Like San Sebastián, the neighboring Basque-French exhibition will dedicate particular attention this year to the hardships of our screen. Not only with films, but also with debates about the problem.
Not only the San Sebastián Festival has raised the alarm about what is happening with Argentine cinema. The 31st Biarritz Film Festival is doing the same thing, 50 kilometers to the north.
Dedicated to spreading the culture and art of Latin America, this year Biarrtiz programmed more than just River Plate films and tango workshops, in addition to Caribbean music, as he usually does.
Thus, within the Festival activities, the nearby Institute of High Studies of Latin Americafrom the University of Aubervilliers, organized a seminar on “The evolution of Argentine society from Perón to Milei”also a talk between the writers Laura Alcoba and Santiago Amigorena about their respective childhoods in Argentina (the rest of their lives are being spent fruitfully in France and he even married Juliette Binoche), and a literary debate with Camila Sosa Villada on the eve of the film’s premiere at the Chicago Festival “Thesis on domestication”based on his own novel.
As for cinema, in addition to the usual Latin American competitions for documentaries, shorts and fiction (Marilu Marini in the fiction jury), the focus of the year is dedicated to our cinema with titles ranging from “The student” until “Puán” (renamed “The Professor”so that the title that refers to the street where the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UBA in Buenos Aires is located is understood).
Likewise, possible co-production meetings between French companies and small national production companies are added, and there are special presentations of the remembered “Memories of the Looting”, “Reas”, “Simon of the Mountain”, “The Man Who Loved Flying Saucers”, “More People Die on Sundays” (renamed “Moi, ma mére et les autres”) and a welcome novelty, “After the end”of Paul Caesarevocation of the painter and gallery owner Luz Fernandez de Castillo.
To complete, a tango recital by a local duo, free classes to learn how to dance it, and an oval table. Not a round table, but an oval one, and a sporting one, thus announced, Table Oval, because it refers to the ties forged by rugby between Argentina and the French-Basque Country, of which Biarritz is a part. There is always a third time to celebrate among so much struggle. As has been customary since the beginning of the year, no Incaa official will be present.
Source: Ambito
