Less than 60 kilometers from Buenos Aires, the sixth edition of the Ensenada International Film Festival (FICE) from October 3 to 6. The central element of the productions is the water and the communities that develop around the river.
This edition once again has workshops (led by the directors María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat) international short and feature film competitions and screenings from boats in the Doña Flora stream. All their activities will have as their meeting point the Ensenada Municipal Theater Cinemain addition to
As stated in its description, “the FICE seeks to recover, as with each descent of the river, the memories deposited in the River Plate mud to stir other poetic-political imaginations possible in the present. Because We believe in the need to tell our story but also in the need to mobilize a space of enjoyment for our entire community, which restores the experience of going to the movies for pleasure. Because we trust that going to the movies should not be a privilege, but rather a possibility for everyone.”
On Saturday the 5th from 7 p.m. at the Ensenada Yacht Club. For the second time, the community will be able to live the experience of FICE from the Riverwhere Block 2 of the International Short Film Competition will be screened. During that afternoon you will navigate the Doña Flora stream, watching a selection of short films in full connection with nature. Those interested must register in advance on the Festival website.
Programming of the Ensenada International Film Festival
Friday
Friday, October 4, 7 p.m., Plaza Almirante Brown. Free admission
- Where ghosts are born – Franco Palazzo
An audiovisual installation created from pinhole techniques in digital video and field sound recordings. Rejecting the contemporary obsession with extreme sharpness, in this work the sensorial takes precedence over realism. A new landscape emerges without any pretense of mimesis, built from the impressions and stimuli of a particular moment.
Team: Ileana Dell Unti – Audiovisual assembly, Ramiro Díaz Agüero – Mixing and sound design, Technical assistance and accompaniment: Mariel Uncal Scotti, Carolina Carrizo, Macarena Aguilar Tau
- The archive as a horizon – Guillermina De
Water expands us. The photographs and our gaze contain it. Within an archive of hundreds, thousands of other people’s slides, discarded and found, there is a collection: images of water. A shared purpose. Fix your gaze on the horizon. Approach the shore. Capturing proximity and distance.
Saturday
Saturday 5, 1:00 p.m., Municipal Theater Cinema, Free admission
- Little inhabitants of the river – María Ayelén Castro
Two friends travel to the Río de La Plata to go through a duel. In the middle of nature, they must face the loss along with the memories and shadows that it entails.
- Truncated Ideas – Ezequiel Pez
Eze, a film student, faces a creative crisis while working on a self-referential project, reflecting on his journey, cultural consumption, and his role as an artist.
Pilar, 11 years old, faces the transition from primary school to secondary school, while exploring her emotions, her environment and the friends that surround her.
- Correspondences – April Seillant
An experimental documentary that explores the writing of an audiovisual letter based on everyday life, creating an intimate and reflective space.
- In the emptiness of the night, memories leave and return to the emptiness – Abril Di Fonzo Buffoni
A being from the sea transforms a space with its presence, while discovering remains from other times and flooding everything with its calm.
Sunday
Sunday 6, 4:30 p.m., Municipal Theater Cinema, free admission
- Sanne – Documentary, directed by Nina Gilardoni (Argentina, 2024)
The log of Susanne Luzian, a young woman who died tragically at the age of 25, triggers a search to understand the importance of personal writing and its transcendence.
- O mar também é seu – Fiction, directed by Michelle Coelho (Brazil, Cuba, 2022)
A woman dreams that she transforms into a creature, remembering her abortion and the women of the island who reveal the mysteries to her to heal the wounds caused by violence.
- ÉTÉ 96 – Animation. Dir. Mathilde BÉDOUET (France, 2023)
A group of friends and their children are trapped by the tide on the island of Callot. Between tension and adventure, Paul faces his fears and becomes aware of his individuality.
- BLOOM – Documentary, Dir. Helena Girón and Samuel M. Delgado (Spain, 2023)
Explore the legend of the mythical island of San Borondón, a land that appears and disappears near the Canary Islands, and the historical attempts to discover and conquer it.
- Anadrome – Fiction. Dir. Oan Moonens, Fien Bergmans (Belgium, 2023)
Two brothers revisit their hometown by sailing along the canal in a boat, freeing the water from the objects left behind, while reflecting on the loss of their most beloved places.
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