I haven’t traveled all I have to Buenos Aires and back to tell you about how this festival, alongside Mar del Plata and Valdivia (this last one in Chile), form the triad of the most important festivals of Latin America, because if you know about it, you know about it. People that have travelled to Argentina for the past 17 years in April have felt the presence of cinema in the streets—and Buenos Aires is a big city. The importance of a festival that brings over 300 titles, some of them for the first time crossing an ocean, is fundamental for the Latino viewer, as well for those who want to make the effort and come to see the movies that play here. On a closer look, what plays here may seem to be eclectic at times, it is purely due to what seems to be the motto of the festival: discovery.
- 6/8/2015
- by Jaime Grijalba Gómez
- MUBI
PARIS -- The Festival de Cannes on Tuesday chose six young filmmakers to attend an 18-week residence in Paris developing a film project. Those selected by a jury headed by French writer-director Marion Vernoux include Palestinian documentary filmmaker Tawfik Abu Wael, whose film Atash (Thirst) was part of the Critics' Week lineup at Cannes this year; Spain's Celia Galan Julve, whose animated short Historia del Desierto (Desert Story) was part of the Sundance Festival lineup in 2002; and Peruvian filmmaker Josue Mendez, whose Dias de Santiago unspooled in competition at this year's Rotterdam Film Festival. Ireland's Brendan Grant, Lebanon's Nadine Labaki and Russia's Slava Ross round out the chosen six.
- 7/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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