The Mar del Plata International Film Festivalwhich starts this Thursday, will pay tribute to Leonardo Favio and to French Jean-Luc Godard within a rich schedule. Also this year the Festival is in first person in its entirety, with seven complexes and 200 pesos tickets that can be purchased online, and 100 pesos for students and pensioners that can be purchased at the ticket offices.

It will go on until November 13, with 241 titles including short, medium and feature films and works by prominent directors such as the German Mia Hansen-Løve, the South Korean Hong Sang Soo, the Portuguese João Pedro Rodrigues, the Chilean Sebastián Lelio, the L ‘ English Sam Mendes, Mexican Guillermo del Toro and the film La uruguaya, based on the book of the same name by Pedro Mairal.

The festival, recognized by the International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations as the only “class A” festival in Latin America, returns to full public presence after the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 37th edition of the Film Competition will open this Thursday with the screening of Breathless (1960), the first feature film by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg and presented in homage to the famous French director, who passed away last September.

In addition to this tribute, the festival will pay homage to the figure and filmography of Leonardo Favio (1938-2012), whose death will turn 10 from next Saturday, November 5.

The first activity will be Favio frame, at 15:30 in the Spanish Club. Three essayists, critics and intellectuals (Yamila Volnovich, José Ludovico and Pablo O. Scholz. Critic and editor of Clarione) will present their views on the director, moderated by Bebe Kamín.

That same day will be screened Giovanni Moreira (1973), while at the Teatro Colón in Mar del Plata the public will be able to see, with free admission, two other classics by Favio: Employee (1969) and Nazareno Cruz and the wolf (1975).

In this edition, the festival program will consist of 180 films from 28 countries and will include unpublished sections, such as “silent cinema with live music”, in which centenary feature films will be screened Nosferatu (1922) and Haxan (1922). Among the special sections there is also a retrospective on Kinuyo Tanaka (1909-1977), one of the best known Japanese directors and actresses.

in competition

The festival will have seven competitive sections, leading the international section, with twelve films. Among them stands out The Uruguayan, by Ana García Blaya, an Argentine-Uruguayan co-production. The feature film, based on a novel by Argentine Pedro Mairal, tells the story of Lucas Pereyra, a writer in the midst of a crisis in his forties, who believes he can find relief from his daily frustrations by escaping to Montevideo.

They also complement international competition change changeby Lautaro García Candela (Argentina); The face of Medusa, by Melisa Liebenthal (Argentina); Y How to blow up a pipelineby Daniel Goldhaber (United States); Lupo and Caoby Cláudia Varejão (Portugal, France); those below, by Alejandro Quiroga (Bolivia); Y Or trio em E flatby Rita Azevedo Gomes (Portugal).

They complete the international section Reducedby Leon Schwitter (Switzerland); Saudade purple fez in hereby Haroldo Borges (Brazil); A lot of tendernessby Lina Rodríguez (Canada); there there, by Andrew Bujalski (United States); Y Three brothersby Francisco Paparella (Argentina, Chile).

figures

This edition of the festival will see the visit of well-known personalities from the world of cinema, such as the American director John McTiernan, who will present his films Die Hard Y Predatorand French director Patricia Mazuy, who will accompany a retrospective of her work.

In Mar del Plata will also be the Spaniard Marcos Uzal, current editor-in-chief of the magazine. Cahiers du cinemaPortuguese cinematographer Rui Poças and Argentine producer and director Lita Stantic.

The juries will be composed, among others, of Dolores Fonzi, the American producer and actor Joe Swanberg, the French producer Lili Hinstin, the Argentine-British director Jessica Sarah Rinland, the Spanish producer Beli Martínez and the Argentine director and screenwriter Manuel Ferrari.

The Mar del Plata International Film Festival is organized by the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) and the Ministry of Culture of Argentina and has the support of, among others, Acción Cultural Española and the Cultural Center of the Spain in Buenos Aires.

Complete program on www.mardelplatafilmfest.com

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