fallen leaves. Aki Kaurismaki’s new film, in preview.
With the Cannes Festival Week at the Gaumont and the Sitges Festival Exhibition, also at the Gaumont, the activities of the 15th Ventana Sur audiovisual market, the commercial side with the greatest international weight of the Incaa, culminate. Coordinated with the Marché du Film de Cannes, the Week brings six of this year’s winning films. They are presented by Thierry Frémaux, general director of the meeting, who will also offer a talk on the future of cinema, tomorrow at 6 p.m. Scheduled titles: “Perfect Days” (today, by Wim Wenders, Best Actor Koji Yakusho), “Anatomy of a fall” (tomorrow, drama by Justine Triet, Palme d’Or), “Autumn Leaves” (Wednesday, romantic comedy by Aki Kaurismaki, Special Jury Prize), “Monster” (Thursday, suspense drama by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Best Screenplay), “About dry grasses” (Thursday, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Best Actress Merve Dizdar, duration 197′), “The zone of interest” (Sunday, Jonathan Glazer, Grand Prix, home life of the Auschwitz commander). On Saturday the 2nd, “Anatomy of a fall”, winner of the Palme d’Or, is repeated.
Meanwhile, in another room at the Gaumont, the 7th exhibition of the Sitges Festival begins on Thursday, dedicated to horror films and bizarre films. Thus, within the framework of Blood Window, that is, the program to promote the genre by Incaa, the winner “When evil stalks” can be seen, always at 7:30 p.m. (Thursday, Demián Rugna, terror in the Argentine countryside ), “The Wait” (Friday, Javier Gutiérrez, terror in the Andalusian countryside). “Acide” (Saturday, Just Philippot, environmental horror), “Vincent Must Die” (Sunday, Stéphan Castang, paranoid special, Best Actor Karim Leklou) and “Sleep” (Monday, Jason Yu, Korean horror).
Some of these performances will be accompanied by the Argentine shorts “Eyestring” (Javier Devitt), “The Other Sister” (Abril Dores and Malena Martins) and “Exceptional Tales of a Youth Women’s Team” (Tom Espinoza). Likewise, among other Ventana Sur activities, today there is a panel on “monsters, creatures and nightmares created by them” (Mónica García i Massagué, Carina Rodríguez, the producer of “Huesera” Paulina Villavicencio) and on Friday the representatives meet of six international fantastic film festivals: Bifan, from Korea, Sitges, from Catalonia, Fantaspoa, from Porto Alegre, Mórbido, from Mexico, Bifff, from Brussels, and Night Visions, from Finland, to which it would be appropriate to add the Buenos Aires Rojo Blood.
Source: Ambito
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