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• This year’s “Xornadas Cinematógraficas” is dedicated to reflect on the imprint of the political context of each era in cinema
• The members of the podcasts “Todopoderosos” and “Aquí hay dragones” will hold two meetings with the public on Sunday, September 8th
• Members of the podcast “La escóbula de la brújula” will participate virtually in a round table at the event

08.08.24. BUEU: How does the political context in which films are made impact on them? That is the topic that this year’s “Xornadas Cinematográficas” of the International Film Festival of Bueu will deal with. They will be held on Saturday, September 7, the first full day of activities of FICBUEU in its 2024 edition. In this first weekend of the Festival, the public of the event will be able to attend colloquiums, book presentations or meetings, physical and virtual, with the members of three of the most followed podcasts about cinema and culture in Spain.

The “Xornadas Cinematográficas”, which FICBUEU includes in its program for the third consecutive year, is a space for reflection and thought about cinema. Filmmakers, essayists, or professionals from different trades of the audiovisual sector participate. Each year, they are dedicated to a theme. In the seventeenth edition of the Bueu International Film Festival, they will address the relationship, the relationships, between cinema and politics. 

<<Be realistic: do the imposible!>>

Be realistic: do the impossible! The phrase, one of the slogans of the student movement of the 60s and coined by the philosopher Ernst Bloch, gives title to the master class with which the “Xornadas Cinematográficas” will begin. It will be given by Camil Ungureanu, professor of Political Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. 

Ungureanu has among his lines of research and reflection the relationship between cinema and politics. He will give a master class on this subject at FICBUEU. Then, the critics Daniela Urzola and Belit Lago will delve into the subject in the next “Xornadas Cinematográficas” conversation, entitled Trauma and reconstruction.

That same Saturday, in the afternoon, it will be the turn of one of the great filmmakers participating in this year’s FICBUEU. Jaime Rosales will hold a conversation with film critic Xavier Montoriol. It will be after part of the team of the podcast “La escóbula de la brújula” will participate in a virtual round table with the Festival attendees to talk about Art and advertising. The cinema between the wars.

On Sunday, as a podcast

Filmmaker Rodrigo Cortés, writer Juan Gómez-Jurado and screenwriter and communicator Arturo González Campos make up two of the most interesting podcasts in the Spanish cultural sphere: “Todopododerosos” and the irreverent “Aquí hay dragones”. All of them are also known for their careers in film, literature and audiovisuals, respectively, and they will once again join FICBUEU. It will be on Sunday, September 8 at 12 noon. They will talk about the change that the incorporation of sound meant for cinema and filmmaking. Later, at 5 p.m., they will sign books in an event that can be accessed free of charge after collecting the corresponding invitation at the box office.

González Campos, Cortés and Gómez-Jurado had already participated in 2018 in the Bueu International Film Festival. Their presentation at El Centro Social do Mar, where all FICBUEU face-to-face activities are held, registered on that occasion a full house. The activity was very well appreciated by the audience.

The participation of disseminators and scholars of the seventh art and audiovisuals is completed by the meeting that the public of FICBUEU will have with Professor Nieves Febrer. She is the author of the Festival’s Caderno #5, which deals with the figure of the creator of American experimental cinema, Jonas Mekas. She will present it on Saturday, September 14, during the “Retrospective” section, dedicated to Mekas.