He Aguilar Film Festival (AFF) It will open its thirty-sixth edition on Friday November 29 with the presentation of the Golden Eagle award to Riojan actor Pepe Viyuela, in recognition of his “meritorious professional career”. During this inaugural session, the Valladolid International Cinema Week (Seminci) will also be honored with the same award “for its important work over the last seven decades.”
Likewise, the veterans’ competition, which will run until Sunday, December 8, will also award the International Golden Eagle award to Portuguese filmmaker Rita Azevedo, “in tribute to her vast and personal filmography.”
For just over a week, the Aguilar Film Festival will once again bring together a selection of the best national and international short films in its different competitive sections. The Official Section will be composed of 38 works from 21 countries. Among the national films, we note the presence of the short film “Predator”, the latest work by Javier Fesser, filmmaker who received the Golden Eagle award in 2019.
As detailed by the festival in a press release, the 21 works of Castilla y León will concentrate the programming of the competition during the first weekend, with several sessions in which the increase in documentary proposals stands out. The third competitive category, the De Campo competition, will allow us to contemplate different perspectives of the rural world, a perspective that this year will be offered by 17 works.
In addition to its competitive sections, the Aguilar Film Festival will offer a varied list of cycles, special screenings and retrospectives. Among the works that are part of these non-competitive categories are the cycles dedicated to Pepe Viyuela and Rita Azevedo, Golden Eagle prize in this edition of the competition.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Aguilar Film Festival, in collaboration with the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), the Seminci and the Filmoteca de Castilla y León, announced the “CyL Nouveau” award Talent”, which seeks to promote projects, filmmakers and film companies in the Community and has as finalists ‘Tea Cockatoos’, by Huichui Chiu (Valladolid), ‘Cae la noche’, by Julu Martínez (León), “The Bridge”, by Saúl González Abejón (Burgos) and “The Trace”, by Ana Cristina Ortega Blanco (Soria).
