Lucrecia Martel, a permanent presence on the festival circuit. photo EFE
The 12th Beijing International Film Festival, which will be held between 13 and 20 August, will have Argentina as a guest of honor countryit will program several national titles and will have the director as its protagonist Lucrecia Martel as part of her international jury.
Martel noted that “in the new world order of fiction, platforms have become an almost exclusive source of work for people who worked in cinema in my country. Thousands of young students have their job dreams expressed in a language that today is mostly limited to commercial policies. “
“That’s why my expectations are very high at this festival, to see if it’s possible think differently about the future of audiovisual fiction“, emphasized the author of the award-winning feature film The swamp (2001), The holy girl (2004), The headless woman (2008) and Zamak (2017).
“Zama”, the last chapter of Lucrecia Martel’s highly personal filmography.
The invitation is launched to Argentine cinema to be the protagonist of this cultural event that will allow it to spread its culture in the Asian giant in the framework of the 50th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations and the Year of Friendship between the two nations, declared by their respective heads of state last February, on the occasion of the visit of President Alberto Fernández to Beijing.
official statement
An official communication stated that “since then, the organizers of the Beijing Festival have collaborated with the Argentine ambassador to China, Sabino Vaca Narvaja, with his team and with the authorities of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture of the national government to promote the diffusion of Argentine cinema on the Chinese market “.
As an antecedent to the passage of Argentine cinema through the Beijing event, it is worth remembering in 2016 the bandby Santiago Miter, won the Tiantan Awards for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Actress (Dolores Fonzi) and last year A school in Cerro Huesoof Betania Cappato, was among the fifteen finalists of the award.
Santiago Miter, together with Dolores Fonzi and Oscar Martinez during the filming of “La patota”.
And as regards the presence of national filmography in China, in October 2021 and with the active participation of the Argentine Embassy in promotional activities, The theft of the centuryby Ariel Winograd, became the first premiere of an Argentine film on the Chinese commercial circuit and has been exhibited in more than 3,000 theaters across the country.
In addition, several local distributors, promoted by the Argentine embassy, are promoting a series of Argentine films, activity currently postponed due to the local health situation.
From the Berlinale to China
Martel is a regular festival goer. In fact, at the beginning of the year he presented the medium-length film North Terminal (appears as North Terminal in the announcement of the Festival) will be present in the Berlinale Special, part of the prestigious Berlin Film Festival.
It is a documentary with singer Julieta Laso – available to the Argentine public on the free Cont.Ar platform – and will be presented in world premiere at the Berlinale. It should be noted that in Berlin the ENERC (INCAA cinema school) graduate made her debut with her first feature film, La ciénaga.
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