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Buenos Aires is a city with a passion for cinema: It has 12,000 film students, for example, and the Buenos Aires Intl. Independent Film Festival — Bafici for short — attracted 350,000 people last year, up 15% on the previous edition.
Artistic director Marcelo Panozzo, who took over the reins last May, points out that while the Internet has increased the awareness of independent cinema among Argentine auds, these films do not, by and large, get distribution in theaters: The fest is the only place where they can be seen on a bigscreen.
The vibe of the fest, which runs April 10-21, can be summed up in one word, says Panozzo: Curiosity. “It’s the word that best defines the excitement that forms around the programming’s announcement,” he says.
But what makes the fest a must-attend? “First and foremost, that the majority of important Argentinean films from the past 15 years originated in Bafici. Second, »
- Leo Barraclough
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