He Bafici In this 24th edition, it will pay homage to Leo Messi, Diego Maradona and even an apocryphal fourth star obtained by the national team in 1926.

The party started today It will continue until May 1st. in fifteen venues which, as in the previous edition, form a cinephile playground along Avenida Corrientes, the nucleus of most of the theatres.

The opening of the party It will be the night of Wednesday 19 and it will also be Argentinian and football thanks to comedy Last resorttenth film by Matías Szulanksi, focused on the journalistic investigation into the lack of records of an alleged first World Cup played in 1926 and won by Argentina.

Length of closure To be I’m a good personby the Spanish Norberto Ramos de Val, who will share one of the three spotlights with the Indian Rajat Kapoor and the French Clément Cogitore.

The words of the director

Javier Porta Fouzdirector of entertainment, presented the programming as if he were a DT who spoke about the style of the game emphasizing the “identity of the festival” and creating a barrier to differentiate itself from what he considered “greatest hits” events by dint of “world premieres or international”.

This Bafici will also have his great absence in the figure of mentor and director Raphael Philippi, whose death shook national cinema last week. Porta Fouz recalled him as a “fundamental presence for Bafici” and explained that the homage will be limited, due to the proximity of the festival, to not anymore, the last film of his career featuring himself at home. Filippelli closed a Bafici with this film, winner as best director at the Argentine Competition with night musicmade a film about the festival (feverish gaze) and opened another with kidnapping and death.

A total of 250 titles

Between 250 titles from Bafici, now without making differences between feature and short, there are the three competitions, Internazionale (which among its handful of titles includes the debut of Dolores Fonzi behind the camera, blonde), Argentina and Vanguardia y Género, and the presence in the spotlight of expert filmmakers such as Hong Sangsoo, who arrives with In waterChristian Petzold, manager of a firePaul Schrader presents Master GardenerJames Benning returns to the festival with Allensworthwill have Michel Ocelot The Pharaoh, the savage and the princess and Lav Diaz brings his latest film When the waves are gone.

Inferior cinephiles will have their usual place Baficito children sectionwhich this year will include, in addition to the French Ocelot, the classic by Manuel García Ferré fabric. On the veteran side there will be five saves that include debuts by Pablo Cerda (Physical education) and Ezequiel Acuna (swim alone), last film by Lucrecia Martel (zamak) and also the Italian Sergio Leone will not be excluded from the party thanks to the spaghetti western For a bunch of dollars.

The late Alejandro Chomski will be remembered with In the country of last things and Beatriz Guido will be honored with three lengths by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson that bear her signature.

Tickets were available from Tuesday, April 11, at popular prices ($300 overall), both online on the Vivamos Cultura website and at the ticket offices of El Cultural San Martín (Sarmiento 1551), Cine Cosmos (av. Corrientes 2046), Cine Gaumont ( INCAA) (av. Rivadavia 1635), Cine Multiplex Monumental Lavalle (Lavalle 780), Cine Lorca (av. Corrientes 1428) and Arthaus (Bartolomé Miter 434).