Around twenty screenings, conferences, presentations and prominent guests from the national film industry will participate in Cinema24, the III Córdoba Film Week, which is already heating up. Your director, Edgar Burgos, highlighted the presence of seven glimpses within the programming, since these are titles which have not yet been distributed in theaters.
Likewise, he explained that one of the objectives of this edition is to take to the streets with Cinema Party, the initiative that brings together local businesses in Las Cañas Square on Sunday, December 1. It will also be the premiere of “Polar”, produced by Macarena Gomez.
The main novelty of this edition is the financial allocation of prizes for those who compete in the competitive sections. He Bronze Fawn The best film and the best short film have 3,000 and 1,500 euros respectively. Additionally, short films in competition at Cinema Córdoba will compete for the Cinema Córdoba Prize worth 1,000 euros.
The official section of the festival is made up of works of Andalusian production or co-production. The feature-length fiction films selected are: “Alone in the Night”, directed by Guillermo Rojas; “Dreams and Bread”, directed by Luis Soto Muñoz; “Is this the enemy? The Gila Film’, directed by Alexis Morante and ‘Second Prize’, by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez.
We will also see “Rita”, Paz Vega’s first film as director; ‘Polar’directed by Alberto Palma and produced by Macarena Gómez. The non-fiction titles are: ‘Marisolcall me Pepa’, directed by Blanca Torres; “A Free Man,” by director Laura Hojman; “Zambra,” directed by José Sánchez-Montes; “Atín Aya”, portrait of silence, by Hugo Cabezas and Alejandro Toro; “Fandango,” directed by Remedios Malvárez and Arturo Andújar; and “Box of Resistance,” by Alejandro Alvarado and Concha Barquero.
The screenings scheduled as part of the Cinema Sessions will take place in the Val del Omar and Josefina Molina rooms of the Andalusian Cinematheque in the afternoon. The public will have the opportunity to meet directors, screenwriters, producers or performers who participated in these works.
The 29 short films in competition will be screened in the official section and in the Córdoba Cinema, an award that rewards projects made by Córdoba production companies or filmmakers and which were shot in Córdoba. THE shorts They will be screened in four screenings at the Filmoteca on November 29, December 2, 3 and 4.
The titles are: “The Sundays That Remain”, “How to Disappear Completely”, “A Date with Candy”, “Homework”, “Chroma”, “Ecos”, “Quiéreme Más”, “El Soldao”, “The visitor”. “, “The Browns”, “The Officials’ Breakfast”, “Selfish”, “Quarantine”, “Previous Appointment”, “Zombie Signal”, “Things Happen”, “The monster de fortune’, ‘La Bonita’, ‘La Banda’, ‘Notes for Silvia’, ‘A Story of Fireworks’, ‘Your Last Question’, ‘Umbra’, ‘Livestock, Po favó’, ‘Carrion’ , ‘A Lemon Popsicle’, ‘The Chosen One’ and ‘Vinyl’.
Cinema Premiere includes the recent public phenomenon El 47 by Marcel Barrena, nominated for best film at the Forqué Awards; and The Flashes directed by Pilar Palomero, nominated at the San Sebastian Film Festival for the Golden Shell for best film and winner of best female performance for its protagonist Patricia Lopez Arnaiz. Both will be screened at the Filmoteca, on November 29 and December 4 respectively.
On the other hand, Special Cinema, the section where Andalusian production titles are programmed but out of competition, presents “Orgullo Vieja”, the documentary directed by Chema Rodríguez which tells the story of eight women from the Sevillian district of Triana who share the dream of becoming stand-up comedians.
The Cine Cercano Association presents this pre-screening conference in which its protagonists and the production company participate Marta Alamillo on November 30 at the Filmoteca. The second title in this section is also a documentary, “Tivoli”whose director Lucía Muñoz will participate in a round table on December 2 at the Visitor Reception Center (CRV).
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For five days, cinema and audiovisual professionals, as well as the general public, will be able to attend conferences, round tables and presentations on relevant and current issues in the sector. Odile Antonio-Baez from the production company Movies about sinscreenwriter Fernando Navarro and RTVE deputy director Gervasio Iglesias will participate in the round table entitled “Is it possible to configure a successful project from scratch?”, on December 1 at the Visitor Reception Center (CRV).
On December 2, the feature-length documentary “Que arda la calle” will be presented, which tells the story of the women’s movement that occurred in Córdoba during the years of transition and who actively participated in the feminist movement. Those responsible for its presentation will be the director and screenwriter Ana Villa; the director of photography, Guillermo Parrilla, and Consuelo Borregueroexecutive producer of CineCercano.
The winning project of the II Cinematographic Campus organized by Record and the Cultural Delegation of the Provincial Deputation of Cordoba will be presented exclusively on December 3. “Melón” is the title of this short film directed and scripted by Pablo Porcuna, who will be present at the presentation alongside Sabbia Films producer Gabriel Carrasco, lead actor Santi Rodríguez and composer Javier Estévez.
The dubbing actress Mercedes Hoyos will give a masterclass on audiovisual dubbing and will address the dubbing of films and television series, explaining the entire work process. This activity will take place on December 4, is free and is co-organized with the Andalusian Cinema Academy.
The fifth session of Cinema Talks will be a meeting with Cinema24 ambassadors, actress Marisol Membrillo and the journalist Manolo Bellido, both awarded in this edition respectively with the Córdoba Cinematographic Ambassador Prize and the Córdoba Cinematographic Diffusion Prize. The same evening of December 5, they will receive these awards during the closing gala which will take place at the Góngora Theater.
