Chile’s Santiago International Film Festival (Sanfic) celebrates its 19th edition with a vibrant lineup packed with works from first-time Chilean filmmakers, with six debut features out of nine contenders in the fully in-person festival running August 20-27.
“It was tough. We had at least 30 submissions to the Chilean film selection, which we narrowed down to these nine,” said artistic director Carlos Nuñez, who added that three of them are world premieres.
The selection touts five documentaries – a reflection of the boom in non-fiction filmmaking in recent years. Among them is the poetic “A Brief Space in Time” (“Breve espacio de un tiempo”), which world premieres at Sanfic and turns on a Mapuche couple living off their ancestral Wallmapu land.
Pepe Rovano’s debut docu feature “Bastard, the Inheritance of a Genocide,” also world premiering in Sanfic, revolves around the son of a genocidal criminal who seeks to make reparations...
“It was tough. We had at least 30 submissions to the Chilean film selection, which we narrowed down to these nine,” said artistic director Carlos Nuñez, who added that three of them are world premieres.
The selection touts five documentaries – a reflection of the boom in non-fiction filmmaking in recent years. Among them is the poetic “A Brief Space in Time” (“Breve espacio de un tiempo”), which world premieres at Sanfic and turns on a Mapuche couple living off their ancestral Wallmapu land.
Pepe Rovano’s debut docu feature “Bastard, the Inheritance of a Genocide,” also world premiering in Sanfic, revolves around the son of a genocidal criminal who seeks to make reparations...
- 7/19/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Spanish film agency Icaa, under its Just Spainted label, is presenting its 2cool4school shorts selection at Cannes’ Short Film Corner. The showcase includes graduation works from Spain’s freshest talents, trained at its most prestigious cinema schools such as Madrid’s Ecam, Barcelona’s Escac and Uab, Valencia’s Fine Arts University and the Basque Country’s Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, among others.
Bellow, a drill down on the titles in the new Spanish talent showcase:
“A Dance for the End of the World”
It’s summer 2020 and Madrid is one of the world’s strictest lockdowns after having been hit hard by Covid-19. Two young people, a boy and a girl, are stuck at home during the state of emergency and meet online before setting off on an imaginary journey through place and time, envisaging dance clubs and 17th century smallpox medical facilities while getting to know one another through exchanged messages.
Bellow, a drill down on the titles in the new Spanish talent showcase:
“A Dance for the End of the World”
It’s summer 2020 and Madrid is one of the world’s strictest lockdowns after having been hit hard by Covid-19. Two young people, a boy and a girl, are stuck at home during the state of emergency and meet online before setting off on an imaginary journey through place and time, envisaging dance clubs and 17th century smallpox medical facilities while getting to know one another through exchanged messages.
- 7/14/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga, Jamie Lang and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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