The charity event will take place on September 24, coinciding with the premiere in the Official Section of the film The Man Who Loved Flying Saucers, by Diego Lerman.
He San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that it will host a day of support for Argentine cinema during its 72nd edition this year, which will take place from September 20 to 28.
The Spanish festival has partnered with the Argentine Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and the producer Gabriel Hochbaum together with Argentine producers, filmmakers and journalists to put together the event.
The charity event will take place on September 24, coinciding with the premiere of the film in the Official Section The man who loved flying saucersby the Argentine filmmaker Diego LermanThe festival will also host a cocktail party with the Argentine delegation, which will gather on the steps of the Kursaal Auditorium before the screening of Transfers. The non-fiction film directed by Nicolas Gil Lavedrawhich opens in Argentina tomorrow, will have its international premiere in San Sebastian and focuses on the so-called death flights, one of the popular execution techniques used by the last Argentine military dictatorship. The screening will be accompanied by an introduction and talk by the film’s team, headed by the director and producer Zoe Hochbaum.
Argentine productions at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2024
This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival will screen 16 films produced wholly or partially in Argentina in the Official Selection, New Directors, Horizontes Latinos, Zabaltegi-Tabakalera and Children’s Film sections. The industry section of the festival will also feature six Argentine projects selected in the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum, two works in progress in WIP Latam and a Ikusmira Berriak Project with the participation of an Argentine production company.
The Argentine film industry has been in free fall since March, when the government Javier Milei He pushed highly controversial plans for withdraw all state funding from the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA)the country’s national film agency.
In an official public notice published Tuesday, Milei’s Human Capital Ministry said it discovered a $4 million deficit in INCAA’s budget funded in part by the Treasury and, as a result, would act to reduce costs by suspending all funding to the institute.
Source: Ambito
