From December 1 to December 11, the Acapulco, Chaplin and Yara screens, 23 and 12 rooms, will host, in this capital, the Film Fair, which proposes 15 feature films, fifteen medium-length short films, 17 short stories and 10 documentaries short. 29 animated works and 15 debuts.
In this list of pieces in competition are fifty productions that have female talent behind the cameras coming from Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Chile, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, Venezuela, Guatemala, Costa Rica, France and Nicaragua, the meeting’s official page details.
Featured in the catalog of Mexican audiovisual cinematographers who led filmmakers were the representation of women at the 43rd edition of the event in the categories of Narrative, Short Narrative, Animation and Documentary.
In this sense, names like Laura Mora with The Kings of the World, Susana Arrazola (Transtierro), Eloisa Diez (Victoria), Julia Granillo Tostado (Tonalli), Minerva Bolaños (Anywhere), Magali Rocha Donnadieu and Carolina Corral Paredes appear (She Raining) and Veronica Marin (Fuego Vato).
Also of note are directors Laura Santolo directing El Otro Tom alongside Rodrigo Pla, Tatiana Huizo with the critically acclaimed rendition Night of Fire, Teodora Ana Mihai and the Belgium-Romanian co-production La Civil, and Natalia Lopez in Manto de James.
For its part, Argentine cinema also has a high percentage of women at the Havana Festival, particularly in the short film sections such as Tamgu, by Louise Paris and Isabelle Lauer, Invisible Apprentice, by Emilia Herbst; The Chambermaid, by Lucrezia Martell and What People Do When It Rains, by Eugenia Annamaria.
Specifically, Brazil showcased its title as South American giant, standing out for selection with directors María Augusta Ramos, Celia Catunda, Julia Morat, Adderley Queirós, Joana Pimenta, Nina Copco, Esther Vital, Luisa Puglisi Filaka, Carolina Markovic and Flavia Neves.
This talent of filmmakers was the fate of the productions of Amigo Secreto, Tarsilinha, Regra 34, Mato seco em chamas, Chão de Fábrica, Cadê Heleny? and Cadim, Carvão and Fogaréu, all in competition, according to the digital portal.
The journey continues through Latin films, along with filmmakers, with Colombian directors. Our movie is written by Diana Bustamante and So Much Tenderness is directed by Lena Rodriguez.
Likewise, the Chilean films Deshabitada, Estrellas del desierto and 1976 appear, while the Costa Rican co-production Clara sola and I Have Electric Dreams proposes, Guatemala confirms its presence with El silencio del Topo and Paraguay approaches the work of Paz Encina with the Emmy rendition.
The program ends with Venezuelan Vivica Paez; Nicaraguan Laura Baumeister, France’s Elvira Barbosa, Cubans Rebeca Chavez Domínguez, Maria Salafranca and Daniela Muñoz Barroso.
And although they do not compete for designation awards, the films of Perspectiva’s Latin American section also bear the stamp of the region’s filmmakers, generating high expectations among moviegoers.
On this occasion, there are 26 feature films that make up this sample of the important films produced in the region that are grouped under various themes such as Full Room, Vanguard and SOS: Environment.
The list includes 10 documentaries with a variety of topics such as “Operation Gideon,” The Failure of the Invasion, by Madeleine García; Another Francisco, by Margarita Hernandez, Lucia, Woman of the Orchestra, by Ljuba María Hevea, Rafael Cancel Miranda: I’m Not Sorry for What I Did? , to Ana Maria García, among others.
Similarly, the Cuban feature film Cuentos de un día más, with joint work by Fernando Pérez, Rosa Maria Rodríguez Bobo, Alan González, Carolina Fernández-Vega Charadan, Will Infante Corpacho, Catherine T. Javelano, and Shel. Email Medros.
Other titles on the show are Quem tem Medo? And El camino de Sol, Deserto in particular, Carro Rei, Uma paciência selvagem merouxe te aquí, A man like you, Karla, and Las Hortensias.
The 43rd edition of the Festival will be a novelty for the award of the Diversity Prize, Arrecife, for the best Latin American work with a queer theme, whose selection will be in charge of an independent jury, which is a sample of the flexible personality, respect and gender advocacy of the event.
The program of the event includes a theoretical event honoring the director Nicolas Guillén-Landrian by showing a documentary film by Ernesto Daranas dedicated to his imprint and an analysis of the audiovisual film Inner Downtown (2001) made by Nicolasito himself in the United States. verses before his death.
The side agenda also includes an exhibition of restored classics, contemporary international panorama, an exhibition of 30 posters by artists from 11 countries and editorial editions of the Cuban Institute of Cinematic Arts and Industry publishing house.
Founded on December 3, 1979 by Cuban director Alfredo Guevara and in the presence of more than 600 Latin American directors, the competition awards the Coral Grand Prix as its highest distinction, which symbolizes the great coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea.
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