Just over a hundred days have passed since the consecration of Argentina in Qatar, but the fever for the national team continues to rise and the BaficiIn its own way, it also raises the World Cup temperature in this just-announced 24th edition. The festival will pay homage to Leo Messi, Diego Maradona and even an apocryphal fourth star obtained by the national team in 1926.
Javier Porta Fouz, director of the show, presented the programming as if it were a DT talking about the style of play emphasizing “the identity of the festival” and creating a barrier to differentiate itself from what he considered “greatest hits” events. by dint of “world or international firsts”.
The festival will take place from 19 April to 1 May in fifteen venues which, as in the previous edition, form a cinephile playground along Avenida Corrientes, the nucleus of most of the theatres.
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.
The opening of the festival this time will also be Argentina and football thanks to comedy Last resort, tenth film by Matías Szulanksi, centered on the journalistic investigation into the lack of records of an alleged first World Cup played in 1926 and won by Argentina. The closing length will 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.
250 titles
Among the 250 Bafici titles, without making differences between feature films and shorts, there are three competitions, Internazionale (which among its few 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 in the children’s section Baficito, which 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 will be available from Tuesday the 11th and will be popularly priced ($300 overall). They can be purchased online from 10 on the Vivamos Cultura website, and then 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).
Bafici, like those guys at the end of last year, is still exciting.
Source: Clarin
