“One Man’s War” is the opening film of the 24th Doc Buenos Aires, at Sala Lugones and the DAC. A festival of African films also continues until the end of the month.
“One Man’s War”of Edgardo Cozarinskywhich recovers the figure of the unique captain Ernst Jungera German writer, soldier and philosopher who in occupied Paris rubbed shoulders with Picasso and Cocteau; “The Girl from the South”of Jose Luis Garciaabout a young South Korean woman who illegally traveled to North Korea dreaming of the union of her country, and “Cándido López, the battlefields”also of Garciawhich retraces the path of the one-armed painter during the Paraguayan War, are the Most outstanding classic titles from the 24th Doc Buenos Aires that starts today at Sala Lugones and DACthe headquarters of the Argentine Film Directors Association.
It is thus remembered Cozarinskywho died on June 2, and whose extensive work would occupy a retrospective of an entire month. And now an almost complete retrospective of Jose Luis Garciawhich in addition to the titles mentioned includes a couple of shorts and a recent work, “Fuck You. The last show”record of the farewell of Sumo.
The exhibition includes works by the Romanian Radu Jude (“Eight postcards from an ideal world”), the duo Yorvan Gianikian & Angela Ricci (“In Front of Guernica”), Louis Fried, Gustavo Fontánwho will receive the lifetime achievement award, Luciana and Melisa Terribili, César González, Paulo Pecora, Lucía Torres Minoldo, Matías Piñeiroa total of around twenty filmmakers, most of them focused on what is called “auteur documentary”.
Africans
From the National Library to the historic Jesuit Estancia of Jesús María, among other provincial headquarters, the 31st has been fulfilled International African Film Festivalalways with free admission.
Among the latest titles are: “Une des mille collines” (Bernard BellefroidRwanda, medium reconciliation of genocidaires and survivors of the 1994 massacre), “KM4Blues” (Wilfrid MassambaCongo Brazzaville, difficult family reunion of a young woman who has lived in Europe), both on Thursday at Alliance Française, “The Specter of Boko Haram” (Cyrielle RaingouCameroon, a village traumatized by its recent experience with Islamic terrorists), on Friday in the same room, and “Macongo, the African Córdoba” (Pablo CésarArgentina, valuable meeting with the remnants of the black continent in the Mediterranean province), on Saturday at the CCK.
Some of these titles are part of a competition whose results will be announced on the 31st at the CCK, in an event that promises to culminate with a show by musicians and dancers from Guinea.
Source: Ambito
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