BAFICI announced its silver anniversary, with 85 titles and tributes to Jorge Polaco and Rodolfo Kuhn

He WHISKERS turns 25 and has officially presented the programming of this upcoming edition which It will start on Wednesday 17th and continue until Sunday 28th April.

Javier Porta Fouz, director of the exhibition, and Gabriela Ricardes, Minister of Culture of the city, organized the event which took place in the Sala Lugones of the Teatro San Martín, where the publication of a book was announced once the festival was over, to celebrate the silver wedding.

The eye-catching Gaumont Cinema It will resist, at least until the end of the month, the threat of definitive closure and its two theaters will be part of the 13 that will distribute the 500 performances of the 260 short and feature films that make up the festival.

The rest are the traditional Lugones, the two cinemas of the Cultural San Martín, the four rooms of the Cinépolis complex in Plaza Houssay, the great novelty of this edition, the Pablo Ducrós Hickens Cinema Museum and the three of the Cine Arte Cacodelphia, the other novelties.

Programming

Lucía Seles’ extravaganza will kick off the festival Alfonsina Storni Private School and the closing will be carried out by José Luis García with Fuck you! The last showpresentation on Obras of the album After Chabón, by Sumo, two months before Luca Prodan’s death, which occurred at the end of 1987.

The BAFICI party will have 85 titles who will try to consecrate themselves divided into the three official races; International, Argentina, Avant-garde and Genre. My pleasureby Sacha Amaral, e The Odyssey of Kamatsuby Leo Liberman and Sofía López Mañán, are the two Argentine feature films competing for the first prize.

THE trajectories section will bring the news of great directors such as Hong Sangsoo, Bruno Dumont, Cristi Puiu, Julio Bressane, Jonas Mekas, Néstor Frenkel, Alexander Kluge, André Techiné and Bruce LaBruce. The trajectories will have their reverse in the section raw operationswhere the family project directed by actor Rafa Ferro stands out.

The Tarantino Giacomo Abruzzese and the Vimaranian Rodrigo Areias They are the protagonist directors with a focus each within the programming, while the “retrospectives of the present” are dedicated to Gonzalo García-Pelayo and Cristián Sánchez with the seven films that the Spaniard signs in 2024 and the last two by the Chilean.

The festival also looks to the past with film rescues Goodbye Sui Generis by Bebe Kamin, After hours by Martin Scorses, Paris, Texas by Wim Wendes, office entanglements by Mike Judge, L’Amour fou by Jacques Rivette, So suddenly by Diego Lerman, Possible lives by Sandra Gugliotta, Atlantis AND Pandora’s box by GW Pabst, Capture Pelham 1-2-3 by Joseph Sargent and The wishing tree by Tengiz Abuladze.

Great freebies

The festival will create two large tributes dedicated to Jorge Polacowhat it includes In the name of her son, The lady returns and the screening of the documentary on his life by María Onis and Eva Landec, which includes the documentary Damn Eve and three short films directed by the director.

The Cinema Museum will have its own section which will include the celebration of its 90th birthday Rudolph Kuhn with the short Pinamar and the long one The fickle ones.

In the field of cinema about cinema there will be works dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Jacobs, Manuel Antín, José Martíenz Suárez and Luis Ospina.

Don Cornelio and La Zona, 107 Faunos and Motochorros will be some local representatives against the internationals Mogwai, Kraken and Los Planetas within the films of the section Music.

Children will have their usual place in the traditional Baficitoand there will be a section dedicated to family films and a section entitled Getting Big on films for growing up.

arts and crafts He will dedicate films to writers, visual artists and pianists, but also to journalists, policemen and babysitters. Among the comedies, the new one by Camila Toker and the debut by Santino Taratuto, son of Cecilia Dopazo and director Juan Taratuto, stand out.

In the night section there will be no shortage of vampires and Satanists and in the passion section there will be titles dedicated to the World Cup, literature and Italpark. Argentine cinema, whose fate seems linked to the political debate, maintains the growing presence of the latest editions of

BAFICI, which even in recent years has distanced short films from the marginality to which they had been relegated for almost two decades of festivals. Tickets are $1500with a $300 discount for those who can be credited as students or retirees, and They will be on sale next Tuesday 9th in person in theaters and online on the revamped festival page bafici.org