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Unsatisfied motherhood, lack of communication, silence and the construction of identity, themes of the short films scheduled in the fourth session of the “Official Section”

THE PLAYROOM RETURNS TO FICBUEU SO THAT MOTHERS AND FATHERS CAN ENJOY THE BIG SCREEN

The FICBUEU play centre is back, an initiative developed in collaboration with the General Secretariat for Equality that was launched at the last edition of the festival with the aim of facilitating family conciliation, an issue recognised in the workplace, but not so much when it comes to leisure and culture.
This space for children between 3 and 12 years old, where they can play and do activities related to cinema, allows mothers and fathers to attend the sessions of the “Official Section” of the festival.
The FICBUEU play centre is a free service and will be open until Friday 13th from 6.30pm to 9.30pm and on Saturday 14th from 4.30pm to 9.30pm.

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10.09.24. BUEU. The voices of two filmmakers and an actress whose short films are competing in the “Official Section” of the Bueu International Film Festival will meet tomorrow, starting at 8:30 p.m., in a discussion with the FICBUEU audience in which they will talk about cinema. The meeting will take place between the two scheduled screenings (at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.) and will allow the festival’s spectators to learn more about the films and their creative and production process.

Two of tomorrow’s guests come from Eastern Europe. Their films will be shown for the first time in Spain at the FICBUEU. This is Arnas Balčiūnas, director and screenwriter of Hablo dėsnis (Hubble’s Law), a fiction that establishes a parallel between the physical principle referred to in its title – the distance between galaxies – and the story it tells: the isolation and lack of communication of a young mute man who tries to fit in with his new coworkers in construction without success. The director will be accompanied in the discussion by Estonian Maria Valk, actress of Saab, a short film directed by independent artist Lisbeth Kala who, through the car journey of several people, investigates the aesthetics of boredom and a silence in which it is also possible to hear their desires, dreams and fears without the need for words.

Portrait of trans and non-binary people

Balčiūnas and Valk will also talk with Anxos Fazáns, a Galician director who is presenting Habitar at the festival, a short documentary about the construction of identity through an intimate portrait of transgender and non-binary people from Galicia who speak honestly about how individuals face a world in which the family structures of the past have collapsed. Fazáns, who has already made other short films and a feature film, La estación violenta (2018), a free adaptation of a novel of the same name by the journalist and writer from Pontevedra, Manuel Jabois, was part of the jury of the sections «GZ_00», «Descubertas» and «Escolas Internacionais» at the last edition of FICBUEU.

An animated short and a dramatic comedy

The list of films to be screened in tomorrow’s session is completed by two stories about frustrated motherhood. One is an animated short, The Miracle, which has already been honoured at two of the most prestigious festivals in the world, Annecy and Clermont-Ferrand. This Belgian, French and Dutch co-production directed by Nienke Deutz presents us with a woman who wants to have children and can’t find her place in a resort where she only sees pregnant women. Faire un enfant is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by and starring Éric K. Boulianne, which shows a couple who, after many years together, decide to have a child and must face their fertility problems while trying to maintain their love and unity.