIK.

Rosina Prado (Cartagena, 1935) was a Spanish filmmaker who went into exile in the Soviet Union in 1939, at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Between 1956 and 1961, she studied Film Directing at VGIK in Moscow, where she made Prijodiat y ujodiat poezda (Trains Will Come and Go). Prado emigrated to Cuba with her family in 1961, where she made five films at the ICAIC film studios. After briefly returning to Moscow to graduate, Rosina Prado did not return to Spain until 1977, after 38 years in exile. Her status as a female filmmaker and anti-fascist exile led to her being erased from film history.

The seminar forms part of the research project currently being carried out Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola entitled ‘Trains will come and go’ and will feature Sonia García López (UC3M), Masha Salazkina (Concordia University) and Carolina Cappa (EQZE), alongside Pedro Sevil Prado—the filmmaker’s son—and Gonzalo Barrena from the Niños de Rusia Association. During the event, Susel Legón, Alexandre Kröner and Nita Kruger Hidalgo, all students on the Film Preservation Studies Master’s degree, will present the new digitised version of Prijodiat y ujodiat poezda, which was completed at the school during 2026.