A recharged bapic extends its duration and content

There is a BAFICI recharged, judging by the presentation made this morning its director Javier Porta Fouz. In its 26th edition organized by the City Ministry of Culture, it adds one more day than usual (it will go from April 1 to 13), one more room (that of President Alvear) and another award (the municipal city of Buenos Aires) with US $ 10,000 dollars to the best Argentine film.

There will also be more titles than last year (it will reach 298), more functions (641 in total), added to a greater number of special activities and master classes. “More diversity and more access to cinema in the cinema,” is the axis. In this regard, tickets will cost less than thought: only $ 3,000 for general public and $ 2000 for retirees and students. It seems that there will even be a 2×1.

Self -proclaimed “The most relevant independent Film Festival in Latin America”, BAFICI is now the best consolidated in this country and the one that premieres more films by young Argentine directors. It is true that in many cases the public of these films is exhausted in the three functions usually assigned and outside that niche few people see them, but every so often some works are also well appreciated in the rest of the country.

The inaugural title is clearly Argentine, “bafítico” and very little beatific: “Upa! A spring in Athens”fourth adventure of the characters created and interpreted by Tamae Garateguy, Santiago Giraralt and Camila Toker joking about the world of some local filmmakers who go from artists (UPA is the acronym for An Argentine film). This time they anticipate that the jokes also include good sticks to the current management of the INCAA. We’ll see.

Securities

In program, as usual, experimental, biographical films (Quino, Pappo and Susana Rinaldi to the head appear), of international politics, of musical groups, of authors venerated by the bacicists such as Jia Zhang-Kake, Hong Sang-Soo and James Benning, there are for all tastes. Thus, among the announced titles to take into account they appear “Les barbaras” (Julie Delpycomedy where the inhabitants of a town expect Ukrainian refugees and instead they fall immigrants from the Third World), “Aparts of loneliness” (Albert Serradocumentary about bullfighting), “Voyage au Bord de la Guerre” (Antonin Peretjatkoabout kyiv), the Romanian “That Never Came”better call “The New Year that never arrived” (Bogdan Muresanu), “Francois Truffaut. Le Sconario de Ma Vie” (David Teboul), “Misty. The Errol Garner Story” (Georges Gachotabout the famous jazz pianist and his song perhaps more famous), “Pai nosso. You last for Salazar” (José Filipe Costapainting of the Portuguese dictator who remained firm in his command chair even after having suffered a stroke) and “Tango Malhar” (Saya Datethe unthinkable presence of Argentine tango in India).

Also to take into account, a curiosity of 1973, “Waiting for Godoy” (No Godot), piece of three Chilean students criticizing leftist intellectuals. The filming was almost finished when the military coup happened. The actress Carmen Good and the camera Jorge Muller They were arrested and missing. Everything was diluted. Over time, only one of those young people was able to make a career: Cristian Sánchez. And finally, half a century later, he and the National Cineteca of Chile, state agency, were able to rescue that youth work, restore and spread it properly. In Chile it premiered last November.