– The Spanish pageant celebrates its anniversary with a variety that provides a voice to debut administrators, reaffirms established names and helps Ibero-American filmmakers
Bread and Salt by Damian Kocur
With an Official Part of 33 characteristic movies, divided into three elements – Retueyos, for first-time filmmakers; Albar, which incorporates identified filmmakers; and Tierres en Trance, with administrators from Ibero-America –, the sixtieth version of the Gijón International Film Festival opens on Friday 11 November with the Spanish premiere of Armageddon Time, by the American James Grey (a movie competing in Albar), and closes on 19 Saturday with the French-Belgium manufacturing The Green Perfume [+see also:
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Two world premieres additionally characteristic within the Retueyos part: Mission to Mars, a highway film by Basque newcomer Amat Vallmajor del Pozo, and the perverse political satire Estertor, by Argentinians Sofía Jallinsky and Basovih Marinaro. The part additionally contains Bread and Salt [+see also:
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interview: Damian Kocur
film profile], the award-winning debut at Venice’s Orizzonti by Polish director Damian Kocur. Metronom [+see also:
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interview: Alexandru Belc
film profile] by Alexandru Belc takes us again to Romania in 1972. With Ordinary Failures [+see also:
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interview: Cristina Grosan
film profile], the Hungarian-Romanian artist Cristina Grosan focuses on the lives of three girls who discover their salvation on the finish of the world. In Monica [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Pallaoro
film profile], the Italian director Andrea Pallaoro portrays a lady who returns house to look after her dying mom, and in Pink Moon [+see also:
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film profile], the Dutch Ground van der Meulen addresses euthanasia. See You Friday Robinson [+see also:
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film profile], by the French-based Iranian Mitra Farahani will likely be screened out of competitors within the part, which is accomplished by the Palestinian Jumana Manna with Foragers, and the Individuals Daniel Goldhaber (with Blow Up a Pipeline), Michael Morris (with To Leslie) and Owen Kline (with Humorous Pages).
In Albar, the FICX will host the world premiere of Clorindo Testa, by the Argentinian Mariano Llinás. Alongside this movie, the German Isabelle Stever presents Grand Jeté [+see also:
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interview: Isabelle Stever
film profile], on the taboo of incest, the Austrian Ulrich Seidl brings Rimini [+see also:
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interview: Ulrich Seidl
film profile] his strategy to (darkish) comedy, whereas the grasp Werner Herzog screens The Fire Within: Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft [+see also:
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film profile], a documentary that performs with the private archives of some passionate volcanologists engulfed by Mount Unzen. French Emmanuel Mouret directs Diary of a Fleeting Affair [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
film profile], and Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, brings the Russian-European co-production Tchaikovsky’s Wife [+see also:
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film profile], whereas out of competitors SERVIAM – I Will Serve [+see also:
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interview: Ruth Mader
film profile], by Austrian Ruth Mader, a mystical thriller which acquired acclaim at Locarno. The part is accomplished with Tales of the Purple House [+see also:
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film profile], during which the Iraqi-French Abbas Fahdel and the painter Nour Ballouk discover the complexity of Lebanon getting ready to the abyss, La novelista, by the genius Hong Sang-soo, and Un été comme ça, by the Canadian Denis Côté.
Cinema from Spain, Portugal and South America are represented within the Tierres en Trance part. Promoted by the earlier FICXPro awards are the medium-length movie Puerperio, by the Spanish Pilar Álvarez, and Sobre las nubes, by the Argentinean María Aparicio. And within the documentary Al otro lado del mar, which has its world premiere right here, Eloy Domínguez Serén (Hamada [+see also:
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interview: Eloy Domínguez Serén
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film profile], the spectacular debut characteristic movie by the Colombian Theo Montoya, EAMI [+see also:
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film profile], the IFFR winner by Paraguayan Paz Encina and Soy niño, by the Chilean Lorena Zilleruelo, together with Camuflaje, by the Argentinian Jonathan Perel, El reino de Dios, by the Mexican Claudia Sainte-Luce and, out of competitors, the quick movie Circe, during which María Abenia builds a bridge between delusion and actuality within the volcanic lands of Tenerife.
You may view the remainder of the pageant programme here.
(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)
