An Argentine comedy about quarantine, winner of BAFICI

The Argentine film Clementine On Friday, it won the Grand Prize for best feature film in the internationally competitive section of the twenty -third edition of the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), which had full attendance after two years of pandemic.

It is a comedy directed by Constanza Feldman and Agustín Mendilaharzu, which appears during quarantine and gives it a situational humor tone in the face of the bizarre events caused by covid-19 in daily life, which is completely it changes.

According to the festival organization, the awards for best actor went to Chilean Juan Cano, for the film Ghost Projectwhile as best actress Judith Roddy was identified The Cry of Granuaile.

Other awards

Meanwhile, the award for best address went to the Spanish Neus Ballús, for Sis dies corrents (six current days), which chronicles a week in the lives of three workers at a small pipe and electricity company outside Barcelona. Divided into six chapters, key personnel must address the eccentricities of each of their clients.

On the other hand, in the exclusive competitive section for Featured films in Argentinathe winner turned out Amancaydirected by Máximo Ciambella.

While the award for best local manager went to Gastón Solnicki, for his work A Little Love Packagean Argentine-Austrian co-production that pays homage to the city of Vienna, and with humorous touches marked the end of an era for one of its key personnel.

In the new official competition of Vanguard and Gender He is the chosen one The Mif (the family) by Frédéric Baillif for best feature film. This Swiss drama, which also won a grand prize, tells the story of a group of teenage girls who enter a safe house.

Clementine also took the audience award in the best film, which is transversal in three competitions.

Perrone won the Chroniclers Award

For its part, the Argentine be eternal of director Raúl Perrone, the winner of Award of the Association of Film Critics of Argentina (ACCA), as best feature film. The cast consists of Ariana Galardi, Sergio Fleita, Micaela Esquivel and Alejandro Ibañez.

“In my career I’ve always come back to men and women, I’ve always cared about showing them their harsh reality and their own environment,” Perrone said. “The most interesting thing to me is that: following 3 or 4 lives isn’t easy, but in a vacation spot, like a lot of men and women. Make a film that’s also crude but doesn’t neglect poetry. “

packed rooms

BAFICI is one of the most important independent film festivals in Latin America and this new edition started last week with packed rooms, as strict sanitary protocols have to be imposed in 2021 due to the coronavirus, and it will end next Sunday.

The artistic director of the festival since 2016, Javier Porta Fouz, explained in an interview with Efe news agency that he hopes that BAFICI “helps to recover not only the city center of Buenos Aires, which already has enough life on its own, but also an idea of ​​cinema as a diverse art ”. And he added: “the movie is more than just superheroes with a proven brand.”

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