The movie, based on Belén Gopegui's novel, is featured this week at the Días de Cine Reading Club. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.

This week, Días de Cine Reading Club presents “Las razones de mis amigos” with Marta Belaustegui, Sergi Calleja and Joel Joan, directed by Gerardo Herrero. The movie will be available until May 27th to the participating libraries and universities.

Santiago, Maria and Carlos have been friends for fifteen years. Their friendship began in college. Once a month they meet to have dinner at the same restaurant, although their college hopes and dreams have all but disappeared. On one of those dinners, Carlos asks to borrow several million pesetas to bolster his failing computer game, and his friends agree to make him the loan. When time passes and he still is unable to pay back the loan, the long standing friendship enters a period of crisis.

The Días de Cine Reading Club is an initiative sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities. This initiative involves free viewing of cinematic adaptations of literary works included in the online collection of titles.

The program is offered at no cost to U.S. libraries and universities. To participate, libraries simply have to register and send the form provided at the America Reads Spanish website. They will receive an exclusive user password via e-mail. This password will allow them to enjoy, legally and free of charge, public viewing of the movie of the week via online streaming at a library or university. All it requires is a computer and internet connection. For more information click here or send an email to Miami@comercio.mineco.es.